11/28/13 Simply Orthodox ☦ - Selected prophecies of St. Ephraim the Syrian on the Last Days simplyorthodox.tumblr.com/post/7578416211 1/4 Simply Orthodox ☦ This is the blog of an Eastern Orthodox Christian girl from Greece. Welcome to my Orthodox Christian corner! :) Here you can find interesting texts and quotes about Orthodoxy. I made this blog because I would like everyone to discover the Orthodox Christianity. This is the ultimate purpose of this blog: to share my faith! I ask forgiveness if in this blog any of my passions are acting, hindering the Grac e of the Holy S pirit because of my sins. Feel free to send me any prayer requests or anything you want. God bless you all! May the Holy Spirit enlighten you always! -- PS. I don't own any of the photos I post here. The majority of them are from sites like weheartit.com. Though generally I try to post the sourse of the photos I post, I don't want to break copyright, so if I have used your picture/text without your permission, please let me know and I'll be more than happy to add credit or to delete it. You can e-mail me at anytime here: simply orthodox(at)y ahoo(dot)c om (New e-mail address) -- [The photo I use as a background is called "Rose petals" by thefourthofapril (Flickr). The photo I use in tumblr's "Spotlight" belongs to Matthew Venus.] ☦ ICXCNIKA ☦ ---------------------------------- Dear v isitor of this blog, I have no financial, or other profits of this humble blog. The only thing I am asking you is to say a small prayer for me to Jesus from your heart for the salvation of my soul. So, please stop for some seconds and pray for me, the sinner. If you are an Orthodox Christian, please light a candle for me. Thank you, may God bless you... ---------------------------------- JULY 13TH 1:34 PM 4 NOTES SOURCE REBLOG Selected prophecies of St. Ephraim the Syrian on the Last Days (words in quotes are from St. Ephraim, other words are from the author to give context) St. Ephraim says: “At the time when the serpent [the Antichrist] shall come, there will be no calm on the earth; there will be great affliction, consternation, disorder, death and famine unto all the ends of the earth.” "He will come as one humble, meek, a hater (as he will say of himself) of unrighteousness, despising idols, giving preference to piety, good, a lover of the poor, beautiful to an extreme degree, constant, gracious to all… He will not accept bribes, speak with anger, show a gloomy countenance, but with a decorous exterior he will take to deceiving the world, until he has become king" "When the many classes and the people see such virtues and power, suddenly all will conceive the same thought, and with great joy will proclaim him king, saying among themselves: ‘Can another man so good and righteous be found?’" "[Christ] will not leave the human race without His preaching, in order that all will be without answer at the Judgment" [The Antichrist] will show partiality towards Christians, “promising them every sort of protection in return for their acknowledgment of his leadership.” "Those not comprehending Christianity will see in him a representative and champion of the true religion and will join with him" Those who remain faithful to Christ will incite his wrath "and then this serpent will become proud in his heart and vomit forth his bitterness" Such will be the tribulation of that time that "all men will call blessed the dead and those already buried before this great sorrow came upon the earth". Then the faithful remnant of Christians “will flee into the wilderness and mountains and caves—praying day and night in great humility.., that they may be delivered from the serpent,.. And this will be granted them from the holy God”. "For by permission of the Holy God, [Antichrist] will receive the power to deceive the world, because impiety will have filled the earth, and everywhere every sort of horror will be c ommitted" "A courageous soul will be required, that will be able to keep its life in the midst of these temptations, For if a man is proved to be even a little careless, he will easily be exposed to assault and will be c aptured by the signs of the ev il and c unning beast" (exc erpted from: http://www.roca.org/OA/51/51g.htm ) #EA RT H #EN D #GO D #JE SU S #LA ST D A Y S #LA ST J UD GM EN T #PROPHECIES #RELIGION #WORLD #SAINT EPHRAIM THE SYRIAN SIMPLYORTHODOX POSTED THIS Follow simplyorthodox