What Elder Paisios Svyatogorets said about coronavirus
In 1994, a certain elder Paisius the Svyatogorets died on Mount Athos. And before his death, he whispered something in his cell attendant’s ear. After this, he took a vow of silence and went to a remote monastery. There were rumors that before his death the Lord revealed to Elder Paisius some secret about what awaits us in the future.
The cell attendant kept it for a long time. But the years took their toll. Shortly before his death, he gave one of the novices who brought him food a sealed envelope with the words: “When the time comes, let people recognize God’s providence.” The text of the prophecy was published on a closed forum on the deep Internet. Nowadays it is impossible to find a whole text all over the Internet. One of the users managed to record it from the screen:
“When the northern king puts on the crown for the fourth time, because of the sins of the people, the Lord will allow the devil’s machinations. Then a tenth of the crown will fall from every city, from every stronghold, from every seed and people and tongue. And the air will be taken away from them, and they will no longer be able to breathe. And their cry will be heard to heaven. Then three summers will change before the crown is broken with a hammer by pundits. And the memory of the crown and great fear in people will remain. And they will sin no more, and will turn to the Lord God.”
How to correctly understand the words of St. Paisius Svyatogorets about the vaccine?
Here we examine in detail the answer to the question of how to evaluate the words of St. Paisius Svyatogorets about the vaccine.
As for the attitude towards QR codes, this is just a renewed fear of TIN, passports, etc., which has been around for many decades, even centuries - only the type of “scary” document is changing.
Regarding all this, there is an official document of the VII Plenum of the Synodal Theological Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church
“The idea, widespread among some Orthodox Christians, that “the Antichrist has not yet appeared, but seals are already being affixed,” or that there is some kind of “pre-seal,” contradicts the church teaching about the appearance of the Antichrist in the “last times” of human history.”
Here are some more materials about the Taxpayer Identification Number (substitute the QR code instead of the Taxpayer Identification Number, the essence will not change).
However, judging by your comments to each answer, you are not at all interested in the answer to the question, you are simply looking for confirmation of your opinion, your indignation based on superstitious fear. Or you just want to convey your opinion to others. And you see that you are right in the fact that certain clergy share your opinion, or say something consistent with your opinion. Unfortunately, a number of priests, for a number of reasons, call on their flock to perform certain civil actions that do not have religious significance, while passing them off as religious elections, and even arrogating to themselves the right to speak on behalf of the entire Church.
On this occasion, we can recall the words of the Patriarch:
“But it is worth recalling: one of the reasons for schisms and disorder is that individual Christians and even pastors boldly consider themselves unsurpassed experts in church teaching, infallible interpreters of Holy Scripture, judges of the Church, bearers of some special gift that exceeds that given by God in the Sacraments of Baptism and Holy Orders . Today, such “zealots not according to reason” are not aware of the danger of giving their limited judgments the character of “general church teaching.”
You and I must remember that the world and its history are in the hands of God, and our salvation, like our spiritual destruction, cannot happen by itself, for any external reasons, without our personal participation. Only deep living faith, conscious spiritual work, active collaboration with Christ can achieve salvation for us. And, on the contrary, only a free and conscious renunciation of the Lord and Savior leads to destruction. Therefore, the fate of the world and the fate of our Fatherland today largely depends on us, Christians, on our spiritual and moral state, on our prayer and repentance, on our ability to carry the good news and do works of mercy.”
What Elder Paisios Svyatogorets said about the coronavirus vaccine
Today, many opponents of vaccination against coronavirus refer to the prophecy of Elder Paisius. Among them is one of the famous anti-vaxxers - actress Maria Shukshina.
In fact, there is no evidence that this is a vaccine against COVID-19. Back in the middle of the 20th century, the famous Paisius said that a certain “seal of the beast” (the devil’s mark) would appear, which would mark people like animals in order to later control them. This prophecy began to be associated with a fake about microchipping that was popular on the Internet.
Psychologist Ekaterina Trofimova explained that such confidence in the reality of predictions and conspiracy theories can be explained by a person’s desire to exaggerate their significance, specialness, and to feel involved in something larger.
“The lower the level of scientific awareness, the more fantastic hypotheses arise that cause a wow effect, such as chipping and reptilians who have seized power,” says Ekaterina Trofimova.
By spreading such information, he goes against the system. This is also explained by the fact that our society is in adolescence, Trofimova is sure.
“I am unique, I take a strong position because I go against the system.” If such a position prevails in society, it means that society is in the adolescent period of development. In total, this is such a rebellion against the “universal parent,” she explained.
What did Elder Paisios talk about?
Photo: from the author’s archive
My friend, a priest of one of the suburban churches of St. Petersburg, Fr. Paul is not at all in favor of vaccination, but he also does not insist on its universal obligatory nature, believing that a vaccine is simply a medicine that has nothing to do with spiritual work.
Father Paul is confident that the pandemic is God’s visit to corrupt nations, including our people. And it is treated not so much and not only by a vaccine, but by turning people away from a sinful life and repentance, to which the Lord’s Baptist John the Baptist called almost two thousand years ago.
“Let the one who has the opportunity to choose make it himself,” says Fr. Pavel, “for the person himself decides whether to take antibiotics or not, whether to give an anesthetic injection before treating a bad tooth, cross the road at a red light, or wait for the green light.”
“Although,” he notes, “sometimes there is no choice - for example, in the army and navy or in the special services. Everyone there is vaccinated and there are practically no outbreaks of disease, let alone mortality.”
And it’s hard to imagine what could happen to combat readiness if, for example, this infection penetrates into a missile division on combat duty, or onto a warship with a crew of a couple of thousand people, without encountering any resistance.
For example, I absolutely cannot believe that the Minister of Defense and the President, as the Commander-in-Chief, decided to exterminate their own army, special services and navy by ordering their entire personnel to be vaccinated against this disease. But from the logic of opponents of vaccination, this is exactly the conclusion that suggests itself.
And if we consider our country as a battlefield, then perhaps compulsoryness in this case is necessary. But such a decision should be made by secular authorities, not spiritual ones.
Fr. himself Pavel was vaccinated several months ago and, having an antibody test of four thousand BAU/ml, lived quietly and served God zealously.
But then recently one pious servant of God - an old woman, a faster and a prayer book - during another controversy related to vaccination against this disease, very Fr. Pavel was confused.
She “rubbed his nose” into the prophecy from the book of St. Paisius of the Svyatogorets “Words. Spiritual awakening. Volume II".
In this volume, on page 187, the words of Elder Paisius are quoted: “And now another disease has appeared, against which a vaccine has already been found. It will be mandatory, and when a person is vaccinated, he will also be given a stamp.”
Discussing this fact with me over tea in his kitchenette, Fr. Paul, sighing sadly, said: “You see, this statement is accepted today by many Orthodox Christians as completely non-negotiable, in the form of such an indisputable and immutable truth. And one also very pious servant of God, on the basis of this “prophecy”, even made a video called “What Paisius the Holy Mountain said about the pandemic and the injections from it. Quotes from a book from 2003” and posted it on his YouTube channel as strong evidence of his “reinforced concrete” position on the issue of vaccination. Like such a “butt that you can’t break with a whip.”
“Special attention,” continued Fr. Paul,” emphasizes that these words were spoken by Elder Paisios as a 100% prophecy, long before the emergence of all “this music” associated with the emergence of the COVID-19 virus, vaccines and QR codes. And in fact, it is precisely with this “prophecy” and supposedly its complete embodiment in the modern world that opponents of vaccination are now convincing many, many people that they are right.”
Father Pavel picked up the second volume of Elder Paisius and continued his “speech”: “Look, I actually have a 2016 edition, but with a similar text and here on page 179 the title is part three “On Spiritual Courage.” Chapter One “On the Signs of the Times.” It is in this chapter that the phrase of Elder Paisius is found. The footnote to the title of this chapter reads: “What is collected in this chapter was spoken or written by St. Paisius between 1981 and 1994.”
Let's assume that these words were spoken by Paisius thirty years before the appearance of this disease - approximately in 1990. Let's speculate?
Firstly, the elder’s words “has now appeared” indicate that the disease he is talking about was already widely known during the earthly life of the saint himself. Paisia.
But until 2022, no one had heard of the disease associated with COVID-19 and had no idea about it. Consequently, the disease that Elder Paisius speaks of has nothing to do with the modern destructive virus.
Secondly, Rev. Paisiy also claims that during his lifetime “a vaccine had already been found” against this disease.
But our Russian vaccine “Sputnik V” was registered by the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation in August 2022. And the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine was only approved for use in the UK vaccination program at the end of December 2022. So here, too, there is a discrepancy between the interpretation of the “prophecy” and reality.
Thirdly, the holy fathers of the Church argued that a prerequisite for accepting a “seal” is the voluntariness of its acceptance by a person - namely, as the “seal of the Antichrist” with worship of him and recognition of his power over oneself. And not under the guise of a vaccination, tattoo, medicinal marker or other modern “electronic mules.”
Father Pavel took a piece of paper with printed text: “I’m preparing materials for the sermon here. So, Abbot Andronik (Trubachev), who died last year, studied the patristic heritage on this issue even during the time of heated polemics on the INN, it was on the basis of this heritage that he came to the conclusion that “accepting the seal of the Antichrist is associated with the rejection of Christ, with such a sinful life , which in itself, regardless of accepting the seal of the Antichrist, leads to death. The violent technical or medical-biological imposition of the seal of the Antichrist on a believer in Christ and living according to His commandments, especially if he is not aware of this, cannot separate him from Christ.”
The statement of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church dated March 7, 2000, says absolutely correctly, precisely in this regard, that “in patristic tradition such a seal was understood as a sign confirming the conscious renunciation of Christ.”
One of the most authoritative confessors of our Church, whom I had the good fortune to know personally, Elder John (Krestyankin) wrote: “A seal will follow only a person’s personal renunciation of God, and not deception. There is no point in deception. The Lord needs our heart that loves Him.”
So the words of Elder Paisius that “when a person is vaccinated, he will also be given a seal” contradict and generally do not correspond to the patristic teaching on this issue.
Father Paul put aside the piece of paper and the book of Elder Paisios: “And finally, fourthly, arguments associated with the statements of holy people are usually exploited with the message that these people glorified as saints could not be mistaken, since they are saints. But the history of the Church shows many examples when saints made mistakes. For example, how Cyril of Alexandria was mistaken in relation to John Chrysostom or how the future holy new martyrs of the Russian Church were mistaken in relation to our Holy Martyr Tsar and his dear wife or to their friend Grigory Rasputin, who was killed by atheist Satanists. Or, as the Rev. was mistaken. the martyr Grand Duchess Elisaveta Feodorovna towards these murderers, sending them her blessing for this act.
As you know, I highly respect Elder Paisius and closely study his legacy, but in this case - regarding the affixing of the “seal of the Antichrist” by deception - he is completely wrong, and his saying about the disease and the vaccine was deliberately “far-fetched” to own conjectures and fantasies.
It turns out that there is some kind of distorted relationship between how a person forms his opinion and the arguments with which he substantiates this opinion. Either fear, or some kind of special wounded thinking fetters a person, and he loses the ability to soberly comprehend what he heard, saw and read.
How do you think? Why don’t they trust the completely sober opinion of our authorities and the opinion of the Church in this matter? After all, a thousand people die every day. Is there really not a drop of pity left in our hearts?”
I shrugged my shoulders and said nothing. And what can you answer to such a truly “reinforced concrete” opinion? Now let those who fooled people with the help of Elder Paisius’s statement refute this opinion. I have no doubt that they will have enough energy and information material from infernal forces and “Western partners”...
Priest Sergiy Chechanichev, publicist, St. Petersburg
The theologian explained whether the QR code and the COVID vaccine are the seal of the Antichrist
The head of the apologetic mission sector of the Synodal Missionary Department of the Russian Orthodox Church, candidate of theology priest Georgy Maximov, who previously debunked the fake about the “liquid chip,” explained in his author’s blog whether QR codes and coronavirus vaccines are the seal of the Antichrist described in the book of the Apocalypse.
“No, they are not,” the clergyman emphasized and explained why this is so:
- in Chapter 13 of the Apocalypse it is said that before the seal is placed, the Antichrist will become the ruler over all nations, there will be one state and one ruler on earth;
- even before the seal, the Antichrist will perform great signs and wonders, incl. publicly bringing fire down from the sky;
- at that time those living on earth will make an image of the beast, and this image will speak and act in such a way that “everyone who does not worship the image of the beast will be killed”;
- they will put the mark of the Antichrist all over the earth, on all people, on the forehead and on the right hand;
- the Apostle Paul writes that the Antichrist, having first appeared, “will sit in the temple of God as God, showing himself to be God”;
- Christ says that “this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.”
Those. the end will not come until the Gospel is preached to all nations, and that is still very far away, the priest emphasized.
“Is it possible to put a code on the forehead and on the right hand? Or maybe someone is vaccinated in the forehead? Does the only ruler of the earth openly call himself God in the temple? None of these criteria and signs occurred,” he stated.
A vaccine, in principle, cannot be the seal of the Antichrist, because it must be a clearly visible sign, and the statements of some false teachers who talk about using the word “charagma” to mean a snake bite and draw analogies with an injection “do not stand up to criticism.” Firstly, the priest explained, in the case of a snake bite we are talking about a visible mark, and secondly, nasal vaccines have now been developed.
As for QR codes, they cannot be the seal of the Antichrist, he added.
“If only because the same people who are disseminating these statements now have been convincing us for more than 20 years that the seal of the Antichrist is the EAN-13 barcode, then the TIN, new passports, etc. and so on. Every two years, approximately the same group of people spreads these horror stories, simply changing the names - which this time they declared to be the seal of the Antichrist,” concluded Priest Georgy Maximov.
Earlier, the UOJ published a commentary by the hierarch of the UOC Bishop Victor (Kotsaba) about whether the vaccine is the beginning of the apocalypse.
Prophecy of Paisius the Holy Mountain about Vaccination and the Seal of the Antichrist
Continuation. Start here If we compare the words of St. Paisius with the words of scientists (researchers of modern processes), in particular, in the field of macroeconomics and geopolitics, then the authors of “New Babylon” will turn out to be quite real, world-famous persons. In particular, V.Yu. Katasonov [7]
says: “There are too many signs that the “masters of money” are seeking to establish complete power over the world - from “masters of money” they want to turn into “masters of the world.”
All your actions aimed at building a new
world order, they cover it up with “beautiful” words that all this is being done for the sake of the “well-being of humanity”... The crafty admonitions of the world elite about the conveniences and benefits of digitalization are ultimately intended to lure individual nations and all of humanity into a “digital mousetrap”, or "global electronic concentration camp".
With the help of digital technology, the world elite plans, first of all, to establish control over human behavior and life. "" " [8]
2) What are the signs of a system of subjugation of the world, where vaccination is a condition of life in New Babylon?
About vaccination
St.
Paisius also speaks about the “ system,”
emphasizing that through its introduction “the Antichrist wants
to subjugate
the whole world.”
Unlike all previous ones, anti-Covid vaccination is truly a system, the rules of which ALREADY determine the life in society of each of us. After all, only by taking an anti-Covid vaccine can a person receive a QR code - his “ticket” to public relations and “evidence” of his voluntary entry into the digital control system. This is the procedure for personal redemption of the actual right to retain a job, the right to use public transport, etc. - i.e. economic right to “buy and sell”.
No one will argue that our life entered such a totalitarian direction precisely with COVID-19 and the vaccination campaign against this virus. Never before has vaccination been either universally obligatory for all people on Earth, or determining a person’s future socio-economic prospects. This is the new order of life established by the “nobles of the Earth” - this is the system of anti-crisis management and control not only of economic processes, but also of everyone who agrees to these rules.
3) “Grafting is a method of printing”
It is obvious that the “system of subordination of the world” that St. Petersburg spoke about. Paisius, is already in action and the vector of events is becoming more and more clear... Is it reasonable, observing the fulfillment of the prophecy in a significant part of it, to question the words of the reverend father glorified by the Orthodox Church that some medicine under the guise of a vaccine will be a way
applying the “seal-mark of the Antichrist”?
And doesn’t the especially noted St. deserve close attention? Paisium is the cause-and-effect relationship between the globally mandatory vaccine
and
the suffering of people
? – Sufferings, which, according to the testimony of the Holy Spirit, will, alas...
Therefore, guided by the patristic advice of St. Andrew of Caesarea and following the course of reasoning of St. Paisiya, we have made an attempt to examine the words of the Holy Scriptures at those significant “points” to which the holy Athonite elder drew our attention in his prophecy: “vaccination is a way
printing”, “the vaccine is the cause, suffering is the effect.”
Χαράγμα "- marking? seal? or…
In patristic writing, the concept of “seal of the Antichrist” is traditionally used as a synonym for the concept of “mark” of the beast. And, although lexically the words “print” and “inscription” are not synonymous, in the context of the peculiarities of semantic erudition of previous eras such an association was probably more acceptable for perception.
If we examine the lexical correspondence of this term to the words of Holy Scripture, we must turn to the original ancient Greek text of Revelation, where the word χαράγμα
([charagma], see Rev. 13:17).
According to the ancient Greek-Russian dictionary A.D. Weisman (1899), its translation has, in particular, the following meanings: “inscribed”, “mark”, “INJURY”
, “snake stinging”.
Thanks to this clarification, the idea of accepting the “mark” of the beast, which is spoken of in the 13th chapter of the Apocalypse, acquires very relevant contours. This part also confirms the testimony of St. Paisiy Svyatogorets that anti-virus vaccination will be a way of applying a “seal-mark”.
“Magic injection” or “snake bite”?
One way or another, the image of perception of the “seal-mark” is associated with the prospect of death and suffering. And if the Holy Scripture says that everyone who accepts the “mark of the beast” thereby dooms their souls to suffering in Eternity, then St. Paisios clarifies that those who accept the “seal vaccine” will suffer greatly already in earthly life. It turns out that consent to vaccination will be a step that precedes suffering both “here” and “there”.
This clarification of the elder refers us to the 18th chapter of the Revelation of the Apostle John, where the terrible atrocities of the Harlot of Babylon are mentioned, for which this entire system with its adherents will be completely destroyed by God:
"...for her sins
[The harlot of Babylon]
reached heaven and God remembered
iniquities ... your merchants
[of New Babylon] were the nobles of the earth, and
magic were deceived
.
And in it
[in New Babylon] was found the blood
of prophets and saints and
of all
those killed on earth”
(cf. Rev. 18:5, 23-24).
In the context of these lines of Holy Scripture, first of all, a reasonable question arises regarding the term “ magic
Whores of Babylon,” denoting the process that will become the “starting point” for the blood, suffering and murder of humanity.
What is hidden behind the deadly “magic”
?
