Are there Satanists? Do “churches of Satan” exist? Does God allow it? He endures! Protestant sects (totalitarian and not so much) and various religious organizations that present themselves as Christian exist? Old ones develop and multiply (with millions of adherents), prosper, and grow rich! New ones arise! Does God allow it? He endures! For example, consider the “Jehovah’s Witnesses” or the Moon sect (“Unification Church”), which “distinguished itself” by Moon considering himself the “messiah” and the “second coming of Christ,” i.e., Moon was an antichrist! There have been and still are thousands of such antichrists (both obvious ones like Moon and hidden ones under robes, miters, and cassocks) in history! Sun Myung Moon, the founder of this anti-Christian sect, which has millions of adherents, celebrated his 90th birthday in health and prosperity (he lived 92 years); he built an international business empire: he was a billionaire, a media mogul, the owner of many companies and various projects, engaged in entrepreneurial activities, owned factories, stores, universities, and newspapers. Did God allow it? Did He bless it? And evil existed (what evil deeds were not done in the past and are still done by “Christians,” “Orthodox”?!) and exists, developed and develops, the antichrist and his followers prospered, had success – millions followed him, and continue this antichrist’s path!!! Be vigilant! God is Love!
“You have heard that the antichrist is coming, and even now many antichrists have come (in robes and suits, in miters and caps, with staffs and sticks, called popes, mamas, patriarchs…)!” By their fruits, you will know them! Discern the spirits! Be vigilant!
You ask: how can it be that the antichrist prospers (his preaching is very successful among pagans: “Christians” and pagans) and celebrates his 90th birthday, having wealth, fame, success, health, millions of followers, and worldwide recognition (tomos, certificates). We have already explained and clarified everything in detail, but we have become so spiritually weak that until someone points a finger at us and literally tells us, we cannot figure it out or draw conclusions on our own… Therefore, for the sake of human weakness, we will say a few more words about these elementary, fundamental truths of the laws of spiritual life. Let’s first give the floor to the elders (those who believed before us, who knew the Lord through the Holy Spirit):
“At that time some people came and told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. Jesus answered, ‘Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them – do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish” (see Luke 13:1-9). “As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ ‘Neither this man nor his parents sinned,’ said Jesus, ‘but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him’” (see John 9:1-41).
According to the Jewish (Jews – those who wait for the “messiah” – for his first or second coming); and we have shown above that there are far more Jews than Jews – millions, billions of “Christians”!) worldview, conviction, “theology” (in modern heretics “Orthodox,” “autocephalous” have the same theology as in the Old Testament, as in the Jews – they themselves testify to this: “in the Old Testament, there was Orthodox Christian Theology-Knowledge of God!” – see Part III) a person for sin (in the understanding of sins – realized, manifested symptoms of sin) will inevitably receive retribution (punishment) in this life (in II form, and.). Sin and suffering are automatically connected for the Jews. Therefore, the terrible death (especially in the temple!) of the Galilean worshipers, the sudden death of those killed under the ruins of the tower, blindness from birth… gave the Jews a reason to think that those people were great sinners (debtors before God, greater than others), therefore they suffer calamities, diseases, poverty, sudden death… (The cause of all evil: death, passions, diseases, pain… is sin, the disease of egoism-pride that “God’s children” contracted due to falling away from God! In this context, we are talking about sins as transgressions of the law, as symptoms of sin! So be attentive: we use the same word – “sin,” but the meanings are different: sin itself (always singular) as a disease (egoism-pride), the main symptoms of which are mortality, passion, corruption; and sin (sins) – as a transgression of the commandments, law (the fulfillment of which reveals, makes tangible sin – disease-deformity-paralysis, ungodliness, evil – inability to do Good, un-happiness). Therefore, people (not Christians, not healed of sin by the Holy Spirit – pagans: “baptized,” “circumcised,” pagans) are all equally sinful, all sick with the same disease of ungodliness-pride-egoism, but the symptoms (passions, sins) of this disease manifest differently in each person, in different combinations; some know their sin, misery, paralysis (these are righteous people, Orthodox catechumens, who need the Doctor-Savior), and others consider themselves “righteous,” “holy,” “normal,” “like everyone else”… – such do not need Christ the Savior, they need the antichrist, who will arrange paradise on earth, in this world – “healthy” need one thing: bread and circuses; or: “what to eat, what to drink, what to wear”; but both the righteous and the “righteous,” and those who know they are sinful, and those who are convinced they are “normal,” and those who see their sin (and try with all their might not to sin, not to transgress the law, not to violate, but to fulfill God’s commandments), and those who do not see themselves as sinful (sin and encourage others to sin) – are equally sinful, ontologically ungodly, without-Good – they need Christ, the Doctor, need Baptism-operation-transplantation, new birth! Thus, Christians become only Orthodox catechumens who have realized their disease – sin – hell, and with all their needy being cry out for salvation, and trustingly give themselves (and all their own, and all their own) to Christ! But even they – until they are baptized by the Holy Spirit – are equally sinful with all pagans (not Christians). Therefore, the Lord leaves unanswered the question about the cause of the “punishment” of the Galilean worshipers and those who perished under the tower’s debris (these are great Mysteries of God’s Mercy, Humble Love), but warns the Jews that they will perish in the same way (because all are equally sinful – ungodly, mortal…), if they do not repent, that is, do not change their mind (do not realize their sin), do not turn from the law to the Gospel of Freedom and Love, the Gospel of Jesus Christ about the Kingdom of God, which has already come, here and now among all people (and ready to be poured out by the Holy Spirit into each person: “The Kingdom of God (the Holy Spirit) is with you (not measured out in Christ to all creation) and will be in you (when you are baptized into Christ, become Christ’s)!), into which we enter by following (after renouncing ourselves and taking up our Cross) the Lord! “Whoever believes and is baptized (by the Holy Spirit) will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned, that is, will perish!”