{"id":5293,"date":"2018-08-12T14:35:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T18:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5293"},"modified":"2018-08-12T14:35:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T18:35:57","slug":"father-seraphim-rose-on-spiritual-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5293","title":{"rendered":"Father Seraphim Rose+ on Spiritual Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Our times, however, are so filled with what could be called \u201capocalyptic\u201d events that we should be very aware of them. Our Lord says that, although we do not know the day and the hour, we should take example from the fig tree, which when its leaves become green we know that summer is close. Likewise, when all these things begin to happen\u2014when it becomes possible for there to be one world government, when the Gospel is being preached to all peoples, when so many spiritual currents are coming into being which are obviously deceptive\u2014they are clearly signs that something momentous is about to happen, and are very likely bound up with the end of the world. In order to be spiritually prepared for this, it is very instructive for us to be reading about what happens to people in prison camps. Such accounts show us that, no matter what might happen\u2014even if we are under Antichrist himself and placed in a prison\u2014we can survive because we have Christ.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5294\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5294\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5294\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/1523-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/1523-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/1523.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Foundain for the blessing of the waters, Xeropotamou Monastery, Mount Athos, Halkidiki, Greece<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018God\u2019s Revelation\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Our times, however, are so filled with what could be called \u201capocalyptic\u201d events that we should be very aware of them. Our Lord says that, although we do not know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5295,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions\/5295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}