Elefthérios Andrónis | June 13, 2025
The terror over the events
unfolding in the Middle East inflamed curiosity about the prophecies, but not
about the meaning of their call to repentance.
Israel struck Iran’s nuclear
program, and a wave of eschatological shudder runs through the faithful
world—and not without reason.
The moment is arriving when the
“perhaps,” the “maybe,” and the “we’ll see” run out, as we see the prophecies
of the holy elders taking form before our eyes. Unfortunately for most of us,
the prophecies did not pierce our soul with their awakening sting, because
callousness has abounded.
If the prophecies had found
fertile ground in the souls of the Greeks, we would not have the image of
today’s Greece. Mitsotakis running to the Bilderberg Club and to Ukraine to
conduct personal diplomacy, the government distributing Greek land to businessmen
and illegal immigrants, the Aegean being bartered, our pilgrimage sites being
lost, scandals being covered up, crimes being concealed, the youth becoming
brutalized, blasphemies being protected by the state, numbers and IDs being
promoted without unified ecclesiastical resistance.
And instead of making repentance
at all levels our national cause, our “achievements” are endless abortions, gay
marriages and adoptions with worldwide “Orthodox” exclusivity, the digitization of
our tattered democracy, and the genuflections before every enemy of Greece.
Never before such decline. Never
before such misery, degradation, and humiliation. Has this been enough for us
to amend our ways and demand more—first and foremost from our very selves? Not
yet. Perhaps we are on the verge of that longed-for day. But unfortunately, we
are still unmoved. As long as worldly hope is sustained, insensibility clings
tightly to it. We say that something will happen and the planet will be spared,
without us needing to change our way of life. Without disturbing our comfort
all that much.
Now that we have reached the
point where the gates of the abyss may be ready to open, how many confessionals
will be filled? How many dusty prayer ropes will come out of the drawers? How
many forgotten oil lamps will be lit? How many icons of saints will cease to be
mere decorations? How many knees will be worn down on the floor? How many empty
chairs will be filled in the churches?
As the old Israel drives humanity
into the chasms of death, with what spiritual weapons does the new Israel, the
fullness of the Orthodox Church, fight back? The spiritual laws have no gaps.
Wherever man leaves a void, God fills it. And whoever speaks insolently, saying
that God is supposedly an evil punisher, ultimately sees that man punishes
himself.
Before some madman presses the
red button, we press it ourselves, who with our unbelief bomb all of God’s
rights to bring peace to the world. And still, most use the prophecies as
worldly rather than spiritual messages, though they are clearly the latter.
Every time global turmoil erupts,
they dive headfirst into the words of the elders just to find out what tomorrow
will bring. With a mindset of material self-preservation, futuristic curiosity,
barren vigilance. They empty the prophecy of its salvific essence and concern
themselves only with the shell of events, as if reading a newspaper from the
future shortly before tossing it into the recycling bin.
The prophetic elders, however,
focused all the anguish of their souls on the pivotal issue of repentance.
Knowledge of the future has no benefit unless it is filtered through the hope
of repentance and divine providence. On the contrary, it does more harm than
good. It paralyzes lazy souls with fear, inaction, and discontent. The meaning
of prophecy is to bring comfort and admonition. To bring comfort because the
victor over events is always Christ. To admonish because it is in our hands
whether a trial will become a blessing or an unbearable torment.
It would be far better if we fell
to our knees and knew nothing about tomorrow, than now, when we know much yet
remain unrepentant…
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