The persecution of Christians is more subtle than in Roman times, when it was absolutely clear that you were being killed for your faith. Satan has become reluctant to send throngs of crowned martyrs into heaven, and has instead refined his strategy to where your persecution garners little attention and ends up looking like “love” or “common sense” whereas it is actually a direct attack on Lord Jesus Christ.

In Roman times, Christians were commanded to give fealty to pagan gods, often by placing incense on hot coals within a pagan temple. If they refused, they were tortured and killed. There was no doubt why they were being persecuted, and I imagine there are millions of these martyrs in heaven (one estimate I have heard is 11 million).

Satan’s job is to send souls into hell, not glorify them in heaven, so for these times he has modified his approach. He is disinclined to give anyone the opportunity for a direct confession of the faith that leads to immediate death and glorification. Instead, he persecutes you through his human henchman for any other stated reason besides Christ, but make no mistake that he is behind the persecution and aims for you to compromise your faith in a way that causes you to lose your soul and inspire others to do the same. If you are inhibited to worship Lord Jesus Christ by even one minute due to a government directive or mob action, you are being persecuted, and must see through the false façade to gain courage and make a stand for your faith. Here are the three fake reasons that can be used…

1. Health: “We’re not persecuting you for your love of Lord Jesus Christ, but you’re putting people’s health in danger.”

We saw this vividly with the COVID pandemic, and I must say this was one of Satan’s most clever tricks. His main aim with COVID was to terrorize the world population into taking dangerous black magic vaccines to weaken people’s trust in God or simply cause them to die before repentance. One method to accomplish this is to shut down churches through government mandates that also applied to secular businesses (to help give plausible deniability that the Church is not the main target). Another method is to darken spiritual leaders with fear that venerating icons or communing from a common spoon, key practices of the Orthodox faith, will “put others in danger” and lead to a terrible physical death that is seen as an outcome worse than losing your soul for eternity.

I must remind you that many Christian martyrs died during the Iconoclasm period (8th and 9th centuries), when evil rulers tried to ban icons, and yet in 2020, without a whimper, huge swaths of the Orthodox Church voluntarily removed icons from their churches without any protest. What an incredible feat by Satan! It’s obvious that Satan can “learn” like we can learn, because he tried to remove icons a millennia ago but failed, and here he was able to do it, albeit temporarily, and not a single martyr died for icons and not one Bishop was excommunicated. Within most confessions, he also got them to adopt zany health practices like mask-wearing, standing six feet away from each other, and neurotically applying alcohol to their hands until they’re dry as a bone. I was in the Armenian Church when COVID first hit and a practice called the “Kiss of Peace” was modified to become “The Awkward Bow from Six Feet Away.” The demons had a good laugh.

Bill Gates is already preparing for the next pandemic, and maybe he’s a prophet because he seems to be able to predict the future, so I would expect another health crisis where various Churches will be even more aggressive in modifying practices to the point where essential dogmas are discarded and souls lost by choosing to be a friend of the world instead of Lord Jesus Christ. Woe to those leaders who hurt the Orthodox Church and attack the Body of Christ in the name of going along with a fake pandemic to preserve “health”! Whatever the case, when you are inhibited from going to your church to worship Lord Jesus Christ because of a health scare, you are actually being persecuted for your faith.

“During the [Roman] persecutions Christians dealt with horrific tortures of the body, however there was no interference on the mind or the soul. On the contrary, during the martyrdoms of [the Christians] of the end times we will [also] have interference on the soul and the methods [of torture] will be far more satanic. And this because they [the system of the Antichrist] will introduce inside of you chemical things [mind altering drugs] to paralyze your mind, your will power, will distort your sentiments and will disorient your mind.” —Elder Athanasios Mitilinaios

2. Hate Speech: “We’re not persecuting you for your love of Lord Jesus Christ, but your religious beliefs are hateful and hurting the feelings of disenfranchised groups, especially homosexuals.”

“Hate speech,” a term invented by Jews to control and tyrannize the Western population, may be used in the future against Churches that forbid gay marriage, block boys from attending services in a state of cross-dress, or insist on transgenders to repent from their life of sin. Once the media maligns a Church—and we know that this will mainly happen to the Orthodox Church since most other confessions are going along with the world when it comes to cultural matters—the government may deny their tax-exempt status, pushing parishes into bankruptcy. Or in countries like Europe, they may shut down the Church outright just like how they send German grandmas to jail if they deny the Holocaustâ„¢ over tea and butterplätzchen. Or during a war they may put out an executive order that shuts down a Church by fiat for being a “threat to national security.”

We’re already seeing a shade of the latter with the Church I’m in, the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR). Writers connected to sodomy-loving globalist outfits are painting the Church as an anachronistic home to monsters who are not capable of living a progressive lifestyle in a big multicultural city with gay pride parades. Whatever the case, when your Church is being attacked because of its opinions and hatred of sin, and not necessarily its dogmas or doctrines, it is actually being persecuted for its faith.

“Under the cover of this deceptive, fair-seeming exterior, which is leading many into delusion, there is actually everywhere now taking place a most powerful hidden persecution against Christianity, appearing in the most various forms. This persecution is far more dangerous and terrible than the former open persecution, for it threatens a complete devastation of souls—spiritual death.” —Archbishop Averky

3. Fascism or extremism: “We’re not persecuting you for your love of Lord Jesus Christ, but your Church is actually an operation run by a fascist government or organization that happens to be Orthodox.”

We see this being successfully applied in Ukraine to devastating effect for the flock. All Church activities in the country are in the process of being completely shut down because the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is spiritually connected to the Moscow Patriarchate. The false accusation is that the Moscow Patriarch is an agent of Putin, a realpolitik operation. The truth is that it’s the Church that originated from Saint Vladimir, the baptizer of Russia in 988, who took the faith from the Byzantines as a safe deposit of the teachings of Lord Jesus Christ, with holy sacraments that are necessary for the salvation of our souls. Human beings who are in the Church are sinners and make mistakes, but the Orthodox Church itself is the bedrock of faith in the True God.

How easy will the United States government be able to apply this trick to Churches in the United States? First they will come after the Russians, and then it will be the Serbs since they are brothers of the Russians, and then it will be anyone else with ethnic origins and long beards who don’t support the U.S. government’s foreign policy that is looking more like a scheme of genocide perpetuated by Jews against the world’s goyim. Whatever the case, when your Church is being accused as a “foreign agent” of extremists or fascists, it is actually being persecuted because of its faith.

“…in Pitesti [Romanian communist prison] there was a fight between the spirit of good and the spirit of evil. It was not just the persecution of a regime against some people… It was really the battle between God and the devil. In relation to this, I said in my sermons that the whole history of humanity is a fight between God and the devil, and that our heart is the battleground. But it is not dead ground; it is living ground, and it can decide the victory—whether God or the devil will reign in our hearts…” —Father George Calciu

Conclusion

In modern times, when faith is weak, and people are ready to halt all worship of the Lord because of manufactured scares, Satan’s achievement of getting Churches to modify their practices or close outright is not that impressive. Nonetheless, these closures and blasphemies against the sacraments will hurt those who want to maintain the right faith and participate weekly in church life without first getting permission from secular health authorities who are obviously in bed with those who pay them the most money.

Until you see nationwide repentance and the arrival of martyrs who are willing to die for the fact that their church doors are closed, we will see more attacks by Satan. He will likely use multiple tactics simultaneously to hammer the Churches into submission, demoralize the faithful, and cause them to adopt secular medical practices to the detriment of their souls. God always looks after the zealous, so may our faith be strong enough to be included among His remnant, who will endure and persist until the end no matter the tribulation.

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So true. It seems too easy to get Christians in the West to damn ourselves voluntarily, even cheerfully, because of our complacent love of bourgeois comforts.

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Human beings are inherent manipulators and schemers. That's why there's a whole thing of "putting your best foot forward" in job seeking and early dating. Doesn't need to be taught 99 percent of the time. So it's guaranteed people will carry out their own agenda everywhere they go. We see this very well with our spiral into a police state. People used to be very involved in criminal happenings, now we got the state having complete monopoly. So the agenda switched from justice to control.

Christianity like a lot religions is incompatible with a secular society. That's why our society used to very strict, an inconvenient truth for all the freedom lovers. I think people used to understand that if you give strangers, heretics and outsiders complete autonomy they will quickly start to undermine everything they don't agree with.

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I don't have anything particular to say about the article - it speaks for itself. But I do want to say thank you to Roosh for creating this forum, where believers can exchange thoughts and ideas. It's a useful contribution to the body of Christ.

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Hate Speech: “We’re not persecuting you for your love of Lord Jesus Christ, but your religious beliefs are hateful and hurting the feelings of disenfranchised groups, especially homosexuals.

Is Ancient Faith Ministry still promoting pro-LGBT children authors, and allowing the authors to write on the blog? If so sounds like Ancient Faith Ministry is pro-LGBT.

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I had a faith issue and my mother and I could not take any mRna vaccine. I am thankful for having real life Christian friends and a praying mother who strongly influenced me. That aside from Dr John Campbell, Bitchute, and hearing so many random comments on youtube of people suddenly dying afterwards. Eventally I took a Novovax first dose as it was a traditional vaccine.

However I felt I was demonized for my decision not to take the mRna vaccine despute zealouzly practising social distancing and wearing N95 masks. Its like none of that mattered and you are the enemy if you dont take a shot.

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1. Health: “We’re not persecuting you for your love of Lord Jesus Christ, but you’re putting people’s health in danger.”​

We saw this vividly with the COVID pandemic, and I must say this was one of Satan’s most clever tricks. His main aim with COVID was to terrorize the world population into taking dangerous black magic vaccines to weaken people’s trust in God or simply cause them to die before repentance. One method to accomplish this is to shut down churches through government mandates that also applied to secular businesses (to help give plausible deniability that the Church is not the main target).

The following is an excerpt from an article (20 March 2023) supporting the above observation: Satan's attacks on the Orthodox Church and the weakening of individuals' trust in God. As Roosh mentions, "Woe to those leaders who hurt the Orthodox Church and attack the Body of Christ in the name of going along with a fake pandemic to preserve “health”!

Then came Covid. The OCA in the west was utterly shut down in our diocese by Archbishop Benjamin. Fr David Morrison was perfect in his obedience to Archbishop Benjamin. We in the OCA were told not to celebrate the mysteries and allow access to the Liturgy for the vast majority of our people. That’s what Fr David did. We were told not to visit the sick, anoint the dying in hospitals and nursing homes. That is what Fr David did. We in the Diocese of the West were not allowed by our Archbishop to have direct contact with any of our people for any pastoral reason. This went on for months.

How cruel, not to anoint the dying in hospitals and nursing homes? Spiritual leaders failed and left Christians in the most vulnerable spiritual state: all because of mandates that were based on a fake pandemic. As Christians suffered the medical industry profited.

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The following is an excerpt from an article (20 March 2023) supporting the above observation: Satan's attacks on the Orthodox Church and the weakening of individuals' trust in God. As Roosh mentions, "Woe to those leaders who hurt the Orthodox Church and attack the Body of Christ in the name of going along with a fake pandemic to preserve “health”!

How cruel, not to anoint the dying in hospitals and nursing homes? Spiritual leaders failed and left Christians in the most vulnerable spiritual state: all because of mandates that were based on a fake pandemic. As Christians suffered the medical industry profited.

What's the over/under on the next test? I say 2 years.

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I don't know if this is better or worse, but it seems to be true. Thanks for this article.

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Its like none of that mattered and you are the enemy if you dont take a shot.

Because you are the enemy if you don't take it. Ultimately, life on earth is a spiritual war between good and evil, God and the devil.

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What's the over/under on the next test? I say 2 years.

My guess is less than 18 months. Because there's another election to steal, in a bit over 19 months from now.

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This is sad and a bit almaring.

Christian language will be censored or seen as offensive; with the label Christian Nationalism it will be used to "compromise your faith in a way that causes you to lose your soul and inspire others to do the same."

Below are excerpts from an article titled Leaked Emails Reveal an Anti-tran Holy War.
The whole article is under the spoiler button below to conserve space on this post; and to not give the site clicks.

3. Fascism or extremism: “We’re not persecuting you for your love of Lord Jesus Christ, but ......​

  • The repeated notes about “blessings” and “prayers,” as well as sign-offs like “God bless you” and “Under His wings,” proliferate throughout the emails, which frequently reference explicit religious motivations for targeting trans people.
  • “It is the language of Christian nationalism,” Thomas Lecaque, an associate professor of history at Grand View University focusing on apocalyptic religion and political violence. “It is the language of people who very much believe they are doing God’s will, and it is the language of people who very much believe that they are engaged in a holy war.”
  • As bills passed or failed, the involved parties also imbued their responses with religious language.
  • As a result, contentious cultural and political issues, like drag queen story hours and “critical race theory” are perceived as Satanic. Indeed, the Devil came up in the leaked emails.

Lord mercy on the United States.

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I am curious if there are churches or content creators being silenced for condemning the LGTBQ lifestyle while at the same time loving them as Christ did. Does anyone know of instances where this is happening? I’m not talking about the churches with the rainbow and BLM flags hanging outside.

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I am curious if there are churches or content creators being silenced for condemning the LGTBQ lifestyle while at the same time loving them as Christ did. Does anyone know of instances where this is happening?

God Bless you George Batton.
[sincere] Are you proposing a rhetorical question?
What would cause a loving Christian to be silenced for rebuking sexual immorality?

Should loving Christians (especially priests) not be rebuking the sexual immorality of the LGTB lifestyle (behaviour)?
To love our neighbor, as Christ did, is to warn [of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable] to his or her neighbor's salvation.

Sin has consequences, and through sincere repentance we ask for God's forgiveness; and the strength through Jesus Christ to change our sinful and offensive behaviours. It would be unloving not to preach sexual immorality having no consequences, right?

Does anyone know of instances where this is happening?

Sounds as if the instances would be a private matter between /among the individual(s) involved; and God.
Unfortunately, there are more instances publicly available where the sexual immorality of the LGTB community is not being rebuked by loving Christians. But rather used to affirm LGTB acceptance.

There was a WI faculty member and priest who was interviewed on Ancient Faith Ministries, he made a statement about his homosexual friends saying that he loves them and that he hopes they are happy, and the rest he leaves to God (maybe he prays for his friends?).

Sincere question: should loving Christians accept the behaviour, pray for the individual, and just wish for happiness over salvation? Personally, it makes me sad to hear this coming from a priest. But I can understand working at a University there is an expectation to be tolerant of sexual immorality, and not lovingly rebuking sin.

Respectfully yours in Christ.

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More oppression of the Eastern Orthodox in Ukraine, by Zelensky:

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More oppression of the Eastern Orthodox in Ukraine

Khazaria and Lebensraum have the same goal.

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Is Ancient Faith Ministry still promoting pro-LGBT children authors, and allowing the authors to write on the blog? If so sounds like Ancient Faith Ministry is pro-LGBT.

Reminder to support alternative platforms such as Orthodox Sentinel Radio, Uncut Mountain Press, or directly buy or consume content from good monasteries such as St. Anthony's Monastery or Jordanville.

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Thank you for writing this Roosh. Your spiritual clarity grows with every article. Sometimes it takes us sinners to reveal the things which are truly hidden, for we know the lie and decay of darkness and are forward in our repentance.

It's too bad the Catholic western counterpart is not as strong as it once was to repel this blasphemous madness as it once surely did. I would still seek to revive the old clerical dogmas prior to the Second Vatican Council, were there a way. The Catholic teachings the last 60 years have all been a derisive, heretical blow to the connection between the congregations and Our Father in heaven. After Pius' death in 1958, the Church was gutted from the inside out. The Orthodox church Leaders were able to survive Bolshevism for four generations and the loss of their Czar, millions of their own kind systematically murdered, and outlast the degeneracy and infiltration which destroyed Catholicism. I think the east was always wiser to the inside threat than the west, and this is why the west fell first, with some significant schemes involved. Not because Orthodoxy is right and Catholicism is wrong, but because the enemy seeks to destroy that which is pure and historically connected to Christ. The goal of these coming wars is to decimate Orthodoxy because the demonic international jewry knows it will not capitulate.

So to that I say, no capitulation! The devil's human minions might be enjoying their sinful lives, but lets make them work extra hard so that they get no respite or relief in this life, or the next. I am not a warmonger, but the body of Christ must be prepared for total war with these anti-Christ systems. Total war means every man, woman, and child and resource available must be ready for spiritual, psychological, and physical warfare in the coming years. We have a long way to go yet, but our joys in death and resurrection will overpower our lust for comfort and life. The enemy is not prepared to go hard in the physical, to get gritty. They want the highs and softness of pleasure and hedonism, all weak and soulless pursuits. While we may not achieve victory on the physical field of battle always, it is in the faith and the soul where our eternal victory is guaranteed as long as we never capitulate.

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the degeneracy and infiltration which destroyed Catholicism.

We (meaning the RCC) haven't died, and we aren't going to. Although it will look grim (even more than it already does), in the end the immaculate heart of Mary will triumph.

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