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Selected prophecies of St. Ephraim the Syrian on the Last
Days
(words in quotes are from St. Ephraim, other words are from the author to give context)
St. Ephraim says: “At the time when the serpent [the Antichrist] shall come, there will be no
calm on the earth; there will be great afflic tion, consternation, disorder, death and famine
unto all the ends of the earth.”
"He will come as one humble, meek, a hater (as he will say of himself) of unrighteousness,
despising idols, giv ing preference to piety, good, a lover of the poor, beautiful to an
extreme degree, constant, grac ious to all… He will not accept bribes, speak with anger,
show a gloomy countenance, but with a decorous exterior he will take to deceiv ing the
world, until he has become king"
"When the many c lasses and the people see such v irtues and power, suddenly all will
conceive the same thought, and with great joy will proc laim him king, saying among
themselves: ‘Can another man so good and righteous be found?’"
"[Christ] will not leave the human race without His preaching, in order that all will be without
answer at the Judgment"
[The Antichrist] will show partiality towards Christians, “promising them every sort of
protection in return for their acknowledgment of his leadership.”
"Those not comprehending Christianity will see in him a representative and champion of the
true religion and will join with him" Those who remain faithful to Christ will inc ite his wrath
"and then this serpent will become proud in his heart and vomit forth his bitterness" Such
will be the tribulation of that time that "all men will call blessed the dead and those already
buried before this great sorrow came upon the earth".
Then the faithful remnant of Christians “will flee into the wilderness and mountains and
caves—praying day and night in great humility .., that they may be delivered from the
serpent,.. And this will be granted them from the holy God”.
"For by permission of the Holy God, [Antichrist] will receive the power to deceive the world,
because impiety will have filled the earth, and everywhere every sort of horror will be
committed"
"A courageous soul will be required, that will be able to keep its life in the midst of these
temptations, For if a man is proved to be even a little careless, he will easily be exposed to
assault and will be captured by the signs of the evil and cunning beast"
(excerpted from: http://www.roca.org/OA/51/51g.htm )
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Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my
words shall not pass away.
- Mark 13:31
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity
envieth not; charity vaunted not itself, is not
puffed up.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4
Advice For Those Liv ing in the West
"Do not be afraid because of your Orthodoxy;
do not be afraid because, as an Orthodox in
the West, you will be often isolated and
always in a small minority. Do not make
compromises but do not attack other
Christians; do not be either defensive or
aggressive; simply be yourself."
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"Something I found of interest during my
initial c lasses of the Orthodox faith, was to
learn that in the history of the Orthodox
Christian Church, it wasn’t until the eleventh
century when the Bishop of Rome (Western
Church) separated himself from the other
Bishops of the world (Eastern Church) to form
what we now refer to as the Roman Catholic
Church. The Church of the East is the
Orthodox Church. Then, in the sixteenth
century the fragmentation of the Roman
Catholic/Western Church began with the
Protestant Reformation. Only the Orthodox
Church remains as the one, united church for
the past two thousand years."
- An Orthodox Christian convert
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