“And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.”
[Revelation 17:5]
“And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON
THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
[Revelation 17:18]
“And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.”
[Revelation 18:3]
“For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.”
[Revelation 18:11-13]
“And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
[Isaiah 13:9]
“Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.”
🔥 Donald Trump on Saudis: ‘They love us and we love them’
💭 While attending the Aramco Team Series presented by the PIF in Florida, Former US President Donald Trump says he loves Saudi Arabia, adding that Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman are his friends.
The controversial LIV Golf DC tournament is being played at Trump’s golf course in Sterling, Virginia.
💭 Donald Trump’s Trouble is Linked to The Biblical Ark of The Covenant and Ethiopia
☆ Trump Supporters Storm U.S. Capitol, Clash With Police
👉 The Donald Trump administration gave a green light to the fascist Oromo regime of Ethiopia, to the brutal regime of Eritrea, to the United Arab Emirates, to Turkey to open a genocidal war against Orthodox Christians of Northern Ethiopia. (US Presidential election day, 4 November 2020 till today)
💭 Court Docs: James Biden Secretly Negotiated $140M Deal With Saudis Due to Relationship with Joe Biden
[Revelation 16:19]
“And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.”
[Revelation 17:5]
“And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLONTHE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
[Revelation 17:18]
“And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.”
[Revelation 18:3]
“For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.”
[Revelation 18:11-13]
“And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
[Isaiah 13:9]
“Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.”
📞 Amid growing concerns of security risks to members of Congress, more than 50 senators have been issued satellite phones for emergency communication, people familiar with the measures told CBS News.
In testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee last month, Senate Sergeant at Arms Karen Gibson said satellite communication is being deployed “to ensure a redundant and secure means of communication during a disruptive event.”
Gibson said the phones are a security backstop in the case of an emergency that “takes out communications” in part of America. Federal funding will pay for the satellite airtime needed to utilize the phone devices.
💭 The Biden Administration now is allowing Western allies to provide Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets — including American-made ones. But just over one year ago, Joe Biden warned that taking similar steps would enter America into World War 3.
Biden said, F16s means WW3, he actually said it, problem is that the west cannot announce a war in Ukraine, therefore US / NATO are now striking Russian territory.
Ukraine has a bunch of F16 pilots just sitting around waiting on US to send them planes? Add to that the ground crews, parts inventory, maintenance facilities, and computer systems needed to support the F16s.
NATO pilots disguising as Ukrainians would be my guess. This will not end well.
💭 Russia Threatens To Shoot Down US Fighter Jets
Russia has issued a warning that it will shoot down US F-16 fighter jets if they enter Ukrainian airspace.
The Russian Ministry of Defense conveyed the message, stating that any unauthorized incursion into Ukrainian airspace by foreign military aircraft would be seen as a violation of Russia’s borders.
They accused the United States of attempting to provoke conflict and made it clear that any incident involving US jets would be the sole responsibility of the U.S.
Russia also asserted its capability to detect and neutralize any threats to its airspace.
The situation in Ukraine remains highly tense, and Russia’s warning raises the stakes, adding to the already heightened tensions in the region.
This coupled with Russia’s takeover of Bakhmut, only adds a sense of uncertainty as to the outcome of this war.
I feel the more time passes, the less people seem to pay attention to one of the world’s most dangerous wars since WW2.
Is anyone still even concerned of a potential conflict between the U.S. and Russia?
Pope Francis also received the genocider Abiy Ahmed Ali of Ethiopia. This evil Oromo Antichrist offered a present of traditional Ethiopian prayer fabrics, along with a painting of the Risen Christ to the Pope. Can you see the similarity between what Zelensky gave the Pope and what Ahmed Ali presented? We remember that the dirty Ahmed Ali displayed the upside down cross in public during Easter. Both these criminal leaders (Zelensky is Jewish, and Ahmed Ali is Muslim-Protestant) are waging a genocidal war against the Orthodox Church.
😈 Well, when the hornets 666 armies meet, they ‘satisfy’ their prince Lucifer in this form.
😲 During a meeting with the Pope, Zelensky handed him an “icon” of the Mother of God with a void in the place where the Savior should have been.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, who met with Pope Francis last week, presented the pontiff with gifts that are offensive to Orthodox Christian believers, the il Fatto Quotidiano newspaper wrote.
The controversial item is an icon of Virgin Mary holding the Child Jesus, who is depicted only as a black outline.
“It was supposed to symbolize the ‘loss’ of Ukrainian children in the conflict, but to the head of the Roman Catholic Church, the ‘loss’ of Child Jesus means the loss of the Messiah, the loss of the reason to exist for the institute of the church itself,” the paper quoted a prominent journalist, historian and former senator Raniero La Valle as saying.
In his opinion, the picture in fact symbolizes “erasing Christ from the cross and the denial of his resurrection.”
Another present by Zelensky was the painting of Madonna, made on a fragment of a bulletproof vest, against the bloody red background with stripes in colors of the Ukrainian flag.
In contrast, Pope Francis gave President Zelensky a bronze sculpture representing an olive branch, a symbol of peace. He also gifted him with several documents devoted to peace and fraternity.
👉 Selected comments courtesy of ‘Living Orthodox‘ who shared his reaction with us in the 2nd part of the video under the title: „The Heresy of Political Ideology—We Must Not Be of the World.„
– Though blasphemous…I can’t help but wonder if God allowed it as a message to His Children, and the world, that these two leaders are not cooperating with His Will to put it lightly, therefore, He is absent in the whole exchange for both the giver and receiver as depicted on the “icon”…where the giver is deliberate and obvious but the receiver’s current stance in corporation with the world portrays a cheap rendition of what our Lord and Savior is not (looks like it was created with magic markers or is a computer-generated print out amongst the “black void”)…therefore, this “icon” represents their truth as it relates to the war, social/political/global agendas, and the spiritual implications to all of it (unless they repent, God-willing). In other words, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is absent because the exchange and powers that be between these two are not in accordance with His Will…so in that way, the “icon” may be accurate in relaying God’s message regarding these affairs and possibly why He allowed such a disgraceful “icon” to be revealed openly to the public and the world at large.
– Living Orthodox: God does indeed permit things like this not only as a correction, but indeed to highlight and reveal different issues. More so, it is to spurn the faithful to action and to warn us from the sleep of worldliness and humanism. St. Justin Popovich wrote extensively on this matter.
– Not just blasphemous, but generally unskilled “icon” writing. The quality is as poor as the taste in which it was given. Kyrie Eleison!
– Father God Bless. If Zelensky views the ukrainian people only as a resource to exploit, why hasn’t he left Ukraine as soon as it got dangerous for him? Or do you think he is enjoying his portrayal as a brave and heroic leader in the western media so much that vainglory is his motivation?
– Lots of parallels to what Hitler did, he replaced the pastors, murdered or imprisoned those who wouldn’t go along, created his own churches, and wrote his own version of the bible. It is that same spirit.
– Father, do you think Zelenskyy is an Antichrist?
Living Orthodox: “I don’t have enough discernment to say for certain. But I would say he’s likely a type of one. He’s placed the identity of a nation in the place of God. Anti means “in place of or instead of”…”
– As an American, I feel grief and sorrow at my country’s role in this awful war and ecclesiastical confusion.
– Christ is Risen. So sad that many innocent people are dying because of this horrible behavior. Blessings to you and all Orthodox who are true to the faith
🔥 Russia has claimed that a “radioactive cloud” is drifting toward Europe. Russian Security Council secretary Nikolay Patrushev said that the destruction of depleted uranium shells in Ukraine provided by the UK has produced a radioactive cloud. He also said that an increase in radiation has been detected in Poland.
Baltimore police are investigating a hate crime after a man reportedly tried to rip off a pride flag from a church in Federal Hill.
Officers were called to the church around 4 p.m. on Monday to investigate a destruction-of-property report.
Someone saw an unknown man climbing the outside wall of the church, according to authorities. That man was hanging from the pride flag in an attempt to rip it from the wall.
A picture shows the flag torn down the middle, still hanging from the church.
The remains of a ripped LGBT flag still hang outside of the Light Street Presbyterian Church in Federal Hill on Tuesday night.
A witness to the crime told WJZ that the person responsible used the flag to climb to the top and then pulled out a knife to slice it in half before hopping into a getaway car.
“Halfway down the block, I see a guy on a potted plant and he starts climbing up the flag,” neighborhood resident and witness Ben Luster told WJZ.
The man made multiple attempts to climb and eventually reached the top of the flag. That’s when he pulled out a knife and ripped in half, Luster said.
“I asked him what he was doing and he mentioned the flag in front of the church is an abomination,” he said. “So, he started ripping it.”
The man responded by saying “he was doing the lord’s work,” Luster said.
Pastor Tim Hughes Williams said the 10-foot flag was a symbol of inclusion.
“I think it’s ironic that people who are coming from a position of faith are acting with so much hostility and hatred,” he said.
Williams said the church—with the support of the community—is raising funds to buy a new flag. The church has been a safe space for LGTBQ members for nearly three decades.
“To me, the violence against the flag . . . reinforces how important it is that there are places like this,” he said.
🐲 Hundreds of protesters swarm sold-out SatanCon in Boston: ‘Hellfire awaits!’
All hell broke loose in Boston Saturday for the city’s annual SatanCon when hundreds showed up to protest the devilish event with signs declaring “Satan has NO rights!” and “Hellfire awaits!”
Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the controversial convention is hosted by the Salem-based Satanic Temple — which does not worship the Bible’s Satan as a deity, instead uses satanic imagery to “reject tyrannical authority” and promote the separation of church and state, according to its website.
On Saturday, Catholic protesters were joined by members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front, according to the Boston Herald.
One protester carried a banner that read “Satan has NO rights!” while another’s stated, “Don’t be deceived! Homosexuals, baby killers, idolaters, unbelieving, liars, drunkards, gossips, cowards, thieves, mockers, fornicators: Hellfire awaits.”
My Note: The West is faced with homosexuality, faith and culture mixing, democracy and other extreme evils that grip the West. The West WILL fall soon, and the East will take it’s place luckily. The West has ruined everything good in this world and replaced it with extreme social and economic degeneracy. Whether it be capitalism or homosexuality.
😈 Now these degenerates are allowed to do that, because the lords of this world in the shadows are satanists…They infiltrated Christianity and Christian lands…they are Luciferians… Satanic Masons, Atheists, Sodomites, Muslims etc… they are of the spirit of the ANTICHRIST that tells them to burn The Bible, Churches & Christians.
🛑 Sodomism (Transgenderism)
🛑 Satanism
🛑 Paganism
🛑 Islamism
🛑 Budhism
🛑 Hinduism
🛑 Fascism
🛑 Kommunism
🛑 Kapitalism
🛑 Liberalism
🛑 Feminism
🛑 Transhumanism
🛑 Extropianism
🛑 Singularitarianism
🛑 Cosmism
🛑 Rationalism
🛑 Effective Altruism
🛑 Longtermism
❖ Psalms 33:12 (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord…)
“What is hardly known in Europe: Christianity was already widespread in this part of Africa when the Germanic tribes were still worshipping trees and hills.”
Priest Kiday thinks for a while and then says that God punishes not only individuals but also the community – especially when the collective has sinned. That was certainly the case in Tigray, the priest adds: the people lied and stole, the girls wore skirts that were far too short, the young men danced too exuberantly. However, he does not want to justify the barbaric actions of the Eritrean soldiers: He calls their commander-in-chief, head of state Isaias Afwerki, “the father of the devil.
Debre Dammo, the oldest Christian monastery south of the Sahara, was bombed by Eritrean military jets. Amharic militiamen set fire to the Feredashum St. Kirkos church – numerous artifacts were damaged. Ethiopian soldiers stole ancient manuscripts from the Abune Tadewos monastery, and when they captured the holy city of Axum in November 2020, their comrades from Eritrea inflicted a massacre with well over 400 dead, including several priests. Places of worship also looted in civil war.
Up to 400 churches and monasteries were at least partially damaged.
While international organizations are investigating the countless human rights crimes committed during the civil war, virtually no one is paying attention to the destruction and looting of places of worship, complains Tadesse Simie Metekia of the Institute for Security Studies in Addis Ababa: “These are also war crimes.”
The apostate Christians could never be completely safe, even in the bizarre mountain world of Gar’alta: First they were persecuted by their “orthodox” fellow Christians, and later they were confronted with a new sect, the followers of the Islamic prophet Mohammed.
For the priest, the province with the Holy City of Axum, the Ark of the Covenant of the Israelites supposedly kept there, the ancient rock churches with their manuscripts, is the center of the Orthodox faith: “If the truth doesn’t survive here, nowhere will.” When we finally make our way back, an eagle circles between the Almighty and us.
Those who want to worship the Almighty in the embattled Ethiopian province climb daringly to 2600 meters above sea level to a spectacular church in the middle of the rock. Our correspondent has dared the climb – and looked into secular abysses
The Almighty doesn’t exactly make things easy for his guests. After an hour’s climb up one of the craggy sandstone formations that rise into the sky like gigantic teeth in the center of Ethiopia’s Tigray Province, we reach a rock face that is impossible to get past except by climbing. Kiday Yohannes has wisely brought a rope with him to secure his foreign guest – he himself climbs ahead unsecured. The Orthodox clergyman knows every crevice where his hands or feet can find a foothold; after all, he has walked the path thousands of times – up to three times a day during the peak tourist season. However, the Orthodox priest has not seen any tourists for more than two years. Instead, he has seen war, countless soldiers and death many times.
Whoever dares to climb up here must not be sick of heights.
For climbing we have to take off our shoes, because the ground we enter is sacred. Even after the rock face, we continue uphill over boulders and tumbling gullies. Only at an altitude of about 2600 meters do we reach a ridge between two rocky outcrops on which there is a small brick building: the baptismal and reception room of the “Abuna Yemata” church, explains priest Kiday. On both sides of the ridge, the descent is hundreds of meters: not a place for the faint-hearted or those who suffer from altitude sickness – but a place where the Orthodox believers of the region have been seeking their God for 1600 years. In the “most dangerous church in the world,” according to a travel website.
The last 20 meters to a hole in the rock face are the most frightening. On the right, the sandstone massif rises vertically into the air; on the left, the abyss yawns – more than 300 meters deep. A ledge that serves as a path is barely 50 centimeters wide at its narrowest point. Priest Kiday takes his despondent foreign flock by the hand. In the entire history of the place of worship, no person has ever fallen here, he reassures, “God looks out for his faithful.” Legend has it that pilgrims who actually fell to the depths were blown back up the path by a miraculous wind.
❖ You can hardly get any closer to God 😇
When you finally reach the hole in the rock face, you think you are ready for anything – and yet the sight leaves you speechless. In the semi-darkness, a small cathedral accurately hewn out of the rock emerges – with Romanesque vaulted arches, columns and two implied domes. The walls and ceilings of the roughly 30-square-meter room are painted with luminous frescoes, mainly portraits of biblical and ecclesiastical figures, and the floor is carpeted. A bent branch fork serves as a lectern for the priest; a stack of ancient books made of sheepskin lies beneath it. There is a smell of incense – and as Kiday Yohannes quietly intones a hymn, the heavens seem to open. This is as close as a mortal can get to the Almighty.
The (almost) intrepid author.
Like over 120 other churches in Tigray, Abuna Yemata was hewn out of the rock. Unesco wants to declare the monolithic houses of worship a World Heritage Site. They are spread over three “Sacred Landscapes,” of which the Gar’alta region is the most spectacular; this is also where the oldest of the rock churches are located. What is hardly known in Europe: Christianity was already widespread in this part of Africa when the Germanic tribes were still worshipping trees and hills. King Esana, who ruled in the holy city of Axum, located almost 200 kilometers northwest of Abuna Yemata, had already declared the Christian faith the state religion in the 4th century.
Christians were also persecuted in Tigray
Nevertheless, the young Christians in Tigray could not really feel safe. Besides the proximity to God, the security aspect was also responsible for the construction of their churches at dizzying heights – an advantage of which Priest Kiday can still sing a song today. When Eritrean and Ethiopian soldiers invaded Tigray a good two years ago, the people of the village of Guh, located at the foot of the rocky fangs, sought refuge in the mountains. Priest Kiday retreated to the Abune Yemeta place of worship with two dozen worshippers. His 26-year-old wife Berhan holed up in a nearby cave with their two children – just in case the invaders did not back down from an attack on the place of worship.
The clergyman Kiday Yohannes reads in old books made of sheepskin.
Soldiers did indeed fire on the rock church several times, Kiday says, but they never hit it. And the Eritrean invaders were reluctant to attack on foot in view of the adverse terrain.
Other places of worship were less fortunate. Debre Dammo, the oldest Christian monastery south of the Sahara, was bombed by Eritrean military jets. Amharic militiamen set fire to the Feredashum St. Kirkos church – numerous artifacts were damaged. Ethiopian soldiers stole ancient manuscripts from the Abune Tadewos monastery, and when they captured the holy city of Axum in November 2020, their comrades from Eritrea inflicted a massacre with well over 400 dead, including several priests.
Places of worship also looted in civil war.
Up to 400 churches and monasteries were at least partially damaged, according to a damage report by philologist Hagos Abrha Abay, a researcher at the University of Hamburg. On auction platforms such as Ebay, old manuscripts and cult objects from Tigray were suddenly offered for sale at ridiculous prices, reports the Ethiopian: handwritten and illustrated texts of inestimable value changed hands for a few hundred euros.
While international organizations are investigating the countless human rights crimes committed during the civil war, virtually no one is paying attention to the destruction and looting of places of worship, complains Tadesse Simie Metekia of the Institute for Security Studies in Addis Ababa: “These are also war crimes.”
On May 7, 2021, Eritrean soldiers entered the village of Guh at the foot of the Rock Teeth and shot at anything that moved. According to farmer Kasa Girmai, 19 people were killed in the massacre, including nine women and seven children, the youngest less than a week old. The 50-year-old managed to escape with his family into the mountains. However, they had to leave his 78-year-old mother behind: The soldiers would not harm the old woman, Kasa told himself. But the Eritrean fighters dragged the woman out of her house, dragged her to a nearby stream and shot her there.
Even today, human bones can be found in the middle of the landscape, says priest Kiday: “The hyenas have spread the bones all over the country.” The priest buried the victims of the massacre in Guh in the valley about 300 meters directly below the entrance to the rock church – as if they were the first ones that the miraculous wind did not blow back up again. One of the graves is barely half a meter long: there lies buried the seven-day-old child. How could the Almighty allow the innocent little creature to be torn from the world right away?
Priest Kiday thinks for a while and then says that God punishes not only individuals but also the community – especially when the collective has sinned. That was certainly the case in Tigray, the priest adds: the people lied and stole, the girls wore skirts that were far too short, the young men danced too exuberantly. However, he does not want to justify the barbaric actions of the Eritrean soldiers: He calls their commander-in-chief, head of state Isaias Afwerki, “the father of the devil.
One cannot accuse Priest Kisay of exuberant dancing. When he intones a mournful melody in the mini-cathedral of Abuna Yemata between heaven and earth, he stamps his feet softly in time and accompanies his singing with a rattle. This is how he did it for the whole of last night, when he celebrated the first Christmas mass after the war again in the rock church for six hours with a good 50 faithful.
The Ethiopian multi-ethnic state threatens to be completely divided
Looking down on the congregation from the ceiling was Abuna Yemata: one of the nine saints of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church who had fled to Tigray from the Middle East in the fifth century. They had been at odds with the rest of the church over the nature of Christ – only God or God and man in one person? – with the rest of the church. Father Yemata hewed the place of worship out of the rock with his own hands, and his nephew Binyam painted the images, Kisay says. These have never had to be restored in their 1400-year history.
The apostate Christians could never be completely safe, even in the bizarre mountain world of Gar’alta: First they were persecuted by their “orthodox” fellow Christians, and later they were confronted with a new sect, the followers of the Islamic prophet Mohammed. Even though Ethiopia was never truly colonized, the Ethiopian kingdom did not come to rest even in recent history. And today, the multi-ethnic Ethiopian state is in danger of being completely pulverized by ethnic and political tensions. Hundreds of thousands killed during the civil war
Several hundred thousand people are said to have fallen victim to the two-year civil war between the Tigray and the government army, and the province has been set back several decades. And already the next smoldering conflict is escalating-between the majority Oromo people and the government under “Nobel Peace Prize winner” Abiy Ahmed.
Ethiopia’s church seems powerless in the face of the turmoil. When Eritrea seceded from Ethiopia in 1993 and war broke out six years later between the two neighbors over the border demarcation in a useless piece of semi-desert, the community of Christians also split – into an Eritrean and an Ethiopian Orthodox Church. During the recent civil war, Orthodox believers outside Tigray did not lift a finger to stem the bloodshed or at least condemn it, laments philologist Hagos in Hamburg: Many parishes in Amhara Province, which is particularly hostile to Tigray, even donated money for the war.
A sacred place for the hope of peace
Kisay Yohannes closes his eyes and mumbles a prayer in Ge’ez: the sacred language of his church sounds like ancient Hebrew and is understood only by clergy. He prayed for Tigray’s independence, the priest says afterwards: and that an Orthodox Church for Tigray would soon emerge from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. For the priest, the province with the Holy City of Axum, the Ark of the Covenant of the Israelites supposedly kept there, the ancient rock churches with their manuscripts, is the center of the Orthodox faith: “If the truth doesn’t survive here, nowhere will.” When we finally make our way back, an eagle circles between the Almighty and us.
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