Putin as the forerunner of the Antichrist

My friends and parishioners often ask: "Father Feofan, why do you call Putin? AntichristOh, isn't there an exaggeration here, aren't your patriotic feelings going too far?" Those who used to be in the Moscow Patriarchate, and still came to us at the OCU, are especially trying to do this.

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Since there are more and more such questions, I decided to write an essay and explain everything not only to my close circle, but also to all good Ukrainians and in general to those people who have not yet lost such a gift of God as reason.

I'll say it right away, so that I don't get some heresy. The end of the world will happen when we do not know, because the Savior of the world Himself, our Only Divine Redeemer, Jesus Christ, did not reveal it to us. He had his reasons for that. But when all this is fulfilled, the antichrist will appear, subjugate the whole world, but he will not triumph for long. Christ will come.

But until the end of the world, those will come who will reflect the antichrist in their personality, or simply put, will become his forerunner.

And now we will successively reveal the topic. Theologians who study religious literature speak of approximately 53 prophecies concerning the coming of the Antichrist. Some people believe that it is not a person, but a global system. In the Bible about the coming of the "great" antichrist it is said that this is a person, a false king, the ruler of the whole world and a very specific person.

The coming of the "great" antichrist, the "man of sin" will end this stage of human history. He will be destroyed by Christ himself, who will come and kill the antichrist with His Spirit. Not by human forces, but by the Second Coming of Christ, all this will be destroyed and destroyed. According to Theophylact of Bulgaria: "antichrist is already in the world, of course, not personally, but in the person of false prophets, false apostles and heretics who precede and prepare His coming." And the antichrist has always been active throughout history. But at the end of time, he will also appear as a face. We don't know if that moment has already arrived. It is possible that such phenomena of the modern world as globalization, racism, attempts to revive the Soviet Union can be used, for example, at the political level, as a ploy to plant evil. It depends on people and their goodwill.

One of the forerunners of the antichrist is Hitler, another is the Pleschführer. Possessing a mind-numbing influence on people's minds, using fascism/racism as an ideology, they diabolically exterminated more than one million living souls. And if you look at the personalities: Nero, Vanka the Grozny, Yoska Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, Vovka Lenin, Karlik Marx, then about each of them it can be said unequivocally that they too are small antichrist

The Apostle Paul calls the Antichrist "a man of sin and a son of perdition" (2 Thess. 2:3). Moreover, His coming by the action of Satan will be with all "false power and signs and wonders" (2 Thess. 2:9).

It is widely known that the prefix "anti" itself in the Greek language can have two meanings: "against" and "instead of". In relation to the antichrist, both of these meanings are valid, because the antichrist, according to church teaching, is the opponent of Christ, and on the other hand, the one who tries to put himself in the place of Christ.

The history of antichrists, those who came "in place" of Christ, begins with Christ. Not everyone knows that Christ was not alone in those days. As in our time, many pretended to be Him. To be an antichrist is to pretend to be Christ. What kind of person (or phenomenon) is this that offers itself instead of Him? In other words, how can one come to such a life as to offer oneself instead of Christ?

Saint John Chrysostom (5th century) wrote: "The Antichrist will come for the destruction of mankind in order to inflict insults on people. Indeed, what would he not do at that time! Everything will come into confusion and confusion, both with the help of commands and with the help of fear. He will be terrible in all respects: both by his power, and by his harshness, and by his lawless commandments... The apostle calls the antichrist a man of lawlessness, because he will commit thousands of lawlessness and encourage others to commit them. And he is called the son of perdition because he himself will perish. Who will he be? Is it Satan? No, but a certain person who will receive all his (Satan's) power. He will not lead to idolatry, but will be an adversary, will reject all gods and command to worship himself instead of God and will sit in the temple of God, not only in Jerusalem, but also everywhere in the churches... He did not say that he would call himself a god, but that will try to show himself as a god. He will do great things and show wonderful signs."

This is happening, as we will show below, in modern Russia, a country of spiritual scraps and spiritual gray matter, where the ideology of treason is only spreading.

Saint Ignatius (Bryanchyaninov) writes about the Antichrist: "he will try to imitate Christ with his outwardly ostentatious side of life. The majority of Christians, who are guided by ... carnal wisdom, will not see the deception and recognize the antichrist as Christ, the second time he came to earth... A terrible test will come for the saints of God: cunning, hypocrisy, miracles of the persecutor will increase, the desire to deceive and tempt them, sophisticated and well-thought-out, covered with insidious with the ingenuity of persecution and shame, the unlimited power of the tormentor will put them in the most difficult position... The opponents of the antichrist will be considered violators, enemies of the public good and order, will be subject to covert and open persecution...". In other words, how can one come to such a life as to offer oneself instead of Christ? We observe all this in modern Putinistan.

Thinking about it, let's highlight four reasons. The first is madness in the literal sense of the word.

The second reason is self-suggestion. It is difficult to say how people come to this, but in any case, sometime, somewhere a person allowed himself to cross a line, and it is always the line between truth and lies. Satan himself is called a liar and the father of lies. Once upon a time, a person lied to himself, if only that he was talented, smart, strong or beautiful. And he did it like this: I'm smarter than that, I'm better than that, finally - "I'm holier than that"!

The third reason is possession by an unclean spirit (possessed). In Putin's act of self-deification, only his extraordinary, diabolical pride plays a role. It is unbearable for him that there is a Being to whom people treat with reverence and turn to with prayer. The proud spirit of the antichrist, who has taken over the Russian dictator, wishes that he, and only he, would be everything to people and that they would recognize no one as a higher being, except him - the antichrist. And that's why he has an infernal desire to destroy the worship of the true God and Christ on earth and to put himself on the pedestal of glory and greatness, which is still embraced by the true God.

If the first reason can be said to be psychiatric, and the second - moral and psychological, then the third already belongs to the field of demonology.

A fourth reason can be indicated - ordinary deception and charlatanism. A person is well aware that he is not who he pretends to be, but at the same time he continues to play his role for some purpose.

As we will show below, all these reasons are directly related to Vladimir Putin. Because this biso-man is obsessed with the idea of ​​reviving the empire of evil, and for those who have forgotten what it is, let us remind you that it is the Soviet Union. The fact that it is clear that we are talking about the deprivation of the mind. Praise be to Christ God that the Soviet Union, this monster state, no longer exists, and the Union collapsed on the day of the Lord's Transfiguration, which gives us hope for our individual and national transformation, changes for the better with God's help and God's blessing.

But with the idea of ​​God-abhorrent and God-repugnant Soviet Union, Putler filled the brains of almost all Russians, they became almost as crazy as him.

There is no need to talk about his pathological and constant lies. It is known to any sane person. What is the value of his crowning remark that the submarine "Course" sank by itself. Why then was it necessary to destroy it, and in such a way that it was not possible to carry out any examination. And the explosions of houses with innocent people, why did he poison the honest man Oleksandr Litvinenko with polonium?

Examples can be multiplied, but these will be enough. Possession by an evil spirit is already obvious. One of my good acquaintances, an exorcist, confirmed this. But if we do not consider the purely demonological aspect, then a person who came from the bowels of the KGB (and there are no former ones) clearly does not carry heavenly light, but his infernal nature is obvious.

Further, fraud and deception - the entire machine of racist propaganda directly testifies to this. Having dealt with the reasons why we call the Way the antichrist, let's consider other aspects.

When it comes to the great antichrist and his forerunners, the question is usually asked: Where will the antichrist come from? This is one of the most difficult questions. One of the options is Rome, the eternal city. The second is Jerusalem. In the Bible it is said that it is necessary to wait for him from some northern state. All signs, except the last one, are general, preparatory, they have no specificity regarding the timing of the Second Coming. About 100 years have passed since the beginning of the great world wars, the moral decay in the world and in the churches also began relatively long ago, false prophets have been successfully prophesying falsely for many years, although all this, of course, has been increasing recently.

Let us consider the details of the antichrist and his forerunner in the light of the scriptures:-

It is written that he will appear in the northern country, will be the northern king. (Dan. 11; 40);

- This country will be on the continent of Eurasia, which is extremely large (Dan. 8; 9);

- In addition - since the antichrist will be a very successful conqueror and "devourer" of the Earth (Dan. 7; 7,19, 8; Dan. 24; 13; rev. 4,7; XNUMX, XNUMX), his country should have a huge military potential and nuclear weapons;

- Next - the antichrist must become the 11th "king" of his country (Dan. 7; 23-24); in the Book of the prophet Daniel it is written: "and he will not consider the gods of his fathers, nor the desires of his wives, and he will not look at any god, because he will exalt himself above all" (Dan. 11:3). This verse describes the Antichrist. "He will not look closely... nor the desire of wives", that is, he will not be interested in women. Theologians believe that this means that the antichrist will be a homosexual. Do you remember how the Pleschführer kissed the boy Nikita on the stomach in front of a crowd of people, and even when he was undergoing training in the bowels of the KGB, such aspects were also practiced there.

Everything else listed above can only be attributed to the USSR! No other country can meet all these requirements at once. A huge Eurasian northern country with a colossal military and nuclear potential has in its history 8 blasphemous liars - atheists (Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, Gorbachev, and of course Putin surpassed them all).

Meanwhile, the political regime is not thinking of changing. Moreover, their political regime supports religion in every possible way, filling people's tanks with unnecessary information, including pseudo-religious information, distracting them from real problems. And on the zomboyashchik we only see false priests who distort history, politicians who constantly lie, and the Kyselovy-Solovyovy who constantly tell how everything is fine with them. And there is no end in sight. Who started all these lies?

We know who Putin is.

And it will end, if not with the second coming, but with the second revolution, when people will no longer be able to tolerate the growing disorder. This cannot be avoided.

Let's continue the topic. From the Holy Scriptures, we know that the antichrist will be from the tribe of Dan, which is already associated with blasphemy and idolatry in the Old Testament (Genesis 49:17, Lev. 24:11, Judg. 18:30, Jer. 8:16 and etc.). And in the Apocalypse, Danovo's knee is not mentioned among the saved (v. 7). Some dubious roots of the Path are known. But this time they began to cover up this information, to invent false genealogies for him, either from our Ukrainian monarch, the pious King Danylo Halytskyi, who determined the European choice of Ukraine, or from his relative, tortured in the Horde, the holy hardy prince Mykhailo Tverskyi. But this lie is too absurd. Putka is an Asian despot who destroys the peoples of Eurasia. If they came up with a lineage from Timur or Genghis Khan, it would be plausible, if not historically, then at least axiologically.

Let's consider other aspects. Often my parishioners ask a very obvious question - if the Lord is Love, then how can He allow such a great evil to invade humanity, which will lead to the death of many? John Chrysostom answers this question in detail: based on the words of the Apostle Paul (2 Thess. 2, 10-12), the antichrist will come to condemn all those who have chosen the path of an unrighteous life. These people would never have accepted Christ anyway and would have persecuted Him, condemning their souls to eternal torment.

And do modern Russians accept Christ as Lord and Savior? Who is He for them? Unfortunately, I often had to observe that His name is an empty sound for them, it is devoid of the meaning of worship and love for the Savior. They have only an empty spirituality, and Christ did not even walk there. The basis of the foundations is the Eucharist, and Mordorians approach the Holy Chalice extremely rarely, all their religiosity is reduced to rituals and rites, where there is no and cannot be a place for the Living God. And in His place comes the one who is not yet against Him on a universal scale ("great" antichrist), then already instead of Him, as they themselves express themselves in a separate country, already took His place not in being, but already in the Moscow mentality.

It should be noted that the Apocalypse is the most general scenario, a kind of perspective for the development of humanity. And this is partly (as a foreshadowing of the global catastrophe, as a kind of vision of the future is currently taking place in Russia) Man will never be able to unravel the plans of God by his own efforts. Whatever calculations are made, Christ will come unexpectedly. You just have to be ready to appear before Him at any time.

The church fathers wrote about the "great antichrist" that from early childhood he would be entrusted to magicians who would instill their rules in him and teach him secret sciences. Following the example of Jesus Christ, he will lead a secret life until the time of his public appearance. And this happened in the life of Pathka, who knew him at all, until he suddenly became the leader of Mordor. Do you remember how naive Western journalists asked the question "Hu with Mr. Putin"? But if you look at it through the prism of the antichrist, everything will become clear

The word of the prophet Daniel refers to the antichrist: And the abominable will stand in his place, and they will not give him royal honor, but he will come without noise and will take over the kingdom with flattery. The apostle Paul described his moral appearance in the following words: he opposes and calls himself above all that is called God or the sanctuary, so that he will sit in the temple of God as God, pretending to be God.

But the purpose of the coming of the Antichrist is to tempt the Church. That is, this person will manipulate the faith of Christians, turning everything for his own benefit, namely to take the place of Christ in the souls of believers. He will mislead the believers, convincing them that he is the messenger of God. After which he will spoil the faith, forcing people to believe in himself.

It is known that gebuha was engaged in black magic even in Stalin's times, and manipulation of consciousness and total lies are no better than direct witchcraft. And Putin is flesh and blood of the system, and the Kremlin, which was once a Slavic shrine, has turned into no longer a den of robbers, but a den of the strongest Satanist sorcerers.

And doesn't Putka make you believe in yourself, doesn't he put himself, as Saints John Chrysostom and Ignatius (Bryanchaninov) wrote, in the place of God?

This is already happening. From the very beginning of his reign, he stood in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior with his face to the people and his back (more precisely, his ass) to the holy altar, and the people bowed to him. A trifle, but prophetic, it reveals a lot. Later, there were false icons of Pu, sects that worship him as a god (or rather, instead of God), the whole of Mordor was covered with images of his god-awful snout. And where is Christ? I think that he left Russia. He has no place there for a long time.

The consequence of which will be that the struggle between two diametrically opposed kingdoms (the kingdom of good, light and the kingdom of darkness, evil) will become more and more intense, and, in the end, before its very demise, the god-worshipping world in its death agony will develop its hostile energy in such a way, that the further existence of this world order in Eastern Europe will become completely impossible. Everything evil and blasphemous in the world will be concentrated in one person of the antichrist, or his predecessor, the Pleschführer, who is making another attempt to overthrow the Kingdom of Christ and take the place of God.

Therefore, the war in the east of Ukraine is not simply of a hybrid nature, but of a mystical nature, a spiritual struggle against the forerunner of the Antichrist for the triumph of our Lord Jesus Christ in our native Ukraine and throughout the world.

Hieromonk Feofan of Polotsk (Skorobogatov),

doctor of theology