St. Nilus the Myrrh-Streamer was born in 1601.
The Prophecy
After the year
1900, toward the middle of the 20th century, the people of that time
will become unrecognizable. When the time for the Advent of the
Antichrist approaches, people's minds will grow cloudy from carnal
passions, and dishonor and lawlessness will grow stronger. Then the
world will become unrecognizable. People's appearances will change, and
it will be impossible to distinguish men from women due to their
shamelessness in dress and style of hair. These people will be cruel
and will be like wild animals because of the temptations of the
Antichrist. There will be no respect for parents and elders, love will
disappear, and Christian pastors, bishops, and priests will become vain
men, completely failing to distinguish the right-hand way from the
left. At that time the morals and traditions of Christians and of the
Church will change. People will abandon modesty, and dissipation will
reign. Falsehood and greed will attain great proportions, and woe to
those who pile up treasures. Lust, adultery, homosexuality, secret
deeds and murder will rule in society. At that future time, due to the
power of such great crimes and licentiousness, people will be deprived
of the grace of the Holy Spirit, which they received in Holy Baptism
and equally of remorse.
The Churches of God will be deprived of God-fearing and pious pastors,
and woe to the Christians remaining in the world at that time; they
will completely lose their faith because they will lack the opportunity
of seeing the light of knowledge from anyone at all. Then they will
separate themselves out of the world in holy refuges in search of
lightening their spiritual sufferings, but everywhere they will meet
obstacles and constraints. And all this will result from the fact that
the Antichrist wants to be Lord over everything and become the ruler of
the whole universe, and he will produce miracles and fantastic signs.
He will also give depraved wisdom to an unhappy man so that he will
discover a way by which one man can carry on a conversation with
another from one end of the earth to the other. At that time men will
also fly through the air like birds and descend to the bottom of the
sea like fish. And when they have achieved all this, these unhappy
people will spend their lives in comfort without knowing, poor souls,
that it is deceit of the Antichrist. And, the impious one! -- he will
so complete science with vanity that it will go off the right path and
lead people to lose faith in the existence of God in three hypostases.
Then the All-good God will see the downfall of the human race and will
shorten the days for the sake of those few who are being saved, because
the enemy wants to lead even the chosen into temptation, if that is
possible... then the sword of chastisement will suddenly appear and
kill the perverter and his servants.
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