From a talk given by Father Seraphim Rose in 1994 on Signs of the End Times
The Talk
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Question: Are the Jews going to destroy the Mosque of Omar and set up the temple? Will they return to the use of the book of Leviticus and return to
all the laws?
Fr. Seraphim: Well, it is their problem what they will do with the temple. Human intentions are one thing; the second thing is how God wills it to
come out. They tried before to build the temple, and did not succeed. As far as Leviticus is concerned, I do not know; I would, however, think they
will try to do as much as possible. If the whole idea of building the temple is to get back to that old religion, I suppose they would try to imitate
it as closely as they could.
Of course, in modern times they would undoubtedly find they would have to change all kinds of things. And when Antichrist himself comes to sit there,
he will have his own ideas, to make it accep-table for everybody else. It is difficult to see how the exact form might come out. But when it is all
fulfilled, you will see it is exactly the way it was prophesied. If men, however, try to do something before the time when God wants it to be done,
then it simply will not work.
There was the attempt of Julian the Apostate to build the temple to prove that Christ was wrong when He said that "one stone will not be left upon
another." And Julian commanded the Jews to begin building the temple, and they began to build. And it is a very well-authenticated historical fact
in several of the early church historians, that they would build, and at night everything would fall down, and everyone would see balls of fire coming
out from the earth. Nowadays, historians say they must have been digging oil wells, or something. . . Obviously there was something there preventing
this project from going on, and they finally gave up. Julian himself was killed, and the whole thing stopped.
The times were not ripe, in other words, for that to happen. Of course, today the times are much more ripe. There were two saints of the Old
Testament who did not die: Enoch was translated, and he was not found; and Elijah went up to heaven in the fiery chariot, and therefore they will come
back as the two witnesses and preach against Antichrist.
In fact, there are traditions about St. John the Theologian returning in the last times. Then there is the prophecy of St. Seraphim of Sarov that he
should come back at that time, though he died, and so he will come back resurrected. The two mentioned in the Apocalypse, however, are Enoch and
Elijah.
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Question: Are they going to tell the people at that time that this is the Antichrist and not Christ?
Fr. Seraphim: According to tradition, they have two functions: Elijah will speak to the Jews. It says in the Gospel that they asked Jesus if Elijah
had come yet, some saying that John the Baptist was Elijah, to "reconcile the fathers to the children." And Our Lord said that, in a certain sense,
he had come; that is to say, in a spiritual sense he had come.
cont.......
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This thread is here coz the talk is about the N.W.O..............
[Edited on 22-4-2003 by helen670]