**After reading this letter please “forward” it to your family and friends who you think might be interested.** Greetings friends and family, I am including in this letter an article I found in “The Moscow Times” of all places.  I do not know, nor have I ever met the author.  The information found in Paul Ladouceur’s eye-opening article will not make for “breaking news” on Fox News or CNN, but I assure you that what he has to say about the history of the Russian people, President Putin, and the Russian Orthodox Church will reveal a lot to you about what is happening in this crazy almost insane world of religion and politics. The fallen angels under Satan who rule all the nations have created this craziness as they hate all men and women, and the God of Israel who created everything.  They want to kill as many people as they can before our Lord Jesus returns to imprison them in the Bottomless Pit. When I first studied and learned about the term “Manifest Destiny” years ago the information mostly related to America’s place in Biblical prophecy.  Most American Christians today are unaware that the Christian colonists coming from Europe hundreds of years ago believed in the false teaching of post-millennialism where the bodily return of our Lord Jesus Christ couldn’t happen until Christendom and its government subdued and took control of all nations.  Many early Americans believed and taught that America was called and chosen by God to establish his Kingdom in all nations and then Jesus could come.  It was their “Manifest Destiny”. Paul’s article clearly reveals that Russia shares a very similar “Manifest Destiny” belief as America.  In my last letter sent out to you I emphasized how the Jewish prophet, Daniel, was given by God visions of the last days on this war-torn planet.  He saw two “little horns” or nations that will compete for world empire or dominion among men.  Those two nations Daniel saw were America (Daniel 7:8, 9:27) and Russia (Daniel 8: 9,23, 11:40-45). Today in Ukraine these two nations are bringing us all to the brink of a nuclear World War III all in the name of Jesus, believe it or not!  However, events will take place so that instead of destroying the planet with fallout, America and Russia will make peace and the world will rejoice.  Daniel saw this!  The American and Russian Presidents, the Pope of Roman Catholicism, and the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church will proudly declare the long-awaited Kingdom of Christendom has now begun, the Church has been reunited. The Jews of Israel, Jerusalem, and their desired Temple will be center stage in those days. All of this means that Christians in America will have to first remove the Godless immoral forces (World Economic Forum) that have dominated this last generation.  It amazes me that America today has become what it once despised and fought against, and Russia is returning to its Christian roots and now able to powerfully reinsert itself among the nations. If you read Paul’s article you saw how he stated that Russia’s coming together of the Orthodox Church and the Government will not bring Godliness, but the rise of antichrists.  He is right and the same will happen in America.  Can you now see that both America and Russia and their false militant forms of Christendom will only lead to the rise of the coming Antichrist?  How blinded these men are and how desperately they need to repent and be born again.  Our Lord Jesus said that in the last days “many will come in my name, saying I am Christ; and shall deceive many”, Matthew 24:5.  Russia and America are both following what the Bible calls the “great harlot” of Revelation 17, a false and counterfeit Christian system.  The New Testament is filled with warnings not to follow false teachers who profess “another Jesus, another gospel”, 2 Corinthians 11:1-15. Please visit our website and send an email.  Thank you for reading this and I hope to hear from you soon.  Again, if you are interested in the questions above, please consider reading the articles “Then Comes the Fire”, “The Judgment Chronicles” and “The Fundamentalist” posted on our website.  For details concerning my military background during the Vietnam era, please read the articles “Vietnam: The Manchu’s of Charlie Company”, “Pacifist, Patriot, or Pilgrim” and “Moved with Compassion”.  Just click on the website link below and click on “Articles”. Sincerely, Jack Babylon the Great is Falling

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Orthodoxy and Russia’s Manifest Destiny Russky mir is Russia’s new version of manifest destiny. By Paul Ladouceur Several times Russian church and state leaders have been enraptured by the idea that the Russian people and its political expression have a special mission or “manifest destiny” to accomplish. Successive iterations of this “Russian idea” reflect a growing convergence of religion, ethnicity, and nationalism with state power into an explosive secular ideology bent on imposing its worldview within Russia, surrounding countries, the Orthodox Church, and worldwide. The first iteration became prominent after the union Council of Ferrera between the Roman and the Orthodox Churches in 1439 and the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453. These two events precipitated the emergence of a sense of the role and responsibility of Muscovy as the spiritual and geo-political center of Orthodoxy, captured in the epithet the “Third Rome”: the first Rome had fallen into heresy and schism with the filioque and the papacy; Constantinople, the Second Rome, deviated from Orthodoxy by union with Latins and came under Turkish rule as a divine punishment, thereby losing its claim to pre-eminence in Orthodoxy. Muscovy, having rejected the union with Rome and freed itself from the Mongols, thus became the Third Rome of Christendom. The self-proclamation of the autocephaly of the Russian Church in 1448 and the election of the first patriarch of Moscow in 1589 reinforced the Third Rome theory. Although the idea of Muscovy as the Third Rome was not a dominant theme in subsequent centuries, it still featured in more traditionalist Russian circles; the Russian Church emphasized the universal nature of the Church over its particular ethnic or national expressions. But the rise of nationalism in the 19th century assaulted this universalist perspective, and the idea of a messianic role for Russia and the Russian Church resurfaced dramatically, captured in the epithet “Holy Russia”: the divinely-endowed destiny of Russia founded on the preservation and expansion of Orthodoxy, under the guidance of the twin institutions, the monarchy and the Russian Orthodox Church. In this vision, the tsar was expected to be “an apostle-like ruler,” with St. Vladimir as the prototype, leading his people to Christianity. This required the Church to support autocracy, which it did faithfully until the revolution. The Holy Russia theme was marked by key public events manifesting the union of ruler, church, and people: the 900th anniversary of the baptism of Rus, celebrated in Kyiv in 1888; the 500th anniversary of the death of St. Sergius in 1892; the canonization of St. Seraphim of Sarov in 1903. A more political variation of the Holy Russia theme was the imperial motto “Orthodoxy, Autocracy and Nationality,“ and its later mutation “Faith, Tsar and Fatherland.” These socio-political motifs marked a departure from ecclesiological universalism, towards an identification of Orthodoxy with Russian nationalism and the imperial state, an “Orthodox patriotism,” seen as an alternative to modern secular nationalism. The third manifestation, perhaps surprisingly, was the communist vision of an ideal socialist society. As an atheistic philosophy, communism might appear far removed from the religious and Orthodox content of the Third Rome and Holy Russia, but communism is often considered a secular, atheistic religion, with its inspired founders, sacred books, saints worthy of veneration, and rituals; an abstract “humanity” compensated for the previous theistic content of the Russian idea. Russian Marxists saw their mission in much the same way as their Orthodox predecessors: to imbue all Russian society with their socio-political vision, and, beyond Russia itself, to neighboring lands, beginning with those which were part of the Russian Empire in 1914. The Red Army imposed Bolshevik rule throughout the collapsed Empire; forcible reinsertion into the Soviet Union was successful in Ukraine, Belorussia, Georgia, Central Asia, and Siberia (but failed in Finland and the Baltic States). In the interwar period, the universal application of Marxist philosophy was visible in the activities of the Communist International (Comintern or Third International), established to promote world communism, headed by the Soviet Union. After nearly collapsing from the assault of Hitler’s armies in the opening phase during World War II, the Soviet Union gained the upper hand on the battlefield as the Red Army marched through territories initially conquered by the Germans, then into neighboring countries to the West, all the way to Berlin, allowing the Soviets to impose communist-led governments throughout Eastern Europe—only Finland escaped. Flushed with its military, geopolitical and diplomatic successes in the war and immediately afterwards, the Soviet Union attempted to extend its tentacles even further, into Western Europe (where it was stopped by the formation of NATO), Latin America, and Africa, with some success. This dismal history highlights Russian-dominated communist universalist ideology as a secular variation of the “Russian idea,” that the Russian people and its political expression have a special mission to bring their vision of the future of humanity to the entire world. Here, this mission is not divinely-ordained, but self-appointed, at best dictated by an imperative arising from humanity itself – however inhuman its actual implementation was. The downfall of communism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union left an existential and ideological void: Russia no longer had a self-identity, a national purpose, an imperative world role. It was in this void that the “Russian idea” resurfaced in its earlier theistic and specifically Orthodox iterations of the Third Rome and Holy Russia. The Russky mir (Russian world) ideology, articulated by senior church officials, aims at extending the worldwide influence of both Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church. The contours of the Russky mir doctrine were spelled out in an address by Patriarch Kirill on 3 November 2009 at the Third Assembly of the Russkii Mir Foundation; Kirill mentioned God only three times and Christ not at all, while repeating 38 times the phrase Russky mir. The contours of Russky mir ideology and its theological weaknesses are well known. But there are important nuances among these iterations, the acquisition of increasingly dangerous mutations, especially with the expansion of state power. The Third Rome concept was largely ecclesial, and only loosely connected with the pre-modern state. The Holy Russia concept had a more political connotation, a unity of church and state to promote internal cohesion in an increasingly fragmented and restless empire, in a desperate attempt to hold back the forces of modernity; still, the notion was basically inward-looking. Although Holy Russia retained a powerful religious component, nationalism and autocracy were equally prominent ideological features. Under the Russky mir banner, Putin and Kirill are instilling into the Russian soul anti-Christian values far more successfully than Lenin and Stalin ever did, the cultivation of profound hatred, aggressiveness and violence against all enemies — those who refuse to submit to the personal and geopolitical ambitions of the Russian State and Church. The communist version of a special Russian mission stripped away its previously religious content, replacing it with secular, atheistic and humanist philosophy. The full force of this universalist philosophy was felt after World War II, as the Soviet Union expanded its power and control over the lands newly-incorporated into the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and worldwide. The notion of a divinely-appointed mission of the Russian people and the Russian State is thus deeply engrained in Russian consciousness, and it did not require much effort on the part of Patriarch Kirill and Vladimir Putin to re-awaken it in support of the ambition of the Russian Church to dominate world Orthodoxy, and of Vladimir Putin’s personal and geopolitical ambitions, especially the restoration of Russia’s territorial limits to those of the former Soviet Union. In practice in official state discourse, the religious component of Russky mir is decidedly secondary, far behind naked Russian nationalism and expansionism. In this final mutation of the Russian idea, its promoters have learned from the Bolshevik consolidation of power after the Revolution and from World War II that persuasion and propaganda are of little use in spreading their ideas and ideology, that the only truly effective way is the use of force, brute, unrestrained military force. Under the Russky mir banner, Putin and Kirill are instilling into the Russian soul anti-Christian values far more successfully than Lenin and Stalin ever did, the cultivation of profound hatred, aggressiveness and violence against all enemies — those who refuse to submit to the personal and geopolitical ambitions of the Russian State and Church. Whether Russia or Ukraine “wins” the war, one thing is certain: Putin and Kirill are fostering something very ugly in the Russian spirit, a spirit of ethno-nationalist hostility, aggressiveness, and violence, transparent under a thin veneer of Orthodoxy. Relaying aggressive state propaganda has replaced the Gospel as the prime message of the Russian Church. Even after Putin and Kirill are gone, Orthodoxy and the world will likely have to deal with this ugliness for long decades. The temptation to nationalism, especially ethno-nationalism, is a persisting canker in the Orthodox Church. The Orthodox Church has a long way to go to recognize and to eliminate the evil of ethno-nationalism in its midst. In the mid-19th century, popular imagination in the United States was captivated by the idea that it was American manifest destiny to expand westward across the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, to the Pacific. Russky mir is Russia’s manifest destiny with its call to Russian domination under president and patriarch in Orthodoxy, Europe and the world, the latest and least Christian iteration of the “Russian idea.” Ukraine is the first major victim of this manifest destiny. This article was originally published in Public Orthodoxy. The views expressed in opinion pieces do not necessarily reflect the position of The Moscow Times. Paul Ladouceur Paul Ladouceur is Adjunct Professor, Orthodox School of Theology at Trinity College (University of Toronto) and Professeur associé, Faculté de théologie et de sciences religieuses, Université Laval (Québec).

2-10-2021 Days of Daniel’s 70^th Week **After reading this letter please “forward” it to your family and friends who you think might be interested.** Greetings friends, The Jewish prophet of Israel, Daniel, was shown by the Lord the traumatic events that would take place at what we call the “end of the age”.  Many of the New Agers who see these things are gleeful that their long awaited Golden Age is about to be birthed in the world.  And more and more people are today wondering if the nations are racing towards a climactic battle due to the world wide pandemic caused by the China Virus and the obvious fraud and corruption of last November’s Presidential election. Everyone knows that election was stolen from President Trump and the right-wing patriots by the left-wing socialists in league with their communist friends from China.  Will this theft stand or will right-wing conservatives try to somehow overturn what happened?  Or will they wait until the next election?  What does all this mean spiritually and prophetically, and what things did Daniel see?  To put it simply, he saw the rise of the Antichrist, the coming Messiah of the New Agers, the Communists, the Capitalists, and the Constitutionalists! We should all remember that whoever occupies the White House instantly has in his hand the greatest sword of war this world has ever seen.  The White House is the seat of the coming Antichrist.  Will it be President Biden, having a sword in one hand and an olive branch in the other, who comes to the United Nations to restore order among the nations and establish the peace of the promised Kingdom of God on the Earth? Whether he is or not just know this; the raging political-religious battle between the left and right wings of America’s Eagle has a direct bearing on the position and power of the United Nations organization headquartered in New York. If the left-wing has its way, America will submit and surrender its power to the United Nations in order to establish world dominion and peace.  If the right-wing prevails, America will stand alone with its superior economic and military strength, convincing the United Nations to follow their lead in establishing the dominion of the Kingdom of Heaven as they understand it. So we can clearly see there is already a New World Order in place ruled by the fallen angels under Satan that is just waiting for the “outcome” of the war between the socialist liberals and constitutional conservatives.  What we don’t yet know is whether the Antichrist will be a communist or a capitalist, or a combination of both. For those who have yet to be saved from their sin nature remember this, the combined power of the precious blood and second coming of Jesus Christ is the “only” permanent solution to the death and destruction that men inflict upon one another to the hideous delight of Satan and his fallen angels, the masters of human manipulation. The triune God who created and loves us wants us to experience sorrow of a Godly kind that works repentance unto the salvation of our heart, mind, and body, 2 Corinthians 7:10.  He will replace our genuine sorrow with his joy through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit surrounding our newly created and circumcised heart!  Then we will desire to obey the God of Israel because we love him, knowing that he first loved us and sent his Son to save us from our sin nature and the bondage of our fallen angel masters. Below I have copied the Prophecy Timeline from our website that outlines the coming days of Daniel’s 70th week.  It is a week of seven years or 2520 days.  As I said in the beginning of this letter Daniel was shown how the “end times” would be fulfilled and remember this:  The judgments of God upon the nations will not begin until he removes from this Earth those who have been born again.  This is called the Rapture. Please visit our website and send an email.  Thank you for reading this and I hope to hear from you soon.  Again, if you are interested in the questions above, please consider reading the articles “Then Comes the Fire”, “The Judgment Chronicles” and “The Fundamentalist” posted on our website.  For details concerning my military background during the Vietnam era, please read the articles “Vietnam: The Manchu’s of Charlie Company”, “Pacifist, Patriot, or Pilgrim” and “Moved with Compassion”.  Just click on the website link below and click on “Articles”. Sincerely, Jack 8-03-2020 Remember the Two Headed Snake Greetings friends and family, I ordinarily do not interject myself among friends when it comes to politics and religion, but lately it is becoming exceedingly difficult.  I have a different take and view things from a different angle, so please consider what I am saying in this letter. Whether this Corona virus disaster is a “trial run” or the beginning of the “last days” on this war-torn planet I do not know.  Similarly, I do not know if the current wave of racial rioting coming from the communists and socialists in America is part of a larger world-wide plot or not.  It very well might be.  But everyone I talk to is saying the same thing:  “Something is happening that makes no sense whatsoever”. Do you believe in angels both good and fallen, with Satan leading the fallen ones? I wrote to some of you earlier about the two-headed snake that is Satan’s political-economic-religious “world system” of institutions that rule all of the nations, sadly including America.  This God is allowing until he sends the Lord Jesus Christ to assume his position as King of kings and Lord of lords on earth.  Jesus is coming back to send these fallen angels led by Satan into the Bottomless Pit of Hell where they belong.  Satan wants to take as many human beings as he can with him when he is locked up by the Lord.  Lies and deception, coupled with his hatred for all men everywhere, is the motive that drives him. Remember that one head represents communism and socialism that rules in many nations, including communist China which sent this virus around the world:  The other head represents capitalism, political freedom, and democracy that rules in the others in some form or another.  On the surface one head looks ugly and evil, and the other head looks right and Godly, but when closely investigated both reject the bloody atoning cross of our Lord Jesus, his resurrection, his offer of salvation from our sin nature through repentance and faith, and his imminent bodily return to this earth to set up his government. We also know there are true followers of Jesus living within both heads in all nations who have been freed from the spiritual grip of the two-headed snake.  Their allegiance, citizenship, and heart is in the Kingdom of Heaven.  Ask yourself this question, what do the deceived and deluded followers of both heads have in common?  Answer; they all are people that Jesus Christ loves and wants to save from their sin nature.  He loves them all, both sides, and is calling each one to come out of their political-religious delusion before the soon coming day of judgment. Again, are the anarchists of Antifa and Black Lives Matter, along with other revolutionary groups, working in conjunction with communist China to bring down America? Are we now seeing the Satanic led positioning of both heads to ready them for war?  After all, the hatred between both heads is growing with great fever is it not?  Who will win and then offer the infamous Antichrist as the savior of the world who will bring order out of chaos? Your brother and friend, Jack Greetings family and friends, After re-reading my article, Babylon’s Final Fall, written and posted to our website in February 2003, I decided to send it out to you one more time.  As you will see it is still very relevant today some fifteen years later.  When I wrote it back then it caused great emotions in my heart as the subject matter, America’s destruction, did not bring warm and fuzzy feelings to my soul.  But I knew it had to be said and sent no matter how many friends I lost. I realized then and now that most Americans, and especially those who claim to follow Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, don’t want to read and hear that their nation is coming under divine judgment from the God of Heaven.  This “bury your head in the sand” attitude reflects the “pride of life” sin the Apostle John warns Christians about in his letters.  Christendom in America from its foundation has forgotten or never understood that “all nations” are under the control of Satan and his fallen angels (temporarily allowed by God) until the second coming of our Lord Jesus. Moreover, most in Christendom don’t believe these fallen angels work through the infamous “sin nature” that plagues all men.  Worse than that, the very thought of being a sinner, is negative thinking to many who name Jesus as Lord.  That hurts to even say such a thing but it is true none the less.  Sadly, those few who still acknowledge the sin nature inherent in all men have changed the definition of sin and actually teach doctrines that keep men obedient to the sin nature rather than freeing them from it. There are three obvious examples of this to those who are interested.  First, American Christians are taught from birth that militant patriotic pride (the pride of life) is a good and Godly thing to possess, even to the point of killing the enemies of the nation in so-called just wars.  There is no such thing for Christians as Just Wars until Jesus returns to make war against the nations, which includes America who is Babylon the Great.  Keeping this doctrinal heresy in one’s heart grieves the Spirit of God who is trying to remove the control of the “pride of life” that is a core ingredient of the human sin nature. This same principle applies to the popular Prosperity and Psychology Gospels which are the other two examples of keeping alive the sin nature (love of money and love of self) rather than freedom from it. As a born again Christian who spent seven years as a commissioned officer in America’s army, I know how difficult it is for military men who love Jesus to come to the truth that we have all been deceived. America is falling deeper into its political delusions and most people in this nation have joined forces with either the liberal left-wing or conservative right-wing, both of which make shaky claims to following God.  While I would have more in agreement with the right-wing and have more friends and family in this camp, I still believe that both political movements are just two heads of the same political-religious snake.  For both movements have rejected the second coming of our Lord Jesus as the only hope for peace among the nations.  At his coming Jesus will imprison Satan and his fallen angels freeing mankind from his deception and corruption for 1000 years. Remember, the only way to be part of our Lord’s coming Kingdom on Earth is to repent of your sins, seek forgiveness from God, and trust in the shed blood of Jesus as atonement for your sin as he instantly creates within you a new born again nature.  Please give some thought and prayer to our Lord over this cover letter and my article of fifteen years ago.  I hope we can remain friends and loving family members as I once again lovingly offer you a very hard pill to swallow. Your eternal brother in Jesus, Jack www.babylonthegreatisfalling.net

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Babylon´s Final Fall 02-01-2003 As we watch the violent religious drama of the Middle East unfold, centered on the ancient struggle between Israel and her Arab neighbors, many bible prophecy teachers are also proclaiming the imminent and sudden end of America as we know it. They say with America’s demise the infamous Antichrist will then arise in Europe or the Middle East to bring peace to Israel and the world. Some say that America is not mentioned in bible prophecy, so it must be destroyed prior to the rise of the Antichrist. However, by saying this they are acknowledging that America is presently the dominant power of this world system. Some are saying that Osama and Saddam have already placed suitcase size nuclear bombs, obtained from Russia, in many of America’ major cities. One prophecy website even predicts the next 911 will be the nuclear destruction of Phoenix. They say all these hidden bombs will be detonated at some point after America invades Iraq, thereby using “self defense” as the rallying cry for the world’s Islamic people to make war on Israel and America. Are these teachers correct? Is America in bible prophecy? Is America Babylon the Great? If so, when will she destroyed? We all know that if many of America’s major cities were destroyed by nuclear weapons, the fallout would spread across the nation killing millions, and effectively end America’s power grip on the world. However, these prophecy teachers fail to take into account that if America is suddenly attacked like that, the President would make every Arab Islamic capital and Moscow a nuclear wasteland in retaliation. This all out nuclear war would not only end America’s role as the world’s leader, but end the world as we know it. I have written before that the day will come to pass that a limited nuclear exchange would take place on the Earth when the Russian-Arab armies invade Israel, igniting the third world war. This invasion will take place after the treacherous and deceptive peace treaty the Islamic world makes with Israel and America, Revelation 6:1-4, Daniel 8:25, 9:27. This is when all out nuclear war becomes a nightmarish possibility. But the risen Jesus Christ, the God of Israel, will cause the nuclear exchange to cease by supernaturally destroying, with angelic fire from the heavens, the Russian-Arab armies in the mountains of Israel. For if he did not intervene the entire human race would perish, Ezekiel 38:22-23, Revelation 8:7, Matthew 24:21-22. Although it is possible for some kind of weapon of mass destruction to be detonated in America, which would be used by the President to solidify his international power base and to justify more attacks on Islamic terrorists and their host nations, America’s final fall from power and world dominance will not occur until the last days of God’s judgment on the nations. As a matter of prophetic fact, America will remain the greatest, richest nation on Earth during this judgment period known as Daniel’s 70th Week. For Jesus Christ will reserve the final fall of America, Babylon the Great, for himself. He does not require the evil services of Islamic terrorists or the nuclear might of Russia to accomplish his plans. In a strange and ironic way, America will remain the lone superpower right up until the final days of Daniel’s 70th Week. Upon seeing the defeat of Israel and these deadly fires from the heavens destroying the Russian-Islamic forces, the great false church or harlot that dwells in America will initially reassure the President that because terrible death and destruction has befallen Israel and other nations, and not America, proves that God has destined America to be his chosen people, protecting them from the evil of the enemies of democracy and political freedom. They will proudly announce that God has forgiven America of its sins that caused the judgment of September 11. This delusion and blindness to the truth is the result of teaching the corrupted patriotic, psychology, and prosperity gospel to the American people in conjunction with a distorted understanding of the end time biblical prophecies. Daniel’s 70th Week of 2520 days begins with America establishing political, economic and religious peace in the Middle East, highlighted by the agreement to rebuild Israel’s Temple, Daniel 9:27, Revelation 6:2. Daniel’s week ends with the destruction of America from coast to coast, and the triumphant return of the Lord Jesus Christ to establish true peace and goodwill on Earth for one thousand years, Daniel 2:44-45, Jeremiah 25:26, Revelation 18, 19. As the 70th Week draws down to its final days, the God of Israel has prepared three final knockout blows for America. I say this with immense sorrow, for no follower of Jesus Christ enjoys watching people perish. Like our Lord, we want all people to come to repentance, that none perish. For we all have sinned against God and deserve his wrath upon us. But we must keep in mind that our Lord has given the nations 2000 years to make up their minds who they want to serve, Jesus Christ or mammon (money and self). It will be made very clear at that time to those who have rejected the returning Jesus Christ, to follow a false counterfeit of him, that they have consciously and deliberately rejected the prophecy of his imminent bodily return to establish his kingdom. The seal of this rejection will be the loyalty mark of the President, Revelation 13:16-18. Even the angels of God will openly appear, warning everyone not to receive the mark, that Jesus is alive and coming, Revelation 14:8-11. In the final days, at the time of the 7th Bowl judgment poured out by God’s angel, the first of three lethal blows on America will come to pass. Read carefully the following scripture: Revelation 18:8-10….”Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine, and she shall be utterly burned with fire; for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour is thy judgment come.” We see here the complete and utter destruction of America’s political and economic foundations by angelic fire from the heavens, much like that which befell Sodom and Gomorrah, Genesis 19:24-25. America’s cities, which housed the abortion mills, the decadent homosexual lifestyle, the military fortresses, and the businessmen who were filled with covetousness and greed, will in one hour be burning out of control. No city will escape untouched by God’s holy angels. At some point after the devastating fires, those who have survived by fleeing the cities, will tremble in fear and horror, as the second blow is struck upon America. Again, read carefully this scripture: Revelation 16:17-19….”And the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, and so great. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell; and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.” The ground will shake beneath the feet of every human being on Earth. An earthquake of unprecedented magnitude, the “big one” many have been predicting for years will finally come to pass. It will level the charred remains of America’s cities and all the cities of the nations will be damaged. I believe the epi-center of this earthquake will be in America, thereby causing greater destruction. The land mass of America will be split and divided into three pieces, with bodies of water in between. As a result of this gigantic earthquake, the entire planet will undergo changes as mountains are flattened and islands are moved out of their place. In other words, God is going to re-configure the continents again, Genesis 10:25. The few Americans who have survived these first two blows will not have much time to regroup, for the final third blow will soon finish them off. Again, I want all to know how hard it is to write these words, for all of my family and friends live here in America, and not all love the Lord Jesus Christ. Read carefully these scriptures: Revelation 18:21….”And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city, Babylon, be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.” Jeremiah 51:41-43….”How is Sheshach taken! And how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! How is Babylon become an horror among the nations. The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves. Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land in which no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass by it.” John the apostle is shown by vision an angel casting a great stone from the heavens, hitting the sea in such a way that gigantic waves will completely cover the divided, mountainless land mass of America, drowning all those who remain. As the waters later recede the land will be left desolate for one thousand years, as a reminder to those who repopulate the Earth in the kingdom of Jesus Christ, that the penalty for rebellion against God is death and Hell. Along with its birth as the New Testament’s Babylon the Great in 1776, who can deny that America has also deteriorated or degenerated into the likeness of Sodom and Gomorrah. This society and generation has, by condoning and accepting the homosexual lifestyle, by murdering helpless children in their mother’s womb, by their bottomless appetite for money and worldly goods, and by their militant, religious arrogance and national pride, planted the seeds of their own destruction. God’s wrath and judgment is at hand. Are there any who want to be saved from this? Before we can be saved from the wrath that is now at the door, we must understand the depth of our rebellion. We all have, in one way or another, cried out like the Jewish people did before Pontius Pilate….”We shall not have this man to reign over us,” Luke 19:14. How can we reject such love and forgiveness from God, who would come to this rebellious, demon infested planet as a man and allow himself to be humiliated and killed and at the same time pay the bloody price for all sins of all men. There is not one of us who is innocent of this horrible offense against the Lord Jesus Christ. If you haven’t done so already, please come to the bloody cross of Jesus Christ and let him come into your heart and give you eternal life, joy, and peace. Receiving the Holy Spirit, through repentance of sin and faith in his shed blood, is the only way to escape the approaching wrath to come.

The Manifest Destiny of Russia and America **After reading this letter please “forward” it to your family and friends who you think might be interested.** Greetings friends and family, I am including in this letter an article I found in “The Moscow Times” of all places.  I do not know, nor have I ever met the author.  The information found in Paul Ladouceur’s eye-opening article will not make for “breaking news” on Fox News or CNN, but I assure you that what he has to say about the history of the Russian people, President Putin, and the Russian Orthodox Church will reveal a lot to you about what is happening in this crazy almost insane world of religion and politics. The fallen angels under Satan who rule all the nations have created this craziness as they hate all men and women, and the God of Israel who created everything.  They want to kill as many people as they can before our Lord Jesus returns to imprison them in the Bottomless Pit. When I first studied and learned about the term “Manifest Destiny” years ago the information mostly related to America’s place in Biblical prophecy.  Most American Christians today are unaware that the Christian colonists coming from Europe hundreds of years ago believed in the false teaching of post-millennialism where the bodily return of our Lord Jesus Christ couldn’t happen until Christendom and its government subdued and took control of all nations.  Many early Americans believed and taught that America was called and chosen by God to establish his Kingdom in all nations and then Jesus could come.  It was their “Manifest Destiny”. Paul’s article clearly reveals that Russia shares a very similar “Manifest Destiny” belief as America.  In my last letter sent out to you I emphasized how the Jewish prophet, Daniel, was given by God visions of the last days on this war-torn planet.  He saw two “little horns” or nations that will compete for world empire or dominion among men.  Those two nations Daniel saw were America (Daniel 7:8, 9:27) and Russia (Daniel 8: 9,23, 11:40-45). Today in Ukraine these two nations are bringing us all to the brink of a nuclear World War III all in the name of Jesus, believe it or not!  However, events will take place so that instead of destroying the planet with fallout, America and Russia will make peace and the world will rejoice.  Daniel saw this!  The American and Russian Presidents, the Pope of Roman Catholicism, and the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church will proudly declare the long-awaited Kingdom of Christendom has now begun, the Church has been reunited. The Jews of Israel, Jerusalem, and their desired Temple will be center stage in those days. All of this means that Christians in America will have to first remove the Godless immoral forces (World Economic Forum) that have dominated this last generation.  It amazes me that America today has become what it once despised and fought against, and Russia is returning to its Christian roots and now able to powerfully reinsert itself among the nations. If you read Paul’s article you saw how he stated that Russia’s coming together of the Orthodox Church and the Government will not bring Godliness, but the rise of antichrists.  He is right and the same will happen in America.  Can you now see that both America and Russia and their false militant forms of Christendom will only lead to the rise of the coming Antichrist?  How blinded these men are and how desperately they need to repent and be born again.  Our Lord Jesus said that in the last days “many will come in my name, saying I am Christ; and shall deceive many”, Matthew 24:5.  Russia and America are both following what the Bible calls the “great harlot” of Revelation 17, a false and counterfeit Christian system.  The New Testament is filled with warnings not to follow false teachers who profess “another Jesus, another gospel”, 2 Corinthians 11:1-15. Please visit our website and send an email.  Thank you for reading this and I hope to hear from you soon.  Again, if you are interested in the questions above, please consider reading the articles “Then Comes the Fire”, “The Judgment Chronicles” and “The Fundamentalist” posted on our website.  For details concerning my military background during the Vietnam era, please read the articles “Vietnam: The Manchu’s of Charlie Company”, “Pacifist, Patriot, or Pilgrim” and “Moved with Compassion”.  Just click on the website link below and click on “Articles”. Sincerely, Jack Babylon the Great is Falling http://www.babylonthegreatisfalling.net Orthodoxy and Russia’s Manifest Destiny Russky mir is Russia’s new version of manifest destiny. By Paul Ladouceur Several times Russian church and state leaders have been enraptured by the idea that the Russian people and its political expression have a special mission or “manifest destiny” to accomplish. Successive iterations of this “Russian idea” reflect a growing convergence of religion, ethnicity, and nationalism with state power into an explosive secular ideology bent on imposing its worldview within Russia, surrounding countries, the Orthodox Church, and worldwide. The first iteration became prominent after the union Council of Ferrera between the Roman and the Orthodox Churches in 1439 and the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453. These two events precipitated the emergence of a sense of the role and responsibility of Muscovy as the spiritual and geo-political center of Orthodoxy, captured in the epithet the “Third Rome”: the first Rome had fallen into heresy and schism with the filioque and the papacy; Constantinople, the Second Rome, deviated from Orthodoxy by union with Latins and came under Turkish rule as a divine punishment, thereby losing its claim to pre-eminence in Orthodoxy. Muscovy, having rejected the union with Rome and freed itself from the Mongols, thus became the Third Rome of Christendom. The self-proclamation of the autocephaly of the Russian Church in 1448 and the election of the first patriarch of Moscow in 1589 reinforced the Third Rome theory. Although the idea of Muscovy as the Third Rome was not a dominant theme in subsequent centuries, it still featured in more traditionalist Russian circles; the Russian Church emphasized the universal nature of the Church over its particular ethnic or national expressions. But the rise of nationalism in the 19th century assaulted this universalist perspective, and the idea of a messianic role for Russia and the Russian Church resurfaced dramatically, captured in the epithet “Holy Russia”: the divinely-endowed destiny of Russia founded on the preservation and expansion of Orthodoxy, under the guidance of the twin institutions, the monarchy and the Russian Orthodox Church. In this vision, the tsar was expected to be “an apostle-like ruler,” with St. Vladimir as the prototype, leading his people to Christianity. This required the Church to support autocracy, which it did faithfully until the revolution. The Holy Russia theme was marked by key public events manifesting the union of ruler, church, and people: the 900th anniversary of the baptism of Rus, celebrated in Kyiv in 1888; the 500th anniversary of the death of St. Sergius in 1892; the canonization of St. Seraphim of Sarov in 1903. A more political variation of the Holy Russia theme was the imperial motto “Orthodoxy, Autocracy and Nationality,“ and its later mutation “Faith, Tsar and Fatherland.” These socio-political motifs marked a departure from ecclesiological universalism, towards an identification of Orthodoxy with Russian nationalism and the imperial state, an “Orthodox patriotism,” seen as an alternative to modern secular nationalism. The third manifestation, perhaps surprisingly, was the communist vision of an ideal socialist society. As an atheistic philosophy, communism might appear far removed from the religious and Orthodox content of the Third Rome and Holy Russia, but communism is often considered a secular, atheistic religion, with its inspired founders, sacred books, saints worthy of veneration, and rituals; an abstract “humanity” compensated for the previous theistic content of the Russian idea. Russian Marxists saw their mission in much the same way as their Orthodox predecessors: to imbue all Russian society with their socio-political vision, and, beyond Russia itself, to neighboring lands, beginning with those which were part of the Russian Empire in 1914. The Red Army imposed Bolshevik rule throughout the collapsed Empire; forcible reinsertion into the Soviet Union was successful in Ukraine, Belorussia, Georgia, Central Asia, and Siberia (but failed in Finland and the Baltic States). In the interwar period, the universal application of Marxist philosophy was visible in the activities of the Communist International (Comintern or Third International), established to promote world communism, headed by the Soviet Union. After nearly collapsing from the assault of Hitler’s armies in the opening phase during World War II, the Soviet Union gained the upper hand on the battlefield as the Red Army marched through territories initially conquered by the Germans, then into neighboring countries to the West, all the way to Berlin, allowing the Soviets to impose communist-led governments throughout Eastern Europe—only Finland escaped. Flushed with its military, geopolitical and diplomatic successes in the war and immediately afterwards, the Soviet Union attempted to extend its tentacles even further, into Western Europe (where it was stopped by the formation of NATO), Latin America, and Africa, with some success. This dismal history highlights Russian-dominated communist universalist ideology as a secular variation of the “Russian idea,” that the Russian people and its political expression have a special mission to bring their vision of the future of humanity to the entire world. Here, this mission is not divinely-ordained, but self-appointed, at best dictated by an imperative arising from humanity itself – however inhuman its actual implementation was. The downfall of communism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union left an existential and ideological void: Russia no longer had a self-identity, a national purpose, an imperative world role. It was in this void that the “Russian idea” resurfaced in its earlier theistic and specifically Orthodox iterations of the Third Rome and Holy Russia. The Russky mir (Russian world) ideology, articulated by senior church officials, aims at extending the worldwide influence of both Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church. The contours of the Russky mir doctrine were spelled out in an address by Patriarch Kirill on 3 November 2009 at the Third Assembly of the Russkii Mir Foundation; Kirill mentioned God only three times and Christ not at all, while repeating 38 times the phrase Russky mir. The contours of Russky mir ideology and its theological weaknesses are well known. But there are important nuances among these iterations, the acquisition of increasingly dangerous mutations, especially with the expansion of state power. The Third Rome concept was largely ecclesial, and only loosely connected with the pre-modern state. The Holy Russia concept had a more political connotation, a unity of church and state to promote internal cohesion in an increasingly fragmented and restless empire, in a desperate attempt to hold back the forces of modernity; still, the notion was basically inward-looking. Although Holy Russia retained a powerful religious component, nationalism and autocracy were equally prominent ideological features. Under the Russky mir banner, Putin and Kirill are instilling into the Russian soul anti-Christian values far more successfully than Lenin and Stalin ever did, the cultivation of profound hatred, aggressiveness and violence against all enemies — those who refuse to submit to the personal and geopolitical ambitions of the Russian State and Church. The communist version of a special Russian mission stripped away its previously religious content, replacing it with secular, atheistic and humanist philosophy. The full force of this universalist philosophy was felt after World War II, as the Soviet Union expanded its power and control over the lands newly-incorporated into the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and worldwide. The notion of a divinely-appointed mission of the Russian people and the Russian State is thus deeply engrained in Russian consciousness, and it did not require much effort on the part of Patriarch Kirill and Vladimir Putin to re-awaken it in support of the ambition of the Russian Church to dominate world Orthodoxy, and of Vladimir Putin’s personal and geopolitical ambitions, especially the restoration of Russia’s territorial limits to those of the former Soviet Union. In practice in official state discourse, the religious component of Russky mir is decidedly secondary, far behind naked Russian nationalism and expansionism. In this final mutation of the Russian idea, its promoters have learned from the Bolshevik consolidation of power after the Revolution and from World War II that persuasion and propaganda are of little use in spreading their ideas and ideology, that the only truly effective way is the use of force, brute, unrestrained military force. Under the Russky mir banner, Putin and Kirill are instilling into the Russian soul anti-Christian values far more successfully than Lenin and Stalin ever did, the cultivation of profound hatred, aggressiveness and violence against all enemies — those who refuse to submit to the personal and geopolitical ambitions of the Russian State and Church. Whether Russia or Ukraine “wins” the war, one thing is certain: Putin and Kirill are fostering something very ugly in the Russian spirit, a spirit of ethno-nationalist hostility, aggressiveness, and violence, transparent under a thin veneer of Orthodoxy. Relaying aggressive state propaganda has replaced the Gospel as the prime message of the Russian Church. Even after Putin and Kirill are gone, Orthodoxy and the world will likely have to deal with this ugliness for long decades. The temptation to nationalism, especially ethno-nationalism, is a persisting canker in the Orthodox Church. The Orthodox Church has a long way to go to recognize and to eliminate the evil of ethno-nationalism in its midst. In the mid-19th century, popular imagination in the United States was captivated by the idea that it was American manifest destiny to expand westward across the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, to the Pacific. Russky mir is Russia’s manifest destiny with its call to Russian domination under president and patriarch in Orthodoxy, Europe and the world, the latest and least Christian iteration of the “Russian idea.” Ukraine is the first major victim of this manifest destiny. This article was originally published in Public Orthodoxy. The views expressed in opinion pieces do not necessarily reflect the position of The Moscow Times. Paul Ladouceur Paul Ladouceur is Adjunct Professor, Orthodox School of Theology at Trinity College (University of Toronto) and Professeur associé, Faculté de théologie et de sciences religieuses, Université Laval (Québec).