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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.40,0:00:05.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Fr. Seraphim] Eminences,\Nreverend fathers, brothers and sisters.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.65,0:00:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every Orthodox Christian is placed\Nbetween two worlds:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.73,0:00:18.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this fallen world where we try\Nto work out our salvation
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.91,0:00:22.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the other world, heaven,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.25,0:00:24.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the homeland towards which we are striving
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.29,0:00:28.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and which if we are leading\Na true Christian life
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.77,0:00:31.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gives us the inspiration to live\Nfrom day to day
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.46,0:00:33.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Christian virtue and love.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.29,0:00:38.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the world is too much with us.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.30,0:00:41.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We often in fact nowadays, usually,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.80,0:00:43.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we forget the heavenly world.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.67,0:00:47.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The pressure of worldliness is\Nso strong today
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.60,0:00:49.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether we look at the Soviet Union
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.88,0:00:52.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where it is enforced by the government
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.26,0:00:55.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or to the free world\Nwhere we voluntarily go on this way
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.48,0:00:58.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we often lose track of what our life
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.49,0:01:00.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as Christians is all about.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.71,0:01:05.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even if we may be going\Nto church frequently,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.75,0:01:08.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even if we may consider ourselves
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.46,0:01:10.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be active church members,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.76,0:01:15.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how often our being in church,\Nour churchliness
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.32,0:01:19.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is only something external
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.78,0:01:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bound up with beautiful services\Nwith the whole richness
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.44,0:01:24.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our Orthodox tradition,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.82,0:01:27.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but lacking in something\Nmuch more fundamental:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.58,0:01:29.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the deep conviction in our hearts
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.63,0:01:33.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Orthodoxy is the faith\Nthat can save our souls for eternity.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.79,0:01:36.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But often in the midst\Nof outward splendor,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.79,0:01:40.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are lacking for real love for\Nand commitment to Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.08,0:01:43.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who is incarnate the God\Nand the Founder of our faith.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.17,0:01:47.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And often for us church becomes\Njust a matter of habit.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.52,0:01:49.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something we go through outwardly
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.49,0:01:51.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which does not change us inwardly,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.76,0:01:53.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does not make us grow spiritually
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.34,0:01:55.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and lead us to eternal life and God
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.30,0:01:57.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is the whole purpose\Nof our existence.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.11,0:02:02.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Keeping this mind,\Nwe can see that we are living
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.68,0:02:04.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in those times
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.58,0:02:07.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which our Lord Jesus Christ warned us\Nabout in the Gospel
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.70,0:02:10.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when He said,\N"The love of many shall grow cold."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.71,0:02:13.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are the latter times.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.72,0:02:16.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the Christian Gospel\Nwhich was received
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.76,0:02:18.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with such fervor by the first Christians
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.99,0:02:21.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has become only one small part\Nof our worldly life
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.72,0:02:25.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead of the center and meaning\Nof our life,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.66,0:02:28.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is what it would be\Nif we realized what our faith is.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.15,0:02:31.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Orthodox Christianity,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.42,0:02:34.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a burning faith\Nwhich we are not ashamed to confess
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.63,0:02:37.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to have as the most precious thing\Nin our life,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.22,0:02:39.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to a great extent in a state of decline
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.62,0:02:41.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and retreat in the world today.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.93,0:02:46.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But quite ironically\Nand quite providentially
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.20,0:02:50.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as Orthodoxy and Christianity have seemed\Nto retreat,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.58,0:02:54.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the other hand Russia\Nor rather the Soviet Union,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.70,0:02:57.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the atheist regime\Nwhich has ensnared the Russian land
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.43,0:03:00.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has advanced from strength to strength
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.11,0:03:03.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now has a leading,\Nperhaps the leading position
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.50,0:03:05.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the world history of our time.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.44,0:03:08.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Therefore what is happening\Nin the Soviet Union today
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.92,0:03:11.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is looked to with great interest\Nby the rest of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.14,0:03:14.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And significantly a good part\Nof what is happening
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.49,0:03:16.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Soviet Union today
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.01,0:03:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what undoubtedly will be happening\Nin the future
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.66,0:03:23.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is bound up with the real Russia,\Nwith Orthodox Russia.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.22,0:03:29.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Orthodox revival in Russia today is\Nclosely bound up
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.43,0:03:32.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the future of the Russian land.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.65,0:03:36.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 19th and 20th century,\Nearly 20th century Russia,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.44,0:03:40.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there were many prophecies\Nof spiritual men
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.03,0:03:43.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not only concerning the coming of atheism
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.06,0:03:44.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the revolution to Russia
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.99,0:03:47.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the epoch of blood and slavery
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.34,0:03:49.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was introduced into the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.69,0:03:52.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also what would happen to Russia\Nafter this epoch
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.69,0:03:55.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if the Orthodox Russian people\Nwould repent of their sins
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.40,0:03:57.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which produced the revolution.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.32,0:04:00.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This morning, therefore, I would like us
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.23,0:04:02.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to look at some of these prophecies
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.66,0:04:05.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the way they are bound up\Nwith what is happening in Russia today.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.06,0:04:09.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will try to look not\Nfrom the superficial point of view
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.77,0:04:11.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the popular newsmagazines,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.81,0:04:14.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but deeper, and try to see something
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.63,0:04:17.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what is happening to the soul and heart\Nof Russia
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.43,0:04:18.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what may be expected there
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.90,0:04:20.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,according to these prophecies
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.57,0:04:22.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our knowledge\Nof the more general prophecies
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.80,0:04:25.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,concerning what is to happen\Nbefore the end of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.83,0:04:28.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Immediately the question arises:
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.38,0:04:30.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why should we talk\Nabout the end of the world?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.54,0:04:33.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are we really living in the last times?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.89,0:04:35.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why do we have\Nto bind together the subject
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.89,0:04:38.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the future of Russia\Nand the end of the world?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.67,0:04:43.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it so happens that\Neven secular writers nowadays speak
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.30,0:04:45.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our times as being apocalyptic.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.94,0:04:48.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And truly the problems\Nthat plague the world today—
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.27,0:04:51.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as the exhaustion\Nof resources and food,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.92,0:04:53.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,overpopulation,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.68,0:04:55.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the literal monsters\Nwhich have been created
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.72,0:04:57.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by modern technology,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.38,0:04:59.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and especially the weapons\Nwhich are capable
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.45,0:05:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of destroying entire countries
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.42,0:05:03.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even the whole civilized earth—
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.04,0:05:06.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all these point to the approach\Nof a time of crisis
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.68,0:05:08.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in human history
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.17,0:05:11.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is quite beyond anything\Nthe world has ever seen,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.68,0:05:14.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and perhaps points to the literal end\Nof life upon earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.21,0:05:17.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the same time,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.62,0:05:20.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,religious thinkers of various kinds point
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.78,0:05:23.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a blossoming\Nof non-Christian religious movements
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.52,0:05:24.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our time,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.96,0:05:27.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and speak about the coming of a new age
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.17,0:05:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which a new religious consciousness
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.00,0:05:30.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will dominate men's minds
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.74,0:05:33.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and put an end to the 2,000 year reign\Nof Christianity.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.73,0:05:36.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Astrologers talk about the Aquarian age
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.86,0:05:39.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which they think is to begin\Naround the year 2000.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.16,0:05:42.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the very approach\Nof the year 2000 is enough
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.63,0:05:45.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to inspire in many minds the idea\Nof a new epoch
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.63,0:05:48.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somehow different from the rest\Nof human history.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.71,0:05:51.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Among many non-Orthodox Christians,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.22,0:05:54.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these ideas take the form of a teaching
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.94,0:05:57.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is extremely important for us\Nto understand
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.23,0:05:59.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in connection with the future of Russia,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.57,0:06:01.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's called chiliasm:
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.18,0:06:03.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the belief that Christ is soon\Nto come to earth
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.37,0:06:05.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and reign right here with His saints
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.23,0:06:06.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before the end of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.29,0:06:09.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This teaching is a heresy\Nwhich was condemned
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.55,0:06:11.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the early Church Fathers and councils
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.17,0:06:14.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and has its origin in a misinterpretation
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.13,0:06:16.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Book of Revelation, the Apocalypse.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.64,0:06:20.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Orthodox teaching is that the reign
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.33,0:06:22.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Christ with His saints\Nwhen the devil is bound
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.71,0:06:24.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a 1,000 years which is described
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.49,0:06:26.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Apocalypse 20:3
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.54,0:06:29.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the period we are now living in.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.41,0:06:30.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The whole period,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.77,0:06:33.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1000 being a symbolical number\Nindicating wholeness,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.08,0:06:35.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this whole period between the first
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.75,0:06:37.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and second coming of Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.00,0:06:40.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this period the saints do reign\Nwith Christ in His church,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.60,0:06:43.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but this is a mystical reign
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.04,0:06:45.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is not to be defined\Nin the outward political sense
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.89,0:06:48.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is given to us by the chiliad.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.51,0:06:50.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The devil is truly bound in this period,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.50,0:06:55.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is restricted in exercising\Nhis ill will against humanity.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.80,0:06:57.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And believers who live the life\Nof the church
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.90,0:06:59.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and receive the holy mysteries of Christ
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.04,0:07:02.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,live in this period a blessed life
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.20,0:07:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,preparing them for eternal kingdom\Nof heaven.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.07,0:07:08.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The non-Orthodox\Nwho do not have holy mysteries
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.31,0:07:10.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and do not taste of the true life\Nof the church
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.12,0:07:13.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cannot understand this mystical reign\Nof Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.57,0:07:16.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is why they look\Nfor something outward.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.90,0:07:18.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so it is that the future of the world
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.86,0:07:21.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which Russia obviously\Nwill have a central place
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.42,0:07:24.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is bound up with ideas\Nthat you can call apocalyptic,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.74,0:07:27.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,either with the literal end of the world\Nin a physical sense
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.97,0:07:30.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the end of the civilized world\Nas we know it,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.29,0:07:34.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the expectation\Nof some entirely new paradise-like reign.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.57,0:07:39.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some people have interpreted\NRussia's place in this new era
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.35,0:07:41.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in terms of the heresy of chiliasm.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.58,0:07:43.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, if we look at the teaching\Nof communism,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.87,0:07:46.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we see that it is exactly a teaching\Nof chiliasm.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.35,0:07:54.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can see that it teaches\Nthat a totally new historical epoch
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.71,0:07:56.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,begins with communism,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.14,0:07:58.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that when communism\Nfinally dominates the world
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.38,0:08:00.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there will be universal happiness
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.03,0:08:02.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the liberation of mankind\Nfrom everything
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.12,0:08:04.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is bounded in the past,\Nincluding religion.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.64,0:08:08.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today after over 60 years
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.80,0:08:10.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the communist experiment in Russia
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.90,0:08:12.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a shorter period in other nations,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.16,0:08:16.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can see how foolish is this belief\Nunderlying communism.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.01,0:08:19.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reality of communism is not paradise\Non earth
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.45,0:08:21.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but what we call now gulag.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.46,0:08:24.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mankind has not been liberated at all,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.41,0:08:26.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but enslaved worse than ever before.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.58,0:08:30.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Russia, the first country\Nto experience the communist yoke
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.20,0:08:33.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is also the first country to begin\Nto wake up from it
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.81,0:08:35.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to survive it.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.44,0:08:38.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite the continued reign\Nof communist tyranny in Russia,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.27,0:08:40.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,atheism has not captured the soul\Nof Russia.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.21,0:08:43.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And a religious awakening that can be seen\Nnow in Russia is
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.98,0:08:46.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,undoubtedly only the beginning\Nof something
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.03,0:08:48.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,quite immense and elemental,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.67,0:08:51.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,namely the recovery of the soul\Nof a whole nation
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.44,0:08:53.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the plague of atheism.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.04,0:08:56.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the reason why Russia today\Ncan speak a word
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.49,0:08:58.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of significance to the whole world,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.65,0:09:01.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is plunging into the same trap\Nof atheism
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.18,0:09:02.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from which Russia is emerging.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.07,0:09:05.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is why the future of Russia is\Nso closely bound up
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.96,0:09:08.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the future of the whole world\Nin a religious sense.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.84,0:09:13.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before turning specifically\Nto the prophecies about Russia,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.29,0:09:15.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would like to summarize briefly
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.90,0:09:18.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the general Orthodox teaching\Nof what is to happen
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.23,0:09:20.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just before the end of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.42,0:09:22.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This will give us a background in which
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.100,0:09:25.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to place the prophecies\Nregarding the future of Russia.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.66,0:09:29.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The events before the end\Nof the world are described
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.11,0:09:31.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a number of places in Holy Scripture:
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.54,0:09:33.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the 24th chapter of Matthew
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.66,0:09:36.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and other similar chapters\Nin the other Gospels,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.80,0:09:39.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,almost the whole Book of the Apocalypse
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.44,0:09:42.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially from chapter 8 onward,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.81,0:09:45.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the 2nd chapter of 2 Thessalonians\Nof St. Paul,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.75,0:09:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and St. Peter's 2nd epistle\Nthe 3rd chapter,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.63,0:09:50.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,several chapters of the Book of Daniel,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.56,0:09:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and many other passages.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.36,0:09:55.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Apocalypse describes the events
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.03,0:09:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before the end of the world\Nin a series of visions.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.96,0:10:00.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of these visions are bright\Nand positive
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.39,0:10:02.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,relating to the fulfillment\Nof God's justice
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.47,0:10:04.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the salvation of His chosen ones.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.75,0:10:06.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And some are dark and negative
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.48,0:10:09.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,relating to the terrible plagues\Nthat will come on earth
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.16,0:10:10.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the sins of mankind.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.61,0:10:13.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes, in fact quite often,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.12,0:10:15.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we tend to overemphasize the dark\Nand negative side
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.75,0:10:16.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this book,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.06,0:10:19.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we see how much evil is increasing\Naround us.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.07,0:10:22.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this comes from our faintheartedness\Nand worldliness.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.73,0:10:25.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To get the whole picture of what is\Nto happen at the end,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.40,0:10:28.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we must bear in mind all the events\Nthat will happen
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.25,0:10:30.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both the negative and the positive.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.81,0:10:34.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As the time of the end comes,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.22,0:10:36.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is true that there will be a time\Nof tribulation
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.38,0:10:39.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as the world has never seen,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.40,0:10:42.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as described in Matthew 24:21.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.54,0:10:45.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There will be famines, plagues,\Nearthquakes,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.70,0:10:47.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wars and rumors of wars,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.52,0:10:50.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,persecutions, false prophets,\Nfalse christs,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.91,0:10:53.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the love of many\Nincluding Christians will grow cold.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.02,0:10:57.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But at the same, the Gospel\Nwill be preached to all nations,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.06,0:11:00.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those who endure\Nwith the aid of Christ
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.07,0:11:03.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the trials to come upon men\Nat that time will be saved.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.72,0:11:06.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The evil and false religion in the world
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.66,0:11:08.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which we see increasing about us today\Nso much
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.62,0:11:12.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will come to its peak in the reign\Nof antichrist,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.76,0:11:14.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a world ruler who will seem to bring peace
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.77,0:11:16.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of world disorder,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.37,0:11:18.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and will seem to be Christ come again\Nto earth
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.85,0:11:22.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reigning over the whole world\Nfrom the restored temple in Jerusalem.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.29,0:11:25.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there will be those who see\Nthrough the deception,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.00,0:11:29.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in particular two Old Testament\Nprophets who never died.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.13,0:11:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elijah and Enoch will return to earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.29,0:11:34.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elijah to covert the Jews
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.62,0:11:36.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Enoch to preach to the other nations.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.33,0:11:40.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The short reign of antichrist\Nonly 3.5 years will end
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.22,0:11:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in new disorders and wars,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.14,0:11:44.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the midst of which\NChrist himself will come from heaven
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.86,0:11:46.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,preceded by the sign of the cross.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.60,0:11:49.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this world will be consumed by fire\Nand totally renewed
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.88,0:11:51.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the same time that the bodies
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.42,0:11:53.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the dead will arise from the tombs
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.19,0:11:55.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and be rejoined to their souls\Nin order to stand
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.43,0:11:57.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before the final judgement of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.46,0:12:01.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This in a very brief scope
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.74,0:12:05.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the sort of things\Nwhich one can expect to happen
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.34,0:12:07.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the world actually comes to its end.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.07,0:12:10.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now about Russia.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.83,0:12:13.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 19th century Russia,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.14,0:12:15.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a number of prophets
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.47,0:12:18.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even farseeing laymen like Dostoyevsky
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.39,0:12:20.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,foresaw the coming of the revolution
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.41,0:12:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which would come upon Russia\Nas a result of unbelief,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.04,0:12:26.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,worldliness, and a purely formal attitude\Nto Orthodoxy
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.97,0:12:29.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,devoid of the burning,\Nself-sacrificing faith
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.35,0:12:30.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which Orthodoxy demands.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.20,0:12:36.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some people saw this in general terms
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.02,0:12:39.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a terrible disaster ready\Nto overtake the Russian land.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.15,0:12:41.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As did Bishop Theophan the Recluse
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.13,0:12:43.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when he looked at the lack\Nof true Christian faith
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.47,0:12:44.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in so many people
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.49,0:12:47.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and cried out,\N"In 100 years what will be left
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.52,0:12:49.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"of our Orthodoxy?"
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.52,0:12:52.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Others saw more specific\Nto the frightful revolution
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.10,0:12:54.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which would spread to the entire world.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.28,0:12:56.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thus St. John of Kronstadt said
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.02,0:13:00.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a sermon delivered in 1905, quote,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.30,0:13:03.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Russia, if you fall away from your faith
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.56,0:13:06.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"as many of the intellectual class have\Nalready fallen away,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.33,0:13:09.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"you will no longer be Russia\Nor Holy Russia.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.43,0:13:13.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And if there will be no repentance\Nin the Russian people,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.16,0:13:14.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"then the end of the world is near.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.52,0:13:18.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"God will take away the pious tsar\Nand will send a whip
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.32,0:13:21.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"in the person of impious, cruel,\Nself-appointed rulers
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.47,0:13:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"who will inundate the whole earth\Nwith blood and tears,"
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.24,0:13:26.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,end of quote.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:28.26,0:13:30.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the state\Nin which the world now finds itself
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.80,0:13:33.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with nearly half of it drenched with blood
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.80,0:13:36.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and enduring the tyranny\Nwhich began in 1917
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.06,0:13:37.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the Russian Revolution.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.11,0:13:40.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somebody asked a question.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:40.36,0:13:42.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Is there any hope for deliverance,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.08,0:13:44.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"or will atheism simply conquer\Nthe whole world
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.40,0:13:46.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and set up the kingdom of antichrist?"
Dialogue: 0,0:13:47.45,0:13:48.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have good reason to doubt
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.79,0:13:51.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that future events will be\Nas simple as this.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.41,0:13:52.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Both because the very country
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.81,0:13:55.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that began the reign of atheism, Russia,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.54,0:13:57.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is now undergoing a religious awakening
Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.72,0:14:00.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is already a hindrance to the spread\Nof atheism.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.95,0:14:04.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And also because antichrist according\Nto Orthodox prophecy
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.50,0:14:07.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will not be simply an atheist tyrant\Nlike Stalin
Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.40,0:14:08.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but a religious figure
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.61,0:14:11.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who will persuade\Nrather than compel people to accept him.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.23,0:14:15.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The holy men who were alive in Russia
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.99,0:14:17.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the beginning of the revolution
Dialogue: 0,0:14:17.85,0:14:20.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were aware of the apocalyptic nature\Nof this event,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.89,0:14:23.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is that it is bound up somehow\Nwith the end of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.36,0:14:27.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they knew that it would be a long\Nand difficult trial
Dialogue: 0,0:14:27.02,0:14:28.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the Russian land,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.58,0:14:31.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they also foresaw that\Nthere would be an end to this trial.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.00,0:14:36.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here we can see the difference\Nbetween our normal human wisdom
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.42,0:14:38.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the inspired wisdom of these prophets,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.74,0:14:40.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because according to our human wisdom
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.56,0:14:42.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things look bad, they're getting worse,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.44,0:14:43.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there seems to be no hope.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.95,0:14:46.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,According to those inspired by God\Nthey saw
Dialogue: 0,0:14:47.02,0:14:49.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dependent of course upon man's repentance
Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.98,0:14:52.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there would be something positive\Nhappening in Russia.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:55.76,0:14:58.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Elder Alexius of Zosima Hermitage—
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.75,0:15:01.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was the monk who drew the lot\Nthat elected Patriarch Tikhon—
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.21,0:15:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,heard people crying in church
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.92,0:15:05.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Chudov Monastery where he was
Dialogue: 0,0:15:05.84,0:15:07.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the early months of the revolution.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.51,0:15:10.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People were calling out,\N"Our Russia is lost.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:10.66,0:15:12.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Holy Russia is lost."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.12,0:15:14.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To this he answered as follows.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:15.50,0:15:17.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Who is it that is saying\Nthat Russia is lost,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.82,0:15:19.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"that she is perished?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.65,0:15:21.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No, no, she is not lost.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:21.55,0:15:23.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"She has not perished and will not perish.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.09,0:15:26.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"But the Russian people must be purified
Dialogue: 0,0:15:26.10,0:15:27.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"of sin through great trials.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:28.28,0:15:30.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"One must pray and fervently repent.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:31.05,0:15:33.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"But Russia is not lost\Nand she has not perished."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:35.22,0:15:39.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This of course is a very general idea\Nopening up the idea
Dialogue: 0,0:15:39.13,0:15:41.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of hope in the future of Russia,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:41.14,0:15:43.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there will be something\Nafter this communist tyranny.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:44.47,0:15:46.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Starets Anatole the Younger of Optina
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.86,0:15:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the very first days of the revolution\Nin February 1917
Dialogue: 0,0:15:50.84,0:15:54.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made a more specific prophecy in the form\Nof a vivid picture
Dialogue: 0,0:15:54.31,0:15:55.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the future of Russia.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.27,0:15:57.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, quote,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:58.11,0:15:59.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"There will be a storm,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:59.54,0:16:02.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and the Russian ship will be smashed\Nto pieces,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:02.79,0:16:05.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"but people can be saved\Neven on splinters and fragments.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:05.96,0:16:07.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And not everyone will perish.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:08.18,0:16:12.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"One must pray, everyone must repent\Nand pray fervently.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:12.83,0:16:14.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And what happens after a storm?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:15.00,0:16:16.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"There will be a calm."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:16.87,0:16:19.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At this everyone cried out,\N"But there is no more ship.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:19.59,0:16:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It is shattered to pieces,\Nit is perished.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:21.60,0:16:22.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Everything is perished."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:23.43,0:16:25.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To this the elder said, "It is not so.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:26.62,0:16:28.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"A great miracle of God\Nwill be manifested.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:29.13,0:16:30.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And all the splinters and fragments
Dialogue: 0,0:16:30.84,0:16:32.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"by the will of God and His power
Dialogue: 0,0:16:32.65,0:16:34.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"will come together and be united.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:34.82,0:16:36.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And the ship will be rebuilt\Nin its beauty,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:36.93,0:16:39.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and will go on its own way\Nas foreordained by God.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:39.96,0:16:43.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And this will be a miracle evident\Nto everyone," end of quote.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:45.20,0:16:48.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again Elder Barnabas\Nof Gethsemane Skeet spoke
Dialogue: 0,0:16:48.85,0:16:50.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before the revolution
Dialogue: 0,0:16:50.28,0:16:52.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the disaster coming upon Russia
Dialogue: 0,0:16:52.17,0:16:54.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the cruel persecutions\Nagainst the Orthodox Faith.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:55.72,0:16:59.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said as the revolution\Nwas breaking out, quote,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:59.38,0:17:02.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Persecutions against the Faith will\Nconstantly increase.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:02.87,0:17:05.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"There will be an unheard of grief\Nand darkness,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.73,0:17:08.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and almost all the churches\Nwill be closed.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:08.55,0:17:12.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"But when it will seem to people that\Nit is impossible to endure any longer,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:12.43,0:17:14.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"then deliverance will come.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:14.55,0:17:16.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"There will be a flowering.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:16.37,0:17:18.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Churches will even begin to be built.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:18.61,0:17:21.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"But this will be a flowering\Nbefore the end," end quote.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:23.100,0:17:26.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Schema-hieromonk Aristocleus not long\Nbefore his death
Dialogue: 0,0:17:26.88,0:17:29.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in August 1918 said,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:29.54,0:17:32.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It is now we are undergoing the times\Nbefore antichrist,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:32.86,0:17:34.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"but Russia will yet be delivered.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.01,0:17:37.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"There will be much suffering,\Nmuch torture.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:37.40,0:17:39.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The whole of Russia will become a prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:39.51,0:17:42.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And one must greatly entreat the Lord\Nfor forgiveness.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:42.56,0:17:44.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"One must repent of one's sins
Dialogue: 0,0:17:44.14,0:17:46.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and fear to do even the least sin,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:46.44,0:17:48.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"but strive to do good even the smallest.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:49.14,0:17:50.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"For even the wing of a fly has weight
Dialogue: 0,0:17:50.96,0:17:52.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and God's scales are exact.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:53.64,0:17:56.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And when even the smallest\Nof good in the cup overweigh,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:57.07,0:17:59.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"then will God reveal His mercy\Nupon Russia."
Dialogue: 0,0:18:00.84,0:18:02.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ten days before the end of his life
Dialogue: 0,0:18:02.90,0:18:05.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he said that the end would come\Nthrough China.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:05.54,0:18:09.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There would be an extraordinary outburst\Nand a miracle of God would be manifested.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:09.58,0:18:11.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there will be an\Nentirely different light,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:11.73,0:18:13.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but all this will not be for long.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:15.88,0:18:18.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,St. John of Kronstadt\Nalso said the deliverance
Dialogue: 0,0:18:18.84,0:18:21.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from this terrible yoke\Nof the 20th century
Dialogue: 0,0:18:21.39,0:18:22.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would come through the East.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:24.38,0:18:27.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elder Nectarius of Optina\Nin the 1920s prophesied.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:27.59,0:18:29.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Quote, "Russia will arise,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:29.59,0:18:31.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and materially it will not be wealthy,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:32.09,0:18:33.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"but in spirit it will be wealthy.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:34.32,0:18:37.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And in Optina there will yet be\Nseven luminaries, seven pillars."
Dialogue: 0,0:18:40.33,0:18:42.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Abbot Theophan of Poltava summed up\Nin the 1930s
Dialogue: 0,0:18:42.100,0:18:45.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the prophesies which he had received\Nfrom such elders as these.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:46.05,0:18:47.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said the following.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:48.28,0:18:51.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You ask me about the near future\Nand about the last time.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:51.84,0:18:53.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I do not speak on my own,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:53.54,0:18:55.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"but give the revelation of the elders.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:55.84,0:18:58.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The coming of antichrist draws near\Nand is very near.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:59.41,0:19:02.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The time separating us from him\Nshould be counted a matter of years,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:02.88,0:19:04.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and at most a matter of some decades.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:05.44,0:19:08.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"But before the coming of antichrist\NRussia must yet be restored
Dialogue: 0,0:19:09.04,0:19:10.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"to be sure for a short time.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:11.07,0:19:13.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And in Russia there must be\Na tsar forechosen
Dialogue: 0,0:19:13.21,0:19:14.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"by the Lord himself.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:15.03,0:19:18.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"He will be a man of burning faith,\Ngreat mind, and iron will.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:19.06,0:19:21.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"This much has been revealed about him.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:21.50,0:19:24.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We shall await the fulfillment\Nof what has been revealed.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:24.58,0:19:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Judging by many signs it is drawing near,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:27.24,0:19:29.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"unless because of our sin\Nthe Lord God shall revoke,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:29.99,0:19:31.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"shall alter what has been promised.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:32.01,0:19:35.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"According to the witness\Nof the Word of God this also happens."
Dialogue: 0,0:19:36.38,0:19:37.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,End of quote.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:38.56,0:19:41.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thus you may see in the prophecies\Nof these God-inspired men
Dialogue: 0,0:19:41.38,0:19:43.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the early part of the century
Dialogue: 0,0:19:43.40,0:19:46.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a definite expectation of the restoration\Nof Holy Russia
Dialogue: 0,0:19:46.84,0:19:49.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even the restoration\Nof an Orthodox tsar
Dialogue: 0,0:19:49.78,0:19:52.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a short time,\Nnot long before the coming of antichrist
Dialogue: 0,0:19:52.49,0:19:53.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the end of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:54.68,0:19:56.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is to be something miraculous
Dialogue: 0,0:19:56.31,0:19:58.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not an ordinary historical event.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:58.76,0:20:00.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But at the same time it is something
Dialogue: 0,0:20:00.48,0:20:02.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that depends upon\Nthe Russian people themselves,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:03.36,0:20:06.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because God always acts\Nthrough the freewill of men.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:06.62,0:20:09.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just as Nineveh was spared\Nwhen the repented
Dialogue: 0,0:20:09.21,0:20:11.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Jonah's prophecies proved false
Dialogue: 0,0:20:11.28,0:20:13.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so also the prophecies of the restoration\Nof Russia
Dialogue: 0,0:20:13.66,0:20:14.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will prove false
Dialogue: 0,0:20:14.81,0:20:17.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if there is no repentance\Nin the Russian people.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:18.72,0:20:21.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Archbishop John Maximovitch\Nof blessed memory—
Dialogue: 0,0:20:21.39,0:20:23.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his tomb is in the cathedral of this city—
Dialogue: 0,0:20:24.43,0:20:27.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reflected deeply on the meaning\Nof the Russian Revolution
Dialogue: 0,0:20:27.16,0:20:29.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the exile of so many Russian people,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:29.17,0:20:30.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a million or more people.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:31.29,0:20:35.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In his report to the All-Diaspora Sobor\Nin Yugoslavia in 1938
Dialogue: 0,0:20:36.19,0:20:38.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he gave his reflections on this subject.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:38.63,0:20:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, quote,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:41.68,0:20:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The Russian people as a whole\Nhas performed great sins
Dialogue: 0,0:20:44.40,0:20:46.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"which are the cause\Nof their present misfortune.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:46.93,0:20:49.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The specific sins are oath breaking\Nand regicide.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:49.81,0:20:52.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The public and military leaders renounced\Ntheir obedience
Dialogue: 0,0:20:52.53,0:20:55.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and loyalty to the tsar\Neven before his abdication,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:55.37,0:20:57.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"forcing this latter from the tsar
Dialogue: 0,0:20:57.10,0:20:59.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"who did not desire bloodshed\Nwithin the country.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:59.64,0:21:02.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And the people openly\Nand noisily greeted this deed,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:02.93,0:21:04.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and nowhere did it\Nloudly express its lack
Dialogue: 0,0:21:04.93,0:21:06.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"of agreement with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:06.57,0:21:09.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Those guilty of the sin of regicide,"\Nkilling of the tsar,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:09.56,0:21:11.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"are not only those\Nwho physically performed it,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:11.80,0:21:15.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"but the whole people which rejoiced on\Nthe occasion of the overthrow of the tsar
Dialogue: 0,0:21:15.60,0:21:18.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and allowed his abasement,\Narrest, and exile,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:18.57,0:21:21.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"leaving him defenseless in the hands\Nof the criminals,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:21.20,0:21:23.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"which fact in itself\Nalready predetermined the end.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:24.64,0:21:27.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Thus the catastrophe which has come\Nupon Russia
Dialogue: 0,0:21:27.87,0:21:30.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"is the direct consequence\Nof terrible sins.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:30.62,0:21:32.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And the rebirth of Russia\Nis possible only
Dialogue: 0,0:21:32.62,0:21:34.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"after cleansing from them.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:34.35,0:21:37.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"However, up to this time," 1938,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:37.33,0:21:39.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"there has been no genuine repentance.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:39.21,0:21:42.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The crimes that have performed have\Nclearly not been condemned.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:42.23,0:21:44.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And many active participants\Nin the revolution continue
Dialogue: 0,0:21:44.85,0:21:48.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"even now to affirm that at that time it\Nwas not possible to act in any other way.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:49.61,0:21:53.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And not expressing their direct\Ncondemnation of the February Revolution,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:53.03,0:21:55.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"the uprising against the anointed of God,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:55.33,0:21:58.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"the Russian people continued\Nto participate in this sin
Dialogue: 0,0:21:58.27,0:22:01.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"especially when they defend it\Nthrough to the revolution."
Dialogue: 0,0:22:02.45,0:22:03.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,End of quote.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:04.81,0:22:07.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course regicide,\Nthe killing of the anointed tsar
Dialogue: 0,0:22:07.46,0:22:09.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not the only sin that lies\Nupon the conscience
Dialogue: 0,0:22:09.74,0:22:11.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Orthodox Russian people.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:11.70,0:22:13.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This crime is as it were a symbol
Dialogue: 0,0:22:13.49,0:22:15.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the whole falling away of Russia
Dialogue: 0,0:22:16.24,0:22:18.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from Christ and through Orthodoxy,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:18.42,0:22:20.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a process that took up most of the 19th
Dialogue: 0,0:22:20.47,0:22:22.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and early 20th centuries,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:22.71,0:22:26.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and only now is perhaps beginning\Nto be reversed.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:26.89,0:22:29.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you read the works\Nof Bishop Theophan the Recluse,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:29.36,0:22:31.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,St. John of Kronstadt,\NBishop Ignatius Brianchaninov,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:32.28,0:22:36.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and other inspired men of that time,\Nyou will see that they were
Dialogue: 0,0:22:36.14,0:22:39.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,constantly talking about the falling away\Nof the Russian people from Orthodoxy
Dialogue: 0,0:22:40.40,0:22:43.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the terrible results that will come\Nbecause of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:43.94,0:22:46.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is most interesting that\Nin Russia itself today
Dialogue: 0,0:22:47.10,0:22:50.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the question of the canonization of the\Ntsar together with the other new martyrs
Dialogue: 0,0:22:50.94,0:22:53.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is bound up with the lifting\Nof the literal curse
Dialogue: 0,0:22:53.22,0:22:55.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which has lain upon the Russian land\Nsince his martyrdom.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:56.78,0:22:59.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Father Gleb Yakunin\Nwho is now suffering a cruel imprisonment
Dialogue: 0,0:22:59.92,0:23:02.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,precisely for making statements like this
Dialogue: 0,0:23:02.37,0:23:05.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has written a letter\Nto the Orthodox Russians of the diaspora,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:05.84,0:23:08.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,signed also by several\Nof his fellow strugglers.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:09.99,0:23:12.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His letter expresses the same ideas\Nabout the tsar
Dialogue: 0,0:23:12.32,0:23:14.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Vladika John has expressed.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:15.06,0:23:17.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the end of this letter he writes,\Nquote,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:17.56,0:23:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The meaning for a world history\Nof the martyr's death
Dialogue: 0,0:23:20.08,0:23:21.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"of the imperial family,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:21.77,0:23:25.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"something that likens it\Nto the most significant biblical event,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:25.42,0:23:27.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"consists of the fact that here
Dialogue: 0,0:23:27.32,0:23:28.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"the Constantinopolitan period
Dialogue: 0,0:23:28.87,0:23:31.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"of the existence of the church\Nof Christ comes to an end
Dialogue: 0,0:23:32.06,0:23:35.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and a new martyric,\Napocalyptic age begins.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:35.84,0:23:37.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It has begun with the voluntary sacrifice
Dialogue: 0,0:23:37.88,0:23:40.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"of the last anointed Orthodox emperor\Nand his family.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:41.14,0:23:43.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The tragedy of the imperial family\Nhas lain like a curse
Dialogue: 0,0:23:43.80,0:23:45.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"on the Russian land,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:45.12,0:23:47.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"having become the symbolic prologue
Dialogue: 0,0:23:47.27,0:23:49.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"of Russia's long path of the cross,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:49.28,0:23:52.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"the death of tens of millions\Nof her sons and daughters.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:52.75,0:23:55.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The canonization of the imperial martyrs\Nwill be for Russia
Dialogue: 0,0:23:55.56,0:23:57.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"the lifting from her of the sin\Nof regicide.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:58.29,0:24:00.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"This will finally deliver her\Nfrom the evil charms,"
Dialogue: 0,0:24:01.07,0:24:02.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,end of quote.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:04.34,0:24:06.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is of course too simple
Dialogue: 0,0:24:06.75,0:24:08.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to say that the canonization\Nof the new martyrs
Dialogue: 0,0:24:08.94,0:24:10.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including the imperial family
Dialogue: 0,0:24:10.46,0:24:12.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will bring about the restoration\Nof Holy Russia.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:13.27,0:24:16.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if the Orthodox people\Nboth in Russia and abroad
Dialogue: 0,0:24:16.60,0:24:18.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will receive this act\Nwith all their hearts
Dialogue: 0,0:24:18.90,0:24:22.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and use it as an opportunity\Nto repent deeply of their sins,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:22.18,0:24:24.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is no calculating the impact
Dialogue: 0,0:24:24.01,0:24:25.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this might have upon Russia.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:27.15,0:24:29.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One great prophecy of the future\Nof Russia was known
Dialogue: 0,0:24:29.58,0:24:31.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to only a few before the revolution.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:31.81,0:24:34.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was so daring\Nthat the church censor would not allow it
Dialogue: 0,0:24:34.52,0:24:35.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be printed.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:36.28,0:24:37.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was found in the same collection
Dialogue: 0,0:24:37.98,0:24:39.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the manuscripts of Motovilov
Dialogue: 0,0:24:39.78,0:24:42.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that gave to the world\Nthe famous conversation of St. Seraphim
Dialogue: 0,0:24:42.73,0:24:44.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the acquisition of the Holy Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:45.30,0:24:48.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This prophecy which has now appeared\Nin several printings in the last decade
Dialogue: 0,0:24:49.13,0:24:51.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,concerns the literal resurrection\Nof St. Seraphim
Dialogue: 0,0:24:51.42,0:24:53.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before the end of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:53.40,0:24:56.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what St. Seraphim told\Nto Motovilov.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:59.40,0:25:00.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Quote,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:01.95,0:25:03.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Motovilov begins,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:03.69,0:25:06.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Many times I heard from the mouth\Nof the great God-pleaser,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:06.50,0:25:08.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"the Elder, Father Seraphim,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:08.39,0:25:10.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"that he would not lie in Sarov\Nwith his flesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:11.44,0:25:14.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And behold once I, Motovilov,\Ndared to ask him,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:14.56,0:25:16.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"'Batiushka, you deign to say all the time
Dialogue: 0,0:25:16.74,0:25:19.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"'that with your flesh\Nyou will not lie in Sarov.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:19.39,0:25:22.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"'Does that mean that the monks of Sarov\Nwill give you away?'"
Dialogue: 0,0:25:23.60,0:25:25.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And St. Seraphim replied,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:25.50,0:25:27.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Your godliness, the Lord God has ordained
Dialogue: 0,0:25:27.58,0:25:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"that I humble Seraphim should live
Dialogue: 0,0:25:30.08,0:25:32.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"considerably longer than 100 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:32.74,0:25:35.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"But since toward that time\Nthe bishops will become
Dialogue: 0,0:25:35.11,0:25:37.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so impious that in their impiety\Nthey will surpass
Dialogue: 0,0:25:37.89,0:25:40.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"the Greek bishops at the time\Nof Theodosius the Younger,"
Dialogue: 0,0:25:40.61,0:25:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the fifth century,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:42.52,0:25:45.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"so that they will no longer even believe\Nin the chief dogma
Dialogue: 0,0:25:45.33,0:25:47.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"of the Christian faith,"\Nthe resurrection,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:48.30,0:25:50.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"therefore it has been pleasing\Nto the Lord God
Dialogue: 0,0:25:50.49,0:25:54.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"to take me humble Seraphim\Nfrom this temporal life until the time
Dialogue: 0,0:25:55.20,0:25:56.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and then resurrect me.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:56.83,0:25:59.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And my resurrection will be\Nas the resurrection
Dialogue: 0,0:25:59.07,0:26:01.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"of the seven youths in the cave of Ochlon
Dialogue: 0,0:26:01.15,0:26:03.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"in the days of Theodosius the Younger."
Dialogue: 0,0:26:03.31,0:26:05.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the seven sleepers of Ephesus
Dialogue: 0,0:26:05.16,0:26:07.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who were walled up in a cave,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:07.74,0:26:11.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and after nearly 200 years were dug out\Nand woke up.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:13.07,0:26:15.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Having revealed to me this great\Nand fearful mystery,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:15.60,0:26:17.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"the great elder informed me
Dialogue: 0,0:26:17.31,0:26:20.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"that after his resurrection he would go\Nfrom Sarov to Diveyevo.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:20.73,0:26:23.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And there he would begin the preaching\Nof worldwide repentance.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:23.76,0:26:27.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"For this preaching and above all\Nbecause of the miracle of resurrection,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:27.18,0:26:30.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"a great multitude of people will assemble\Nfrom all the ends of the earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:30.89,0:26:32.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Diveyevo will become a lavra,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:32.89,0:26:34.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Vertyanova will become a city,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:34.95,0:26:36.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and Arzamas a province.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:37.07,0:26:39.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And preaching repentance in Diveyevo,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:39.04,0:26:41.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Batiushka Seraphim will uncover\Nfour relics in it
Dialogue: 0,0:26:42.06,0:26:45.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and after uncovering them,\Nhe himself will lie down in their midst.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:45.59,0:26:48.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And then soon will come the end\Nof everything."
Dialogue: 0,0:26:49.99,0:26:52.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This prophecy was never printed in Russia,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:52.48,0:26:54.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet it is known there today.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:54.92,0:26:57.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a letter from a priest published\Nin the first issue
Dialogue: 0,0:26:57.46,0:27:00.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of "Nadezhda",\Na collection of materials from Russia,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:01.17,0:27:03.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,describing his visit to Sarov and Diveyevo
Dialogue: 0,0:27:03.99,0:27:06.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and his discovery there\Nthat Holy Russia was still alive,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:06.68,0:27:09.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that some nuns from Diveyevo\Nwere still living there.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:11.78,0:27:13.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This monastery was closed in 1926
Dialogue: 0,0:27:13.74,0:27:17.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the nuns remained in private houses,\Na few of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:18.59,0:27:21.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He heard there, this priest\Nwho was traveling toward Diveyevo
Dialogue: 0,0:27:21.44,0:27:24.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,heard the prophecy from an old woman,\NEvdokia,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:24.45,0:27:26.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who had just received Holy Communion\Nfrom him.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:27.57,0:27:29.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Addressing the priest she said,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:29.05,0:27:32.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Soon, soon here in Diveyevo\Nthere will be a celebration.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:32.97,0:27:35.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No it is not years, not months\Nbut days and hours
Dialogue: 0,0:27:35.66,0:27:37.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"that remain until the opening\Nof the monastery
Dialogue: 0,0:27:37.97,0:27:39.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and the manifestation of four relics.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:40.29,0:27:42.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Those of the Saint,\Nthe Foundress Alexandra,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:43.11,0:27:45.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Matushka Martha and Blessed Evdokeyushka,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:45.78,0:27:47.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"who was tortured and killed\Nby the atheists.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:48.21,0:27:50.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The Saint commands me:\Nsay to him and no one else
Dialogue: 0,0:27:51.35,0:27:53.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"that soon, soon both the monastery
Dialogue: 0,0:27:53.48,0:27:55.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and the relics will be opened.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:55.07,0:27:57.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"He commands to tell you that without fail\Nyou must come here
Dialogue: 0,0:27:57.93,0:28:00.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"for the opening of the church\Nand the relics."
Dialogue: 0,0:28:00.65,0:28:01.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,End of quote.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:03.58,0:28:06.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of the fact\Nthat Holy Russia is still alive
Dialogue: 0,0:28:06.30,0:28:08.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,despite the continued reign of atheism\Nin Russia
Dialogue: 0,0:28:09.09,0:28:12.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have the testimony now\Nof many observers in Russia itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:12.57,0:28:16.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is but one of them,\NGennady Shimanov says,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:22.15,0:28:24.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Holy Russia cannot be buried.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:24.58,0:28:26.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It cannot pass away.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:26.54,0:28:28.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It is eternal and victorious.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:28.48,0:28:30.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And it is precisely to it
Dialogue: 0,0:28:30.50,0:28:33.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"that the final word in the history\Nof our people will belong.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:38.90,0:28:40.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Holy Russia went away only\Nfrom the surface
Dialogue: 0,0:28:40.95,0:28:42.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"of contemporary life,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:42.61,0:28:44.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"but it continues to live\Nin its hidden depths
Dialogue: 0,0:28:44.75,0:28:46.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"germinating until the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:46.62,0:28:49.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"So that in the time pleasing to God\Nhaving survived the winter
Dialogue: 0,0:28:49.69,0:28:51.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"it will again break through\Nto the surface
Dialogue: 0,0:28:51.69,0:28:53.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and adorn the face of the Russian land,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:53.83,0:28:57.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"which has been so cruelly lashed\Nby fiery and icy storms."
Dialogue: 0,0:28:57.72,0:28:59.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the word of someone\Nin Russia today
Dialogue: 0,0:29:00.09,0:29:03.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who sees the awakening faith in Russia,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:03.54,0:29:06.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who has hopes\Nthat this will produce something great
Dialogue: 0,0:29:06.48,0:29:08.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and positive in the future.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:08.67,0:29:11.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this testimony can be repeated\Nmany times
Dialogue: 0,0:29:11.25,0:29:14.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by people in the Soviet Union and those\Nwho come from there.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:15.83,0:29:18.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the book which most\Nthoroughly describes the events
Dialogue: 0,0:29:18.35,0:29:20.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which are to occur\Nat the end of the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:20.36,0:29:22.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Apocalypse of St. John the Theologian,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:23.45,0:29:25.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the opening of the seventh seal
Dialogue: 0,0:29:25.58,0:29:28.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which precedes the final plagues\Nto come upon mankind,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:29.38,0:29:30.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is said, quote,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:31.05,0:29:34.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"There was silence in heaven for the space\Nof half an hour."
Dialogue: 0,0:29:34.50,0:29:36.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Apocalypse 8:1.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:37.74,0:29:40.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some people have interpreted this\Nto mean a short period
Dialogue: 0,0:29:40.36,0:29:42.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of peace before the final events\Nof world history,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:43.24,0:29:46.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,namely the short period of the restoration\Nof Russia
Dialogue: 0,0:29:46.34,0:29:49.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the preaching of worldwide repentance\Nwill begin with Russia,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:49.74,0:29:52.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the new ultimate word\Nwhich even Dostoyevsky hoped
Dialogue: 0,0:29:52.64,0:29:55.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Russia would give to the world\Nin his Pushkin speech.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:57.24,0:29:59.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Under present world conditions
Dialogue: 0,0:29:59.01,0:30:02.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the events of one country are known\Nto the whole world almost instantly,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:03.05,0:30:05.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when Russia cleansed\Nby the blood of its martyrs
Dialogue: 0,0:30:05.77,0:30:08.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,indeed has a better chance\Nthan any other country
Dialogue: 0,0:30:08.07,0:30:10.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to awake from the sleep\Nof atheism and unbelief,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:10.87,0:30:13.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can already conceive the possibility\Nof such an event
Dialogue: 0,0:30:13.99,0:30:16.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Russia preaching repentance\Nto the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:17.77,0:30:20.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As Father Dimitry Dudko\Nand others have said,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:20.09,0:30:22.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It cannot be that the blood of\NRussia's innumerable martyrs
Dialogue: 0,0:30:22.90,0:30:24.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"will be in vain.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:24.14,0:30:26.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Undoubtedly it is a seed\Nof the last great flowering
Dialogue: 0,0:30:26.62,0:30:28.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"of true Christianity."
Dialogue: 0,0:30:29.69,0:30:32.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However it is easy to become lost\Nin dreams
Dialogue: 0,0:30:32.02,0:30:33.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the future of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:34.32,0:30:37.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We should be aware of what is to happen\Nat the end of the world
Dialogue: 0,0:30:37.50,0:30:39.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and of what may happen in Russia.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:39.78,0:30:42.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But spiritual events\Nsuch as the restoration of Russia
Dialogue: 0,0:30:43.24,0:30:45.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do not happen automatically\Nor by themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:46.51,0:30:48.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They depend upon each individual soul.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:49.47,0:30:51.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This event will not happen\Nwithout the participation
Dialogue: 0,0:30:51.90,0:30:53.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Orthodox people,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:54.09,0:30:55.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our repentance and struggle.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:56.49,0:30:59.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this involves not only the people\Nof Russia itself,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:59.62,0:31:02.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it involves also the whole\Nof the Russian diaspora
Dialogue: 0,0:31:02.61,0:31:04.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all the Orthodox people of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:05.81,0:31:09.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Archbishop John in the same report\Nto the Sobor of 1938
Dialogue: 0,0:31:09.73,0:31:11.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I've already quoted
Dialogue: 0,0:31:11.82,0:31:14.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,speaks of the apocalyptic mission\Nof the Russian people
Dialogue: 0,0:31:14.39,0:31:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,outside of Russia.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:15.95,0:31:16.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Quote,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:17.97,0:31:20.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"In chastising, the Lord at the same time
Dialogue: 0,0:31:20.88,0:31:23.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"also shows the Russian people the way\Nto salvation
Dialogue: 0,0:31:24.38,0:31:27.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"by making it a preacher of Orthodoxy\Nin the whole world.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:28.47,0:31:30.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The Russian diaspora has made\Nall the ends
Dialogue: 0,0:31:30.54,0:31:32.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"of the world familiar with Orthodoxy.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:33.12,0:31:35.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The mass of Russian exiles\Nfor the most part is
Dialogue: 0,0:31:35.96,0:31:38.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"unconsciously a preacher of Orthodoxy.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:39.27,0:31:41.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"To the Russians abroad\Nit has been granted
Dialogue: 0,0:31:41.27,0:31:44.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"to shine in the whole world\Nwith the light of Orthodoxy,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:44.35,0:31:46.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"so that other people\Nseeing their good deeds
Dialogue: 0,0:31:46.44,0:31:48.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"might glorify our Father\Nwho is in heaven,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:48.93,0:31:51.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and thus obtain salvation for themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:51.97,0:31:55.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The diaspora will have to be converted\Nto the path of repentance,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:55.09,0:31:57.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and having acquired forgiveness\Nfor itself
Dialogue: 0,0:31:57.40,0:31:58.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"through prayer to God
Dialogue: 0,0:31:58.81,0:32:00.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and through being reborn spiritually,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:01.07,0:32:03.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"it will become capable also\Nof giving rebirth
Dialogue: 0,0:32:03.66,0:32:06.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"to our suffering homeland," end of quote.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:08.39,0:32:10.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thus the Russians abroad
Dialogue: 0,0:32:10.31,0:32:12.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by their living the true life of Orthodoxy
Dialogue: 0,0:32:13.26,0:32:15.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,should be already preparing the way
Dialogue: 0,0:32:15.07,0:32:17.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for St. Seraphim's preaching\Nof worldwide repentance.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:18.52,0:32:20.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To some extent this is happening.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:20.76,0:32:22.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one can even begin to see a parallel
Dialogue: 0,0:32:22.74,0:32:24.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the Orthodox revival in Russia,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:24.95,0:32:27.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a genuine Orthodox awakening in America
Dialogue: 0,0:32:27.28,0:32:29.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and other lands outside of Russia.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:29.46,0:32:31.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Particularly in the past few years
Dialogue: 0,0:32:31.45,0:32:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this has become quite noticeable
Dialogue: 0,0:32:33.28,0:32:37.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as searching people in America,\Nsimple Orthodox people,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:37.77,0:32:40.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have been coming to Orthodoxy,\Nbecoming baptized
Dialogue: 0,0:32:40.28,0:32:43.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and taking up their life\Nof fervent Christianity.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:48.04,0:32:50.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of this depends upon each one of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:51.38,0:32:53.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we are awakening to true Orthodox life,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:54.26,0:32:56.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then Holy Russia will be restored.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:57.37,0:32:59.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we are not awakening to Orthodox life
Dialogue: 0,0:33:00.53,0:33:02.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and becoming reborn spiritually,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:02.71,0:33:04.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then God can withdraw His promise.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:06.28,0:33:09.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Archbishop John ended his report\Nto the 1938 Sobor
Dialogue: 0,0:33:09.46,0:33:11.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a prophecy and a hope
Dialogue: 0,0:33:11.54,0:33:13.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there will be a true Pascha in Russia
Dialogue: 0,0:33:13.55,0:33:15.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that will shine forth to the whole world
Dialogue: 0,0:33:15.60,0:33:17.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before the very end of all things
Dialogue: 0,0:33:17.56,0:33:20.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the beginning\Nof the universal kingdom of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:20.63,0:33:22.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He spoke about this\Nin the following words.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:25.38,0:33:27.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Shake away the sleep\Nof despondency and sloth,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:27.75,0:33:29.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"O sons of Russia.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:29.71,0:33:32.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Behold the glory of her sufferings\Nand be purified.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:33.32,0:33:35.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Wash yourselves from your sins.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:35.57,0:33:37.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Be strengthened in the Orthodox Faith
Dialogue: 0,0:33:37.82,0:33:40.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"so as to be worthy to dwell\Nin the dwelling of the Lord
Dialogue: 0,0:33:40.46,0:33:42.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and to settle in His holy mountain.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:42.79,0:33:44.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Leap up, arise O Russia,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:45.00,0:33:47.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"you who from the Lord's hands\Nhave drunk the cup
Dialogue: 0,0:33:47.28,0:33:48.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"of His wrath.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:48.88,0:33:50.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"When your suffering shall have ended,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:50.71,0:33:52.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"your righteousness shall go with you
Dialogue: 0,0:33:52.75,0:33:55.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and the glory of the Lord\Nshall accompany you.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:55.72,0:33:57.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The people shall come to your light
Dialogue: 0,0:33:57.43,0:34:00.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and kings to the shining\Nwhich shall rise upon you.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:00.74,0:34:02.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Then lift up your eyes and see.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:02.89,0:34:04.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Behold, your children come to you
Dialogue: 0,0:34:04.51,0:34:07.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"from the west and the north,\Nand sea and the east,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:07.53,0:34:09.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"blessing in you Christ forever."
Dialogue: 0,0:34:10.06,0:34:10.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amen.