Orthodoxy will prevail

 The time when Orthodoxy will prevail is near.

We must understand that there are not only natural laws, but also spiritual ones.

Therefore, the wrath of God cannot be confronted through sinful “alliances” or compromises (for that would bring double wrath), but only through repentance and obedience to the commandments

of the Lord.

Elder Sophrony of Mount Athos (†1993), speaking in Essex, England, expressed something similar to Saint Paisios:

“The union of the Churches is difficult, if not impossible. Those who speak of it do not truly know the mentality of the heterodox, nor the real state of Orthodoxy.”

Saint Paisios, knowing this, advised everyone to be more reserved, for the time will come when the Lord will raise up new confessors. They will swiftly gather our scandalized brothers and sisters, to confess the Orthodox faith, to strengthen the Tradition, and to give great joy to our Mother Church.

In essence, the elder prophesied a truly Orthodox Council – perhaps the 8th Ecumenical Council. About this Eighth Council, Saint Nilus the Myrrh-streaming also spoke:

“During the eighth gathering, there will be a discernment: they will choose the good from the evil, that is, Orthodoxy – just as the farmer separates the tares from the wheat. Then there will be a brief time of peace for mankind, but soon after, people will once again turn back to evil…”

Peace in the world cannot come without true peacemakers, who live and preserve the unadulterated teaching of Orthodoxy. Although the Faith continued to spread after the Fall of Constantinople, though in a diminished way, it will reach its fullest and most dynamic expansion after the Third World War – the “general war,” as Saint Kosmas of Aetolia called it.

This will be the period of Orthodoxy’s radiance, but only for a short time, for afterwards people will once again be drawn away into evil

Orthodoxy is the true faith because it preserves, uncorrupted, the tradition given directly by Christ to His Apostles and handed down through the Church. It does not rely on human philosophies or distortions, but on the living experience of the Saints, the grace of the Sacraments, and the presence of the Holy Spirit. In the last times, before the coming of the Antichrist, only Orthodoxy can keep man united with the true God and give him the strength to resist deception and temptation. For this reason, it is salvation to follow it with faith and humility.