Do not dare to raise your weak hand to stop the elemental tide of apostasy. Avoid it, protect yourself from it, and that is enough for you. Get to know the spirit of the times, study it so you can avoid its influence whenever possible. — St. Ignatii Brianchaninov
It is my thinking that the US represents the global political system of the apocalypse, with its tendrils or heads as Israel, Turkey, the UK, and the states of Western Europe, and having a body of lesser heads, including its client states. I also think that a globally united Christianity will be made of Orthodox Churches, Rome, and Protestant groups, and that this new entity will be an apostasy, and will seek then, having united ‘all Christians’, to unite all Faiths in some fashion, in a kind of temple of all Faith, though we can scarcely conceive of such a practical possibility now. I think, finally, that a new global economic system will be proposed and followed, as the savior of the global market. I think these things will combine into a kind of new babel, as a unified effort of man. I think these things are preceded by terrible natural disasters, which I think in the classic pattern of judgment includes climate change as a result of man’s sinful behavior, and a campaign of perpetual warfare. I think they will be succeeded by the apocalypse. …