Children! This is the last hour! As you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists, Satanists, heretics, false prophets, false pastors, and false teachers have appeared – this is how we know that the last hour has come… Beloved! Do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets and false teachers have gone out into the world…
(see 1 John 2:18 and following; 4:1 and following)
Children! This is the last hour! Many false prophets, antichrists, heretics, and various kinds of criminals have appeared today! Therefore, for the sake of exposing heresy and modern heretics (there can be no compromise with heresy!), we are forced-obliged to interrupt our narrative (change our plans) and make an urgent insertion-book. This book (Part III) is such a large insertion that it disrupts the chapter “Give Thanks for Everything! Always Rejoice!” (It is significant that heresy was revealed precisely during the writing of this chapter – because all these heresies-disasters need to be read-heard only in the context of Paschal Eucharistic Joy!).
The book you are reading is an adapted, shortened version of Part III. We decided to publish its shortened version along with the full Part III, in which, for the sake of human weakness and for the convenience of using the tools for discerning spirits, we left only the principles-tools for checking spirits for heresy, Satanism, etc. Providing examples from modernity (there are so many – one more expressive than the other) or the past, we left to the readers of this book (if you have difficulty with this, then read Part III or ask us – we will guide you).
When the idea to publish this shortened version of Part III came, we were already working on Part IV of the “Introduction…”. Given the time deficit required for a thorough revision of a large volume of text, we limited ourselves to removing certain fragments from Part III (various examples, clarifications, explanations), resulting in a book that contains only the principles. Therefore, forgive us if you feel some break in the text (a sharp change of thought) – pay attention primarily to the essence (we made sure that these textual deletions did not harm the essence of the book). (With the sign […] we indicate that in Part III, there is text at the specified place that we did not include in this “spiritual first aid kit”).
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This is the last hour!.. Everything is sick and living its last days!.. But the way to salvation and achieving perfection-deification-resurrection is open and accessible to everyone (from now and forever!). The main thing is humility by which we enter the Kingdom of God, by which we receive the Holy Spirit! Therefore, if a sick person knows that he is sick (and does not think that he is normal or almost healthy (any day now he will be discharged from the hospital… or a tomos of autocephaly will be given…)), then looking at the norm (or at least hearing about its existence – Christ, the Mother of God, and all the saints, that is, Christ’s – and the possibility here and now to achieve it, to be healed, to be saved…) will, believing in Christ the Savior-Healer, humble himself – and this is the main thing in spiritual-ascetic life – such a person is not far from the Kingdom of God, more precisely, already in it!!!
The essence of heresy is the substitution of the norm-standard when a cripple is called healthy, evil is called good, deformity is called beauty, etc. This is the threat of heresy – the loss of the possibility of salvation, that is, acquiring humility! As long as evil is called evil, sin is called sin, disease and deformity are called misfortune and abnormality, there is no danger because there is a Doctor-Healer-Savior who deals with all this evil – destroys it. But when a criminal is convinced (or his “benefactors” heretics have convinced him) that he is a benefactor, a sinner is convinced that he is already a saint, and a sick cripple is convinced that she is normal and in the prime of her life, etc. – here Christ is powerless (until they repent and allow Christ to serve them!) here human strength cannot help – only God saves-enlightens the proud! When a deformity-cripple calls himself a beauty (and sees himself as such!) a model for imitation – where will he get humility which is the only thing needed?! Therefore, knowing about heresy, we point out this heresy and the heretics (carriers and spreaders of this deadly poison-virus) to the people of God and at the same time give advice to the best of our knowledge of the Truth on how to protect against this evil and how to fight it (at the same time depicting the diseased state of churches against the background of the norm-ideal: the church against the background of the Church).
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We are aware that it is the last times, everything is going (falling into the abyss almost without resistance…) to the end: “When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith-trust on earth?!” “The love of many will grow cold…”… All symptoms of the sickness of humanity (primarily “Christians”) are visible to the naked eye. Many false prophets, false pastors… – they are countless – have flooded the body of the church. The heresy of secularism (worldliness when everything becomes only fleshly; at best – soulful!) has spread unprecedentedly, and there are no attempts to slow down the dying process now in sight, and it is not even on the agenda for the near future (heretics call these dying processes – healing and growth and flourishing(!?) – and the “populace” willingly “eats it up”!?). Few voices report this disaster, but those who speak about it quickly have their mouths shut by the servants of the devil, the Antichrist, or they present the prophets to the people as modernists, violators of the “traditions of the elders” (as those who want to cancel, abolish them!?) eventually as heretics and blasphemers who must die, be crucified (in various ways: physically, morally, etc.).