It would seem that such eradication: the Teacher is killed, the apologists-apostles are killed, the martyrs are killed, everyone is destroyed – everyone should be afraid. But no, Christians have conquered the whole world. How can this be? Only in a miraculous way. Take the history of our native fatherland – starting from 1917, the faith began to be destroyed in Russia: metropolitans, junior bishops, priests were shot, monks were dispersed, imprisoned, churches were blown up. Emelyan of Yaroslavl announced a five-year period of atheism — that by the year 1941 we would have no faith. Indeed, only three bishops remained at large, there were very few Orthodox priests, there were mainly renovationist, schismatic parishes, where people did not go, they said: do not go there, these are priests who have sold out. And the Bolsheviks thought: that's it, faith will be eradicated. No, nothing worked. As soon as there was a relaxation during the war, the people immediately filled the churches again.

And now what do we see? None of us fought for the faith, we did not beat our chests with our fists, we did not defend any truth, we did not write letters, we did not organize demonstrations, we did not strike, and now the Church won again. Churches are opened by the thousands, people are baptized. Now even the sworn enemies of the Church are afraid to say aloud openly that the Church is bad, this is obscurantism, as they used to say. Why? Yes, people will tear them apart, because the Church is the only force that has resisted this satanic evil, this terrible demonism, the rampant devil for seventy-two years. There is no one, everyone is exterminated, everything is over in this country – only the Church stands and stands. She shrinks, shrinks, then sighs deeply again; At one moment it seems that it is not there at all, then it flares up again. Invincible in no way. And so the apostles overcame: they believed that the Kingdom of God would come into the hearts of men, and it did.

Many churches are now opening, and the Gospel is sold in any of them. I still can't believe it. Every time I go in and look – there it is, it is, it is written "New Testament". My heart is fluttering, rejoicing, I think: what a miracle is this, where am I, in America, or what? Why does this Gospel stand, as it was allowed? Why are they not afraid of the Gospel now, maybe they think that pornography will prevail? After all, what literature was forbidden to import into our country? At customs, they asked: is there a Bible, pornography? But this was impossible. And now, if you can use the Bible, you can also use pornography. And they think that pornography will overwhelm them. Yes, many will be overwhelmed, many will drown in this fornication. But many will turn to cleanliness.

And in order for the preaching of the Kingdom of God to be more successful, how can we serve this? Just like the apostles. Each of us is called to the apostleship, but not by word. In order to preach by word, you need a special charisma, the gift of the Holy Spirit, which is given with the laying on of hands of the priesthood. Most members of the Church do not have such charisma, but we are all called, we are all disciples of Christ – and we must preach with our love, with goodness. We must be, as the Lord commanded us, lambs among wolves. Let them deceive us, let them torment us, trample on us, let them spit at us, let them kill us, but we must not lose the most important thing – the good in our hearts, because we have the source of this good. It is good, inexhaustible. That's God. And He cannot be overcome by all the power of satanic evil, which is now descending on our country.

In fact, demons are already visibly walking among people; They are seen, even sent expeditions to look at all these alleged aliens. But no, these beings are much lower than other planets; They are here, this is the evil of the heavenly places. And then they materialize, they frighten - four-meter tall scarecrows walk. And this is just the beginning. Those who are young now will live to see the most terrible times. Some Stalin, Beria, Ribbentrop - a pitiful student of Lavrenty Pavlovich - will seem like childish babble.

Everyone says: fascism, how cruel it is! And what is fascism? I had an acquaintance who was in a German camp and in ours. He says: well, this is heaven and earth. The Germans are cruel, but there is order, and here you do not know from which side what awaits you, and this is much worse. But what is coming will be even worse. The Lord said: "Do not be afraid of those who kill the body." What could Stalin, Hitler, and Beria do? They could kill, beat, knock out teeth, beat off kidneys, they could torture a person's body, destroy it. And the evil that is coming upon us will destroy the soul itself, corrupt it: it will make the soul prodigal, spiritually paralyzed, inclined to all kinds of demonic dreams, so that it clings to everything demonic.

Recently, I was invited to speak among the schoolchildren, they asked: Father, tell them something so that they behave more decently. Teachers no longer know what words to find; They think that the priest has been called, he will tell them now - and they will be obedient. It is ridiculous to hope for this. A child should be brought up before he is conceived, and not when he is already fifteen years old. What are you going to do with him now? After all, what are modern children interested in? The Kashpirovskys, aliens and fornication - this is their life. Of course, there are children who are engaged in chemistry, someone is learning English, someone is designing, but the bulk of little people who will become adults in five or six years will enter this life and give birth to children, they have only this interest in their heads, this is what attracts them and rock music.