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A brief spiritual overview of all recorded human history,
the essence of what matters most, world-wide
and in all nations and cultures, since Adam's fall, regarding our
repeated endless wars and the unending harming each other, and harming
of God's delightful and
innocent creatures.
We pathetic & fallen
from God's grace human beings, [of all nations and races-NONE of us are
blameless!] are not able to create or to maintain,
a perfect or peaceful or virtuous just & fair human society, here on earth.
Only we as individuals, do we have the
difficult possibility, -the podvig/struggle, of perhaps-attaining such perfection-"Ye are called to be saints".
For sure, we can and do
create, hells-on-earth. That we humans are well practiced at
accomplishing. That was Nazism /Fascism and that is today, still
Communism,
which still runs and rules Russia,
and other evil godless dictatorships....and too it is our false
'democracies' where we modern progressive secular humanists believe,
foolishly that: 'we the people' run our governments, and that they whom
we vote into positions of power, whom WE 'elect',
thus, do what WE tell them to do, and all for our best interests, with
the myth that such leaders are also virtuous and noble in their goals,
etc.
But:
for all humans: "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts
absolutely!" That corruption-reality exists in every earthly form of
government, it is universal, in the power elite.
We humans, who are so very flawed & IMPERFECT ourselves, EACH ONE OF US, as also
we collectively, cannot create or make
a heaven-on-earth, a perfect or truly just utopian society. Never
have we been able to engineer or to legislate such a perfect society.
Perhaps (?) at its best
& most glorious moments, Orthodox Christian Byzantium came close to
such a perfect society, but then that is arguable.
"Holy Russia" to my mind, was more an ideal goal, but never a total society-wide reality, not a heaven-on-earth.
The first and the last real perfect earthly existence or society, was in the Garden of Eden, Paradise,
where God walked hand in hand with Adam, before the fall of Adam and Eve and before their expulsion.
Instead we humans, of all
nations, are doomed, until Christ's Second Coming, to repeat the evils
of our ancestors and of past eons of humanity, over and over and over
and over and over.
This personal and historical repetition, we seem-the vast majority of us,
of any and all nations, - unable..... to not
repeat... but rather to obediently follow brutal and evil and murderous
leaders, the power-mad Caesar's of this world, (many, in our apostate
End-times, who
are forerunners of Antichrist), and to unquestionably obey their immoral commands,
and to thus commit endless evils
and atrocities, against God's laws, and upon our fellow mankind,
usually, 'For God/or for 'The Party', or for the Country',
and to make endless wars upon more new wars of aggression, because..... either we are enthralled/hypnotized by
those wicked
charismatic leaders, and/or we mindlessly obey them, 'TO SURVIVE',-from
'those whom kill the body', for fear of loosing our lives or those of
our families, if we don't 'follow orders'.
And what is so cosmically sad, and indeed what seems to suggest that our entire human race, with this very planet,
which planet God made for US, is
...DOOMED/hopeless, [that earthy human life and this planet, will come
to one final end].... is.... that this terrible process repeats itself
from age to age, in all far
flung and varied cultures and societies, and it never ceases.
No peace treaties or
'negotiations', nor United Nations, nor philosophers' utopian schemes,
(as Marxism was originally meant to be) can end it.
Who among us dares to resist or to openly confront this evil? -Only the few
God-enlightened, those God's Elects, the Prophets and the Martyrs,
[and to be a sincere true Christian, we all must become
these....witnesses, martyrs], who listen for and who follow orders from
a much higher supreme leader, Almighty God, and who obey Him...and not
man....who were and who still are, the holy prophets and holy martyrs.
"The memory of the just is celebrated with hymns of praise, their memorial is from age to age the same!"
These noble and sacrificial lambs, -these few prophets and martyrs for Christ, GOD'S ELECT, we-most of us!.... persecute, torture, and kill.
Even with-in the
'household of faith' -the CHURCH, we slander and persecute each other
and them. Such was what St. John Chrysostom declared centuries ago:
-speaking of this situation, in his Homily on the Gospel
of St. Mathew,- that those who will actually follow Jesus teachings in
their daily lives and who tell the truth, even to the powerful: "'And
your enemies shall be those of your own household',.... [i.e. the
Earthly Church]!" (he was explaining Christ's Gospel
teaching and how it applies to earthly life). And that was exactly what
he faced himself in his life, so he knew of what he spoke.
And that is why the vast
majority of mankind, when we leave this world, we must naturally end up
in Hell Eternal, separated forever from God, -the only one who truly
loves us!,....going 'through the wide gate',
and why we cannot fit/we simply will not BELONG where the Just
Repose,-the Saints,-those prophets and martyrs, in God's Heaven....those
who are, 'perfected in the faith'.
So yes, mankind, each of us, our immortal souls- the real, 'us', is indeed hopeless...if we live without God.
All of this earth passes
away. Look at the galaxies, and the seeming endless 'heavens of heavens'
a small part of which we can now partially see at a great distance,
through satellites and space-based telescopes.
"How marvelous are Thy works O Lord! there is no tongue sufficient to hymn Thy wonders! Alleluia!"
God alone, does not pass away, nor do His saints, the Sanctified, who are with Him.
"Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus! come quickly!"
This is also why, we Orthodox Christians, who know of this, must
daily weep bitterly, and beg God to forgive us and all, and ask for His MERCY, and to save our fallen creation, which groans in pain and sorrow every moment of the day and night, awaiting Christ's Second Coming, when the 'tears of all will be dried
up'.
But because we believe in Christ's Resurrection, while we must live on earth,
this vale of tears, in a constant mindset of Joyful Sorrow,
-sorrow for our fallen and suffering world, and joy, because we believe
that Paradise will be restored again: that God will be the final
Victor! "Be ye not discouraged, for I have overcome
the world!"
Only thus can we be able to honestly say:
"Give thanks to the Lord, always! and again I say, give thanks!"
And if we disobey, for
Christ's sake, the commands of powerful evil men, of the deluded
satanic motivated rulers of this fallen evil old world, but rather obey
God, we must pay the price. Christ promised that
His disciples would suffer, even as He did.
Though, GOD IS ALWAYS MORE POWERFUL! than any rulers of this world..."For He doeth whatsoever He willith!"
Which self-sacrificing
price, will put us into God's kingdom quicker...for "While we are in
the flesh, we are separated from God".
But our eternal reward for this, for our... witnessing,
our martyrdom, will be receiving our sparkling crowns, our jeweled miters, in heaven.
Our Saviour has promised
us: "In my father house are many mansions, ....I go to prepare a place
for you there....that where I am, ye may be also!"
This world is passing
away, even before our very eyes.. None of us can keep a hold on it, or
on any small part of it, certainly not monies or properties or any
material objects, not even our life-long, pampered
bodies! We come into this world naked and with nothing, and so we depart
from it the same way. Only our souls live on.
Let us lay up for
ourselves-our real enduring selves, our immortal SOULS, treasures in
Heaven] ...'where there is neither rust nor where moth doth corrupt nor
where thieves break in and steal.'
May we emulate the saints,
"who have found the fountain of life and the door to Paradise....may I
also find the right way through repentance, I am the lost sheep,
recall me O Saviour, and save me!"
May our prayer to God be: "Grant me O Lord, the homeland of my heart's desiring, making me again, a citizen of Paradise!"
Just some thoughts from the birds of the air-
retired Reader Daniel in the forest, weary of all the lies and delusions of this fallen world-this, 'vanity of vanities!',
where one person builds up, and then after him comes another who tears down what he has built-
which is then named, 'progress'.
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