A call for mission in Russia /Part 1/
2 August 2015
To Orthodox priests
This year is the year of St Vladimir. Saint Vladimir broke with paganism, threw Perun into the Dnieper and adopted the one true faith which leads to salvation. The Christian monarchy in Russia was replaced by an atheistic regime and 25 years ago this regime was replaced by so-called democracy according to the Western model. Such democracies today are a transition period to US-promoted globalization. The atheistic regime was followed by a kind of revival of the Orthodox Church in Russia. However, American pastors took far greater advantage of religious freedom. They managed to establish their communities in almost all cities within a few years. Baptist and Pentecostal Churches are supported by USA. The fact is that US policy seeks to paralyze the authority of the Orthodox Church and works towards globalization not only in Ukraine but in Russia too. If Baptist and Pentecostal Churches or even some Orthodox ones are supported by USA, who are they beholden to? NWO architects and USA promote destruction of Orthodoxy in Russia and autogenocide of the nation for Judas money!
Unless the Orthodox Church resists the globalization ideology and carries out an effective mission, various sects will carry out an antimission on Buddhist or Hindu basis. Hindu yoga and martial art associated with Oriental Buddhist meditations is no innocent sports. They have been purposefully promoted in all countries all over the world for half a century in the globalization interests of USA. Antimission in Russia is carried out by Jehovah’s Witnesses too. They likewise are supported by USA where they have their centre. They wrongly declare themselves to be Christians. They deny the essence of Christianity: Divinity of Christ, His redemptive death on the cross and His glorious Resurrection.
What is the vital thing to do in the jubilee year of St Vladimir who flatly rejected paganism and opened the door to Orthodox Christianity 1000 years ago? The vital thing is to repent and to start a mission in the power of God.
The essence of mission is to preach conversion and repentance, to receive the truth and the love of Christ who paid even for my sins by His death. The apostles received the fullness of the Holy Spirit and became missionaries and martyrs. Today, every Orthodox priest should receive the same Spirit of God like the apostles. Especially today, you should also receive Jesus’ testament from the cross, i.e. receive His Mother as your own like John by the cross (see http://vkpatriarhat.org/cz/?p=30590). Pentecostal and Baptist Churches boycott this.
The Vatican and globalists promote reverence for paganism, de facto for demons (Assisi, Astana). US globalists enforce antilaws on the spiritual basis of neopaganism. These antilaws legalize sexual perversion, drugs, child stealing, the killing of so-called unproductive people through euthanasia… Therefore it is necessary to assume a definite and critical attitude towards all forms of religious, psychological and political export from USA. It concerns the building of structures of traitors in the Church, culture, education and politics. Furthermore, globalists secretly uphold all forms of modern occultism, starting with horoscopes, signs of the zodiac, occult literature, films, tattoos, talismans, magic objects, and ending with Satanic symbols (see http://vkpatriarhat.org/cz/?p=30610, http://vkpatriarhat.org/cz/?p=30622). US globalization is sponsored by world bankers and Masons dedicated to Satan at the 33rd degree. This is not only a psychological but also spiritual fight. This fight decides your eternal life or eternal damnation. There is a need to carry out a mission among youth in Russia, because the young generation is kept in spiritual darkness by rock music, drugs and globalizing suicidal ideology.
Many Russian people have been baptized Orthodox Christians but they have not been given a sound teaching so as to be conscious Christians. If the Pentecostal or Baptist believers elucidate to such formal Orthodox believers the essence of salvation, the need to receive Christ personally, and then offer them a living community with prayer and biblical lessons, these believers no longer remain Orthodox. If such mission was carried out by the Orthodox, formal believers would turn into conscious Orthodox Christians.
The Byzantine Patriarchate has declared an anathema on more than 20 Protestant denominations in the West for the reason that they accepted homosexuality and actively promote it. Some of them had even been converted, received Christ as their Lord and Saviour and had been baptized with the Holy Spirit, but how did they end? They left spiritual Egypt but rejected God in the wilderness of the world. They moulded a golden calf of so-called prosperity, reverence for occult paganism and tolerance of sexual perversion (homosexuality, transsexuality, zoophilia…).
After Christ’s death and resurrection, the apostles received the Holy Spirit. They laid their hands on the believers and they also were filled with the Holy Spirit (Acts 8:17; 19:1-7). The apostles were true witnesses and martyrs for the sake of Christ. It was the true fruit of the baptism with the Holy Spirit and no prosperity or selling of Christ and one’s soul for Judas US dollars! If anyone promotes reverence for pagans and a so-called interreligious dialogue instead of the following of Christ and true mission, he betrays and expels the Holy Spirit. Unfortunately, this is what Catholic and even some Orthodox bishops are doing. Pentecostal and Baptist representatives from Ukraine visited Brussels in 2013, by which gesture they de facto demanded legalization of homosexuality. This is a betrayal of Christ and the Gospel.
Pentecostal and Baptist Churches have no sacraments and no devotion to the Blessed Virgin. Some Protestant pastors even compare the Mother of God to pagan goddesses. Cardinal Husar in Ukraine has the same attitude. However, this is serious blasphemy against Jesus Christ Himself!
Concerning iconostasis, Pentecostal and Baptist Churches condemn it. Their attitude is similar to that of iconoclasts condemned in the 9th century. Western ideologues, on the other hand, promote a decadent stream in icon painting today. A certain priest in Poland had a new iconostasis painted by a famous icon painter. The whole parish revolted against it and the iconostasis had to be thrown out of the church. In such case as this a critique of “icons” is justified.
After 1990, Protestant denominations very quickly began their mission in Russia. The Orthodox priests were not prepared to train their believers for personal mission. It would be good if there were several living communities in each parish where a priest or a believer trained by him led biblical and prayer meetings every week.
A true apostle of Christ was Saint Paul. He preached repentance, the cross of Christ, which was foolishness to pagans and a stumbling block to the Jews, but he did not quench the Spirit (1Th 5:19). He spoke with tongues and prophesied more than others (cf. 1Cor 14:18-19), but he did not lay the gifts of the Holy Spirit as the foundation but rather the cross of Christ (1Cor 2:2) and the true following of Christ. Many Protestant pastors forget this.
Jesus calls: “Make disciples”, i.e. those who will observe all things that He Himself has commanded us. Is the present-day Orthodox Church ready to win disciples?
How shall a mission begin in Russia the foundation of which shall be the Orthodox bishops and priests like the apostles and prophets (Eph 2:20)? The model is the apostles of the early Christian community in Jerusalem which was “of one heart and one soul” (Acts 4:32). The Mother of God belonged to that community too. Saint Basil also viewed this model of the Church as an ideal when compiling the rules for monastic life, which are of practical help even to many Christians not living in a monastery. The need to involve priests in mission requires that they adopt a semi-monastic way of life by spending together one and a half days in solitude, away from the world, and devoting themselves to prayer, God’s Word and fellowship (Acts 2:42).
American globalists wage a psychological war in which they need to abuse not only Protestant pastors but also Orthodox bishops and priests. How? By Judas US dollar. And also by so-called aid to the Church in the form of trainings, courses, literature, films… An effective defence against this genocidal system is fellowship of priests. Begin!
(see A call for mission in Russia – Part 2: http://vkpatriarhat.org/en/?p=11421)
Praying for a spiritual awakening in Russia,
+ Elijah
Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate
http://vkpatriarhat.org/en/?page_id=9564
Copies to: Bishops and superiors of monasteries of the Orthodox Church in Russia and Ukraine
Download: A call for mission in Russia /Part 1/ (2/8/2015)
