The Word of God about the end of the world and the Day of the Lord
and the spiritual unwillingness ; there will be established as hegumens 1 and abbots , people who have not been put to tests by good works , without faith , ignorant , simple and useless , not being able to distinguish good from evil , without good works , taking care only of the earthly things , behaving shamefully while performing their duties .
Taking away by force the hegumens ( the nuns ) with gifts , and not known to teach and to advise the flock and the brotherhood , not knowing that they are a useful image and an example for those who follow the good works and not perceiving that they will be called to account before God on the day of judgment for their flock . And because of the carelessness of the hegumens ( the monks ), who do not take care of the flock , they will be lost , and there will be judged not only those who have been lazy and idle , but also the brothers who had been refrained and had a good life .
After that , Moses , God ’ s servant , saw cloud and whirlwind , dark fog and dreadful temptations that had come upon the monks from the north side , which were putting the monks to rout and the monachal order began to be scattered because of the cursed heresies , and many were forced to give up the monachal clothes and to get married . Then , few of those who did not want , will be tested like gold and silver in the furnace and by many hardships , in troubles and persecution , will be refined . And as many as those who will be tested and who will overcome such many dreadful temptations , will be exalted and praised , and they will be glorified by God more than those who had endured the scorching , the heat of the day and the frost of the night .
After that , God ’ s servant , Moses , saw that that winter of hardships had passed and also the temptations and the tribulation of those dreadful heresies , and a time for peace had come . And after that a couple of years will have passed ; again , the flock of angelic monks will be despised and troubles will come again upon them , even more of them and more forcefully . He saw that the monks will spend time together with the nuns , and together with the evil lust will come tyranny as well , and even those who will not want , will be mocked forcefully .
The priests will be defiled themselves by the sin of debauchery and their priestesses will commit adultery , and they also will commit sexual immoralities . Then God ’ s great wrath will come and will destroy that whole wicked generation and it will be sent into the eternal fire .
Therefore , blessed will be all those who will not bow to the greatest lawlessness of uncleanness , which is more violent and heavier than killing , but who will stand against it and will rebuke the lawlessness , as Saint John , the Baptizer , did , and they will persevere , rebuking the blood blending . And they will be killed by the lawless ones , defiled and very immoral people of that time , and then they will rest in the bosom of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob , the most praised Patriarchs , and they will live in the kingdom of the heavens with all the saints , rejoicing and enjoying , and may it be that God will also make us worthy of such a great joy , with His Holy gift . Amen .
The Saint Hierarch Nephon of Constantia ( The fourth century ) ( A vision about the dreadful Judgment )
… These words , which the Lord spoke in a voice of a thunder by the Archangel Michael , have filled the countless angelic powers with terror .
Then He commanded that the seven ages from the creation of the world to be brought to Him . Michael received order to fulfill this work . That is why he quickly went to the house of
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The head monk of a monastery ; superior monk , abbot , tr . n .
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