Satan cannot Himself appear............
The Antichrist
by Archpriest Father Boris Molchanoff
The "gates" of hell" signifies not only the forces of hell, but in general staff of Hell's power. Their most important meeting is dedicated to
developing a plan for a general battle with the Church. The Church and Hell are represented as two warring powers. And in this war with Hell,
according to Christ's words, the Church will remain invincible.
Hell's war plan with the Church is called the "Mystery of Iniquity" in the Holy Scriptures (2 Thessalonians 2:8). The iniquity has been working
for centuries and will have its culmination in the appearance of the Antichrist ( 2 Thessalonians 2:8). The Antichrist can come only as a result of
universal Apostasy, that is, the abjuration of the people from God and His paths, when God's grace will withdraw from the people.
"And in the latter times of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark
sentences, shall stand up." (Daniel 8:23)
"Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders...." (2 Thessalonians 2:9)
All of the evil in its fullest strength which human nature can accept and endure will be concentrated in the person of the Antichrist. Thousands of
years were required to develop and perfect the kind of human seed that was required to receive the purest most perfect Fruit of the human tree in the
person of the Most Blessed Virgin. Comparably, for the appearance of the most depraved fruit, capable of containing within itself all Satanic malice,
an entire line of human generations will be demanded in the direction of greatest corruption and defilement of human nature, based upon mad hatred
towards Christ and war against His Church. "It can be admitted," says Pro. Belyaeff, "that innate and acquired evil, gradually accumulating in a
long line of ancestors of the Antichrist, transmitted with each new generation, will reach such a degree of force in the Antichrist himself, which
human nature is capable of containing, revealing and enduring. The evil which lives in mankind, will reach the highest limit of its development in
him." (Godlessness And The Antichrist, Vol. 1. p. 193).
heres the link...
www.fr-d-serfes.org...
the above is actually very old.......
early as the 4th century ,much was written on the end of days.......
heres anther link on the abomination of desolation.........
www.stmarycoptorthodox.org...
www.stmarycoptorthodox.org...
if you go to google.......
search St hyppolitus....lived in the 4th century
St ephreim .....3rd 4th century.......
Fr seraphim rose (Eugene Rose.)...an American who became Christian......... wrote quite alot on the Apostasy of the end of the
world............
Nostradamus did prophecize, but in whos name did he do it???
[Edited on 16-3-2003 by helen]