SCARY COURT
Let us be afraid of this most terrible day and hour, in which neither a brother, nor a relative, nor a boss, nor power, nor wealth, nor glory will protect us. But there will be only: a man and his work.
Svt... Barsanuphius the Great
What is the testimony of your conscience, expect this from God and your judgment.
Svt... Filaret Moskovsky
ABOUT THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL
Christian Revelation teaches about the personal immortality of the soul.
Her afterlife existence is a continuation of her earthly life, since after the death of the body, the soul retains its strength and abilities and is fully capable of remembering and realizing all its past and giving it an account of conscience and God.
A Christian must constantly prepare for this transition to the other world, remember the hour of death.
Performer the commandments of God, death is not terrible in your life. (Archim.Georgy Tertyshnikov)
PRIVATE COURT
Earthly life, according to the teachings of Holy Scripture, is a time of exploits for man. The bodily death of a person sets the limit for this time and opens the time of reward. Following death, God performs His righteous judgment, called, in contrast to the last general judgment, a private judgment, “on which the fate of sinners is determined. But the final decision of their fate will follow at the general Last Judgment. "
We believe that the souls of the dead are blissful or tormented, depending on their deeds. Separated from the bodies, they immediately pass to either joy, or sorrow and sorrow; however, they feel neither perfect bliss nor perfect torment; for everyone will receive perfect bliss or perfect torment after the general resurrection, when the soul unites with the body in which it lived virtuously or viciously. (Eastern Patriarchs)
A sad fate befalls after the end of the earthly life of a person who does not fulfill the commandments of the Lord. After a private trial, the souls of unrepentant sinners are taken by dark forces and taken to a place of darkness and predatory torment, where they stay awaiting the final decision of their bitter fate at the Last Judgment, which will take place after the Second Coming of the Savior. (Archim.Georgy Tertyshnikov)
SCARY COURT
Terrible, very terrible is the judgment of God, although God is good, although He is merciful.
The same Jesus, who is now calling everyone to Himself, on the day of judgment will send those who did not come from Himself.
One elder said: “If it were possible at the coming of God, after the resurrection, from the fear of death for human souls, then the whole world would die from this horror and amazement! How can you see the heavens spreading out, God appearing with anger and fury, an innumerable host of Angels and all of humanity together ”? (Ancient Patericon)
The day of the Second Coming to earth of the Savior of the world will open suddenly and unexpectedly for those living on earth, for like lightning, appearing at one end of the sky, in one instant runs to the other and covers the entire sky, so the appearance of the Son of Man will be sudden and instantaneous. At this time, the face of the earth and sky will change.
Following the resurrection of the dead and the transformation of the living, a universal, open and solemn Judgment will take place over all. (Archim.Georgy Tertyshnikov)
It will take place after the general resurrection of the dead.
As the voice of the trumpet, announcing God's command, will sound, so at the same moment the dead will rise, and the living will change, that is, they will take on an incorruptible body, in which the dead will also be resurrected.
The Last Judgment! The judge will strike the cloud, surrounded by a myriad of ethereal Heavenly Forces. (St.Theophan the Recluse)
In contrast to a private court, at which only the human soul receives a reward, the fate of human bodies with which the soul performed its good and evil deeds will be determined at the Universal Court.
Those who have been condemned after the resurrection will feel themselves in naked shame, like those who are exposed to shame naked in front of a large gathering of people.
If the prophet of God Daniel, foreseeing the future judgment, was horrified, then what will happen to us when we appear at this Last Judgment? When, from east to west, we all gather and stand, burdened with the weight of our sins, where will our friends and neighbors be? Where are the precious treasures? Where will those who despised the poor, expelled orphans, made themselves righteous of all? Where will those who did not have the fear of God, did not believe in future punishments, promised themselves immortality? Where will those who said: we will eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die (Is. 22, 13), Let's enjoy the blessings in this life, and then we'll see what else will happen - God is merciful, He forgives sinners? (VenerableEphraim Sirin)
He<дьявол>rejects the court; and this denies the existence of God; for the devil is always like that — he proposes everything with cunning, and not outright, lest we beware. If there is no judgment, then God, judging by humanity, is unjust; and if God is unjust, then He is not God; when He is not God, everything went simple: there is neither virtue, nor vice. But he is clearly not saying anything like that. Do you see the thought of the satanic spirit, how he wants to make of people dumb, or better - animals, and even better demons. (St.John Chrysostom)
WHY DO WE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE DREAMING COURT?
People need this knowledge so that "the sinner does not give himself up, and if it happens to sin, he quickly turns back to the Lord and repents." (St.Theophan the Recluse)
Why will this day be filled with such horror? A river of fire will flow before His face, the books of our deeds will be opened, the very day will be like a burning cave. Angels will rush around and many bonfires will be laid out. How, you say, is God loving mankind, how merciful, how good? So, with all this He is loving for mankind, and here the greatness of His love for man is especially revealed. For this is why He instills such fear in us, so that in this way we awaken and begin to strive for the Kingdom of Heaven. For this, He said and explained everything to us, and not only explained, but showed also by means of works. Although His words alone are reliable; but so that whoever does not begin to suspect in words of his exaggeration or one threat, he adds a certificate and by means of deeds. How? By sending down punishments of people - private and general. In order for you to be convinced by deeds, for this He either punished Pharaoh, then led a flood of water and general destruction, then sent a destructive fire; now we see how many who are wicked are punished and given over to torture. All this is a semblance of Gehenna. (St.John Chrysostom)
Holy prophets and apostles predicted about the Last Judgment; Divine Scripture proclaims about a terrible day and hour in order to implore everyone: So, stay awake, for you do not know the day or the hour at which the Son of Man will come. (Matthew 25, 13). Look after yourself, so that your hearts are not burdened with overeating and drunkenness and worldly worries, and so that that day does not suddenly overtake you (Luke 21, 34).
Let us not deceive ourselves, let us believe that there is judgment, there is eternal punishment, there is unquenchable fire, there is pitch darkness, there is gnashing of teeth and incessant weeping; for the Lord Himself in His holy Gospel says about this: heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away (Matthew 24, 35). Let us take care to correct our life while there is time. (VenerableEphraim Sirin)
WHAT TO EXPECT US AFTER THE DREAD TRIAL
We are already going either to the right hand or to the country of the Last Judgment! Oh, my neighbor! Where will we be then? What if we are not called to the right side of the King (Christ)? (St.Filaret Moskovsky).
The Last Judgment will take place over the entire human race, but for those of people who are worthy of justification, this Judgment “will be greeted with joy, as if it were not a judgment at all, but the embrace of the Lord; joyfully passed and in joy after it. "
For the righteous, a blissful life will begin - eternal and unchanging.
The degree of bliss for the righteous will be different, depending on spiritual perfection and holiness.
After the Last Judgment, endless torments await unrepentant sinners, for the decision of this Judgment will remain forever unchanged. The degree of torment in hell will be different, depending on the moral state of sinners, but “at every degree in hell, sinners will endure torment to the last measure of patience - such that if you add a little more, then all nature will crumble to dust; and yet it will not fly apart, but everything will be tormented and tormented, and this is endless.
Eternal eyelids will sound in the ears of the condemned sinner: "Depart, damned." This weight of rejection is the most intolerable weight that weighs heavily on unrepentant sinners. (Archim.Georgy Tertyshnikov)
Those who were put on trial will be expelled from the judgment seat and will be led to the place of torment by unmerciful angels, gnashing their teeth, turning back to see the righteous, from whom they themselves were excommunicated, and will see the heavenly light, they will see the beauties of paradise, they will see the great gifts that those who have struggled to receive from the King of Glory in kindness. Gradually moving away from all the righteous, relatives, friends, acquaintances, sinners will hide from God Himself, losing the opportunity to ripen joy and true non-evening light.
Then sinners will see that they are completely forsaken, that all hope for them is lost, and no one can help them or intercede for them. Then, in bitter tears, sobbing, they will say: “Oh, how much time we have ruined in negligence, and how our blindness has deceived us! God Himself spoke through Scripture, and we did not listen; here he cries, and He turns His face away from us. We ourselves brought ourselves to this misfortune: we knew it, but did not listen; we were admonished, but we did not listen; we were preached, but we did not believe; heard the Word of God, but doubted. How righteous is the judgment of the Lord! How worthy and righteous we are condemned! We accept reward for our business. For a moment's pleasure we endure torment; for negligence we are condemned to the unquenchable fire. There is no help for us, we are all forsaken - both by God and by the saints. There is no time for repentance, and there is no benefit from tears. I would cry out to us: save us, the righteous! Save, apostles, prophets, martyrs! Save, Honest and Life-giving Cross! Save also you, the Lady of the Theotokos, Mother of the Man-lover of God! We should have screamed like this, but they will no longer hear us; and if they hear, what is the use? For it is already the end of all intercession. In such torments of joyless torment, sinners will be led away to Gehenna, where their worm does not die and the fire does not go out (Mk. 9, 48). (Venerable Ephraim the Syrian)
HOW TO SAVE FROM FUTURE TORTURE?
Every morning, when you get up from sleep, think that you must give an account to God in all your deeds and that you will not sin against Him, but the fear of God will enter you. (Abba Isaiah)
Getting down to any business, say to yourself with attention: "What will happen if my Lord now visits me?" And see what thought will answer you. If he condemns, now give up the matter and take up something else, because you must be ready to go on your way (to die) at every hour. Whether you are sitting at handicrafts, or on the road you are, or visiting someone, or eating food, always say to yourself: "What will happen if God calls me now?" See what your conscience answers you, and do as it tells you.
Whatever you do, do, as if now you needed to pass into eternity, to the judgment of God. (Prot.A. Nekrasov)
Nobody say: "I have sinned a lot, there is no forgiveness for me." Whoever says this does not know that the Lord came to earth to call not righteous, into sinners (Luke 5:32). But also, let no one dare to say: "I have not sinned!" He who says this is blind: no one is clean from filth; no one is free from sin except the one Sinless One.
Let us not be intimidated by self-righteousness; but let us not despair of salvation, recognizing our sins! Have we sinned? Let's repent. Have you sinned many times? Let's repentance many times. God rejoices in every good deed, especially in the souls of repentance, for he bows to them all, accepts them with his own hands and calls them, saying: Come all who are weary and burdened to Me, and I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28). (Venerable Ephraim the Syrian)
Bring to your mind the Last Judgment every day, because at it we will have to give an answer for every day. We need to challenge our soul every day and give ourselves an account of our behavior and activities; even the best of the pagan sages, for example, Cato, did it. Laying down on the bed at the end of the day, he subjected his soul to the question: “What defect have you got rid of now? What lean addiction have you overcome? Where have you improved? " “Every day,” says Cicero, “I become my own accuser and judge. When my candle is extinguished, I turn to the survey of my whole day; I revise all my words and actions, not hiding from myself and do not forgive myself anything. " (Spiritual flower garden)
FEAR OF FUTURE TORTURE CAUSES FROM SIN
If reflections on the incessant, incomprehensible to us now sweet bliss of the righteous in future life does not have such a strong effect on us to stop us on the path of sin and induce us to a virtuous life - the only one leading to the Kingdom of Heaven, although we will more often recall future terrible, endless torments in hell awaiting stubborn, unrepentant sinners.
We will more often descend into hell in thought, so as not to go down there by the deed.
Only because we consider earthly sorrows as grievous, because we have not studied the torments of hell.
It is a hundred times better to suffer in fire through the whole century, rather than losing blissful eternity. (St. Tikhon Zadonsky)
If the fire of fleshly lust hits you, oppose the fire of hell, and the fire of your lust will immediately go out and disappear. Do you want to say something vile, think about that gnashing of teeth, and the fear of it will curb your tongue. Do you wish to make any abduction, listen to what the Judge commands and says: tie his hand and nose, and plunge him into the pitch darkness (Matt. 22, 13); and in this way you will drive out this passion too. If you are devoted to drunkenness and lead an incontinent life, then listen to what the rich man said: after Let Lazarus soak the end of his finger in water, and make him weary. my tongue: as I suffer in this flame ; and got no help (Luke 16: 24-25). Often bringing this to mind, at last you will lag behind the passion of intemperance. If you love entertainment, talk about the tightness and sorrows that have to be there; after that you will not even think about amusements. If you are cruel and unmerciful, then often remember those virgins who, because they extinguished their lamps, were not allowed into the Bridegroom's palace, and you will soon become philanthropic. Are you careless and careless? Reflect on the fate of the one who has hidden his talent, and you will become faster than fire. You are consumed with passion, how to take possession of the state of your neighbor? Imagine that undying worm incessantly, and in this way you will easily be freed from this disease, and you will correct all your other weaknesses. God has not commanded us anything difficult and difficult. Why then do His commandments seem heavy to us? From our relaxation. For just as the most difficult in our suffering and jealousy becomes easy and easy to do, so the easy from our corruption becomes heavy. (St.John Chrysostom)
A GOOD LIFE IS A KEY TO SALVATION
It all depends on how we use the present. Heaven and hell are at our will.
Do not hope to get the sky for yourself without living worthy of the sky. Without living for heaven on earth, you cannot go to heaven beyond the grave. (Filaret, Archbishop.Chernigovsky).
Walk on earth, and have your residence in heaven. Turn your gaze down, and your soul - grief.
You can come to hell or fall, although you don’t want to and don’t think about that: you cannot go to heaven when you don’t want and don’t think about it. (St.Filaret Moskovsky)
BRIEF STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF THE HOLY FATHERS
The three elders, having heard about Abba Sisoy, came to him, and the first one said to him: “Father! How can I get rid of the fiery river? " The elder did not answer him. The second says to him: “Father! How can I get rid of the gnashing of teeth and the vigilant worm? " The third said: “Father! What should I do? I am tormented by the memory of the pitch darkness. " Abba Sisoy answered them: “I don’t remember any of these torments. God is merciful; I hope that He will be merciful to me. " The elders, hearing this, departed from him in sorrow. But the Abba, not wanting to let them go in grief, turned them back and said: “Blessed are you, brothers! I envy you. One of you spoke about the river of fire, another about the underworld, the third about darkness. If your soul is imbued with such a memory, then it is impossible for you to sin. What, then, should I do to a hard-hearted one who is not given to know what punishment is by man? That is why I sin every hour. " The elders bowed to him and said: "What we have heard, we also see."
Abba Macarius said: “Once, passing through the desert, I found the skull of some dead man lying on the ground. When I hit the skull with a palm stick, he said something to me. I AM asked him: "Who are you?" The skull answered me: “I was the chief priest of idols and pagans who lived in this place. And you are Macarius the spirit-bearer. When you, having pity for those who are suffering in torment, begin to pray for them, they will feel a certain joy. " The elder asked him: "What is this joy and what torment?" The skull tells him: “As far as the sky is from the earth, so there is fire below us, and we stand from head to toe in the midst of the fire. Neither of us can see the other face to face. We have the face of one is turned to the back of the other. But when you pray for us, each one sees the other's face somewhat. This is our joy! " The elder wept and said: "Unhappy day on which man was born!" The elder asked further: "Isn't there even more grievous torment?" The skull answered him: "The torment is even more terrible under us." The elder asked: "Who is there?" The skull replied: “We, as those who did not know God, have been pardoned a little more; but those who have known God and rejected Him are under us. " After that, the elder took the skull and buried it in the ground.
What is the Last Judgment? Isn't God's judgment a meeting with God? Or are the gloomy pictures of the torment of Bosch's sinners true? Are we waiting for the resurrection of the dead or existence in eternal torment? Will we stand before the throne of the Righteous Lord, or will we be punished forever? Protodeacon Andrey Kuraev will share his opinion in the book “If God is Love”.
What is the Last Judgment?
Sunday the week before Lent is called Meat Week (on this day last time you can eat meat before Easter), or the week of the Last Judgment. What is the Last Judgment?
Hearing about the "Last Judgment", one should feel fear and awe. “The Last Judgment” is the last thing that lies ahead for people. When the last second of the existence of the Universe expires, people will be recreated, their bodies will again unite with souls - so that everyone can appear for accountability before the Creator ...
However, I was already mistaken. I was wrong when I said that people will be resurrected in order to be brought to the Last Judgment. If we accept this logic, then we will have to say an unpleasant thing about Christian theology: it turns out that it presents its God in a rather unattractive way. After all, “we and just a sinful person would never have been praised for such a deed if he had taken out the corpse of his enemy from the grave in order to repay him in all justice what he deserved and did not receive during his earthly life.” Sinners will not be resurrected in order to receive the reward for a sinful life, but on the contrary - because they will receive the reward, because they will certainly rise from the dead.
Unfortunately, we are immortal. Unfortunately - because sometimes I would really like to just fall asleep - so that no one else reminds me of my nasty things ... But Christ has risen. And since Christ embraces the whole of humanity with Himself, it means that we cannot fit into the grave, stay in it. Christ carried in Himself all the fullness of human nature: the change that He made in the very essence of man will one day take place within each of us, since we, too, are humans. This means that we are all now carriers of such a substance that is destined for resurrection.
That is why it is erroneous to believe that the reason for the resurrection is judgment (“Resurrection will not be for the sake of judgment,” said Athenagoras, a second-century Christian writer (On the Resurrection of the Dead, 14)). Judgment is not a cause, but a consequence of the renewal of our life. After all, our life will resume not on earth, not in the world we are accustomed to, shielding God from us. We will be resurrected in a world in which “God will be all in all” (1 Cor. 15:28).
The Last Judgment: if there is a resurrection, then there will be a meeting with God
And that means that if there is a resurrection, then there will be a meeting with God. But a meeting with God is a meeting with the Light. The Light that illuminates everything and makes everything clear and obvious, even that which we sometimes wanted to hide even from ourselves ... And if that shameful thing still remains in us, still continues to be ours, has not yet been thrown away from us by our repentance - that meeting with the Light causes a torment of shame. She becomes a judgment. “The judgment is that the light came into the world” (John 3:19)
But still - is it only shame, will there be only judgment at that Meeting? In the 12th century, the Armenian poet (among the Armenians he is also considered a saint) Gregor Narekatsi wrote in his “Book of Sorrowful Chants”:
I know that the day of judgment is near,
And at the trial we will be caught in many ways ...
But is God's judgment not a meeting with God?
Where will the judgment be? - I'll hurry there!
I will bow before You, oh Lord,
And, renouncing fleeting life,
I will not partake of Your Eternity,
Though this Eternity will be eternal torment?
Indeed, the time of the Judgment is the time of the Meeting. But what more captivates my consciousness when I think about her? Is it right if the consciousness of my sins obscures the joy of meeting God in my mind? What is my gaze riveted to - to my sins or to Christ's love? What prevails in the palette of my feelings - the awareness of Christ's love or my own horror at my unworthiness?
It was precisely the early Christian feeling of death as an Encounter that once escaped from the Moscow elder, Fr. Alexia Mecheva. Admonishing his newly deceased parishioner, he said: “The day of your separation from us is your birthday into a new, endless life. Therefore, with tears in our eyes, we greet you with the entry to the place where there are not only our sorrows, but also our vain joys. You are now no longer in exile, but in your fatherland: you see what we must believe in; surrounded by what we should expect ”.
Who is this long-awaited meeting with? With the Judge who was waiting for our delivery at his disposal? With the Judge, who did not leave his sterile-correct chambers and now carefully watches so that the newcomers do not tarnish the world of ideal laws and truths with their not at all ideal deeds?
Again, in antiquity, St. Isaac Sirin said that God should not be called “just”, because He judges us not according to the laws of justice, but according to the laws of mercy, and already in our time the English writer K.S. Lewis, in his philosophical tale “Until We Found Faces,” says: “Hope for mercy - and hope not. Whatever the verdict, you will not call it fair. - Aren't the gods just? - Of course not, daughter! What would become of us if they were always just? "
Of course, there is justice in That Court. But this justice is somehow strange. Imagine that I am a personal friend of President B.N. We carried out "reforms" together, together - as long as his health allowed - played tennis and went to the bathhouse ... But then the journalists dug up "compromising evidence" on me, found out that I accepted "gifts" on an especially large scale ... BN He summons me to him and says: “You see, I respect you, but now the elections are underway, and I cannot risk it. Therefore, you and I, let's make such a reshuffle ... I'll retire you for a while ... ”. And now I am sitting in retirement, I regularly talk with the investigator, I am waiting for the trial ... But here B.N. calls me and says: “Listen, here Europe demands that we adopt a new Criminal Code more humane, more democratic. You still have nothing to do, so maybe you can write at your leisure? ”. And so I, being under investigation, begin to write the Criminal Code. What do you think I will write when I get to “my” article? ..
Is the Last Judgment a verdict?
I don't know how realistic this turn of events is in our mysterious politics. But in our religion of Revelation, this is exactly the case. We are the defendants. But the defendants are strange - each of us has been given the right to compile a list of those laws by which we will be judged. For - "with what judgment you judge, with the same you will be judged." If, at the sight of someone's sin, I say: “This is it in vain ... But he is a man too ...” - then the sentence that I once hear over my head may not be destructive.
After all, if I condemned someone for his act that seemed unworthy to me, then I knew that it was a sin. “Look,” my Judge will tell me, “since you condemned, it means that you were aware that you cannot do this. Moreover, you were not only aware of this, but you sincerely accepted this commandment as a criterion for evaluating human actions. But why did you yourself then so carelessly trample on this commandment?
As you can see, the Orthodox understanding of the commandment “do not judge” is close to the Kantian “categorical imperative”: before doing something or deciding, imagine that the motive of your act will suddenly become a universal law for the entire universe, and everyone will always be guided by it. Including in relations with you ...
Do not condemn others - you will not be condemned yourself. It depends on me how God will react to my sins. Do I have sins? - Yes. But there is also hope. For what? That God can take my sins away from me, throw them into the trash, but open a different way for me myself than for my sinful deeds. I hope that God can separate me and my actions. Before God I will say: “Yes, Lord, I had sins, but my sins are not all of me!”; “Sins are sins, but I did not live by them and not for them, but I had an idea of life - serving the Faith and the Lord!”
But if I want God to do this to me, then I must do the same with others. The Christian call to non-condemnation is, after all, a way of self-preservation, caring for one's own survival and justification. After all, what is non-condemnation - “To condemn means to say about such and such: such and such a lie ... And to condemn means to say such and such a liar ... For this is condemnation of the very disposition of his soul, the pronouncement of a sentence about his whole life. And the sin of condemnation is so much heavier than any other sin that Christ himself likened the sin of his neighbor to a bitch, and condemnation to a log. ” This is how at the trial we want from God the same subtlety in distinctions: “Yes, I lied - but I am not a liar; yes, I have gone astray, but I am not a fornicator; yes, I was cunning, but I am Your son, Lord, Your creation, Your image ... Remove the soot from this image, but do not burn it all! ”
And God is ready to do it. He is ready to transcend the demands of "justice" and not look at our sins. The devil demands justice: they say, since this person sinned and served me, then you must leave him to me forever. But the God of the gospel is above justice. And therefore, according to the word of St. Maximus the Confessor, “The death of Christ - judgment over judgment” (Maximus Isp. Question answer to Falassius, 43).
In one of the words of St. Amphilochius of Iconium is a story about how the devil marvels at the mercy of God: why do you accept the repentance of a man who has already repented of his sin many times and then returned to him anyway? And the Lord answers: but after all, you take this person to your service every time after each of his new sins. So why can't I consider him My slave after his next repentance?
So, at the Judgment, we will appear before the One whose name is Love. Judgment is a meeting with Christ.
Actually, the Terrible, universal, last, final Judgment is less terrible than the one that happens to everyone immediately after his death ... Can a person, acquitted at a private trial, be convicted on the Terrible? - No. But can a person convicted in a private court be acquitted at Terrible? - Yes, because on this hope the church prayers for the departed sinners are based. But this means that the Last Judgment is a kind of “appellate” instance. We have a chance to be saved where we cannot be justified. For at a private trial we appear as individuals, and at a universal court - as parts of the universal Church, parts of the Body of Christ. The body of Christ will appear before His Head. Therefore, we dare to pray for the departed, for in our prayers we put the following thought and hope: “Lord, maybe now this person is not worthy to enter Your Kingdom, but he, Lord, is not only the author of his vile deeds; he is also a part of Your Body, he is a part of your creation! Therefore, Lord, do not destroy the creation of Thy hands. With your purity, with your fullness, with the holiness of your Christ, fill up what a man lacked in this life of his! ”.
We dare to pray in this way because we are convinced that Christ does not want to cut off His own particles from Himself. God wants everyone to be saved ... And when we pray for the salvation of others, we are convinced that His desire coincides with ours ... But is there such a coincidence in other aspects of our life? Do we seriously want to be saved ourselves? ..
Who is judging us?
For the theme of the Judgment, it is important to remember: we are judged by those who seek out in us not sins, but the possibility of reconciliation, combination with Himself ...
When we have realized this, the difference between Christian repentance and secular “restructuring” will become clearer to us. Christian repentance is not self-flagellation. Christian repentance is not a meditation on the theme: "I am a bastard, I am a terrible bastard, well, what a bastard I am!" Repentance without God can kill a person. It becomes sulfuric acid, drop by drop falling on the conscience and gradually corroding the soul. This is a case of murderous repentance that destroys a person, repentance that brings not life, but death. People can learn about themselves the truth that can finish them off (remember Ryazanov's film "Garage").
Recently I made an amazing discovery for me (recently, because of my, alas, ignorance): I found a book that I should have read back in school, but I just read it now. This book amazed me because before it seemed to me that nothing deeper, more psychological, nothing more Christian and Orthodox than Dostoevsky's novels could be in literature. But this book turned out to be deeper than Dostoevsky's books. This is Saltykov-Shchedrin's Golovlyovs, a book that is read at the beginning and is not read to the end, because the Soviet school programs turned the history of Russian literature into the history of an anti-Russian feuilleton. Therefore, the Christian meaning, the spiritual content of the works of our greatest Russian writers have been forgotten. And in “Gentlemen Golovlevs” the first chapters are studied at school, the chapters are terrible, hopeless. But don't read the end. And at the end of the darkness there is even more. And this darkness is all the more terrible because it is associated with ... repentance.
For Dostoevsky, repentance is always beneficial, it is always for good and healing. Saltykov-Shchedrin describes repentance, which finishes off ... Sister Porfiry Golovleva participated in many of his abominations. And suddenly she regains her sight and realizes that it is she (together with her brother) who is to blame for the death of all the people who met him on life path... It would seem that it was so natural to suggest here the line of, say, "Crimes and Punishments": repentance - renewal - resurrection. But no. Saltykov-Shchedrin shows a terrible repentance - repentance without Christ, repentance performed in front of a mirror, and not in front of the face of the Savior. In Christian repentance, a person repents before Christ. He says: “Lord, here it was in me, take it away from me. Lord, do not remember me as I was at that moment. Make me different. Make me different. " And if Christ is not there, then a person, as in a mirror, having looked into the depths of his deeds, turns to stone with horror, like a person who has seen enough in the eyes of Medusa-Gorgon. And in the same way, sister Porfiry Golovleva, realizing the depth of her lawlessness, is deprived of her last hope. She did everything for herself, and having cognized herself, she sees the nonsense of her deeds ... And commits suicide. The unrighteousness of her repentance is evident from the second repentance, described in the “Lords Golovlevs”. On Holy Week on Maundy Thursday, after the priest reads the service of the “Twelve Gospels” in Golovlev’s house, “Judas” walks around the house all night, he cannot sleep: he heard about the sufferings of Christ, that Christ forgives people and hope begins to stir in him - can he really forgive me too, is the possibility of Salvation open to me too? And the next day in the morning he runs to the cemetery and dies there on his mother's grave, asking her forgiveness ...
Only God can make the former non-existent. And therefore, only through an appeal to the One who is above time, it is possible to get rid of the nightmares creeping in from the world that has already happened. But in order for Eternity to take me into itself without accepting my evil deeds, I myself must separate the eternal from the transitory, that is, the image of God, my personality, given to me from Eternity, separate from what I myself have done in time ... If I cannot accomplish this separation at that time, while there is still time (Eph. 5:16), then my past will pull me down like a weight, for it will not allow me to unite with God.
It is for the sake of not being a hostage to time, to his sins committed in time, a person is called to repentance.
In repentance, a person tears away from himself his bad past. If he succeeded, it means that his future will grow not from a moment of sin, but from a moment of repentant renewal. Tearing off a piece of yourself is painful. Sometimes this is mortally unwilling. But here one of two things: either my past will devour me, dissolve in itself both me and my future, and my eternity, or I will be able to go through the pain of repentance. "Die before death, then it will be too late" - says one of the characters of Lewis.
Do you want the Meeting not to become a Judgment? Well, combine the two realities in your conscientious look. First: a repentant vision and denial of one's sins; second: Christ, before whose face and for whose sake the words of repentance must be uttered. In a single perception, both the love of Christ and my own horror at my unworthiness must be given. But still, Christ's love is more ... After all, Love is God's, and sins are only human ... If we do not prevent Him from saving and having mercy on us, to deal with us not in justice, but in condescension, He will do it. But won't we consider ourselves too proud to be indulgent? Do we consider ourselves too self-sufficient to accept undeserved gifts?
Here it is time to open the Gospel commandments of the Beatitudes and reread them carefully. This is a list of those categories of citizens who enter the Kingdom of Heaven, bypassing the Last Judgment. What do everyone on this list have in common? That they did not consider themselves rich and deserved. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they do not come to the Judgment, but pass into Eternal Life.
Attendance at the Last Judgment is optional. There is a way to avoid it (see John 5:29).
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137. Works of ancient Christian apologists. - SPb., 1895, pp. 108-109.
138. This is a literary and very free translation (Grigor Narekatsi. The Book of Mournful Chants. Translation by N. Grebnev. Yerevan, 1998, p.26). The literal one sounds different - more restrained and “more Orthodox”: “but if the day of the Lord's judgment is near, then the kingdom of God incarnate has approached me, Who will find me more guilty than the Edomites and Philistines” (Grigor Narekatsi. Book of Sorrowful Chants. Translation from the ancient Armenian M O. Darbiryan-Melikyan and L.A. Khanlaryan. M., 1988, p. 30).
139. “When one of our colleagues, exhausted by weakness and embarrassed by the nearness of death, prayed, almost dying, for the continuation of life, a young man, glorious and majestic, appeared before him; with a certain indignation and reproach he said to the dying man: “And you are afraid to suffer, and you don’t want to die. What should I do with you? ”… Yes, and how many times it was revealed to me, it was commanded to continually instill that we should not mourn our brothers, at the call of the Lord, who turn away from the present century… We should strive after them with love, but not in any way complain about them : they should not wear mourning clothes when they have already put on white robes ”(St. Cyprian of Carthage. A book about mortality // Creations of the Holy Martyr Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage. M., 1999, p. 302).
140. Prot. Alexy Mechev. Funeral speech in memory of the servant of God Innokenty // Father Alexy Mechev. Memories. Sermons. Letters. Paris. 1989, p. 348.
141. St. Theophan the Recluse. Creations. Collection of letters. Issue 3-4. Pskov-Pechersky Monastery, 1994, pp. 31-32 and 38.
142. “- You see, Alyoshechka,” Grushenka suddenly laughed nervously, addressing him, “this is only a fable, but she good fable I heard her, I was still a child, from my Matryona, who now serves as my cook, I heard her. You see how it is: “Once upon a time there was one feisty, contemptuous woman and died. And not a single virtue remained after her. The devils grabbed her and threw her into the lake of fire. And her guardian angel stands and thinks: what kind of virtue I would recall her in order to tell God. He remembered and said to God: she, she says, plucked an onion in the garden and gave it to the beggar. And God answers him: take this very onion, he says, stretch it into the lake, let it grab and stretch, and if you pull it out of the lake, then let it go to heaven, and the onion breaks off, then the woman will stay there, where now. The angel ran to the woman, handed her the onion: on, she says, the woman, grab and reach. And he began to gently pull her, and he was about to pull it all out, but the other sinners in the lake, when they saw that they were pulling her out, they all began to grab onto her so that they could be pulled out with her. But the woman was angry, disdainful, and she felt like kicking them with her feet: "They are pulling me, not you, my onion, not yours." As soon as she said it, the onion was torn. And the woman fell into the lake and is burning to this day. And the angel wept and walked away ”(Dostoevsky F.M. The Brothers Karamazov. Part 3.3 // Complete Works in 30 volumes. Vol. 14, Ld., 1976, pp. 318-319).
143. Lewis KS Until we found faces // Works, v.2. Minsk-Moscow, 1998, p. 231.
144. “Abba Isaac of Thebes came to Cynobia, saw his brother falling into sin, and condemned him. When he returned to the wilderness, the Angel of the Lord came, stood before his door and said: God sent me to you, saying: ask him where he tells me to throw my fallen brother? - Abba Isaac immediately threw himself to the ground, saying: I have sinned against You - forgive me! - The angel said to him: Get up, God has forgiven you; but henceforth beware of condemning someone, before God condemns him ”(Ancient Patericon. M., 1899, p. 144).
145. St. Nicholas of Japan. Diary entry 1.1.1872 // Righteous Life and Apostolic Works of St. Nicholas, Archbishop of Japan according to his own handwritten notes. Part 1. SPb., 1996, p. 11.
146. “Christ of the Gospel. In Christ we find a synthesis of ethical collipsism, the infinite severity of a person towards himself, that is, an impeccably pure attitude to himself, with ethical-aesthetic kindness to another, unique in its depth: here for the first time an infinitely deepened self-for-myself appeared, but not a cold one. , but immeasurably kind to the other, rewarding the whole truth to the other as such, revealing and affirming the entire completeness of the other’s value originality. All People disintegrate for Him into the only one and all other people, Him who has mercy and others who are merciful, Him who is the savior and all others who are being saved, Him who takes on the burden of sin and atonement and all others who are freed from this burden and redeemed. ... Hence, in all the norms of Christ, I and the other are opposed: an absolute sacrifice for oneself and mercy for another. But I-for-myself is different for God. God is no longer defined essentially as the voice of my conscience, as the purity of the attitude towards myself, the purity of the repentant self-denial of everything given in me, the One into whose hands it is terrible to fall and to see which means to die (immanent self-condemnation), but the Heavenly Father who is above me and can justify and pardon me where, from within myself, I cannot pardon myself and justify in principle, remaining pure with myself. What I ought to be for another, so is God for me ... The idea of grace as the descent from outside of merciful justification and acceptance of the given, fundamentally sinful and insurmountable from within itself. The idea of confession (repentance to the end) and forgiveness is also adjacent to this. From within my repentance, the denial of all myself, from the outside (God is different) - restoration and mercy. A person himself can only repent - only the other can let go ... Only the consciousness that in the most essential I am not yet is the organizing beginning of my life from myself. I do not accept my cash, I madly and unspeakably believe in my discrepancy with this inner cash. I cannot count myself everything, saying: here is all I am, and there is no more me anywhere and in nothing, I am already in full. I live in the depths of myself with eternal faith and hope for the constant possibility of an inner miracle of a new birth. I cannot value my whole life in time and in it justify and complete it in full. A temporarily completed life is hopeless from the point of view of its driving meaning. From within herself, she is hopeless, only from the outside can a merciful justification come down to her apart from the unattained meaning. Until life is cut short in time, it lives from within itself with hope and faith in its own discrepancy with itself, in its semantic standing for itself, and in this life is insane from the point of view of its existence, for this faith and hope are of a prayer nature (from within life itself only prayer and pleading and repentant tones) ”(M. M. Aesthetics of verbal creativity. M., 1979, pp. 51-52 and 112).
147. Abba Dorotheos. Psychic teachings and messages. Trinity-Sergius Lavra. 1900, p. 80.
148. See, for example, Ancient Patericon. M., 1899, p. 366.
149. Lewis C.S. Until we found faces // Works, vol. 2. Minsk-Moscow, 1998, p. 219.
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From the book “If God is Love”.
in christ. eschatology, the upcoming "end times" court came a second time. Jesus Christ over all people who have ever lived, resurrecting. in the flesh for this judgment and receiving. according to the judgment of the judge, according to his deeds, eternal bliss in paradise or eternal punishment in hell.
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The last judgment
The Last Judgment, the Last Day - in eschatological religions and beliefs - is the last judgment performed on people in order to identify the righteous and sinners, and determine the first reward and punishment for the last.
Concepts of the Last Judgment in Christianity
In Christianity, the dogma of universal resurrection, the Day of Judgment and Retribution is one of the fundamental. Among others, it is included in the Niceo-Constantinople Symbol of Faith and in the ancient Apostolic Symbol of Faith that preceded it.
According to the Gospel: “The Father does not judge anyone, but he has given all judgment to the Son…. and gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of man "(John 5:22, John 5:27). For this reason, Christians believe that Jesus Christ will bring judgment on all nations when all the holy angels come with Him in His glory (Matthew 25: 31-32).
In addition, Christ will entrust part of his judicial powers to the righteous, in particular, the apostles, whom he promised to put on 12 thrones to judge the 12 tribes of Israel.
In the New Testament, the picture of the Day of Judgment and the Last Judgment is described as follows.
At the end of the age, the angels will gather the elect from the four winds from the end of heaven to the end of them (Matt.24: 31), and they will also gather from His kingdom all the temptations and perpetrators of lawlessness (Matthew 13:41) and separate the wicked from among the righteous (Matt. 13:49 According to the teaching of the Apostles, “we must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ” (2 Cor. 5:10), “we all will stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ.” (Rom. 14:10) God through Jesus Christ will judge Jews and Gentiles (Rom. 2: 9), the living and the dead (Acts 10:42; 2 Tim. 4: 1), that is, those who are resurrected from the dead and those who will remain alive until the resurrection, but, like those resurrected, will change (1 Cor. 15: 51-52), as well as, besides people, and evil angels (Jude 6; 2 Pet. 2: 4).
Not only will the deeds of people, both good and bad, be judged (Matthew 25: 35-36, 2 Corinthians 5:10), but also their every idle word (Matthew 12:36). To the righteous, the Judge will say: “Come with the blessing of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the folding of the world” (Matthew 25:34), while sinners will hear the following verdict: “Go from Me curse into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels” (Matt. 25:41). There is an opinion that not only the words and deeds of people will be judged, but also their inner thoughts and intentions (“the word of God ... judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart” (Heb. 4:12)). The teaching of Orthodox asceticism about mental battle is based on this opinion - when any sinful thought is considered intolerant and subject to unconditional eradication.
The structure of the worship text
Most of the types of worship of the Catholic Church have a strictly defined sequence and consist of canonically approved texts, constant or changing depending on the day. church calendar or the intentions of worship, etc., and actions (gestures, movements, incense, sprinkling, etc.). The order of this or that type of worship is called a rite, or rite order (Order of Mass, Vespers, baptism, wedding, burial, etc.). The unchanging part of any order is called the usual sequence, and the variable part, which is special for each possible occasion of the service of this order, is called a private sequence (this term is mainly used in relation to the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours, where there is a large variety of private sequences depending on the day of the calendar, or - for most Hours - from the day of the week and its position in a four-week cycle).
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THE DREAD JUDGMENT OF GOD
THE VISION OF GREGORY, DISCIPLE OF THE HOLY AND THE GOD FATHER OF OUR BASIL OF THE NEW TSAREGRADSKY
Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra, 2001
By blessing Holy Patriarch Moscow and All Russia Alexy II
Icon of the Second Coming of Christ and the Last Judgment of God In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit! Once, when I was sitting in my cell and lamenting about my sins, a thought came to me and strongly began to occupy my mind. I thought that the faith of the Jews is deep and sincere, since Abraham is called the friend of God in Scripture, and Isaac is righteous before God, Jacob is the father of the twelve patriarchs, and Moses is the great saint of God. He struck the Egyptians with signs and wonders. How is it that the faith of the Jews is not sincere, if they received the Law of God on Mount Sinai in ten words, learned to separate good and evil, if God through Moses divided the Red Sea to the Israelites and brought them out of Egyptian slavery, fed them with manna in the wilderness? I read the other books of the Old Testament and, having fought with these thoughts for a long time, finally came to my senses. Why indulge in vain thoughts, because I have a spiritual father, full of spiritual talent. I will go and open my thought to him, and he will judge this. After all, I well know that he who confesses his thoughts to his spiritual father receives relief from his struggling thoughts. And whoever hides thoughts in his heart, he harbors a serpent and not Christ, but antichrists. I got up and went to my father Vasily. On that day, a horse race was appointed, and on this occasion people from all over the city gathered at the hippodrome. And for many years I have not gone to this entertainment, having forgotten the formidable word of John Chrysostom. And so, when I approached the assembled people at the place of Dioptim, the thought came to me to see if there was the first race of horses. Carried away by this thought, I stopped and looked at the running horses. When he came to our Venerable Father Basil, he found him in a silent cell, standing in prayer. I went in to him, making the usual bow. He blessed me, and after praying with me, sternly said to me: “Behold, a man came to me who, having read the books of the Old Testament, began to praise the Jews, saying - the faith of the Jews is deep and sincere, not understanding the Scripture - its true meaning. crying about sins and thinking about death, and about the Last Judgment of Christ. And not only this, but also went to the hippodrome, where foolish people bring joy to the devil with their frivolity. Therefore, the devil instilled such thoughts in you and deposed you twice! " Hearing such a reproof to myself from the wise old man Vasily, I mentally vowed never to attend this devil's spectacle. The saint continued: "Tell me why do you think that the faith of the Jews is good and true?" I found it difficult to give an appropriate answer. And Saint Basil also told me what the words spoken by the Lord in the Holy Gospel mean: He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him. - "You see from these words that there is no benefit to those who believe in the Father, but to those who have rejected the Son. And the Lord also said to the Jews: Cognized neither the Father nor Me... If they saw Him in the hosts teaching them and performing numerous miracles and did not recognize Him as the Son of God, and the Heavenly Father, but they never saw Him, how can they know well? Jesus spoke to the Jews: I have come in the name of My Father, and you do not receive Me; and if another comes in his own name, accept him... And he also said: Behold, your house is left empty. You see that God finally rejected them and scattered them throughout the whole earth, among all peoples, and made their very name hateful among the peoples of the universe. And again the Lord said: If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin ... but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father. Likewise, the Lord spoke about the fig tree in the Holy Gospel, when he was hungry and came up to it and did not find fruit on it, giving it to a curse: May there be no fruit from you in the future. By the fig tree is meant the Jewish people. The Son of God came, hungering for righteousness, and did not find the fruit of righteousness among the Jewish people. Although this people was covered by the Law of God given through Moses, they did not bear the fruits of righteousness, for which they were subjected to damnation and rejection. Before the coming of Christ, the faith of the Jews was really right and good, and the Law is holy. When Christ, the Son of God, came into the world, whom the Jews did not accept and illegally crucified on the Cross, their faith in God was rejected, and the people were condemned. Instead of the Old Testament, God made New Testament, not with the Jews, as before, but in the person of those who believe in the Son of God with all the tribes of the earth. The Jews, who did not receive the Son of God, expect a false messiah - the Antichrist. To prove this, before the death of the prophet Moses, God said: Behold, you will sleep with your fathers, and this people will become prodigal to walk after foreign gods ... and will forsake Me, and break My Covenant, which I have established with them; and my anger will be kindled against him .. and I will leave them and hide my face from them, and he will be destroyed, and many calamities and sorrows will overtake him. Through the prophet Isaiah, God said: I will cast away my great rod, that is, the Law given to the Jews through Moses, and I will destroy them with great ruin, I will reject them to the end and will not turn to them. You see, child Gregory, how they are rejected from God, and their Law no longer has any meaning before God. After the coming of Christ, the Jews did not have a single prophet or righteous man. Prophet David said: Rejected, they will no longer rise. And he also said: May God rise and scatter against Him. Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, was resurrected on the third day from the dead, and after forty days ascended into Heaven and sat as a human being at the right hand of God the Father. On the Fiftieth day after His Resurrection, He sent down the Holy Spirit on His disciples and Apostles; when they dispersed throughout the entire Universe to preach the word of God, the righteous Judgment of God comprehended the Jews. Jerusalem was destroyed to the ground, then all the Jews were dispersed throughout the countries of the Universe. And all peoples hate this rejected Jewish race, the deicide. St. John the Theologian in Revelation says about them that the Jews are no longer a host of Israel and the sons of God, and not a holy people, but a cursed and obscene people, and a rejected one - a satanic host. When they gather in the synagogue on Saturday, there is no Lord among them, but Satan among them rejoices and rejoices over their destruction, that they rejected the Son of God; branded themselves with the most shameful name of the deicide. Satan took them as his inheritance and sealed them with his vile name. They are the sons of the devil, and the lot of false and vile activities of his, and part of the antichrist. Before they rejected the Son of God, they were the sons of the Kingdom. Now they have been driven out of the helipad of Christ, and in their place have been brought in all the peoples who believe in the Holy Trinity. New Israel is a Christian people, sons of the New Testament and heirs of future, eternal heavenly blessings. Know so, child Gregory, if someone does not believe that Jesus Christ is indeed the Son of God, who came to save sinners in the world, that person is cursed. If anyone believes in the Holy Trinity, and does not confess that Christ was incarnate from Blessed virgin Mary, and was a perfect God and a perfect man, and gave us by His Cross life, Resurrection, and salvation, and reconciliation, and the justice of the Heavenly Father, he is deprived of God's favor, is subjected to condemnation, curse, eternal torment together with the Jews and the atheists ", - I said this and fell silent. I began to beg him, saying: “I beg you, Saint Basil, pray to the Lord for me, that He will send me some sign and thereby confirm my lack of faith.” He said: “You are many, child Gregory , you ask from me. Know that the Lord does not want the death of the sinner, but wants everyone to be saved and understand the truth. If you ask in faith, he will fulfill everything for you. ”- And he sent me away in peace.
WONDERFUL VISION
On the first night after my return from blessed Basil, when I rested on my bed after a long and fervent prayer, I see Saint Basil comes in, takes my hand and says: “Didn't I tell you that the Jews are cursed by God? by me, and I will show you the faith of every nation and what value it has before God. " And he took me, and went to the East, and a bright cloud enveloped us and lifted us to the height of heaven. And so I saw a wonderful one, wonderful world... I saw a lot and was surprised at his beauty. Suddenly a cloud dropped us, and we found ourselves on a kind of vast and wondrous, unearthly beauty field. The ground of this field was as light as glass or crystal, pure and transparent. And all the ends of the Universe were visible from this field. Soaring across this field were shelves of bright and beautiful fire-like youths, sweetly singing Divine songs and glorifying the Trinity of the One God. Then we came to some terrible place, glowing with a fiery light, and it seemed to me that they had brought me to burn. But it was not fire, but light like fire. Among this light are many winged youths dressed in snow-white clothes. They walked and burned the immaterial altar of God. Suddenly we found ourselves at a high mountain, to which we climbed with great difficulty, and Saint Basil ordered me to look to the East, and I saw another field, very great and shining like gold in the sun. When I saw this field, my heart was filled with inexpressible joy. Still looking to the East, I saw a wonderful city, unspeakable beauty and very great. I admired for many hours and stood in amazement, then I asked the one who was driving me: "My lord, tell me what this wonderful city is?" He told me: "This is Heavenly Jerusalem - the city of the Heavenly King. Not made by hands, as vast as the circle of heaven is built." And I asked: "Who owns this city and who lives in it?" He said: "This is the city of the great King, about which David miraculously predicted; our Lord Jesus Christ created it at the end of His earthly life and after His miraculous Resurrection, and after His Ascension into Heaven to God, His Father, He prepared it for His holy disciples and To the Apostles, and to those who believed in Him through their preaching, as the Lord Himself said in His Gospel: In my Father's house there are many ... Then a wonderful young man appeared, descended from the heights of heaven to a hill in the midst of this wondrous city, saying: "Behold, the Judgment and Resurrection of the dead will be and reward to each from the righteous Judge will come." And after the words of this young man, a pillar of fire came down from the heights of heaven, and a terrible voice was heard, like a thousand thousand thunders. This is the competent and omnipotent power of God that will gather all creation. And after this a powerful voice descended on all human bones, so that bone to bone, joint to joint, member to member, came together, obeying this divine Power. Human bones began to gather throughout the Universe, and the whole earth was one whole cemetery, filled with dry human skeletons. After that, a young man descended from a height of heavenly wondrous beauty, holding a golden trumpet in his hand, and twelve young men with him. Each had a golden pipe. When they came down to earth, their glorious Voivode sounded before them menacingly, and terribly, and mighty. The voice of his trumpet was heard throughout the entire universe, and the whole earth, like a leaf on a tree, shook. And now the dry bones were clothed with flesh, but there was no life in them, and the glorious and majestic Voivode and twelve youths sounded a second time. The earth trembled and trembled greatly. And at the same hour the numerous armies of Angels descended like the sand of the sea. And each Angel led the soul of a deceased person, whom he guarded during his temporary life, and each soul was directed to its own body. All the Angels sounded their trumpets for the third time, and Heaven and earth were horrified, and everything trembled like a leaf on a tree trembles from a strong wind. And all the dead were resurrected, souls were united with bodies. All were of the same age, both elders and babies. The forefather Adam and Eve arose from the dead, all the patriarchs, prophets, ancestors with all tribes and tribes stood all over the face of the earth in close quarters. Many who disbelieved the mystery of the Resurrection were greatly amazed and horrified: how dust and ashes rose again, all the sons of Adam whole and alive after long dust and decay. Those who did not believe in the Son of God were horrified and trembled, seeing the faces of the righteous, shining like the stars of heaven, in accordance with their holiness and degree of perfection. According to the word of the Apostle Paul, star differs from star in glory. Some of the righteous had their faces shining like the sun at noon, others like the moon in the dark of the night, and others like the light of day. All the righteous have books in the hands of lightning light. There are written all their Virtues, labors and deeds, incurred to cleanse the heart from passions, and an inscription on the forehead of each righteous man, testifying to the glory of each. Some have it written: "prophet of the Lord", "Apostle of Christ", "preacher of God", "martyr of Christ", "Evangelist-confessor", "poor in spirit", "pleasing repentance", "merciful", "generous", "pure heart "," expelled for the sake of righteousness "," the host of the Lord "," suffering poverty and illness "," presbyter "," virgin "," laid down his life for his friend ", and other numerous virtues. In the same way there was a sign on the faces of sinners. Some of them had grim faces like dark night some like soot, others like rotting scabs, some like stinking ooze. Others have faces covered with pus and teeming with disgusting worms, their eyes burning with evil lights. Sinners, seeing the glory of the righteous and their indecency and repentance, in horror and fear said to each other: "Woe to us fiercely, here has come the last day of the Second Coming of the Lord, about which we heard a lot from the righteous and evangelists before our death. But we are frivolous. They did not believe and with all their hearts indulged in voluptuousness, covetousness and pride of life, laughed, mocked the righteous of the Holy Gospel. woe to us, sinners, unhappy and darkened. The Lord will give us up to eternal unbearable torment. We knew how to lie, covering up the gross vices of personal righteousness, loudly trumpeting before us about those virtues and perfections that did not have. Tormented by a thirst for voluptuousness and ambition, we tried in all sorts of deceitful ways to satisfy insatiable lust and ambition and did not stop at any atrocities and crimes. Openly and secretly shed streams of innocent human blood. And despite all the horrors and crimes committed, they considered themselves beneficent. On this terrible day of the Judgment of God, which we boldly and shamelessly and fearlessly rejected and denied, our criminality and hypocrisy will be revealed. Oh, how many innocent children's souls we have ruined, poisoning them with the poison of unbelief and godlessness. We have been leaders and apostates and diligent servants of Satan. Oh, woe to us, the unfortunate proud, who dreamed of knowing everything with their own mind and madly rejecting the highest mind of God. Oh, how we were cruelly mistaken, mocking and laughing at the faith of God-loving followers of Christ. We blindly served the devil, pleasing the lusts of the flesh. And the servants of Christ suffered bitterly, exhausting their flesh with feats of piety. They shine here like the sun, and we burn out from eternal shame and nakedness. Oh woe, woe to us, cursed and unfortunate. Oh, woe to us, eternal woe to the heirs of hell. ”Many other words were spoken by atheists, heretics, free-thinkers, apostates, unrepentant sinners, reproaching themselves and cursing the day and hour of their birth, awaiting a strict and just judgment from the righteous Judge, looking in horror at each friend. They all saw the inscriptions on their foreheads: "murderer", "adulterer", "fornicator", "defiler", "thief", "sorcerer", "drunkard", "rebel", "blasphemer", "blasphemer", "predator "," sodomist "," cattle-lover "," child-mouth "," murderer "," corrupter "," vindictive "," envious "," oath-breaker "," buffoon "," laughter "," harsh ", angry", " unmerciful "," money-lover "," covetous man "," who irresistibly committed every sin and lawlessness "," arrogant denier of the Resurrection and the future life "," heretic "," Arian "," Macedonian "- and all who were not baptized into the Holy Trinity and after baptism, those who sinned and did not bring true repentance, and departed from temporary life morally uncorrected. The Jews before the Court stood as insane and devoid of reason, many said: "Who is God, who is Christ? .. We do not know. We have served many gods, and if they are resurrected, it will be good for us, since we tried to please the good in our temporary life. And therefore they must honor us. "Afterwards I saw how the ranks of the Forces of Heaven descended from the heights and sang a sweetly wonderful song, carrying in their midst a wooden Cross, shining with the light of heavenly glory more than the rays of the sun. And this Cross of the entire Universe was visible, and all peoples were greatly amazed at the extraordinary beauty of the Cross of the Lord. The Jews saw, were horrified and trembled with great fear and horror, in vain the sign of Christ Crucified by them. In despair they began to tear their hair and beat themselves on their faces, saying: "Oh, woe to us and great trouble, they saw not a good sign. Oh, woe to us accursed. This is the sign of Christ Crucified by us. If He comes to judge, then woe to us. We have done Him much harm, and not only to Himself, but also to those who believe in Him. "So the Jews spoke and wept. The Angel who led me said:" Look how they began to tremble when they saw the Honorable Cross of the Lord! "We stood on an elevated place, and I could see the whole Universe, and I could hear conversations, and I even saw all the people filling the earth. After that I heard the many-voiced noise of those who spoke, and an infinite multitude of Heavenly Forces began to appear. slenderly great regiments began to descend to the place of the Judgment Seat of Christ. Seeing this, I was greatly horrified and trembled, but the Angel leading me encouraged me, saying: "Do not be afraid, but carefully look and remember what you saw. These are my friends and co-workers at the Throne of the King, "- and fear receded from me. Soon lightning flashed, loud trumpets and numerous thunderclaps were heard, from which the whole earth shook. The righteous with bright faces rejoiced and rejoiced. They were horrified and trembled with fear. And now - the great Heavenly Forces descended from the heights of heaven, and a wonderful light emanated from them, like a fiery flame. They descended and stood decorously around the place prepared for the Righteous Judge. The beauty of the shining faces cannot be described by any human language. From the vision of their mind my mind darkened, and my tongue refused to speak. The righteous from Adam to the last earthly man rejoiced with great joy, expecting a righteous reward from the ineffable mercy of God. And sinners, idolaters, atheists and apostates began to be horrified and tremble like a leaf on an aspen. time a light cloud with lightning appeared and, having overshadowed the Divine Cross, remained on it for a long time; as soon as it rose to the same place from whence it descended, around the Cross was entwined with a wonderful crown, indescribable beauty, shining more than the rays of the sun. The terrible Throne of Glory was not on the ground, but in the air. And so one regiment of Angels stood on the east side, another on the south, the third on the west and the fourth on the north. A terrible and wondrous sight presented itself. The air was filled with the Forces of Heaven, and the earth was filled with the sons of the human race. Then the fiery chariot descended from the heights of heaven. Around her there are countless six-winged Cherubims and many-erected Seraphims loudly, triumphantly and triumphantly crying: "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of hosts, fill heaven and earth with Thy glory." And so all the Powers of Heaven exclaimed: "Bless the Almighty Father ... Blessed is the One Coming in the Name of the Lord, the Lord Jesus Christ the Only Begotten Son of God, the Word of the Father."
THE DREAD JUDGMENT OF GOD
SEPARATION OF THE RIGHT AND THE SIN
Suddenly a trumpet-sound was heard, terrible and great, and everything that lives in heaven and on earth trembled. Even the Heavenly Powers shuddered and were afraid. This trumpet sound heralded the imminence of the Coming of the Most Righteous Judge. Then the sounds of trumpets thundered again, and again began to descend numerous regiments of the glorious Forces of Heaven, carrying the banners and the royal scepter. Then a cloud began to descend, light and white as snow, carried by four animals. In the middle of the cloud, the Only Begotten Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ !!! Around the cloud there are numerous incorporeal servants of God, with many fear and trembling and great reverence, who do not dare to approach the cloud. A thousand times stronger than the sun, the world was illuminated from the Splendor of the Glory of God. When the cloud began to descend over the place where the Throne of Glory stood, immediately all the Powers of Heaven exclaimed with a great voice: "Blessed is the One Coming in the Name of the Lord! God the Lord came to judge the living and the dead - the whole human race." And the angelic world bowed down to the Most Righteous Judge with fear and trembling. After this, the Only Begotten Son of God descended from the cloud and sat on the Throne of His Majesty of His Glory. Heaven and earth trembled with fear and horror. The human race was horrified by great fear. Archangels, Angels, Dominions, Beginnings, Powers, Authorities, Thrones, Seraphim and Cherubim loudly exclaimed in triumphant solemnity, like numerous thunders: "You are Christ - the Son of God - the Son of the Living God, Whom the all-evil and maddened with envy crucified the Jews. God the Supreme Word, Whom the Father gave birth to before all ages. Especially by nature, and by will, and will. There is only one Lord Jesus Christ. Christ, who took human flesh, did not change the Divine Deity. He borrowed flesh from the Most Immaculate and Most Pure Virgin Mary. He lived in the world. , showed the sons of Adam the way of righteousness and salvation. He conquered death, destroyed hell, bestowed salvation, freedom to the prisoners of hell, destroying all the power and might of Satan. And victoriously resurrected from the grave, bestowed life and Resurrection to all the dead. You are our God, with the Father and By the Holy Spirit, and there is no other God but You. Amen. " And now the All-Righteous Judge looked at the sky - and it rolled up like a scroll. The Lord looked at the earth - and it fled from His presence, being defiled by human deeds. And all the sons of Adam, that is, the human race, stood in the air. The Lord looked at the sky again - and a new heaven appeared, looked at the immeasurable depth - and a new earth appeared - pure, shining, like the flowers of the field, decorated with unearthly beauty, as the perishable life stopped and the imperishable life began. Time is up. Eternity has begun! The Axis endless day has come! In the firmament of heaven there was no longer the sun, no moon, no stars, because instead of them the Righteous Sun, Christ our God, shone! An indispensable light that enlightens the entire Universe. And the Lord looked at the collected waters in the heavenly realm - and the water turned into a fiery flame, bubbling and seething, leading to sinners and apostates indescribable fear and awe; the fire consumed and scorched everything that was unclean and unclean. Then the Lord looked at the unbelievers, apostates and idolaters. And now the formidable regiments of Angels began to plunge the wicked into the sea of fire, some were left. I asked about what was happening, the holy Angel who led me, he replied: "Those who were cast down into the sea of fire are people who have sinned before the Law and have gone astray from the way of God, from Cain to the legislation of Sinai. Those who insulted, angered God with unbelief, idolatry and other iniquity. Those who remain are those who remain. those of the Jews who believed in Divine Providence and did not worship idols. " And so the Lord looked to the East - and the Angels sounded their thunderous trumpets, heaven and earth shook from their sound, and the place at the right hand of the Judgment Seat of God was cleansed. And the regiments of Angels, who were on the eastern side of the Judgment Seat, dispersed to the whole Universe like fast lightning bolts, and looking at the sons of Adam, wherever they met bright, beautiful faces, they kissed them with great joy and represented the right hand of the Righteous Judge. Thus, the righteous were separated from the sinners. Then the Lord looked to the North and South - and so four regiments of God's fearsome Angels dispersed throughout the Universe, and gathered all sinners, and set up the Judgment Seat of God. They turned out to be countless, like the sand of the earth. All of them are distorted with anger, fear and hatred for each other. Darkened, defiled by all sinful impurity. Those who stood on the right side had faces shining with the light of heavenly joy and joy, in anticipation of eternal bliss. With a merciful gaze the Lord looked at those who stood at the right hand of the Judgment Seat and spoke with love: "Come, blessed of My Father, and inherit the kingdom of heaven prepared for you from the folding of the world. Hungry - and gave Me something to eat, thirsty - and gave Me something to drink, in sorrow and misfortune was - comforted Me". And the righteous, filled with the deepest humility of mind, answered: "Master, Lord, we have done nothing, no good to You" ... The Lord answered them: "You will have done this one and only these My least brethren, I have done." Then the Lord looked menacingly at the sinners on the left side and said: "Depart from Me, you damned, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and all his servants. For you have not done anything good for me in the person of my poor brothers. Get out, you accursed and wicked, who have defiled themselves with an unclean sinful life. They did a lot of evil, and did not bring repentance, and in delusion and in vanity they ruined temporary life. Depart from Me, I do not know you ... In temporary life, I daily, hourly called you to Heaven, but you voluntarily chose hell, branded yourself with the seal of rejection through shameful and vile deeds, words, thoughts and desires. Depart, the damned, who have offended Me much, who have imputed My commandments and commands for nothing. In your madness, you loved the delight and the momentary delight of the flesh, and the pride of Satan, and through this bad life you zealously served the devil. Inherit the eternal torment prepared for him. You rejected Me and combined with the devil through a shameful life. Enjoy the darkness of fire and the worm that never sleeps. "Hearing such a formidable verdict of the Righteous Judge, the sinners wept bitterly and wept, asking for mercy. The same hour, the formidable Angels began to plunge them into the fiery sea, wildly seething. , in insane horror cried out: "Woe to us, alas, alas!" The Lord again looked at the new earth - and it was adorned with many different indescribable beauty gardens, groves. And I, amazed at these beauties, asked the holy Angel who led me: "What will the Kingdom be like God, about whom I heard from the Holy Scriptures? "He answered me:" This is the land of the meek, about which Christ in the Holy Gospel said: "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth." But the Heavenly Kingdom in Heaven is ineffable and indescribable. "Yeshe Lord looked at the earth - and the earth was covered with many different flowers, and two rivers flowed: honey and milk, to feed on the gardens of paradise with moisture. And many birds of heaven, of wonderful beauty, flew away, and they began it is easy to flutter in the gardens of God and glorify God with sweet-voiced singing.Then the Lord looked at the height of heaven - and the heavenly armies descended, which carried the wondrous city not made by hands - Heavenly Jerusalem, glorifying the One God in the Trinity. This wonderful city, unearthly beauty and very vast. It is called the highest Jerusalem not made by hands, its gates shine like the sun. And the angels sounded sweet-sounding trumpets, and all creation began to praise the Lord and everything in heaven and on earth. And the Lord called to sinners. , I shake Him, and said to them: "Look how many blessings you have been deprived of and what a painful fate you will receive. .. "Having said this, the Lord rose up from His glorious Throne and went to those who stood on the right side, saying to them in a meek voice:" Come, blessed of My Father, and enter into the joy of the Lord your God. " , looked at everything that was happening and cursed the sweetness of a temporary vain life.
THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD WALKED IN AHEAD OF ALL
When the Lord sat at the gates of the Heavenly Jerusalem, the first Mother of God, the Most Pure Virgin Mary, came up, shining with unspeakable glory. Approaching, she bowed to the Lord. The Lord, seeing Her, will accept Her with joy, and, bowing His most pure head, said to Her: "Come, My Mother, into the joy of His Lord, since everything belongs to You. This is Your inheritance!" She bowed down, kissed His hands, and in joy entered the holy city. And all the Heavenly Powers and the righteous sang, glorifying Her as the Mother of God and Queen of Heaven.
AFTER THE MOTHER OF GOD SEND SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST AND TWELVE HOLY APOSTLES
Then the Twelve men separated from the right-hand sides and with them John the Forerunner of the Lord, approached the gates of the heavenly city, clothed with glory and with cheerful, bright faces. The Lord joyfully accepted them and kissed them, mercifully said to them: "Enter, my friends, into the joy of His Lord!" They entered the holy city with joy.
THE APOSTLES WERE FOLLOWING THE SEVENTY DISCIPLES OF CHRIST
Then the Lord called seventy men from the right hand to the gates of the holy city. Their faces shone with heavenly glory, like the moon shining in the darkness of the night. Clothes of their lightning beauty. The Lord graciously accepted them, saying: "Enter, my faithful friends, into the joy of His Lord and rest from the labors you have suffered in preaching My Holy Gospel ...". Having worshiped the Lord, they entered the holy city with joy, and all the saints glorified God. Seeing all this, the sinners on the left side wept bitterly, tormented the hairs of their heads and, cursing, condemning themselves, recalled their evil will in temporary life: bliss and happiness. Alas! woe, woe to us. "
THE HOLY MARTYRS AND MARTYRS WALKED FOR THE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST
After this, by the command of God, the regiment separated itself from the right-hand sides, the great zelo, the faces of the righteous shone like the sun. They were dressed in scarlet vestments, shining with unearthly beauty. These were the martyrs of the last days of the militant Church of Christ, who received the martyr's crown from the Antichrist and his servants. The Lord graciously accepted them.
THE FOLLOWING OF THE MARTYRS FOLLOWED THE HOLY FAITH
Then, at the behest of God, a regiment of holy men and women, shining with heavenly glory, approached - these are the confessors of Christ. The Lord caressed them with a merciful gaze, and they entered the holy city with joy.
BLAGUES
Then the great regiment approached the gates with joy and gaiety. Their clothes shone like gold. The Lord graciously accepted them, saying: "Good servants and faithful, enter into the joy of His Lord."
Saints
After this, the great regiment came to the gates of the holy city. Their faces shone like the sun, their clothes were white as snow. They had omophores on their shoulders. These are the bishops of God who kindly fed the flock of Christ. The Lord graciously accepted them, saying: "Enter into the joy of His Lord, reap the pleasure of your labors, raised in your temporary life in the field of Christ" .... Angels and righteous people sang God Almighty.
SUPREME, AND OBSERVERS, AND INOCKS WHO WORKED FOR CHRIST
Then a great regiment approached the Lord, and with cheerful faces they bowed to Him. He graciously commanded them to enter into the joy of His Lord. These were abstainers and fasting, and monks, purified by true repentance. All the Angels and the righteous glorified God about them.
Martyr's wife
The regiment also separated from the right-hand sides, with faces bright as the sun, in the tsar's purple robe. These are the holy martyrs who shed their blood for Christ. The Lord graciously, in a quiet voice spoke to them: "Enter, my dear brides, into the Chamber of Your Bridegroom. Enter the marriage of the Lamb of God, we will drink the wine of eternal joy and celebrate the eternal Easter. Triumph for eternal victory over the defeated Satan, his servants and corrupted people." ... The Heavenly Powers and the righteous glorified God - the Conqueror of death and hell - Christ the Son of God, who redeemed the world from Satan's delusion by His Cross.
ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB
Then, at the command of God, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and twelve patriarchs in white robes shining with heavenly glory came to the Lord. The Lord graciously said to them: "Enter, my friends, into the rest prepared for you - eternal joy." Angels and holy men glorified God in the glorified Trinity.
CHRISTIAN BABIES
Then a multitude of people of the same height and shape came to the Lord, their faces shone seven times brighter than the sun. The Lord commended them greatly for their purity. These were the firstborn of the Lamb of God, redeemed by His blood. These are virgin virgins - Christian babies. About them, the Angels and the saints of God greatly glorified God. Then they came in great regiments: prophets, just judges, peacemakers, merciful, beggar-lovers. All shone with heavenly glory, and the merciful Lord commanded them to enter the bright city and enjoy food and drink incorruptible
THE JURYDIVIS OF CHRIST FOR THE SAKE
Then a small cathedral came to the Lord, shining with the extraordinary glory of heaven. At the command of the Lord, he entered the holy city with boldness to many - these are holy fools for Christ's sake.
THE JUDGES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
Then Moses, Aaron and his son Eleazar, Joshua, seventy prophets, who received this gift under Moses, and all the righteous Judges of Israel from Athohniel to the prophet Samuel, King David and all the pious kings of Israel, and all the sons of Israel from the twelve tribes of Israel, strictly observing the Law of Moses before the coming of Christ. All of them were graciously received by the Lord and entered the holy city.
THE FIRST SERVING GOD
After this, the Lord called our forefathers Adam, Abel, Seth, Enos, Enoch, Melchizedek, Noah and other holy men and women who pleased God before the flood and the Law of Sinai. The Lord commanded His servants to give them a worthy reward for their deeds and labors.
PLEASING GOD WITHOUT KNOWING THE LAW
The small council also came from the right hand in joy and in heavenly joy, with shining faces - these are other holy men and wives of all clans and tribes, who fulfilled the Law, not knowing it, and who honored the One God, pleasing God with chastity and mercy. The Lord gave them unspeakable heavenly joy.
Banished for the truth
Then the Lord called from the right hand a regiment that was very great, with bright and joyful faces, all adorned with honor and great glory. The Lord mercifully and meekly said to them: "Come, my faithful followers and disciples, inherit eternal rest for your tireless zeal for the truth of God. The wicked and adulterous world hated you, persecuted and persecuted you innocently, for Me you were reviled and ridiculed, dishonored, vilified your good name, and all because you have confessed fearlessly My name, contemptuous of man-pleasing, cunning and flattery. Rejoice, friends, and rejoice, rest from the sufferings of your temporary life in the eternal joy of tranquility. "
HUSBANDS AND WIFES HONEST AND WILD
Finally, the Lord called the last regiment, very beautiful, the faces were like the color of a rose, the clothes were like snow from beautiful flowers. The Lord graciously accepted them and praised them for their faithfulness to His holy commandments. These are husbands and wives who honestly lived in marriage. They diligently visited the temples of God, fervently prayed to God and did deeds of mercy. They decorated the temples of God with holy icons, lit candles, oil and incense. They zealously glorified the name of God in spiritual psalms. The Lord graciously received them; kindly, saying: "Come, my beloved, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the folding of the world." Angels and holy men glorified the Trinity and the One God with great voices. The condemned sinners, idolaters, who did not believe in the Son of God, who stood on the left side, wept bitterly and tormented from the fear of God. Then I saw how the Honest and Life-giving Cross of the Lord rose from the place on which it stood, and, carried invisibly by the Angels, was placed at the gates of Heavenly Jerusalem, where our Lord Jesus Christ dwelt, calling His saints by name, order, and by merit - depending on who how much has succeeded in Christian perfection and love, Giving them with His mercies, leading them to Heavenly Jerusalem to celebrate eternal Easter in the non-evening day of His Kingdom.
OF THE LORD'S ANGER ON THOSE WHO SIN IN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS
Many a multitude of sinners stood throughout the earth, like the sand of the sea, from the time of Adam to the last day of the Coming of Christ, from every nation and tribe. All of them stood with gloomy, spiteful faces, branded with the seal of outcasts. Trembled with fear, like a leaf on a tree, terrified of eternal suffering and torment. Many of the Orthodox Christians will go into the abyss of inextinguishable fire because they were Christians only in name, but did not do Christian deeds and blasphemed the Name of God with their vicious life - they denigrated the Christian title. They inherit a deep torment for their apostasy. The Lord looked at them menacingly, showing them the abodes and the blessedness of the saints, and telling them: "Cursed, crafty, lazy, nasty people. , served, pleasing day and night. You fed yourself up, as it were, for tempering, and, having fed your flesh like a fierce boar, you defiled yourself with the filth of bestial lusts of the flesh, fornication. , ridiculed and mercilessly killed the true preachers of the Gospel. They laughed at My holy law. Despised Heaven and loved the dust of the earth. You did not adorn yourself with radiant clothes and voluntarily put on the foul rags of the prophets. Accept worthy retribution for your deeds. Jerusalem is the Zion Not Made by Hands. But you madly, voluntarily renounced eternal joy. How many times have I called to repentance, every day knocked on your doors my heart, I wanted to give you eternal bliss for free - if only you could bring repentance and humility alone. But you have driven Me out of your doors. So, go, damned, into the eternal fire prepared for Satan. Receive from him a worthy reward for your zeal towards him ... "The Lord stretched out his rod against sinners, and sinners were divided according to nationalities, tribes and clans, beliefs, heresies and schisms. Those who sinned before the Law and after the Law, serving idols and Jews, did not Those who believed in the Coming of Christ, the Lord looked menacingly at the West - and numerous regiments of Angels came, fieryly formidable warriors led by the Archangel Michael.
THE JUDGMENT OF SATAN AND HIS DARK COLLEGE OF SATAN
At the command of God, Satan and all his gloomy dark armies were seized and brought before the Judgment Seat of Christ; just as a dark night comes and covers everything with its veil, plunging into darkness, so the dark army of Satan: the darkness of sin, abomination, vices, anger, hatred, envy, blasphemy covered everything around - it became dark over the Universe. God's original enemy and adversary - Satan, bound by the unsolvable bonds of darkness, appeared before the Judgment Seat of Christ in all his disgusting ugliness. Branded with all sorts of vices of sins, eternal iniquity, a curse, trembling and trembling like a leaf on a tree, from great horror and eternal punishment. Wriggling and creeping like a serpent, hissing and whistling with malice. The entire satanic army also stood in terrible terror and anguish, awaiting their final judgment. The Almighty sternly pronounced a formidable verdict to the evil leader Satan and his entire gloomy army: "O maddest and most cursed leader of all evil, the spirit of malice, insignificance of nonentities! How could you forget such great blessings with which you were showered from Me - the culprit of everything that exists in the world, the culprit of eternal happiness and joy, the blessedness of creatures, to whom I, by my grace, bestowed being and eternal life. How you, the most despicable spirit of malice, forgot that you were created by Me and according to My great goodness. You, like the Day of Day, surpassed everyone in glory and power You should have glorified more than all the heavenly inhabitants, thank your Creator for the fact that he was most gifted with eternal joys, happiness and bliss. I, in my goodness, awaited your conversion and repentance until you seduced other celestials who served Me, tearing them away from the glorification of Pre my holy name, and they indulged in criminal reverie. You, insignificance, in your madness dreamed of being God, pride has engendered in you contempt and irreconcilable enmity against Me, your Creator and Greatest Benefactor. You, the most insignificant madman, dared to enter into open battle with the faithful and loyal to Me the inhabitants of heaven. But like lightning he was thrown from the heights of heaven into the abyss of darkness. And this manifested My mercy and love for you. Having deprived you of heavenly joy and plunging you into the land of darkness and despair, I hereby wanted to bring you to repentance. But you, the most insignificant, despising My good deed, persisted in your madness, relying on pride and bitterness against My goodness, in your madness armed yourself to fight against your Creator. You, cast down into the abyss of darkness, deprived of the light of heaven, all surrendered to sin and disfigured by crimes, did not stop dreaming of yourself as a Divine. And he did not abandon his criminal plans to capture My Most Holy Tabernacle and My Highest and Most Magnificent Throne. And so I, according to My goodness, created the visible world and, as the crown of the visible, material creation, finally created a man from the earth, breathed into him the breath of life, that is, I decorated him with My Image and Immortal Soul. In the new creation of man, I combined two worlds - the spiritual and the material. That is, his body is from the earth - matter from matter. And the Soul is Angelic and immortal. I created man for eternal joy, happiness and bliss, the primary source of which I, his Soul, assigned to Myself in the Tabernacle and the Throne of the Divine in My heart. My primordial child Adam and his sister Eve brought me a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving hourly, every minute. But you, the most malignant insignificance, envious and murderer, in anger and impenitence, having learned by your cunning about the newly created sentient beings tormented by malice and envy towards these innocent My creations, worthy of my rich mercies, destined for the Highest bliss, which you, most contemptible, for your madness have lost, and called by My goodness to repentance - did not return, due to your bitterness and stubbornness, you, despicable, thought to destroy them. You, in your madness, were not afraid to commit another terrible crime. You, irrepressible enmity and malice, the father of lies and the culprit of every crime and sin, flatteringly deprived them of My fellowship, poisoning them with the poison of sin. He took off them the ornate garments of innocence and purity. He dressed them with a nasty and gloomy rag of passions and vices. Oh, the most disgusting spirit of anger and enmity! You have criminally occupied My Tabernacle and Throne - the Sanctuary of the heart of the newly created man; you were overthrown from Heaven, where you became a criminal goal to seize the Throne of the Most High. You have committed your criminal plan on earth, where the weak will of the newly created person helped you. Oh, the most criminal and despicable enemy of good and truth, the father of lies, the head of darkness! You, like a cruel tyrant, dwelt in the heart of My fallen creatures and became a formidable ruler and tyrant over them. You darkened their luminous mind, and they became obedient slaves to you. Having rejected the truth, they obeyed lies and deceit, for which they were punished worthily, and for their delusion they lost My favor. Oh, the criminal enemy of beauty and eternal happiness! You brought death and devastation to all creatures on earth. All creature, visible and invisible, rebelled and wept as it saw your crime - homicide. The sun was darkened, the moon disappeared, the stars began to move. All creation wept for the death of its king, kind and radiant, seeing how the most despicable and bloodthirsty tyrant and tormentor reigned. But I, by My boundless goodness, did not leave the fallen creatures without hope of salvation. I gave them the promise of a Redeemer and Savior of the World, so that they might live with faith in the Coming Redeemer and bring repentance, mourning their fall. But you never ceased to darken their minds with oblivion and ignorance. And so, their firstborn, Cain, he taught fratricide, the descendants of the righteous Seth he caught with nets female beauty and corrupted the entire human race, which began to reject My existence, indulging in the deeds of the flesh, drunkenness, gluttony, luxury, effeminacy, fleshly impurity, pride, blasphemy, envy. By my righteous Judgment, I cast them down with the waters of the flood, except for Noah the righteous with his family. But you, inveterate malice, among the growing pure wheat - the sons of Noah - were not afraid to sow the seeds of wickedness. First taught the sons of Ham disobedience, irreverence, self-will, freethinking, false wisdom ... And you taught them to reject My existence. But the monuments of destruction were not allowed to this crime. People remembered the legend of righteous Noah, that for the denial of My existence, the first world was punished by a flood, as evidenced by the ruins, the remains of the ancient world. You have darkened their minds with idolatry, and in the person of idols they brought you abundant sacrifices of sons and daughters. The most malignant and most man-hating leader of the peoples, you taught insatiable passion, covetousness, ambition, voluptuousness to peoples and kingdoms. Driven by their passions, they raised countless bloody wars, and you covered the earth with blood. And rejoicing at this brokicide, he enjoyed suffering, like an inhuman and bloodthirsty tyrant. You, despicable tormentor of the sons of the fallen Adam, did not think to seduce my firstborn Israel into idolatry and deeds of the flesh, distracting him from faithfulness to My Law and promises. Thou hast aroused the hatred of My people towards My prophets, who denounced the vile deeds of the flesh and taught My people Israel the true worship of God. With the hands of this cruel and cruel people, you, a hater of good, killed My prophets. But now the hour has come, and I, fulfilling My promise, came into the world to save lost humanity from your tyranny. And now I just perceived human flesh in Bethlehem from the Holy Virgin Mary, and you managed to restore all Jerusalem and especially ambitious Herod against your Redeemer and Savior. I had to flee to Egypt out of rage and ambition, not because I was powerless against your rage - no! - desiring to teach My followers to guard their lives from premature danger, to give no place for anger. How many times have you taught the scribes and Pharisees to stone Me with stones because I showed people the way of truth and exposed your deceitful deceptions, by means of which you entangled the world with networks of temptations, trapping the sons of Adam into destruction. But I, laughing at your tricks, passed by and was unharmed, proving your madness against the truth. Oh, the primordial enemy of mankind, you kindled envy, hatred of the scribes and Pharisees, and after many of your defeats, you found an ally of your criminal plans among my chosen disciples and Apostles. You infected the heart of Judas with the passion of avarice - this is the root of all iniquity. He betrayed Me to be crucified. But your anger did not rejoice for long. Having accomplished the work of redemption, I, as the Conqueror of death and hell, inflicted a terrible defeat on you and an incurable wound with My Cross. I victoriously destroyed your dark kingdom on earth, and breaking the bonds of hell, bestowed Freedom. And you, the evil leader, have tied the bonds of darkness, watching for the day of condemnation. But you did not stop acting evil and being bound, through your servants raised fierce persecutions against My disciples and followers, trying to wipe out the truth from the face of the earth. The shed blood of the martyrs, like a seed, gave birth to numerous regiments of martyrs. Christians have remained the winners of your contrivances. Even children and young women and Christian youths have conquered you, despicable and rejected, despising your deceptions. They gladly went to death, as to a wedding feast. But you, struck in the head, in your madness again prepared for battle with the celestials, arrogant and exalted with your omnipotence, like a dry, rotten tree, and especially when I gave you freedom for three and a half years. So that you, being exalted and completely distraught from the successes of popular corruption and worldwide service to you, with the exception of My chosen ones, again entered into battle in the person of the Antichrist and his servants, who, like you, mad with corruption, persecuted and killed My followers. In madness, considering themselves self-gods, rejecting My power and omnipotence. But My Holy Church - the beloved Bride - triumphed over your servants and remained the victor. Your chosen vessel and the son of perdition, the Antichrist and his false prophets have been thrown into the abyss of hell, where they experience terrible torment, which will never end. The end of your villainy and gloomy dominion on earth has come, the hour of due retribution has come to you, the most repentant and all-wise and most disgusting father of lies and deception - Satan. "The Lord looked at the enemy of the human race - and the Lord commanded Michael the Archangel to defeat him. with the sword of the serpent of the ancient Satan and his godly head. And his example was followed by the regiments of the Forces of Heaven. Like lightning, the entire satanic army plunged into the abyss of seething hell with terrible noise and cries, in impotent anger.
ABOUT THE REDACTED FROM CHRIST
The Lord looked menacingly at the left side - and they seized the formidable Angels of blasphemers, apostates, persecutors of the human race, forerunners of the Antichrist, who prepared for him the path of impiety and blasphemy, unconfirmed Christians, brought by them to apostasy, persecutors of the first Christian times. The Lord pronounced a terrible judgment upon them, and the Angels cast them into the abyss of fire.
Robbers and robbers
Then the Angels separated a great regiment with gloomy faces - apostates, robbers and robbers. Their faces are distorted with infernal malice, their hands and clothes are stained with blood, and having beaten them unmercifully, they plunged them into the sea of fire. With a cry and a groan, tearing the soul apart, they plunged into the abyss of hell.
LOVERS AND ADULTERS
Again the Angels separated the horde of husbands and wives with terrible and disgusting faces, festering, stinking worms teeming with, disgusting snakes gnawed at their hearts, wrapping around their nasty bodies. At the word of the Lord, the Angels pierced them with swords of fire, casting them into the abyss of fire.
HARLOTS
The terrible angels seized and attracted another very great horde, with satanic faces, a stench emanated from them, and worms gnawed their vile bodies, and the fiery snakes gnawed and lived them. The Lord threateningly pronounced his righteous sentence to them: "Oh, unfortunate and insane voluptuous and libertines, you despised the joy of Paradise, which I promised you through My messengers in the Holy Gospel, you madly indulged in the delight of filth and vile flesh. May you reap your bribe in the abyss. fiery ". The holy angels beat them with rods of fire and cast them into the abyss.
THERE ARE UNCLEAN AND SQUARE CONVERSATIONS SEDUATING
At the behest of the Lord, formidable Angels seized sinners from the left side and drew them before the Judgment Seat of Christ, their faces were gloomy and distorted. Disgusting flies hung on the bodies - these are people who delighted in unclean and vicious thoughts, evil seductive conversations and lustful looks and touches. The Holy Angels bound them with heavy iron chains and cast them into the abyss of fire. They cried bitterly: "Oh, woe, woe to us, unrepentant sinners!"
BREEDERS AND THE CREATORS OF SODOM'S SIN
Then the Angels seized and attracted many sinners, their faces are covered with pus and stench, the skin of beastly. These are cattlemen. The Lord turned away His Most Pure Face from them, and the formidable Angels pierced them with a fiery sword and cast them into the abyss.
SUICIDES AND OTHER PERSONS AND OTHER WAYS DEPRIVING THEMSELVES.
Then the Angels seized the regiment in clothes caked with blood, and the nails dug into their bodies. Disgusting pus emanated from his lips, and his legs were twisted. The Lord looked at them, and the holy Angels cast them into the abyss of hell. They are suicides and strangled people, and in other ways have deprived themselves of their lives, and by their despair, they insulted and cursed.
Thieves and robbers
The Lord also looked menacingly at the left side of the Judgment Seat. The formidable Angels seized and attracted many sinners with gloomy and dark faces, distorted by malice and hatred; clothes are torn, dirty, stained with blood, goatskin on the legs. The Lord looked at them menacingly - and the Angels, having bound them, plunged them into the abyss of hell. They are thieves and robbers.
CRIMINALS AND LIARS
Then the Angels seized and attracted a regiment of great sinners, from whose lips disgusting worms and stench emanated. Snakes coiled around their heads and stung them. They are liars and perjurers. At the command of God, the Angels cast them into a raging sea of fire, beating with fiery sticks on their foul lips.
Angry, Irritable, and Malicious
At the word of the Lord, the Angels seized a regiment of great sinners. Their dark and gloomy faces were contorted with intense malice and hatred, as if Satan himself. They gnashed their teeth, tongues fell out of their mouths like snakes, their eyes burned, emitting sparks. They are angry, vindictive, envious, malicious, malicious, mockers, mockers of the weak and defenseless. According to the word of the Lord, the Angels brutally beat them with rods of fire, cast them into the abyss, where there were gnashing of teeth and a worm that never slept. They sobbed bitterly, inconsolably, bloody ones shed tears. But there is no mercy.
MAKING ANY WRONG TRUE
Then the Lord looked to the left side - and the formidable Angels seized a great horde. Their faces, nasty and gloomy, are defiled with stinking blood like soot, their legs are covered with sores - these are unrepentant, who have not washed their sins with tears and repentance, mercy to the poor and forgiveness of offenses. Not appeasing God, they were irreconcilably enmity with each other, flattering each other. The Angel who was leading me said that by forgiving the wrongs inflicted on us, the Merciful God bows down to us and forgives our sins. For it is said in the Holy Gospel: forgive the sins of people, and the Lord will forgive you your sins. Fulfill all the commandments of God - and you will find many benefits at the Last Judgment of God. Oh, how insane and unhappy are those people who do not want virtue, that is, to forgive everything and by forgiving offenses to acquire the Kingdom of Heaven; pride and rancor do not allow this saving virtue. Any person who takes revenge on his offender and enemy is destroying himself and his own implacable enemy. The Lord looked menacingly at the offenders, avengers, revilers, drunkards and gluttons - and the holy Angels cast them into the abyss of a raging flame.
ABOUT SINS FROM THE PRIEST ORDER, HARLOTS AND THE ORDINARY PEOPLE
Then the holy angels seized a great horde of sinners, among them were bishops, priests, deacons, and the clergy of the church, and other people, men and women, youths and young women. Their faces were stained with pus, worms swarmed from their nostrils, and small snakes curled in their hair. From feet to neck, snakes gnawed at them of a terrible size, engulfing their entire body with their terrible snake body. From their bodies and hands vile filth appeared, purulent foam emanated from their eyes, disgusting worms hung and sharpened their vile flesh. The Lord looked at them menacingly and said: "Oh, a perverse and adulterous race, you have been deceived by the momentary pleasures of the flesh, you have despised heavenly bliss, and for this momentary pleasure you will eternally drink the cup of sorrow among the flames of hell. On earth you kindled the lust of the flesh, you will be here forever burned with the ferocity of the fire of hell and the gnawing of an unrelenting worm. Depart from Me, you accursed, damned, unclean, into eternal torment. If you would repent and wash your foul lusts with tears, having lived in chastity and purity, you could receive forgiveness and mercy. But now there is no time for repentance, the hour of righteous recompense has come to each according to his deeds. " Angels, scourging them with fiery rods, cast them into the abyss of inextinguishable fire. With terrible screams and curses, they plunged into the sea of fire. They cried out: "Cursed be the hour and the day when we were deceived by the abomination of the prodigal. Oh, woe, woe to us, the unfortunate."
ABOUT MONEY
Then the Angels seized a very large regiment in monastic clothing and drew it before the Judgment Seat of Christ. Their faces are as dark as soot. Their lamps were extinguished and emitted a stinking smoke. But their necks showed laziness and negligence in the form of birds - owls. Above them hung thoughtfulness and slovenliness like snakes, and recalcitrance like heavy iron clasped their backs. The Lord sternly, reproachfully looked at them for having overcome their passions and defilement. They did not fulfill the second consecration, they did not destroy the passions and lusts of the flesh. The Lord told them: "Depart from Me, ministers of passions and lovers of carnal lust. Depart into eternal torment. For the sake of your negligence, you have lost eternal joy and happiness; for the sake of gluttony, carnality, you voluntarily renounced Me in temporary life. Reap the fruits of your hands - worthy reward for your neglect in the work of salvation. " They, hearing this, began to pray to the Lord with tears: "Have mercy on us. We knew the One. You were served day and night, and they drove out demons in Your name, and created many signs in Your name." And like thunder, the menacing voice of the Most Righteous Judge was heard: "Depart, you damned, into the eternal fire, for you have not obeyed My voice, and I will not listen to you." And the Angels plunged them into the abyss of hell. The Angel who led me said: "Before the end of the century, the monastic rank will almost completely go to ruin, because there are few who are saved, who love labor, malice and humility. by cunning; Satan will attract many to himself, especially those who for God's sake did not love poverty, misery, humility, crying, and therefore easily believe the delights of the Antichrist, rejecting Christ, will perish forever. "
INOKI AND SIMPLE PEOPLE
Then the formidable Angels seized and drew a regiment of monks and simple Christians to the Judgment Seat of Christ. Their clothes were as gloomy as the darkness of the night. at times their faces darkened, at times they were enlightened, pure milk dripped from their right hands, and a stinking resin from their left. The Lord looked at them, turned His face away from them. The fearsome angels led them to eternal torment. They often turned to the Judgment Seat of Christ, crying out plaintively: "Have mercy on us, Merciful Lord God!" The Lord had mercy on them and, in His righteousness, was strict with them. And then suddenly the Youth came down from the heights of heaven. Indescribable beauty, Glorified by the glory of heaven. And many Angels served Her. Approaching, she began to ask the Lord for those who were taken to the torment. The Lord heeded Her petition and granted pardon for the sake of Her petition. She instantly overtook the formidable Angels and said to them: "The Heavenly Father is merciful and His Only Begotten Son and the Holy Spirit, therefore the regiment of these merciful will not be tormented, since for the sake of My intercession they have mercy." The angels answered: "We know who You are - beloved by God, the Most Merciful. No one else has boldness before the Righteous Judge except You," and they returned the entire regiment to the Judgment Seat of Christ. They awaited their righteous judgment with trembling and fear, trembling like a leaf on a tree. And the Judge said to them mercifully and compassionately: "For the sake of your alms, eternal fire I will deliver you, but for the sake of fornication and other filthiness and passions - you will not see my kingdom and you will not inherit my eternal blessedness, you will not see the joy of my saints, since you have no clothes. They have defiled the garment of innocence, holiness and purity received in Holy Baptism. And they don't come to marriage in unclean clothes, they don't defile the joys of the saints. " He ordered to give them a place in the North.
BABIES NOT SANCTED BY HOLY BAPTISM
Then the Lord commanded to separate from the left side the blind who did not walk at the behest of God. They had neither the seal of evil nor the seal of good. The Lord looked at them, took pity with meekness. He drew attention to their menacing parents, condemning them that they did not try to enlighten them with Holy Baptism. And the Lord commanded His holy angels to grant them a place of rest at midday, in the West, and a little part of the enjoyment of eternal life, but so that they would not see the face of God. They glorified God in a glorious manner: "All-merciful Master, who owns life and death, you are blessed and good, and merciful, because the Lord of life and death has deprived us of our temporary life through Your inscrutable destinies, and therefore we only ask You:" Have mercy on us, Lord. " "And the Lord gave me a little consolation. They were unbaptized babies. They were all the same age. They glorified the goodness of God for His mercy and entered the rest prepared for them by the Lord."
ABOUT THE CURSE ARIA HERETIC AND HIS CATHEDRAL
Then the formidable Angels seized and brought before the Judgment Seat of Christ a regiment of sinners, their faces, like those of Satan himself, their heads were serpentine, and malignant worms emanated from their mouths. The Lord looked menacingly at them, especially at the deceiver Arius, who seduced many into his false teaching, teaching that the Son of God is a creature and not Consubstantial, not one being with God the Father. And the Lord ordered the formidable Angels to cast them down into the fiercest torment, where Satan himself, and the demons, and the Antichrist, and Judas the traitor are tormented, and all the wicked assembly of Satan. With terrible cries, curses, they plunged into a fiery abyss, boiling with pitch and sulfur.
ABOUT THE HERETICIAN OF MACEDONIA AND HIS CATHEDRAL
And also the formidable Angels seized and drew to the Judgment Seat of Christ the wicked assembly of the heretic Macedonia. Their faces are wild and fierce, like those of angry tigers. A stench and stench emanated from his lips, his eyes sparkled with satanic malice. Turning to their false teacher Macedonia, the Lord said: "I will not reprove you, but the Holy Spirit, blasphemed by you, will come and shame, since He is the True God." And suddenly all the Forces of Heaven and the holy men of God solemnly and triumphantly sang the Divine song, glorifying the Holy Spirit: us from all defilement, and save our souls, O Belove one. Come and appear, so the all-filthy false teacher Macedonius will be afraid of You. " And at the end of the chants, a great light shone, a fiery illumination, and terrible lightning flashed; and an emerald-shaped Throne appeared, on which the Holy Spirit Comforter in the form of a fire-like dove hovered over the Throne of the Righteous Judge of the Only Begotten Son of God. Angels and the council of the righteous of God glorified the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit - the Consubstantial and Inseparable Trinity. And the heresy was put to shame, the chief of Macedon with his like-minded people. The holy angels, beating them mercilessly with chains, threw them into the abyss of hell, where Satan himself is tormented. They sobbed terribly and cursed their false teacher, plunging into the sea of fire.
ABOUT THE HERETICIAN OF NISTORY AND HIS CATHEDRAL
And the menacing Angels seized them, and brought before the Judgment Seat of Christ the cathedral of the wicked heresy of the ruler Nestorius. Their faces were gloomy and disgusting, their heads were serpentine. The Lord looked at them menacingly, saying: "Oh, a nasty and insane false teacher and perverter of many souls, which you have rejected from the unity of My Holy Universal Church. I am One Holy, One Lord Jesus Christ, in two nature and in one person worshiped and glorified from all the creatures. " The heretics were ashamed and were unrequitedly silent. Then came the Lady of the Theotokos with the host of Saints and with all the Powers of Heavenly Jerusalem to her Son and our God, shining with ineffable light and adorned with magnificent glory. And all the Angels and holy men sang to Her the singing of praise: "Rejoice, the Matter of Christ God, who has been honored to be." Hearing this, the wicked trembled and were put to shame. Holy Angels, tying them with chains, beating them with clubs of fire, plunged into the abyss of hell. The Queen of Heaven again departed to Heavenly Jerusalem, glorified by the heavenly inhabitants.
ABOUT MANY OTHER HERETICS
Even the formidable Angels seized and attracted a large regiment of heretics, who taught that in Christ is one nature, that torment is not eternal, but temporary. The Lord looked menacingly and said menacingly: "Oh, senseless and insane perverters, I am the Lord, the Son of God in two nature - God in nature and man in nature, as the Holy Fathers of the Ecumenical Councils taught and confirmed by My Holy Spirit. You were mistaken in your pride and they were deceived from the devil by their false teaching. Depart from Me, you cursed into eternal torment. " The menacing angels seized them and threw them into the abyss. They wept bitterly, cursing their false teachers and plunging into a fiery abyss.
ABOUT OTHER HERETICS AND FORGOTTEN, ABOUT ICON FIGHTERS
Then the holy Angels seized a great regiment from the left side and drew to the Judgment Seat: heretics, iconoclasts and others like them, who worshiped soulless and wild idols. Like dogs, they gnawed at each other. They taught lies that the Lord the Son of God brought flesh from heaven, and did not borrow it from the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ. The iconoclasts destroyed the most pure image of the Mother of God and the saints, and the Angels of God. The Lord looked at them menacingly and denounced them for their delusions, saying: "Satan himself taught you to destroy and trample upon My holy images. You fools, could you not understand that the honor given to My image is accepted by Me as being shown to Me. I am myself. I myself favored even during My earthly life that honor was given to My image. And therefore I sent My image not made by hands to Prince Avgar. From him and from the images of My Most Pure Mother countless miracles were performed. Mad, you honor the images of your earthly rulers and give them worthy honor. And My image was destroyed and dishonored. Go to eternal torment to your teacher Satan. " And the Angels began to plunge them into the abyss of fire. They sobbed bitterly and tore the hairs on their heads, cursing their delusion and, like tin, plunged into a blazing flame.
ABOUT THE JEWS who crucified Christ
After that, the Lord ordered to present the great regiment, countless multitudes, covered with heavy darkness. Their faces were covered with purulent blood and large thorns in their eyes, their ears were anointed with pitch, and in their hands they held ponytails, their legs were twisted and shod in donkey skins. They looked at each other and wondered at themselves and said in a whisper: "Oh, woe to us: He, whom Anna and Caiaphas crucified on the Cross with the Pontic Pilate, now wants to judge the living and the dead. Oh, evil seducers and seducers through whom we were deceived and did not believe in Him, but now they fell into His hands, and there is no one who has mercy on us. We are unrequited before Him. How much harm we have done to Himself and His disciples. If we would believe in Him and be baptized, as many of our others did, whom we now see going into the Kingdom of Heaven, He would take us there too. " When they said this, the Lord spoke to them with an angelic trumpet: "Am I not the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the Father, bowing the heavens, came down and was born of the Holy Spirit and of the Holy Virgin Mary? At your meetings he taught you and said:" I and the Father is one; and if you don’t believe me, believe my works; you have seen my deeds - resurrected the dead, enlightened the blind, the lame began to walk, the lepers were cleansed, the relaxed recovered, the demons drove out and healed every disease and disease. You saw it all, but you were blinded by your mind. They did not want to listen to me, and therefore you cannot be saved, live forever and reign; but I will say even more: for all that you have done good for you, you crucified Me on the Cross and drove a spear into my rib. You see, now my hands and ribs are covered with wounds, and they undoubtedly reveal the ferocity that you have shown to me. But I will not judge you for this, but because you did not listen to my chosen disciples, who were sent to convert you to repentance; you did not want to be converted, but chose to die in sins. Hearing this, they began to cry; some beat their breasts, while others rubbed their faces, saying: "Moses, Moses, it's hard for us! Where are you now? Come, if you deserve mercy from God, and now deliver us." The Lord said to them again: "Because of your disbelief in Me, let Moses, whom you call for a judgment call, find the innocent; he will convict you." At these words, Moses appeared before them in great glory. They saw him, immediately recognized him and shouted: "Oh, Moses, you gave us the Law. We kept the Law given to us by you, as you commanded us, and not only did not accept the present Judge, but crucified and killed Him. Tell us now: "Who is This, and why did you not say about Him in your Law?" Tell us about this and deliver us from His hand, because we see that we are all in His power, and something that we did not expect has overtaken us. He wants to judge us, and there is no one who would deliver us; now help us in such distress. "
MOSES CONFIRMING THE JEWS
Moses answered them: "Oh, senseless and hard-hearted, sons of not Abraham, but of the devil. Did I not write to you in the Law like this: The Lord God of your brethren will raise up a prophet for you, whom you must listen to, like me, no matter what they say And every soul that will not listen to that Prophet will be expelled from among them. is being done, and this is the expectation of the nations. And he predicted many other things that were read by you on Saturdays in your meetings. inherited from the Gentiles. " They answered: "How could we believe in Him, who called Himself the Son of God, when nothing was written about it in your Law, and the prophets did not speak about it?" Moses said: "I called Him a Prophet, just like myself, since He became human: God is perfect and man is perfect - in these two natures He was perfect, but your envy, malice and pride did not allow you to believe in Him and, as a result, an eternal flame awaits you in the future. " Having said this, Moses departed from them.
WHO WORSHIP THE ANTICHRIST AND REDACTED FROM CHRIST
At the command of God, the formidable Angels seized and attracted an unholy gathering with faces gloomy more than all sinners, their eyes are dark and darkened, on their foreheads there are inscriptions: "Satan, - and in their right hands there are tablets: on them it is written:" Outcast. "And he said to them. The Lord threatenedly, like thunder, struck the words of His wicked. The Lord said to them: "O cursed and wicked, you madly, for the sake of earthly delights of sin, denied Me and defiled the Holy Baptism, and worshiped the Antichrist, and served that wicked flatterer and deceiver." Terrible angels seized them, and beat them with iron clubs of fire, and plunged them into the abyss of fire, where Satan himself and the Antichrist were tormented.From there came terrible cries and groans, violent sobs and curses. Hearing their cries, I was horrified.
ABOUT SCIENTIFIC SOCIETERS AND DEVELOPERS
Then the Angels seized and attracted the assembly of the wicked, learned people who, out of their pride, studying the wisdom of this world, rejected the existence of God and destroyed a multitude of people with their godless writings, corrupting the people and encouraging evil in the world, especially debauchery and freethinking. They roared like lions, and gritted their teeth, and frantically shouted: "Oh, fierce grief for us. Oh, Crucified and Hidden God and Humanitarian, we were not the only ones who rejected You and did not believe Your Holy Scripture, did not even want to hear about Your name, God". At the same time, tongues hung from their lips, like those of rabid dogs. A purulent and disgusting stench emanated from the larynx, disgusting worms swarmed on their faces, small bloodthirsty snakes wriggled around their heads, and large snakes gnawing at their hearts around their bodies. They suffered terribly, and tore the hair on their heads, and bit their tongues. And on their foreheads were the inscriptions: "Seducers and perverters." - "Oh, Crucified God, spare us, only now we have seen Your Glory, we believe in You as the Son of God. We were Your enemies and persecutors. and perverters like us. Oh, death is our benefactor, come to us and deliver us from our bitter lot. Hearing about eternal torment, we laughed. wickedness and corruption. " The holy angels beat them with clubs of fire and threw them into the abyss of hell, where Satan himself dwells and, crying terribly and grinding his teeth, they plunged into the depths of the raging, seething flame; from the abyss of fiery furious screams were heard, tearing the soul, and groans, and insane sobs, screams and gnashing of teeth, and curses. Sinners cursed and hated one another, and in their pride they considered their neighbors to be responsible for their destruction. The son cursed his father for not teaching him to do the will of God; daughter cursed her mother: "Why did you give birth to me, so that I may suffer in this flame forever." O! A terrible sight and very terrible in all the horrors of hell. No language can fully express, not only human, but also Angelic.
ABOUT DIOKLITIAN
Suddenly I heard a voice like the roar of a lion, screaming and moaning: someone, grinding his teeth, shouted: "Oh, horror, oh horror! Oh, Crucified God, I am not alone, but together with others I did not understand Your incarnation and You, not wanting to even hear Your name ... And now I see that You are the Supreme Lord Jesus Christ. Here, being in captivity, I, Your former enemy, confess You Lord and God ... Oh, woe to the one who He did not love You, and did not accept Your coming to earth! Oh, woe to those who did not know You, the true God, did not believe in You and were not baptized! Oh, woe to those who did not know You and did not fulfill Your commandments! , woe to me, for I too am perishing in this terrible flame, which tormented me to the end! Oh, benefactor death! Where are you? -or something like that? Alas, alas, how grievous this torment is! " I listened as attentively to these cries as to all the previously described heavy sighs and bitter moans. And I asked the Angel who was leading me: "Who is it undergoing such terrible tortures?" The angel replied: "This is Diocletian - the Christian tormentor."
THE END OF THE JUDGMENT OF GOD
And at that hour the Judgment Seat of God ceased, since all the wicked were cast into the abyss of hell. And mother earth closed her mouth, and the gates of hell were closed forever ...
And suddenly an inexpressible angelic singing was heard, giving glory to the justice of the Son of God. And the Lord entered with the angels into the holy city of Heavenly Jerusalem, and the gates of this great city were closed. And the Son of God sat on a high and exalted throne in His glory. And the Lord commanded to bring all the heavenly spiritual treasures, and the Lord meekly and very mercifully began to bestow all the saints according to the number of their virtues, who could contain as many of these virtues - gifts, depending on the degree of righteous perfection.
GIVING TO THE MOTHER OF GOD
The Mother of God was the first to approach the magnificent Throne of Her beloved Son. Christ greeted Her with joy and took off the crown of a wonderful and unspeakable beauty, shining with glory more than the rays of the sun, from His Most Pure Head and placed it on the head of His Most Pure Mother, and said meekly and very mercifully: “Oh, Mother, My, accept this glory, which My Father gave Me, the victory over the devil and death, the victory that I accomplished by accepting flesh from You.Oh, My dear Mother, before You are all spiritual treasures. that there is in My Kingdom, enjoy, my dear Mother, - the spiritual gifts of Thy Son for the great sorrows and sufferings that You endured in temporary life. crucified in her heart under the Cross, just as I did on the Cross. The marriage of Thy Son has come, and My beautiful Bride Church prepared herself for this triumph, like Me, with many sorrows. And in My Blood she washed her clothes. celebration, and the noise of the voices of an incessant holiday is heard. " Then the Lord gave the Mother of God the first scarlet robe, in which He Himself dressed as a God-man. The Queen of Heaven kissed the right hand of His beloved Son, and all the Forces of Heaven and the saints sang a wonderful song, glorifying the Mother of God ... And presented to the Queen at your right hand, in golden robes, covered and adorned. Glory shone on Her, as if a thousand suns shone in an instant. This is how the Mother of God was glorified when the spiritual gifts of Her Son were poured out on Her. And at the behest of Her Son, She entered the Hall of beauty, splendor, surpassing the beauty of the Heavenly Jerusalem. No language can express the beauty of this Hall, not only human, but also Angelic.
THE GIVING TO THE TWELVE APOSTLES
Then the Lord mercifully and meekly called His Forerunner John and His Twelve Apostles to Himself. On their heads were wreaths of paradise flowers of wonderful beauty, and the Lord placed on their heads many-value crowns of wonderful heavenly beauty, shining with glory like the sun, and gave them royal garments, and crowned them as kings, and gave them numerous heavenly gifts. Then he commanded them to sit on twelve magnificent thrones of fire and named the twelve tribes of Israel as their judges, that is, he set them elders as Lords over all the saints, to evaluate the labors and deeds performed in temporary life, and according to the degree of perfection to give them heavenly spiritual gifts. Addressing the Twelve Apostles, the Lord, with meekness and love, said to them: "My beloved friends, come and enjoy the eternal blessings prepared for you from the folding of the world. Take comfort from your many deeds that you have suffered for the sake of preaching the Gospel. Take comfort from the many different sorrows and sufferings you have suffered. you for the sake of Me and the Gospel. Rejoice, My friends, and rejoice in eternal joy for the short-term hardships that you suffered for Me in sorrow. This is the joy that I told you about not at the Last Supper before My sufferings. The world will rejoice, and you will be sad, but dare, your sorrow will turn into joy. " The Lord spoke many other words of praise and thanksgiving to them. They bowed down with humility and kissed His most pure feet, saying: "We are indecent servants, insignificant, who have done no good before You. Glory to Your riches, kindness and mercy!" And at the same hour the Apostles sat on thrones around their Lord, enlightened and enjoying the glory of seeing the Lord. The powers of Heaven and all the saints have glorified the goodness of God.
THE GIVING TO THE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST
After this, the Lord graciously and meekly called the seventy Apostles, saying to them: "Come, my neighbors, come, you who have loved Me with all their hearts, who labored much for the preaching of My Holy Gospel. Come and receive a worthy reward for the labors and deeds of the Apostleship." And he put crowns on their heads, clean of stones, shining with beauty and unspeakable glory, and bestowed upon them spiritual gifts according to the number of their virtues. And all the Heavenly Powers and the saints glorified the goodness and mercy of God. And their praise was heard, sounding like thunderclaps. From the sweetness of this praise, my heart melted. And all the Forces of Heaven were enlightened by the great glory of heaven from the splendid glory of our Lord Jesus Christ sitting on the Throne of Glory! Then the Lord meekly and quietly called the men of the Apostles, that is, their successors: the Bishops of the Christian Church. Among them were the holy martyrs and other men of the Apostles. The Lord praised them for their selfless labors and deeds and crowned them with crowns of indescribable beauty, and endowed them with numerous spiritual gifts. And they were glorified by the ineffable glory of heaven, like the sun in the middle of a dark night ... Holy Angels and God's men glorified God's mercy and immeasurable goodness ... Thus, the entire council of saints called by the Lord approached the Throne of the Glory of God: prophets, saints, martyrs , preachers, evangelists, saints, forefathers, fathers, patriarchs, abstainers, virgins, merciful, meek, exiled for the sake of righteousness, gentle and all saints of every rank and title. And all of them the Lord graciously endowed with heavenly spiritual gifts, and, accepting them, they were enlightened seven times in heavenly glory, shining with heavenly light and shining with all virtue. Having finished the distribution of spiritual gifts, the Lord turned to the entire Council of His Saints and the beautiful Bride of His Church and mercifully said to them with meekness and love: "My dear friends and my neighbors are the children of My Father in Heaven, New Israel, the firstborn and elect from all nations and languages. , royal priesthood, holy people, kings and priests of the Most High God! You, living in temporary life, knew weeping and sobbing, in the country of exile you were not deceived by the vanity of the world and the vile sweets of sinful pleasures of the flesh. According to the words of the royal psalmist, you brought yourself, that is thoughts, intentions, words, deeds as a burnt offering.You could say with boldness to me - for your sake we are killed all day and are credited, like a sheep to be slaughtered. And you, having loved Me with all your heart, spent your time in chastity, virginity, fasting and strict abstinence. And they were seduced by the pleasures of the flesh and gluttony and drunkenness. And you, who have loved Me, did not eat bread or drink water until your thirst was completely quenched. The wicked were attached with all their hearts to earthly enrichment and for the sake of their enrichment they hurt and killed each other. But you, my faithful friends, have renounced everything earthly and despised all riches on earth; gold you considered rubbish, according to the word of my Supreme Apostle Paul: All the utterances on the menu so I will acquire Christ... But you that you had from Me, as My gift to you, have given out for Me to the needy. The wicked, possessed by covetousness and pride, being offended, indulged in anger, memory malice and inhuman revenge. And you, my chosen ones, according to my word, imitating me, rewarded good for evil and love from the heart for hatred and persecution. And the wicked indulged in laziness, luxury, and the repose of the flesh. And you, my dear brethren, were in incessant labors and exploits, and incessant prayer, and all-night vigils, and in countless knees in My holy temples, glorified My holy name not with laziness, but with ardent zeal and joy. You have exhausted your corruptible flesh, and by your exploits of piety you have adorned your souls with the garment of holiness and purity and integrity. The wicked indulged in sinful sorrow, excessive cares, suffering under the yoke of the passions of voluptuousness, covetousness and popularity, from which all evil in the world is born. And you, My righteous ones, despising everything earthly and becoming above the passions, spent time in sorrow even for Bose, crying about one thing: how not to lose your heavenly fatherland, begging My goodness for the sins of your youth and your ignorance. The wicked chased after the vain ghosts of the vain glory of their earthly and for her sake indulged in all kinds of crimes, seeking to achieve this sign of vanity. And you, my chosen ones, abhorred the vain glory of man, and in humility of heart considered yourself to be earth and ashes, and wept over your unworthiness. The wicked, mired in the vanity and passions of the flesh, in pride and madness, rejected My power and might. My eternal existence, not wanting to repent and turn to Me with repentance. But, like Satan, they were incorrigibly corrupted and hardened to the point of utter madness. And you, being at the height of moral perfection, have always been well pleased with Me and have remained in Me the fear of God. The wicked, mired in fleshly filth, wallowing in sinful mud, tried to corrupt all people by the example of their vicious life, doing a satanic god-loathing deed. And you, My chosen ones, preaching My Holy Gospel, enlightened the whole world sitting in the darkness and shadow of the mortal with the Light of My teachings, made numerous journeys throughout the Universe, preaching liberation to captives, resurrection by dead sin, according to the words of the royal psalmist: to the whole earth, send out their broadcasting and to the ends of the Universe their verbs- have endured countless insults, torture, cruel torment, persecution. But all of you, loving Me, like Me, prayed to My Heavenly Father, and many tormentors became My faithful servants and preachers of the Truth. So, my dear friends, my chosen firstborn of nations and tongues, whoever sows what will reap. The wicked sowed into the flesh; from the flesh they will reap destruction. And those who sow the spirit will reap eternal life from the spirit. That is, the wicked, like tares, were cast into the abyss of hell. And you, the elect, - the wheat - are gathered into the heavenly granary. The wicked, for the short-term pleasure and delights of sin, will forever suffer and torment in the flame of an inextinguishable fire. And you, my chosen ones, enjoy my eternal blessings for short-term labors and deeds, and suffering. My chosen ones, enjoy my spiritual meal; drink My spiritual drink, you who hunger and thirst for My righteousness. Come, blessed of My Father, and enjoy. The Kingdom of Heaven is prepared for you from the folding of the world. ”Like numerous thunders, the song of praise and thanksgiving of the many lips of the Heavenly Forces and all the saints rang out sweetly:“ Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, salvation and glory, honor, strength to our Lord, for His Judgment is true and righteous ... He justly condemned the wicked, who corrupted the earth with their wickedness. Praise our God, all servants, small and great: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia. The Lord God Almighty reigns, let us rejoice and be glad, and give glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb and the endless peace of faith has come: the endless Passover has come. And the proud mental Pharaoh and Satan with horses and horsemen, with their cunning and deception drowned in the sea of fire. Let us rejoice and rejoice, exclaim a victory song, slano, God has become glorified: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia. "From this sweet-sounding and victorious praise heaven and earth trembled with joy. " And fast my heart like wax, melts in the middle of my womb... And no language, not only human, but also Angelic, is unable to convey the joy that the saints were saturated with, singing a song of praise, praising and glorifying God.
THIS IS THE HOLY CHURCH OF GOD
At the behest of the Lord, the Church of God suddenly appeared. Magnificent and wonderful zelo, indescribable beauty. The church platform shone with pure gold, very beautiful young men, in the deacon's rank, walked on this platform, and they prepared everything for the Divine service. Solemnly, loudly, like strong thunderclaps, exclamations were heard: "Bless, Master!" The only begotten Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, sat on the magnificent Throne of His Glory and the Twelve Apostles on the thrones of their wonderful and wondrous beauty of heaven. The Lord said to the deacons: "Call here all my elect." And at the same hour the deacons sounded with golden trumpets, and like a thunder there was a trumpet sound: "Come, blessed of My Father, into the Church of My saints, let us make a new sacrifice with joy ..." And immediately all the saints entered with joy and spiritual joy. temple of God Almighty. Then our Most Pure Lady the Theotokos came out of Her Hall. Inexpressible beauty, filled with incredible glory. I entered the temple of the Lord with great honor and triumph, and with the sweet singing of Angels and all the saints who chant: "It is worthy to be truly blessed, the Mother of God ..." ... The Lord descended from the Throne of His Glory, and the Apostles followed His example. When the Mother of God received the blessing from her beloved Son, the holy Apostles worshiped Her reverently. Our Most Holy Lady was standing in wondrous garments, and on Her head was the crown bestowed by the Lord, as the Scripture says: She is presented to the Queen at your right hand, in robes of gilded robes and adorned. Then the seventy Apostles came to receive the blessing from our Lord Jesus Christ in great glory and shining with inexpressible light. Then came the men of the Apostles, the holy martyrs, prophets, martyrs, forefathers, patriarchs, reverend fathers and mothers. Each face departed from the Lord and rose in its place. When all the righteous stood in their places, at that hour an ineffable light shone in their hearts from much joy and delight. The peace of God anointed their hearts with the sweetness of the Divine. Divine love inflamed their hearts with a desire to ceaselessly sing thanksgiving chants, full of Divine joy of victorious triumph! And there came an eternal triumph over Satan and death. The Kingdom of Glory and Eternal Bliss has arrived - the Eternal Easter has arrived - Axial Endless Day! The Kingdom of the Son of God and all His holy first-borns, whom He chose from the tongues and peoples of the earth, from all tribes, has come. They, unable to refrain from the rapture that gripped them, began to sing a song of praise: "We praise God to you. We confess the Lord to you. To you the Eternal Father is the name of the whole earth. All the angels are for you, heaven and all power for you. Cherubims and Seraphims cry out to you incessant voices. : Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God of hosts, the heavens and the land of the majesty of Thy glory are full of essence! " From their voice heaven and earth trembled joyfully, sharing joy and victorious praises. And so the Great High Priest and Bishop of the good things to come, the Only Begotten Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ descended from the magnificent Throne of His Glory to celebrate the Divine Liturgy. He was clothed in all the high priestly garments. An omophorion is laid on top of the sakkos, on the head of a miter, of wonderful and indescribable beauty. From all the garments and the Most Pure Face of the Son of God, God's radiance emanated and delighted the hearts of all the saints, and filled them with rapture and Divine rapture. Cherubim and Seraphim soared with fear and trembling around those serving Him, solemnly and sweetly singing the Trisagion. When the time for Communion came, the Lord Himself took communion from the spiritual manna of His belly. Then the Mother of God, the Queen of Heaven and Earth, took communion from the pure hands of Her beloved Son. And then the Twelve Apostles and the Forerunner of the Lord John, and seventy Apostles, the prophets and all the saints in order approached the Great High Priest, the Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, and everyone took part in heavenly bread and drank a new wine of spiritual joy in the Kingdom of the Heavenly Father, and were drunk with sweetness Divine, and rejoiced and praised God. Then the Lord revealed terrible secrets His Own presence to all His elect. Immediately everyone understood all the hidden wisdom of the incomprehensible teaching. And the voice of praise and thanksgiving never ceased, poured out from the lips of the heavenly inhabitants, drunk with the sweetness and wisdom of God's love. And the daughters of New Zion, the Heavenly Jerusalem, went out, glorifying the mercy of God and praising the deeds of the saints and the victory over the devil. A wonderful meal, prepared with incorporeal drinks, which are innumerable, awaited the righteous. The Lord mercifully spoke to His elect: "Citizens of New Jerusalem, daughters of Zion, priests of the Most High God, my brothers and friends, sons and all who have loved and pleased My Heavenly Father and Me, eat and be satisfied with My eternal blessings." Having heard this, they rejoiced and rejoiced, were saturated with the beholding of the glory of God and, abundantly feeding on His immaterial blessings, drank the wine of eternal joy. The angelic guards stood with fear and trembling before the Lord, the Cherubim and Seraphim sang wonderful heavenly chants and shouted one by one. And everyone was filled with heavenly joy and the sweetness of the spiritual triumph
EDEN PARADISE
When the elect were satisfied in the abundance of spiritual heavenly food, then the Lord arose from the Divine meal, and all His elect followed Him, heading towards the East. With the exclamation of the songs of the Divine, rejoicing and triumphant, they entered the wonderful helipad. This is Paradise of Eden, from which the forefather Adam was expelled for violating the commandment of God. When the chosen friends of God entered this wonderful helicopter, they fell into oblivion from admiration and amazement, marveling at the beauties of Eden, rejoicing and admiring the God-planted Paradise! And everyone rejoiced and rejoiced, abundantly enjoying the wonder of God, looking at the wonderful trees and flowers of paradise and eating from the sweetness of the fruits of paradise. The Heavenly Powers praised the goodness of God, singing a wonderful song: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia. Seeing this, from joy and from the rapture that seized me, I fell into complete oblivion. For a long time the saints considered the beauty of paradise, the boundless breadth of God's helipad. And, having examined the God-created dwelling place of our forefathers and the promised fatherland to the saints, the Son of God, with similar exclamations and praises of the Heavenly Powers and His elect, returned to Heavenly Jerusalem. Cherubim and Seraphim, guarding the gates of the holy city, triumphantly exclaimed: "This is the gates of the Lord, and the righteous will enter into them. Confess the Lord in the voice of the noise of those celebrating." Our trembling Redeemer, the all-merciful Savior, the Only Begotten Son of God, sat on the immaterial Cherubim Throne of His Glory. And the Lord stretched out His omnipotent right hand, and blessed in a cruciform manner to the East, West, South and North, and said: "Come from the heights of My saints the blessings of My villages, which I have prepared for My saints chosen." And at that hour all the earth and all the air on it kindled with a snow-like flame, and this miracle continued for a long time, and this snow-like flame rose to the heights of heaven, and an innumerable multitude of villages of God of wonderful beauty descended from the heights of heaven, with temples of God, and chambers, and palaces, and helicopters. In the helicopters there were trees that bore fruits incomprehensible to man every day, which smelled of divine aromas. All the heavenly host and the chosen saints exclaimed a song of praise, marveling at the grace of God. The Lord distributed these palaces and temples to His saints in accordance with the spiritual perfection of each. They praised God in holy temples with Heavenly Forces... And the incessant voice of the noise of those celebrating was heard, the voice of incessant spiritual joy. There is endless peace, inexhaustible joy, eternal triumph, eternal holiday - Eternal Easter Imperishable! Perishable and temporary life is over - endless eternity has begun. The old was destroyed, and a new earth and a new Heaven appeared, and a new man. According to the word of the Apostle, all creation is about Christ. The week of temporary life is over. Endless eternal peace, peace and joy, and a life in which there is neither sorrow nor sorrow has come. There are no carnal and earthly desires, envy, guile, malice and other vile qualities of the soul. All this has been cast down and shut up in the abyss of hell in the interior of the earth. And all who have been vouchsafed an incorruptible life do not need to work, but they eternally rest and rejoice, praising God, wondrous in His Saints. They are no longer afraid of the murderer of the devil, who in temporary life gnashed his teeth at them like a lion, tormented by envy and hatred towards them, trying at every step to seduce them and deprive them of the eternal blessings. The fierce fighting has ceased - the cruel enemy is weakened. The eternal triumph of victory has come, no one will darken the eternal triumph of the victors! Angels of God bestowed upon the holy chosen ones of God with tabernacles, palaces, heliports - at the command of God; to each according to merit, according to the degree of perfection. Some on the new earth, others on the air, some of them walking on the ground. while others had wings of fire and soared with joy in the air. And everyone rejoiced spiritually and rejoiced, greeting each other with a holy kiss. And I saw all this, and I was in spiritual rapture and joyful rapture. The great righteous, like the Seraphim, had wings of fire. And suddenly the Archangels sounded the trumpet of God majestically and solemnly so that heaven and earth trembled and joyfully and the wonderful and wondrous gates opened at the height of heaven. Around them stood a multitude of Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones, Archangels, the Forces of the Lord, and everyone exclaimed a victory song to the Redeemer of the World - the Great High Priest and the eternal Bishop Son of God, glorifying His victory over Satan, hell and death. The Mother of God ascended at the right hand of Her Son, beaming with beauty and majesty. Those who entered the gates of heaven, with solemn exclamations, became invisible to me. I asked the Angel who was leading me: "Where did the Lord ascend?" He said: "To the Heavenly Kingdom, to His Heavenly Tabernacle. And others remained on earth. These are the great chosen ones of God, who, through abstinence of feelings, sobriety and unceasing prayer, have achieved equal purity and the highest degree of perfection. They despised everything earthly and killed passions in themselves, all completely left on earth. Those who in worldly life lived according to the commandments of Christ and stayed in purity in matrimony, by alms and many prayers, and having cleansed themselves with true repentance, with a good word, and good thoughts, and died in repentance. All of them settled in the suburbs of Heavenly Jerusalem, in the villages and heliports prepared for them, and in Zion not made with hands they were vouchsafed to live forever, enjoying the paradise beauties of Eden! "
THE LORD'S WORDS TO GREGORY
Then I saw again the Lord coming out of the gates of heaven with all the army. And the Lord sat on the Throne of His Glory, and all the great righteous, and the Queen of Heaven, and the Forerunner John, and the Apostles, and everything shone with heavenly glory, unspeakable beauty, singing a victory song: "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of hosts, fill heaven and the land of Thy glory. Hosanna in the Highest; Blessed is He Coming in the name of the Lord, Hosanna in the Highest! " The Lord looked at me with a merciful gaze and quietly said to me: "Gregory, come to the Throne of My Glory!" And we went down with the Angel leading me from a high hill, on which we stood and watched this wonderful, truly praiseworthy vision of the glorious works of God taking place. With fear and trembling they approached the Lord, and, prostrating themselves, bowed down to His most pure feet and begged for His goodness. And the King of Glory, the Lord, said to us in a quiet and meek Divine voice: "Behold, Gregory, through the prayers and requests of my great saint Vasily, I showed you what will happen after the end of the world of temporary life. You, Gregory, declare this vision to the whole world, for the benefit of spiritual salvation from the delusion of sin. Especially for you this admonition may serve you wrongly reasoning about the Jews that they keep the faith well, the Law of Moses, and you have seen what condemnation befell them. And I also tell you, whoever does not follow the Holy Gospel is will not be a participant in eternal life: he is an abomination and will be hated by My Father and Me, whoever wrongly believes and separates from the founded Holy Church, he at least performed superhuman deeds and fasts, alms, exhaustion of the flesh, and does not enter the doors of My Holy Church - that thief And the robber. You, Gregory, try to multiply the talent entrusted to you. Strive to save your soul and for the benefit of the souls of many: fulfill and do not hide in the ground your heart - My spiritual silver , but convey to the saints of My Churches, for many, having heard this, will repent and turn to Me with all their hearts, and will love virtue, and will glorify Me for My goodness and immeasurable mercy to the fallen human race. The world and everything in the world - the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life will truly hate. And they will fulfill My commandments, they will desire with all their hearts and, fearing eternal torment and suffering, they will attain eternal bliss and happiness, and peace, and unceasing joy. And they will desire with all their hearts, and, having straightened out all sinful temptations, they will be perfected in all virtue. And if they hear you do not believe and do not repent, then you will not be guilty of their destruction. And they will be condemned for unbelief and laziness about their salvation according to their works. And if you are too lazy or afraid to open this vision to My Churches and all the people, then the lost souls of the whole world will be required of you ... "I said:" Lord Lord, how can I accommodate such spiritual wealth and treasure in my impure soul and in my filth my heart, and in my darkened mind, and how can I tell the whole world these ineffable mysteries incomprehensible to the mind, if not the cherubic mouth and the seraphim mind you grant, Lord, to me unworthy of these secrets. What I saw, neither the angelic mind can comprehend, and it is impossible to explain them to humans. "Saying this, I was possessed by awe and awe. The Lord, seeing my humility, said to me mercifully:" I know that this is impossible for you, if you of My grace, which, having dwelling in your heart, will inflame it with Divine Love for Me and give strength and memory to describe in detail everything you have seen - for the benefit of My Churches, languages and tribes, whom I call all to salvation and eternal life. By My immeasurable goodness and mercy, I want the entire human race to be saved from eternal destruction and endless hellish torments. Happy is the person who, with an ingenuous mind and a righteous heart, hears this revelation and tries to cleanse his soul from all sinful filth, and adorn it with every virtue in order to inherit eternal life and avoid eternal hellish torment. But eternal grief will be to those who will not believe this revelation and will not believe in My Coming, and will not be a worthy member of My Holy Church, and will not rejoice in their salvation, and will not try to cleanse their hearts of passions, they will perish forever and will not see the Heavens Easter. Do not allow a shadow of doubt about the veracity of this revelation. Remember, where God desires, there the rank of nature is conquered. Remember every Word of the Son of God: "Whoever does not believe, will be condemned ..." Through this revelation of Mine, My boundless love for the human race is manifested. And if anyone stumbles on a stone of unbelief, then he will be unrequited at My Last Judgment. But whoever honors the Son of God is the heir of my kingdom. Whose names are written in the book of life, they will happily believe this revelation in the simplicity of their hearts. They will try to copy it, read it carefully, diligently and try to correct their life, and enrich themselves with every virtue, and they will teach others the path of virtue by their example and word of edification. But those who with all their hearts to the vanity of the earth, whose mind and heart are darkened by sinful thoughts, they have in their hearts the fleshly lust of the eyes and the pride of life, those who have completely extinguished the lamps of faith, the words of this revelation will seem incredible. And not only will they not believe, but they will laugh at this revelation. Who would dare to slander God so much, being himself an eyewitness of such a revelation, which none of the saints have seen and conveyed in the scriptures that I have revealed to you, Gregory, at the intercession of Basil, My great saint, for the sake of the multitude of My mercy and goodness. But the peace lovers will tell you: are you really more than Peter or Paul, Moses, Daniel, David and all the other holy prophets, glorious and in new grace, shining forth holy God-bearing Fathers and universal teachers, if they were not vouchsafed to see such secrets that are known to the One God. And in another way they will humiliate and reproach you and the vision you have written and said. They'll call them old fables, but don't pay attention to them. Know that through them the father of lies - Satan - will oppose the revealed truth. You try to tell each and every one of this revelation and write it down in a book in precise detail. Pass on to all My holy Churches and believers in My Second Coming. Tell the patriarchs, bishops, priests of My Churches that I will come soon, and My reward is with Me. You will be happy if you adorn your souls with virtue, as a bride adorns herself on the day of her marriage to her bridegroom. Here I will open to you My Heavenly Palace, and there will come a feast of faith and the marriage of the Lamb - the Son of God - with the beloved Immaculate and Holy Church, which I redeemed from nations, tribes and tongues. But grief, eternal grief, who does not feed the flock entrusted to him. Behold, I remind you by this revelation, but not for the sake of ignorance, but for the sacrament hidden from the age. But whoever neglects his salvation and the flock entrusted will be subject to eternal condemnation. If someone does not exert all his zeal and care for the salvation of his soul, but is deceived by the earthly delights of wealth, the honors of the world and the enjoyment of the flesh and the vanity of the soon-passing, human glory, I will seek lost souls at their hands and will especially subject them to condemnation and execution. Say this to those who live in monasteries. Here I am, by My mercy I do not want the death of sinners, but I am waiting for their conversion and repentance with confession. I also say to you, if anyone comes clean and blameless, true, will be corrected by repentance for the coming My Second Coming, I will receive them into My eternal Kingdom. Here it is prepared. I wait, and all My blessings are prepared for the essence. My palaces are created, and my city Jerusalem can freely accommodate all the sons of Adam. Paradise of Eden is open, I await those who come in - all of you go and hurry. Each according to your strength, decorate the clothes of the soul, for a worthy stay in My heavenly Halls. Take on labors and deeds that are temporary and insignificant in comparison with eternal ones. And inherit eternal rest for short-term hunger and thirst, eternal saturation with My immaterial goods. Tears of repentance - eternal consolation, for poverty and non-possession - eternal wealth and honor, for short-term sorrows for Bose - eternal joy. And the noise of the voice of those celebrating, and the noise of eternal triumph, the victory of the Lamb over the ancient serpent-destroyer. No one will be lazy, but no one despairs! Hurry, hurry quickly, until the gates of Heavenly Jerusalem and My palaces are closed. Paradise and My Kingdom are open. Do not harden your hearts by being deceived by the vanity of the world and the voluptuousness of carnal pleasures. Run away from evil, do good, leave earthly and deceptive benefits. Embrace true good, inalienable and permanent. Everything is prepared for you - I am waiting for you all with open arms. I am the Lord - ready to forgive you everything, everything with which you have offended and dishonored Me, but just wash yourself with tears of repentance and wipe away the sinful impurity with contrition of your heart. And I will shower you with heavenly gifts. I am the Only Begotten of God, the Great High Priest, who sanctified people with His Blood: the Bishop of the good things to come. The ruler of life - eternal life, the co-present Word of the Father. Under Pontius Pilate Crucified for the sins of the whole world, fallen mankind. Who redeemed you with His Honest Blood from satanic slavery and from just curse and eternal death, for breaking the most holy commandments of My Heavenly Father. You, according to the just judgment of God, would be subjected to eternal execution. But I, loving you, accepted the execution on the Cross for you with My Most Pure Flesh and brought the atoning Sacrifice on the world altar - the Life-Giving Cross of Calvary - to My Heavenly Father. And He returned His favor to you and, as His beloved sons, He made My good things heirs! I opened the way for you to the Tree of Life and opened the prisoners of the gates of heaven, with My Cross I crushed the power and might of hell. He gave freedom to the prisoners of hell. And Satan imprisoned the evil leader with the unsolvable bonds of darkness, struck with My Cross his evil head, inflicting an incurable wound. In the seated darkness - he enlightened with the light of My Gospel; who have gone astray from the truth, he has guided them on a path that steadily leads to eternal joy and bliss. Those killed by sin - he raised them up, those with lepers with ulcers of the passions - he cleansed; blinded by the mind - enlightened; relaxed from the unbearable burden of sins - he raised up and bestowed power; defiled with sinful abomination - sanctified; and acquitted those guilty of countless crimes. Remember and do not forget My great blessings, and be grateful to Me. Stop crucifying and dishonoring and reviling Me again with your vicious deeds, words, thoughts, desires and intentions. Why do you repay me with evil for my good? For my love for you - with hatred? Think about it !!! And sober yourself from the intoxication of the sinful. Stop drinking iniquity like water, give up cunning and learn to do good and love Me with all your heart. You were my bitter enemies, but I loved you immeasurably and shed My most pure blood for your salvation on the Cross amidst intolerable grievous torment. Wash your sins and vices with tears of repentance, clothe, adorn your souls with the shining garment of virtue, adorn your mind with heavenly wisdom, despise the world and everything in the world, and I will clothe you in My Second Coming with royal purples, and crown your heads with unfading crowns of glory heavenly; you will be kings and priests of the Most High God, and citizens of Heavenly Jerusalem, fellow citizens of My holy prophets and Apostles, saints, martyrs, hermits, virgins and all my chosen saints, you will be friends of the Heavenly Powers: and with one mouth you will sing a song in My Zion not made by hands: and I will shower you with all My mercies, and I will give you ineffable blessings and unspeakable joy I will fill your hearts. Rise from the stinking swamp of your passions, so that death will not overtake you unprepared, without true repentance. Then faith in Me will be of no use to you. Here I am, the Lord your God, loving righteousness and pouring out mercy and philanthropy on truly repentant sinners. My grace is open to my creation. Especially those who believe in My Name. For their sake I endured the Crucifixion and suffered much from the rebellious Jews. But I am merciful to those who truly repent and forgive their sins. But after death there is no longer any place for repentance, and there is no benefit from the tears and sighs of the heart. Then there is no place for My mercy, but the time of justice - reward or condemnation: unrepentant sinners will befall my just and Terrible Judgment. And so I tell you first, and to you, Gregory, I showed and revealed everything that will be at My Judgment. Then I will not convict you of your sins, you will then condemn yourself, seeing your vileness and lewdness. I have not hidden anything from you that can bring you spiritual benefit. Choose what you want for yourself - eternal life, the Kingdom of Heaven, eternal rest, eternal joy, eternal pleasure, or eternal death, eternal torment in the flame of hell with Satan and evil demons, eternal stench and stench, eternal hunger and scorching thirst, eternal incompatible darkness and unbearable tightness, and eternal suffering, and unbearable diseases - a collection of all evils, troubles and misfortunes above your heads. Here I am, the Son of God Jesus Christ, abiding with My Father and the Holy Spirit, I have said all this before. My prophets, Apostles and church teachers, who were taught by Me, stated this in the scriptures and left you after themselves, so that you, being guided by these scriptures and instructions, might be saved, avoiding heretical delusions and demonic temptations. We would jealously fight against our flesh, curbing its lusts and crimes. By abstinence, they would triumphantly reflect the evil, passionate thoughts inspired by demons, beat them mercilessly, constantly gazing with their minds at the gates of eternity, that is, death. Looking at and remembering their sins, they would shed tears of repentance and be cleansed of the stench of sin. Having put on the garment of purity and integrity! "And our Lord added:" This I said to you that heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away. He told you the immutable truth, "- and the Lord finished our conversation to me, unworthy. And the holy Angels and all His chosen ones praised His mercy with great and sweet-sounding songs, and the Vladyka said:" Gregory, get up and do as I commanded you. .. "And I, having already grown up from the ground on which I lay before the Lord, wanted to enter through the gates behind our Lord, and asked the holy Angel who led me for this. And he did not allow me, saying:" It is impossible for him who is in the body to enter there. " And I thought that the world had really changed, and eternal imperishable life had come. And in that tea I woke up, shuddering from a terrible and wonderful vision of this! I wondered to myself what this terrible and wondrous vision meant. A strong fear gripped me, and I was in bewilderment for many days. For seven days I was hopelessly in my cell, remembering everything I had seen, and thinking to write all this in a book, so as not to forget in time. I earnestly prayed to my Lord to send His grace to me and enlightenment uma mo him in order to fulfill His commandment to me exactly. After some days, the vision I saw came to my mind in detail, what I saw and what I heard, and I hastily began to write everything down in detail. Not shining with eloquence and not philosophizing wisdom, but what he saw and what he heard in a vision, and what the Lord revealed to me, unworthy, through the prayers of my spiritual father Vasily and through His rich mercy to us sinners, wishing we all be saved. I wrote everything down in order, instructed and taught by God. I implore all fathers and brothers and sisters, but no one disbelieves from you, and no one will be tempted, but no one will doubt, reading this wonderful revelation, thinking that these hidden secrets cannot be revealed to a sinful person and unworthy husband, which from the beginning of the world no one from the great saints was worthy to see. But remember, many of them of other heavenly gifts were vouchsafed from God to see to whom what God wills, according to His grace-filled Grace and according to the degree of perfection of each. Amen.
Once Elder Niphont, having prayed to God in the evening, lay down to rest on the stones as usual. It was midnight and he could not sleep. Looking at the sky and the stars, at the clear light of the moon, he began to think about his sins and about the approaching day of the Lord's Judgment. Suddenly, the sky began to roll up like a scroll and Jesus Christ appeared to his gaze, standing in the Power and Glory of all the Heavenly army: angels, archangels, terrible armies in their power, divided into regiments and obeying his Stratigam.
Jesus signaled to one of the Stratigs and said:
"Michael. Michael is the keeper of the will, take with your army the Throne of My Glory and set it up in the valley of Jehoshaphat, and there you will set it up in the place of my First Coming. Because the time is drawing near for everyone to receive according to his deeds.
Do it quickly, because the time is right for me to judge those who worshiped idols and did not accept me as their Creator.
Because they loved the stones and wood that I gave them to use for their needs. All of them will crumble like clay pots.
Including the heretics who separated Me from My Father, who dared to speak of the Comforter of the Soul as a creature. Woe to them, now hell awaits them.
Now I will show the Jews who crucified me and did not believe in My Divinity. I have been given all Strength and Power. I am the Judge Right and Honest.
Then, when they crucified me on the Cross, they laughed and said: He saved others, let him save Himself. Now I have retribution and will repay it.
I will judge this corrupted race and seed, and I will check and punish, because they did not repent when I sent them the opportunity. I gave them opportunities to repent, and they were proud. Now I will fulfill retribution.
In the same way, I will repay the sodomites, who, by their deeds, filled the earth and the air with their stench. Then I burned them and now I will burn them, because they did not want the Grace of the Holy Spirit, but wanted the blessings of the devil's spirit.
I will punish all the monks who did not remain in obedience and entered the darkness like wild untied stallions. They did not save themselves in their wedding and tonsure, but turned the senseless into fornication, which was a trap for them from the devil, bound them with this and threw them into the depths of hell. Haven't you heard of the fear of falling into the hands of the condemnation of the Living God? Haven't you heard of the punishment that I will apply to such? I called them to repent and did not repent.
I condemn all the thieves who have gone to murder by their deeds. I gave them the opportunity to change, but they did not attach any importance to it. Where are their righteous deeds? I showed them the prodigal son, as an example, so that they would not lose hope, but they did not look at My laws and denied Me. And turned to sin and went to it. So let them go into the eternal fire, which they themselves kindled.
But I will also give up all those who grudged, and I will give them up to torments that they deserved, because they did not want My peace, but remained angry, bitter and wicked in life.
Those who envy for gold and who give money for growth, over the riches of those who pray, I will destroy and throw all My anger on them, because they had hope in gold and did not want to know Me, as if they did not know My concern for them.
And those false Christians who argued that there is no Resurrection from the dead, but reincarnation is taking place - I will melt them in the fire of hell like candles; then they will believe in the Resurrection.
Poisoners, magicians and everyone like them will be tormented mercilessly.
Woe to those who get drunk and play guitars, indulging in insane gaiety, dancing vile and thinking sly. I called them, but they did not hear Me and complained about Me. Now let the worm eat their hearts. He bestowed mercy and remorse on everyone, but no one attached any importance.
I will drive into darkness all those who did not reckon with the Holy Scriptures, written through the Saints by the Holy Spirit.
I also judge those who are engaged in enterprises of devilish wars and have hopes for their swords, their shields, their spears and so on. Then they will learn that there should be hope only in God, and not in His creation. They will be afraid and will want to justify themselves, but they will not be able to, because I am the Judge, and I reward.
I condemn all the kings and rulers who grieved me with their lack of rights. Ruling dishonestly and to the detriment of the peoples, judging dishonestly and proudly, to the detriment of people and taking bribes for this. My power is incorruptible. For falsehood they are subject to disappearance. Then they will understand how terrible I am and take away the power of the rulers. Then they will understand that I am the most terrible of all the kings of the earth. Woe to them, hell awaits them !!! Because with gnashing of teeth they shed innocent blood, the blood of their children and their daughters !!!
But what anger will I expose those who from me accepting wages for their labors, were not true shepherds? Who ravaged My vineyard and scattered My sheep? Who shepherded gold and silver, and not souls; and demanded alms for profit? What will be the punishment for them? How terrible will the punishment be? I will pour out My anger on them with all My power, I will destroy them! They dreamed of having sheep and calves in their flocks, but they did not think about My sheep, were not interested in them. I will punish you with my staff and you will be beaten with my whip for your sins.
But also the priests who laugh and feel in My churches as in their own house - how will I punish them? I will send them into eternal fire and tartare.
I came and I go - does anyone have the courage to meet Me? But woe to him who has a sinful essence and falls into my hands !!! Because everyone will appear before Me naked and naked. Will then be able to brazenly appear before Me? Can you look me in the face? In what grace will they appear before My Almighty Power?
I will also judge all the monks who have not fulfilled the vows given to God and those who have departed from them; wine before Angels and Men. Those who swore to do one thing, and did another? From the height of the clouds I will throw them into the abyss !!! They lacked their iniquities, but they attracted others as well. It would have been better for them not to renounce the world than to renounce living in malice and fornication.
I am a JUDGE. I will repay everyone who did not want to repent. I will judge them for I am the Righteous Judge. "
These words of Christ resounded like thunder among the entire army of the Forces of Christ. After that, the Lord ordered to bring Him SEVEN AGES of human life. And again Michael the archangel fulfilled this order. He brought them from the house of the Covenant. They were huge books. Then he got up at a distance, watching the Lord leafing through the history of centuries.
"Father, Son and Holy Spirit One God in Three Persons. From the Father was born the Son and the Creator of Ages. Because by the Word of the Father, the Son of the Ages, invisible Forces are created. Heaven is established. Earth. Earthly elements... Seas. Rivers and everything that dwells in Them.
The image of the invisible God is the first man Adam with his wife Eve. Adam was given instructions from the Almighty God of all visible and invisible creation. One Law was given, which had to be fulfilled by all means for the safety of the people themselves; this Law had to be fulfilled exactly, in order for them to remember His Creator, and that HE is always above them. "
"The violation of the law in the image of the face of God came from the inattention and thoughtlessness of this act and from the deceit of the cunning into which he was introduced. The man sinned and was expelled from paradise. The righteous decision and judgment of God. The violator could not be in the Holy place of God !!! "
"Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him, at the instigation of the devil. He must be burned in fiery hell, since he did not repent of this sin. And Abel is worthy of eternal life."
And so gradually I read all the books of the Ages, until I reached the end - to the Seventh Age, having read:
"The beginning of the Seventh Age is the end of all ages. The main sign of this age is unkindness and cruelty, lies and asplachnia - (infertility or not giving birth to good fruits). People of the Seventh century are cunning, murderers with feigned love, vicious, easily falling into sodomy and its sins ...
"Truly this Seventh Age has surpassed all the previous ones in its evil and wickedness and fornication!"
"The Greeks and their idols were defeated and destroyed at the moment when My incorruptible body was hung on the Cross and nails were driven into Him."
He was silent for a while and again directed his gaze to the book:
"The Twelve Lords of the Greatest King, snow-white as light, stirred the Sea, closed the mouths of beasts, enlightened the blind, strangled spiritual dragons, fed the hungry and made the rich beggars. Like fishermen, they fished a multitude of dead souls, giving them life again. Great is their payment from Me! !
I am the Loving One has chosen the fighting witnesses for My Glory. And their friendship reached up to Heaven, and their love to my throne. And their passion to my heart and their adoration burns my heart. And My Glory and My Kingdom are with them !!! "
Turning his head up, he whispered:
"O my most beautiful and most precious Bride. How many villains tried to torture you and infect you !!! But You did not betray Me - Your Bridegroom! Innumerable heresies threatened you, but the stone on which You were installed did not slip. Because by the gates of hell, yes will not overpower you !!! "
Then I began to read about people who died and did not wash their deeds with repentance. And there were as many of them as grains of sand on the seashore. He read about everyone and shook His head with displeasure and sighed with heaviness and bitterness. An innumerable multitude of angels stood by His side, in awe, seeing the Judge's righteous anger. Having reached the middle of the century with his gaze, he said:
"This Age is filled with the stench of sins from human deeds that are deceitful and smelly: corruption, murder, enmity, hatred and malice.
ENOUGH! STOP IT in the middle !!! I will end the dominion of sin!
And speaking these angry words he gave a sign to the Archangel Michael to make the sign of the Judgment. After which, he with his army, lifted the throne of the Lord and departed. After him, Gabriel departed with his army, singing psalms and "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of hosts. All and all the earth His Glory!"
After this great oath, heaven and earth rejoiced. They were followed by His third Archangel - Raphael with his army, singing the hymn "You are Holy Lord Jesus Christ, to the Glory of God the Father. Amen"
Finally, they were followed by the fourth army, led by his lord, who was White and Shiny as Light and the Sweetest had a form. And they sang a hymn as they walk away, "The God of the Gods, the Lord prophet, and called the earth from the rising of the Sun to the setting of it. From Zion, His Goodness and Splendor. Our Visible God has appeared and our God will not keep silent! From Him, fire emanates and a storm rages around Him. God rises to judge. the land and all that the nations inherited on it. " Uriel is the commander of this army.
After some time, they brought before the Lord His glorified Cross. And he shone with light like lightning, and spread an indescribably sweet smell around. He was accompanied by two troops of Trust and Strength. The vision of this was very splendid and full of greatness. Numerous Angelic Powers sang the psalms harmoniously: "I magnify Thee, my God, my King, that Thy Name be holy for ever. Amen." And others sang "I magnify Thee, O Lord, and Thy footstool, Holy Thou! Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Hallelujah!"
Then again the command of the Lord was given - to approach him to the Holding Archangel Michael. At the same hour, one Angel appeared, holding a huge and loud trumpet. The Lord took His trumpet in His hands, sounded three times and spoke three words. Then he gave it to Mikhail and ordered him:
"I command you with all your army of God to scatter over all the earth, and gather in the clouds all My saints from the south, and from the north, and from the east, and from the west. And gather them all here to greet with Me, as soon as pipe."
After all this, the Righteous Judge cast a glance at the earth and saw ... Darkness, fog, bitterness, sorrow, grief and soot. The terrible tyranny of Satan is everywhere! With mania and monstrously fast, the dragon destroys and burns everything around like grass, seeing the angels of the Lord preparing eternal fire for him.
As soon as the Lord saw all this, he immediately called an angel, a kind of fiery, stern and terrible, ruthless, who had an army under his command, watching the fire of hell and said to him:
"Take my staff, which binds and destroys, take with you the innumerable army of your angels, the most terrible, guarding hell and everyone in it. Go to the Thinking Sea and find the traces of the prince who rules over it (the sea). Grab it with strength. hit him hard with My staff mercilessly, until he gives you every last one of the army of his cunning spirits; and plunge him into the most distant and fruitless circles of hell !!!
And after this had been prepared, a sign was given to the angel holding the trumpet - to trumpet strongly. At the same hour, there was a sudden silence, as if the universe had frozen. Fear and horror gripped the universe. All heavenly and earthly things trembled with fear. And then the trumpet sounded for the third time and the whole world was alarmed by its sound. And the dead rose up in the blink of an eye. Terrible vision.
There were more of them than sand in the sea. At the same time, like a thick rain, angels descended to the earth to prepare a place for the throne and proclaimed loudly: "Holy is holy God of hosts and intimidation to everything and everyone on earth!" All the people of the earth stood and looked with fear and horror at the Divine power descending to the earth. At this time, when those standing looked up, an incredibly strong earthquake and thunder and lightning began. On the plain prepared for the Court. And everyone was even more frightened.
Then the firmament of heaven began to roll up like a scroll and the Honorable Cross of the Lord appeared, shining like the sun and radiating wondrous Divine rainbows around. Angels held him before our Lord Jesus Christ and the Judge of all nations and tribes, who was approaching.
A little more and began to hear the hymn unknown to us: "Evlogimenos o erkhomenos en onomata Kiriu. Theos Kyrios. "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! The Lord God is Judge and Sovereign, the Beginning of the World!" As soon as this thunderous praise ends, the Judge appears on the clouds, sitting on a throne of fire and flooding both heaven and earth with His light.
Everyone on earth, both the angels and the resurrected, and those who saw it all froze ... And suddenly those who were resurrected from the dead began gradually, now one, then the other, as it were, to shine and shine. At the same moment they were caught up in the clouds and rushed to meet the Lord. But still, most of them remained below, no one picked them up. And they were seized with grief and grief, because they were not worthy to rise up, and it was for them like poison and bile in their souls. They all fell on their knees before the Lord and stood up again.
And the Terrible Judge sat on the prepared throne, and His heavenly army gathered around Him and seized everyone with fear and terror! All who were caught up in the clouds to answer before God were on His right. The rest were placed to the left of the Judge.
They were Jews, nobles, rulers, bishops, priests, kings, a great many monks and ordinary people... They stood ashamed, humiliated and saddened by their unknown. Their faces expressed sorrow and anguish, and they sighed loudly and sorrowfully. All were in deep sadness, and did not see any consolation come to them.
All who stood to the right of the Lord, as it were, were shining, like sunlight. Only this glow differed in color tones on each of them. Some were bronze, others white, others copper. They all had a decency and were distinguished by their glory. They glowed like lightning. And may the Lord forgive me - all in their glory were like Him.
The Lord, turning His head, looked in every direction. Looking to the right, His gaze expressed contentment and He smiled. But when he looked to the left, he was indignant and angry, and turned his face away from them.
"Come, blessed of My Father, and inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the creation of the world. I was hungry and you fed me. I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger, and you gave me shelter. I was naked and you gave me clothes. I was sick, and you visited me. I was imprisoned, and you came to me. "
They were surprised and answered:
"Lord, we have never seen You hungry and fed You. We have never seen You tormented with thirst, and we have never given You to drink. We have never seen You as a stranger, and have not sheltered You. We have never seen You naked, and have not given You clothes . We never saw You in sickness, and did not visit You. We never saw You in prison, and did not come to You. "
He answered:
"Amen I say. As once you did this to My brethren the least, then you did it to Me."
Turning his head to the expelled, he said menacingly and with disgust:
"Depart from Me, you into the eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. I was hungry and you did not feed Me. I was thirsty and you did not give Me drink. I was a stranger and you did not shelter Me. I was naked and you did not clothe Me. I was sick and you did not visit Me. I was in prison and you did not come to Me. "
And they asked in surprise:
"Lord, when we saw you in prison and did not come to you"
And He answered:
"Amen, I say. If you did not do this for my smaller brothers, you did not do it for me either. Get out of my sight, curse of the earth. Into tartar - where the gnashing of teeth is heard. And torment and grief will be endless for you."
As soon as this decision was made, a huge fiery stream emanated from the sunrise, which was rapidly flowing to the west, it was as wide as the sea. And the sinners on the left side of the Lord, who were, began to tremble, being afraid, and seeing that they had no hope of salvation. But the Righteous Judge ordered everyone - both his faithful and unbelievers - to enter the fiery stream for testing by fire.
Those who were on His right were the first to enter the stream. And they came out of it shining like molten gold. And their deeds did not burn out, but showed lordship and dedication. And for this they were worthy of the embrace of the Lord. After them the exiled came to the stream and entered the stream to be tested by their works. But since they were sinners, the fire began to burn them, and the stream drew them into itself. And their deeds burned up like straw, but their bodies are gone, but they remained burning for years and for centuries, endless together with the devil and his demons. And none of them could get out of this fiery stream. And they became hostages in the fire, because they deserved this condemnation and punishment.
As soon as hell took the sinners, the righteous Judge also rose from His throne, surrounded by angels, who are in reverent fear of Him and singing psalms:"Lift up the gates of your upper ones, and lift up the eternal doors, and the King of glory will enter! The Lord God. The God of Gods together with Him, all his saints, will enjoy the eternal inheritance."
And the other army sang along in continuation: "Blessed is he who walks in the name of the Lord, with all who have mercy to be called His sons. The Lord God with the sons of New Zion appeared with Him." And the Archangels, welcoming the new inhabitants, departed in all directions, singing: "Come into the arms of God, who have not changed our God our Savior. Those who come and confess Him in psalmics invariably." And the next army sang: "God the Great Lord and Great King and sat on the earth and firmly holds in His hand the whole earth, and everything around it."
This and other singing was heard by all who were with Jesus Christ, heading to the Heavenly Chamber of the Lord, and the hearts of all the saints trembled with joy. And immediately the gates of the bridal house closed behind them.
And there and then the Heavenly King summoned his supreme Archangels. And Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and Uriel appeared to Him. And the commanders of their armies.
And for them came the Twelve Lights of the World - the Apostles. And the Lord gave them a brilliant Glory and twelve thrones, so that they would sit nearby with their teacher Christ in great honor. And they looked shining and indescribable. Their clothes shone with eternal light. They were majestic and transparent like pearls, that even the Archangels looked at them in admiration. In the end, he gave them twelve crystal crowns, adorned with precious stones, which shone dazzlingly when the glorious angels held them over their heads.
After that, 70 apostles came to the royal throne. They also received well-deserved honors and awards. Only their crowns were more splendid and wonderful.
Now the turn of the martyrs has come. They took glory and a place in the great army of angels, taking the place of the army thrown from heaven together with Dennitsa. The martyrs became angels and rulers over the armies of heaven. And immediately the crowns were brought to them, and the saints placed on their heads. As the sun shines, so they shone. And so the holy martyrs, in divine glory, rejoiced immensely and embraced each other.
Then they brought in the divine throne of hierarchs, priests, deacons and other clergymen and were crowned, too, with unfading and eternal crowns, corresponding to their zeal and patience in their spiritual exploits. Each wreath was different from the other in glory. Since the stars are different from one another. Thus, priests and deacons became more brilliant than other hierarchs. It was also given to them to each and in the temple, for the offering of spiritual sacrifice to the Lord and the most holy thanksgiving to Him.
Then came the holy meeting of the prophets. The Lord gave them the aroma of incense - the psalter of David and the harp, and tympanum, and the light of the dance, shining dawn, the ineffable embrace of love and the praise of the Holy Spirit. Then the Lord of the Heavenly Chamber asked them to sing psalms. And they began to play such a melody from which all the others were moved and filled with grace. Having received their gifts from the Savior, they remained awaiting the rewarding of the subsequent ones. And those awards were such that I had never seen such a human eye, and the human ear did not hear, and did not come to the heart of men.
A gathering of many people who survived in the world entered here: the poor and the rulers, kings and privateers, slaves and free. And they stood before the Lord, and He divided them into merciful and compassionate, into blameless. And he gave them the Paradise of Eden - chambers of heaven and light, crowns rich and magnificent, consecration and embraces, thrones and sceptres and angels to serve them.
Then came those who, in the name of Christ, became "poor in spirit" and were extraordinarily exalted. By His hand the Lord gave them crowns of extraordinary beauty and they inherited the kingdom of heaven.
Then those who grieve over their sins received tremendous consolation from the Holy Trinity.
Then the righteous and the not wicked inherited the heavenly earth, where the sweetest and most beautiful fragrance of the Spirit of God flows. And they experienced an unknown pleasure and pleasure from what this holy land gave them. And their crowns emitted a peachy light, as it were, before dawn.
Then came those who "thirsted for spiritual truth and justice." They were given the honor of truth and truth, as payment for their search for justice. And the greatest reward for them was to see the Exalted Lord Jesus Christ, glorified and blessed by everyone and everything, saints and angels.
And then the "persecuted for justice" entered. And they were honored and given miraculous life, and glory from God. And for them indescribable thrones were established so that they could sit in the Kingdom of Heaven. And crowns were given to them, like melted silver and gold, having unearthly light, so that seeing this light of theirs, the angels also rejoice.
Then, after them, an innumerable number of pagans entered (here I want to add from myself that in all the original Greek this word has the meaning of nations and peoples), who did not know the law given by Christ, but by themselves, having in themselves the good and truth of conscience. Many of them were like suns from their purity and naivety. The Lord gave them a carefree Paradise, crowns, cast in steel color and decorated with lilies and roses. But because they were not baptized, they were blind. They did not see the glory of the Lord, because baptism is the light and eye of the soul. Therefore, the one who did not receive baptism, but worked tirelessly and did good, receives the joys of paradise and all its blessings, enjoy its incense and sweetness, but cannot see all its splendor.
Then the Bridegroom entered, saw the whole holy army - those who were the children of Christians. They all looked about thirty years old. Christ looked at them with joy in the gaze and said:
"O chiton not made by hands of baptism. But I see no deeds. What should I do with you?"
And they answered him bravely: "Lord, we were deprived of Your blessings on earth, so do not deny us them now that we have come close to You."
And Christ smiled again and gave them heavenly goods. They received their crowns of chastity for their gentleness and in all matters; all the armies of the saints and angels looked at them with admiration. It was a miracle to see all these armies of holy angels solemnly singing sweet hymns, delighted with these actions of the Lord.
Then the Bridegroom looks - the Bride, illuminated by the magnificent Divine light, is approaching Him, spreading around her throughout the entire Chamber the incense of the heavenly divine ointment. And on Her most beautiful head shone an incomparable royal crown, radiating light. And the angels were blinded by Her beauty, and the saints froze from the reverent appearance of Her. The grace of the Holy Spirit clung to Her like a diadem.
She entered the divine chamber in an innumerable multitude of virgins, singing continually hymns and praising and praising God. When the Great Queen approached the Bridegroom together with Her entourage of holy virgins, she bowed to Him three times. Then the Great Summoner, struck by Her beauty, bowed his head before His Great Mother, giving Her part and glory.
She approached Him with tremendous reverence and grace and They embraced, with an immortal and undying kiss She kissed His hand. After this divine kiss, the Lord presented all the virgins with splendid dresses and multicolored superluminous crowns. And immediately all the spiritual Forces approached Him, singing hymns and glorifying and sanctifying HER.
Then the Bridegroom rose from his throne, and with His Mother on the right, and with the Great Forerunner, the Miracle-working on the left, went to the exit from the bridal chamber towards the Chamber of God, in which there were innumerable gifts, which were never seen by the human eye, about which the ear had never heard human, and in the human heart never thought about them. As soon as everyone from His environment saw these gifts, they were filled with grace and began to celebrate and rejoice.
But Elder Niphon could not describe all the joy with which all those who love God were filled. And no matter how many asked him about it, he answered: "My children cannot describe it all, because there are no such human words and feelings that could describe this action taking place next to the Savior."
Well.
"When he divided among all his saints those gifts, indescribable and unseen, he called to Himself the Cherubims to surround His throne. Then he said that they should be surrounded by the Seraphim. Behind them are the Powers of Those Who Hold the Thrones. The Initial Holders are both the Powers of Heaven and the Powers of the Powers of Heaven. To become like a wall surrounding a wall.
To the right of the House of Ages, Michael and his army were in great deanery. On the left stood Gabriel and his host. Uriel and his host were in the west. And Raphael with his army stood in the east. And this army was so many and great. And they girded the wondrous Chamber of God, as with a great radiance. And all this was fulfilled according to the commandment of the Lord, the Great God and Savior of all saints. "
But the greatest revelation was given to Saint Niphon at the end.
The Great Father of His only-begotten Son, the Parent, the Unseen and Undiscovered Light, suddenly shone together with the Son and the Holy Spirit from above above this immense Chamber and the Forces that surrounded it. He illuminated this purest Chamber with all its Forces, as the Sun illuminates the entire earth. Thus the Father of Mercy illuminated everything and everyone.
And just as a sponge absorbs wine and holds it, so all the saints absorbed in themselves filled with the unspeakable three-solar Divine Light and so they reigned continuously forever. From this hour, neither day nor night exists for all of them. There is only God the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit - the tenderness of a flickering life, pleasure and pleasure.
Then there was a deep silence.
And after him, the first army, which surrounded the Chamber forever and ever, with many voices fulfilled the unspeakable blessing and praise, and the hearts of the saints trembled with unprecedented joy and fullness. From the first army of praise passed to the second army of the Seraphim. And they began to praise indescribable and unknown. It poured out like honey for the ears of the saints, and they rejoiced indescribably with all their feelings.
Their eyes saw an unprecedented light. And they absorbed the divine smell. Their ears heard the hymns of eternal divine powers. And their lips tasted the Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ new into the Kingdom of Heaven. Their hands went up in gratitude for these gifts, and their feet performed a dance. So they experienced all their feelings and were filled with inexpressible joy. So the hymns passed from one army to another in seven circles. And the four pillars of God sang the psalms - His four pillars - Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and Uriel.
Has any of us heard perfect harmony? And their hymns were both terrifying and loud. So the hymns were heard inside the Chamber and outside. Sacred songs !!! They kindled the hearts of the saints with rapturous love in endless centuries. "
When the saint saw all this in great ecstasy, he heard the voice of God to him: “Niphon, Niphon, your prophetic vision was beautiful !!!
I showed you all this, because you are my faithful friend, beloved child, and heir to My Kingdom. Be sure, now I considered you worthy to be a witness of these Holy Sacraments. For I watch over all the upright and peaceful who tremble at my word. "(Meaning those who keep the law of the Lord)
Having said this, the Lord freed Niphont from a terrible and many-miraculous vision, in which he spent two weeks in the spirit. When Niphon came to his senses, he sat in sadness, thoughtfulness and great repentance. His tears flowed like a river and he said:
"Incredible. How did the prodigal get such mercy. What awaits my pitiful soul? How can I be there, sinner! How can I apologize to the Judge! Where can I hide my sins? Oh, worldly and unfortunate. I do not sigh and I don’t shed tears for my sins !!! I have no repentance !!! I don’t do charity, I don’t give alms! I don’t give prayer !!! There is no love in me !!! Kindness and holiness are far away from me! I deserve the shame of punishment, not awards !!!
What should I be poor and weak? Where can I go, what can I do to save my soul? In what position will we find ourselves sinners there !!! And how can we give an answer for our earthly deeds before the Judge !!! Where can I hide so many of my sins? Ah worldly and wretched !!! I don’t know what to do for me !!!
My eyes see only my shame and my face is in shame !!! With my ears I listen to demonic songs !!! With my nose I inhale earthly, caressing smells !!! I stuff my mouth with many foods. Woe to me! My hands are holding on to sinful things !!! My body rolls only about the swamp of sin and idleness wants only to lie in bed and gnaw !!! Oh, lawless and darkened and destroyed !!! Where should I run !!! Who will save me from the darkness of the inner tartare !!! Who will save me from grinding my teeth? Woe is me!!!
I disdain myself to be vile and disgusting !!! It would have been better for me not to be born !!! Oh, what Glory I can lose, dark one !!! What a payment, what crowns, how much joy, joy I will lose, because I have submitted to sin !!! Poor soul !!! Where will you go? What will you choose? Where is your struggle where is your virtue?
Woe to you, sinful and unhappy! Where will you be on that day? Have you done anything good to please God? Smoked in the oven. How can you handle this? "Woe, woe, woe" in difficult times, for those living on earth !!! Ah, unhappy and dirty, who only wanted to roll around in decay, working nonstop on her stomach !!! Lawless and mired in sins! What a shame you try to even look at Jesus !!! With what eyes will you reflect the light of the eyes of the God-man? This gentle look! Tell, tell me!
You have seen all the miracles of the Lord that he will perform! Tell me, my soul, do you have deeds worthy for that Glory? How will you get there if you defile the baptism from God? Woe to you then, my infected soul !!! There is an eternal fire before you, and where then will sin and its father, who save you, be? Lord my Lord! Save me from fire, from gnashing of teeth and from tartare !!! "
Since then, the saint has prayed with these words. On some days, they saw him passing, stretching his legs barely and sighing bitterly and grieving with tears. Comparing everything with what he saw in the vision, he did everything he could for us with his prayer in order to deserve what was promised to him.
Often, often, when again he was immersed in the memories of what he had seen, others saw him not in himself. Burned from the manifestation of the Holy Spirit with a bright light and sighed, saying "Lord help and save my darkened soul"
The translation from the Greek was made by the servant of God Victoria
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