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The Myrrh-Streaming Nile became revered by Christians after he gave healing liquid - myrrh - to the suffering. But he is even more famous for his miraculous appearance to the Athonite monk Theophan two centuries after his death. Why did he come to the monk? And what did you want to tell people?
Life of St. Neil
In the distant sixteenth century, the future Athonite hermit Nil the Myrrh-Streaming was born into a family of Orthodox Greeks. His parents passed away early, so the boy was taken in by his uncle, the priest Father Macarius.
Neil was different from other people, there was something special about him. From an early age he led an ascetic lifestyle and was content with little. Having reached adulthood, the young ascetic firmly decided to take monastic vows and devote himself to serving God.
Together with his uncle, Neil went to Mount Athos. They settled on the Holy Stones - a remote and inaccessible area for people, where no one could disturb the prayer feat of the hermits.
Nil and Macarius with their own hands carved out a small temple in the rock where they prayed, and tiny cells where they slept. Soon Macarius died, and Nile decided to go to an even more uninhabited and inaccessible place for all living things. He lived in a rocky cave, building a temple there. He prayed for all humanity, communicated with the Lord, created several works on asceticism and wrote down his prophecies about the future.
He died in his cave. And after some time, other hermit monks noticed that myrrh, a healing liquid emanating from the relics of St. Nile, was flowing from the rock. The miraculous myrrh became known beyond Mount Athos. Thousands of pilgrims from different countries began to come for healing, so the name of the Myrrh-Streaming Nile is revered throughout the Christian world.
For this precious gift that Neil left to people, he was canonized - canonized.
The Orphan of St. Peter's Village
From the life history of St. Neil, it is known that he was born at the end of the 16th century (the exact date is unknown) in the southern part of the Balkan Peninsula. The village where the house of his parents, pious and deeply devout people, was located was called Agios Petros tis Kinourias. In Russian it is usually called simply the village of St. Peter.
Having been orphaned in adolescence, Neil was raised by his uncle, Hieromonk Macarius, who, with the warmth of his heart, managed to replenish the boy with the lost warmth of parental love. Sensitively tracking all the movements of his pupil’s soul, he skillfully directed them towards the path of serving God, while helping to enrich his mind with the knowledge that would help him in this difficult field.
Posthumous broadcasts
The Nile became famous not only for its healing ointment. In the nineteenth century he began to appear to the monk Theophan. For six years, Saint Nile spoke about the future, and Theophan carefully wrote down all the words of the saint. These prophecies were recognized by the Church and published.
Unlike many predictors, Saint Nile spoke about future events clearly and clearly, without allegories and allegories. And even now they continue to come true, which only proves their veracity and the Nile’s closeness to God.
For the first time on the holy mountain
However, the thirst for spiritual achievement that dried up their souls was so great that the life they led within the walls of the monastery could not quench it. Both were irresistibly drawn to where the heavenly world found its earthly embodiment. One of these places was Mount Athos, which for many centuries was revered as the inheritance of the Most Holy Theotokos, or Her “vertograd” (vineyard), as she herself told St. Nicholas about it. It was there that the pious monks directed their steps.
Arriving on Athos, they first of all walked around the monasteries, hermitages and deserts located there, choosing a place that fully met their spiritual needs. Soon the Lord led the monks to a part of the mountain that was then uninhabited and covered with wild vegetation, which from ancient times bore the name Holy Stones.
Satan rules the world
The end times will come very soon. For the sins of people, the Lord will send upon them illnesses, natural disasters, wars, disasters and misfortunes. And the more troubles there are, the angrier people will become. Instead of sincerely repenting, they will only become embittered towards God and lose all faith in him.
They will forget about the spiritual. They will only care about material well-being, and “the love of money is the forerunner of the Antichrist.”
A person will direct all his thoughts and aspirations to satisfy his carnal needs. He will no longer be interested in the salvation of the soul and eternal life after death. He will live in the present, and will not be afraid of condemnation.
If you think about these words, you can say that the prophecy is already coming true. People stop believing in the Lord, they are only interested in money. And this is a sign of the imminent appearance of the Antichrist.
The Myrrh-Streaming Nile warned:
“The Antichrist will be born from an evil harlot without any male seed when the world becomes impoverished in virtues.”
Now even in school they teach about artificial insemination, so there is nothing surprising in the words of the saint.
And the world has long been “impoverished in virtues.” Same-sex love, corrupt relationships, and adultery are flourishing. People have forgotten the commandments of Christ.
“When the time approaches the coming of the Antichrist, the minds of people will be darkened by the passions of the flesh, and wickedness and lawlessness will increase more and more. The world will become unrecognizable, the appearance of people will change and it will be impossible to clearly distinguish men from women, thanks to shamelessness in clothing and the shape of the hair. Love will disappear. Christian shepherds will become vain men, completely unable to distinguish between right and left. Then the morals and traditions of the Church will change. Modesty and chastity will disappear, and fornication and licentiousness will reign.”
When the values of the Antichrist become close to most people, truly terrible times will come.
“A terrible famine will come, gold will become worthless like dung and people, like birds of prey, will devour the bodies of the dead.”
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The name of the Venerable Nile the Myrrh-Streaming became even more famous after his appearance from the afterlife in the period from 1813 to 1819 to one Holy Mountain resident - monk Theophan, when in several conversations the Reverend Nile told him everything that is contained in the book “Posthumous Broadcasts of the Venerable Nile the Myrrh-Streaming "
“In terms of the wealth of material from the field of ascetic psychology,” says Archimandrite Alexander, “Broadcasts” can rightfully take a prominent place among such famous patristic works of this kind, such as “The Ladder”, “Words” of St. Ephraim the Syrian, Isaac the Syrian, Macarius The Great and others”...
Getting acquainted with the contents of the book, we see that it examines the spiritual life of a Christian, and, in particular, the monastic life, from a variety of angles.
But in our apostatic * twentieth century, “Broadcasts” are also attractive because they say a lot about the latest destinies of our earthly world.
The monk predicted that terrible times were coming, about which the Lord spoke: But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth? (Luke 18:8).
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* From apostasy - heresy, schism.
Venerable Nile the Myrrh-Streaming One announced to those seeking salvation on the Holy Mountain under the Protection of the Mother of God that they should not be embarrassed, should not be horrified, should not lose faith in this Protection and would not leave Athos until the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God leaves it; so that the monks remain in repentance and hope of salvation, in silence, humility and obedience, trying to preserve inviolably what little remains of their former high monastic life. For for the wickedness of the wicked, the Holy Mountain will be plunged into the sea, this will be when the Mother of God will remove Her Veil from Her inheritance. Pious monks should hasten to leave Athos as soon as the miraculous Iveron icon leaves. The saint reveals in great detail about the times of the Antichrist: about the worldwide anarchy that will precede the coming of the Antichrist, about when we should expect this, about the degree of depravity of the last generation, about how cruelly the acceptance of the seal of the Antichrist will act on human hearts, about Sermons of Enoch and Elijah...
Many of the predictions of the Monk Neil have already come true, but much of what he predicted is coming true before our eyes.
In general, the saint’s prophecies are distinguished by amazing accuracy. In order not to be unfounded, we present one of the predictions that came true.
In a miraculous appearance that happened in 1817, the Monk Neil said to the monk Theophan:
“When four twenty-five years have passed, what will monastic life be like then? If another three twenty-five years pass: we say the number of the seventh year and five, rising to the halfway point of the eighth, there at halfway the number of five, what confusion will occur from the fourth to the fifth?..”
The Russian translator of the book published in 1912 to explain this place (Part II, Chapter 31, p. 170) includes a note by the first scribes who lived in the last century.
“Note of the first descriptors: the saint said this to Theophan in the summer of Christ 1817; from the creation of the world - 7325th. Therefore, the saint says: when four twenty-five years have passed, that is, a hundred years, and the year 7425 (1917) comes, then what will happen to monastic life? If the other three twenty-five years still pass, that is, 75 years, and the 7500th year (1992) comes, “the number of seven years and five,” that is, seven thousand and five hundred years, “rising halfway to eight,” that is, when we reach half of the eighth century (millennium), then there in the “middle of the five,” that is, the fifth century, “what confusion will there be (from the fourth to the fifth)?”
We believe that from the fourth to the fifth, as the saint says, there are from 7400 to 7500; this is what we assume; who can interpret better,
1817 = 7325 +100 =+100 1917 = 7425 + 75 = +75 1992 = 7500 -50 =-50 1942 = 7450
We, living in 1989, see with our own eyes what monasticism has become since 1917 (7425 from the creation of the world) - it has almost disappeared. And as for the confusion that occurred in the year 7450; creation of the world or 1942 A.D. - the critical year of the Second World War - everyone knows.
This amazing accuracy of fulfilled prophetic predictions encourages us to introduce the reader to those prophecies contained in the “Broadcasts” that have not yet come true (or have just begun to come true).
PROPHECY ABOUT MOUNT ATHON AND ABOUT THE DEPARTURE FROM IT OF THE IVERON ICON OF THE MOTHER OF GOD (Part III, Chapter 94)
O most reverend fathers, the removal of Salvation will be like this.
Firstly, in a short time ahead the monastery in which the face of the Queen of Salvation resides will be shaken. This means that the insensitive earth will feel that it has to be impoverished by its Guardian, who protects it to this day. After the shaking, all the trees planted will shake very much and all the planted trees, we say, all the rooted ones, will tilt into captivity for the sake of the Queen (i.e. there will be a martyrdom of the Orthodox monks on the Mountain). Athos will beat with a terrible noise, a thin voice will emanate; when the face of our Lady Theotokos disappears, there will be a terrible and trembling sign.
The sign will be this: all churches will be bowed down for the sake of removing Salvation, like a wire to Salvation and a bow. For this reason, I tell you, insensibility will be felt, and feeling will be darkened, and will not be aware that Salvation is withdrawing. So, I tell you, most reverend fathers, as long as the face of our Lady Theotokos is inside this Mountain, let no one be moved to leave this honorable Mountain; As soon as he moves to leave this honest Mountain, mental and physical punishment (permissiveness) will immediately be found on him. When they see that the icon of the All-Holy One has departed from this venerable Mountain, then you too can go wherever you please, as long as you keep your vow of monastic life intact and pure.
If the seventh number of years passes and five ascending to the halfway point of the eighth...
What kind of theft will happen then? What kind of masculinity, adultery, incest, and debauchery will there be then? To what decline will people then descend, to what corruption through fornication? Then there will be confusion with great strife (addiction to disputes), they will incessantly bicker and will not find either beginning or end. Then the Eighth Council will gather to sort out the dispute and reveal good to the good and evil to the evil... the good will be excommunicated, separated from the evil, i.e. true believers from heretics, and for a short time people will be at peace... But then they will again change their (good) disposition, turn to evil through the evil destruction of those who are perishing, so that they will not know that there is a brother and that there is a sister, that there is a father and mother, and that the mother and her son will not recognize the marriage crown. They will have only one destruction, one fall into destruction, like Sodom and Gomorrah, i.e. and five righteous people will not be found... And a brother will have a sister as a wife, a mother will have a son as a husband, the son will kill his father and commit adultery with his mother, and other dozens of evils will become customary. Since evil deeds begin to inculcate in people, disasters will befall them... People, the more disasters they encounter, the more they will cultivate evil, instead of repenting, they will become embittered against God. The atrocities that people will commit will surpass the atrocities of the people of the flood. Everyone will talk only about evil, only evil intentions, evil will, partnership only out of spite, everyone’s actions only evil, general evil theft, general evil oppression, general evil isolation; general evil disunion. With all this, they will think that the doer of evil is saved... Since the love of greed will increase, the disasters in the world will also increase.
The poor will be oppressed for the sake of regional expenses, says the Myrrh-Streaming Nile. The beggars, not being able to devote part of their portion to the required expenses, will leave their places and move to others in order to rest and be reconciled there, but even there they will be naked and will say: Pick us up too; You have rested enough, give us little, little rest, until righteous judgment awakens us.
Much more will be said on the graves of the dead, and the lamentations of the wretched will rise up, like a hoax before God. Seeing such lamentations, God will give prosperity to the whole world (the harvest year), and the poor, seeing such prosperity, will praise God for the harvest with great joy. When the fruits are gathered at the threshing floor, a covetous man (monopolist) will come to the threshing floor, take the grain to his granaries and give orders that whoever demands wheat should come to him to the covetous man (that is, the peasants will buy their own bread from the monopoly).
The covetous man will then take double the price for wheat compared to its previous price last year. The poor will complain against God. The covetous man will imagine that the poor man allegedly has property, and will begin to oppress the poor man in order to take the latter away from him. He will look for every reason, even the slightest, for this. He will oppress him. According to the court, everything that he has will be taken away from him. If he has nothing, he will oppress him in prison.
And the covetous man will have pity on the rich man, but will not pity the poor man, since his clothes are clean; the covetous man does not understand that the clean clothes of the poor man are the likeness of his pure heart. The heart of the poor man is and will be shining. But what poor person will have a shining heart? The one who is patient and who will endure the covetous, that is, not be embittered by his unjust oppression.
Blessed is the one who will endure to the covetous everything that he will do to him, for at the hour of Judgment before the Last Judgment he will be called for his brother by the Last Judgment? Who will say: What they did to him was done to me. Then (today) all the people of the world will think a lot about themselves, everyone will judge each other among themselves.
The poor, seeing that the covetous man is torturing them, will also begin to save and store money themselves for the sake of the covetous man. The poor will collect money for the sake of the covetous, but at the meeting the poor man himself will be seduced by the acquisition, he will begin to accumulate for himself, having collected in abundance, he will want to double his surpluses, and when he succeeds in this, he will want to turn these double surpluses into quadruple surpluses.
And so, having delayed in this achievement of quadrupling, he rested, fell asleep - and woke up in hell, and his body was buried according to the custom of the country. So poor people little by little forget and will forget Christ and collect Money. Over-concern will darken the feeling of people, in order to make the world of people insensitive to their salvation, so that due to the multitude of carnal, earthly and financial worries it cannot feel salvation and there is no time for it, that is, the world of people will not feel either the desire for an eternal future life, or fear eternal condemnation.
Thus, the world of people has lost its sense of itself (the sense of inner, spiritual vision, SPIRITUALITY, the way in which we acquire the highest knowledge - the knowledge of God.
The whole world of people will indulge in carnal drinking and eating luxurious dishes, building themselves with the most beautiful buildings; in these buildings they will indulge in their carnal feelings, that is, amusing their sinful flesh, supposedly creating an everlasting feast for it. Since all people will have carnal feelings, that is, the most important thing for the world of people will be beauty and kindness, which they will only strive for
Through such a desire for carnal sinful impurity, the world of people will become vile to God.
In that future time, thanks to the power of the greatest delusion (sin) of debauchery, corruption and debauchery, the world of people will lose the grace of the Holy Spirit, which they received in holy baptism, and they will also lose remorse, which will disappear.
Then the Gospel will be neglected by the world of men.
Will Orthodoxy save the world?
So far this ominous prophecy has not come true, but everything is heading towards the fact that such times will come. If people don’t come to their senses, then everything that the Myrrh-Streaming Nile spoke about can happen.
The Antichrist will not be able to take over the whole world as long as our faith in the Lord is strong. It is in Russia that the strongest faith is, that is why its enemies want to destroy our country. Each of us has a spark of God. And if we do good deeds, increase goodness, love those around us, raise children in the faith, then we can save the world, cleanse it of filth.
Legal aspect of desert living
There, far from a world filled with sin and temptations, they could fully indulge in silence and feat of prayer. However, before building the cells, the uncle and nephew went to the Lavra and asked for the blessing of its abbot, who was in charge, among other things, of the distribution of land plots among those who sought salvation on the holy mountain.
Seeing the sincerity and purity of the intentions of his petitioners, the abbot generously blessed them, supporting his words with a document granting the right to use the land. In turn, Hieromonk Macarius gave him a certain amount of money, as if expressing his deep gratitude and filial obedience.
On a steep mountain
It was a completely wild place, consisting of a small cave, the entrance to which was barely visible among the wild rocks. Its location, as well as the abyss that began a few meters from the entrance to the cave, made the shelter impregnable not only for people, but also for wild animals. Just as many Christian saints sought the greatest possible difficulties on the paths of earthly life, the overcoming of which would bring them closer to the gates of heaven, so the Monk Nile, despising all dangers, chose a cave as the place of his further stay, which more closely resembled the shelter of a mountain bird than human habitation.
It was in it that he spent the rest of his earthly days, shedding warm tears of love for God and accomplishing great feats in the fight against devilish temptations. Until his last breath, the Athonite hermit endured cramped conditions, hunger and various other bodily torments, contemplating before him heavenly visions and the faces of angels. The story of how much he had to endure is forever hidden from us. Only the all-seeing Lord and the holy Mount Athos know the price that the ascetic paid in this life for the keys to the gates of heaven.
Memorial Days
The days of memory of the Myrrh-Streaming Nile are significant dates from his life and the history of the Orthodox Church:
- June 30 - Council of the Athos Reverends;
- November 25;
- May 20 - Finding of relics.
Relics
The Myrrh-Streaming Nile of Athos was buried according to all traditions and customs, but still, his holy relics remained in the world. They are kept in the Great Lavra of Mount Athos, and part of his relics are in the Malevi monastery in the Peloponnese. It was there that Saint Nile the Myrrh-Streaming was tied up for 15 years before his resettlement to Athos.
Skete of St. Nile the Myrrh-Streaming. Athos, Greece
Criticism
Researchers note several inaccuracies in the saint’s predictions. Eg:
- The Myrrh-Streaming Nile measured time intervals equal to 20 5 years, therefore his prophecies differ in large errors in calculating the date of occurrence of certain events
- The prophecy about the spiritual life of the Russian Federation and turning points in the history of the country actually do not coincide with the predictions. Unless you take it as an assumption that the saint used the old chronology (time is counted from the global flood), which is very erroneous
- You can find a huge number of inconsistencies between the texts of predictions that have reached us and those set out in the ancient interpretation
Some researchers believe that the numbers in the Nile’s predictions do not indicate the dates of the occurrence of certain events, but rather certain historical figures. Only then does everything fall into place, and the decoding of the prophecies one hundred percent coincide with those that have already come true.
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Forerunners of the Antichrist
One of the most important thoughts of the monk is the assertion that the forerunner of the appearance of the Antichrist on earth will be the love of money and the thirst for carnal pleasures, which overwhelmed the hearts of people and crowded out from them any desire to acquire eternal life.
The Monk Nile the Myrrh-Streaming One, in his reasoning, reminds descendants of the appearance on the banks of the Jordan of the Forerunner of the Lord, John the Baptist, who for many years tormented his flesh in the desert and rejected all earthly joys before announcing to people the nearness of the One who would take them from the hands of eternal death.
Following this, he paints pictures of how greed and lust are conquering the world, being the harbingers of the Antichrist and thereby creating the basis for the rejection of the Law of God and the denial of the Savior. But even in this case, according to the monk, not everyone will perish, but only those who voluntarily submit to the power of the antitype (with this term he denotes everything that precedes the appearance of the Antichrist).
Son of the Progenitor of Lies
Having appeared in the world, the Antichrist will begin to show people all sorts of signs and wonders, striking their imagination, forcing them to believe in his divinity. Outwardly, this enemy of the human race will be like a meek and humble lamb, but inwardly, in his essence, he will be like a predatory wolf thirsty for blood. His food will be the spiritual death of people who have given preference to the passions of this world and have closed the gates of the Kingdom of God for themselves.
At the end of the world, such vices as oblivion of faith, covetousness, envy, condemnation, enmity, hatred, adultery, boasting of fornication, masculinity and a whole series of similar sinful aspirations of crippled human souls will reach a special scale at the end of the world. All this evil will become life-giving food, giving the Antichrist new strength.
In contrast to how Jesus Christ appeared in the world to do the will of God the Father who sent Him, so the Antichrist will appear on earth to fulfill the will of his father, who, without a doubt, is the devil. From him, the progenitor of lies, he will receive the ability to darken the views of people with the deception of his flattering words. This will ultimately lead him to the pinnacle of earthly power, and will give him the opportunity to rule humanity, or rather, that part of it that will succumb to his cunning fabrications. Being on the brink of death, they will naively believe that Christ the Savior is leading them forward.
Thirst for complete solitude
The news of the new ascetic, who was fleeing among the forest thickets, quickly spread around the Athos monasteries, and monks were drawn to him, filled with respect for the ascetic life of the newcomer, and who wanted to share their spiritual experience with him. This greatly distracted the Myrrh-Streaming Nile from his prayerful stay in the Heavenly World, and the enemy of the human race sent irritation, the manifestation of which, as we know, is a great sin and nullifies many works on the path of spiritual growth.
In order to avoid the devil's snares and clear the path to salvation for himself, the pious hermit decided to move to another place - one where his solitude would not be disturbed by anyone's presence. Leaving his barely habitable cell, the hermit set out on the road again, and very soon found what he wanted.
Predicting a future Russian tragedy
Many of the predictions of Nile of Athos (as he is often called in church literature) are coming true today, and give us the opportunity to see with our own eyes the truth of his statements. It is enough to give just this very typical example.
At the end of October 1817, during one of his nightly apparitions to the monk Theophan, the saint said that four twenty-five years would pass, and monasticism would dry up in a significant part of the Orthodox world. At that time, contemporaries could in no way imagine how accurately the events that followed exactly a century later in Russia, engulfed in the flames of the Bolshevik revolution, were foreshadowed.
There are many similar examples that can be given. All of them illustrate insight ─ the great gift of God, acquired through deeds that are described in detail in the life of the Myrrh-Streaming Nile, and have been passed on from mouth to mouth for many generations.
Myrrh-streaming rocks
Finally, in 1651, the end of the earthly life of the holy hermit came, and the all-merciful Lord called him to His Heavenly Kingdom. The abbot of the Lavra learned about this event from his night vision, and the next morning he sent monks to bury the mortal remains of the holy righteous man. With great difficulty, the brothers climbed the steep slope of the mountain to the shelter, where a lifeless body lay on the rocks, and, having dug a grave in the cave, they buried it.
The Life of the Myrrh-Streaming Nile, compiled shortly after his canonization, tells that soon after his blessed dormition he was glorified by the Lord, who revealed the miracle of myrrh-streaming from the walls of the cave that served him as a refuge for many years.
The aromatic oily liquid, which had healing properties, poured out so abundantly that, flowing down the mountain slope, it rushed to the coastal strip and there mixed with the sea waves. In those days, pilgrims from all over the Orthodox East came to Athos to collect the miraculous composition. From that time on, the Monk Neil was named the Myrrh-Streaming One, and his official canonization soon followed. The Russian Orthodox Church celebrates his memory twice a year: May 7 (20) and June 8 (21).
Departure to the Lord of Hieromonk Macarius
Having thus become the owners of the land, the Myrrh-Streaming Nile and his companion began clearing it of the forest that densely covered the mountainside. The God-loving relatives had to put in a lot of work before their cells appeared in the place where the forest had recently stood like an impenetrable wall. But perseverance, supported by unceasing prayer, is known to be capable of working true miracles.
Soon after the completion of the work, the Lord called Hieromonk Macarius to His heavenly abodes, and the nephew was left alone, becoming his worthy heir and successor on the path of acquiring spiritual perfection. He spent long days and nights in prayer, making efforts to finally merge in spiritual unity with the Heavenly Father. For this, in addition to the internal attitude, external factors were also necessary, the first of which was complete solitude from people, and this was often lacking.
God-sent gift of insight
Having spent many years in cave seclusion, the holy hermit left behind a rich literary heritage, devoting his free time from prayer to writing works of an ascetic nature. A special place in them is given to Divine revelations, which he accepted as a reward for his asceticism.
As has often happened in the history of Christianity, the Lord sent down to His faithful servant the great gift of clairvoyance, which allowed his inner gaze to capture pictures of the future life prepared for people. Many of them served as the basis for writing the famous prophecies of the Myrrh-Streaming Nile.
But the Athonite desert dweller made his main prophecies more than a century and a half after his death. In the period from 1813-1819. He repeatedly appeared in a night vision to the pious Svyatogorsk monk Theophan, who each time, rising in the morning, conscientiously wrote down what he heard. Thus, a collection of prophecies, repeatedly published as a separate book, and called “The Posthumous Broadcasts of the Myrrh-Streaming Nile” became the property of the Orthodox world.
