Orthodox Eschatology
Conclusion: The Eighth Day
Rev.22:10 -11 22.10-11. And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he…
Loosening of the Sixth Seal Signifying the Upcoming Plagues at the End of Time
Rev. 6:12-13 “And I saw, and when he opened the sixth seal, and a great earthquake occurred; and the sun became black as sackcloth, and the moon became like blood. And the stars of the skyfell to the earth as the fig tree casts its winter fruit when shaken by a great wind; Some took…
About the Lamb and the 144.000
Rev. 14:1 Then I saw, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand having his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. It is acknowledged that Christ is unambiguously the lamb. Standing upon Mount Zion, not that of old but the new, which is the…
The Last Judgement
Sermon by St. John Maximovitch The day of the Last Judgement! That day no one knows –only God the Father knows — but its signs are given in the Gospel and in the Apocalypse of the holy Apostle John the Theologian. Revelation speaks of the events at the end of the world and of the…
The Fifth Seal
Rev. 6:9-10 And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of people who had been slain on account of the word of God and on account of the witness which they had (made). They cried out with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O holy and true Master, before…
Commentary on Daniel (chapter 10 )
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/pearse/morefathers/files/jerome_daniel_02_text.htm CHAPTER TEN Verse 1. “In the third year of Cyrus, King of the Persians, a word was revealed unto Daniel, who was surnamed Belteshazzar, and it was a true word and great strength. For there is need of understanding in a vision.” And how is it that we read at the end of…