An Inspiring Tale with a Sad End

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Lazarus Short

January 31, 2013, 03:42:49 AM
Saints, I just can not get this out of my mind:

www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/For-40-Years-This-Russian-Family-Was-Cut-Off-From-Human-Contact-Unaware-of-World-War-II-188843001.html

While we in the West thought the woman in the Revelation fled into the Wilderness, and that Wilderness was the Americas, Old Believers in Russia were fleeing into another Wilderness, and a much more challenging one - Siberia.  We forget the trials and tribulations of the Orthodox side of Christianity, especially the history of the Assyrian Orthodox Church, the true Eastern Church, which is almost unknown in the West.

I think of those verses, Hebrews 11:37-38  "...they were stoned, they were cut apart with saws, they were tempted and were slain with the sword.  They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being in want, afflicted, tormented (of whom the world was not worthy).  They wandered in deserts and in mountains and in dens and caves of the earth."
Socrates taught Plato.  Plato taught Aristotle.  Aristotle tutored the son of Philip of Macedon.  This boy grew up to become Alexander the Great, largely by slaughtering a lot of people.  That's philosophy.

Jesus spoke the Truth.  He blessed the poor.  He healed the sick.  He even raised the dead.  He died on a cross for us, lived again, and came back long enough to tell us to love one another.  That's religion.

YHVH = Behold the Nail, Behold the Hand = Jesus

sheila

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January 31, 2013, 04:00:33 AM
well,I'm going to have to go read that,Laz. I saw it on ATS while ago..but hadn't read it yet.  My cardiologist

is eastern Orthodox, from Syria..graduated from Aleppo...which university he attended was bombed.

    He told me..sometimes he can't get through on telephone for week or so.  Please everyon keep

them in your prayers

   Rachael and Leah werefrom Syria  ..Antioch..in Syria is where the name 'christian' was first given to

  Jesus followers.

VineBranch

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January 31, 2013, 06:25:01 AM
Quote from: Lazarus Short on January 31, 2013, 03:42:49 AM
Saints, I just can not get this out of my mind:

www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/For-40-Years-This-Russian-Family-Was-Cut-Off-From-Human-Contact-Unaware-of-World-War-II-188843001.html

While we in the West thought the woman in the Revelation fled into the Wilderness, and that Wilderness was the Americas, Old Believers in Russia were fleeing into another Wilderness, and a much more challenging one - Siberia.  We forget the trials and tribulations of the Orthodox side of Christianity, especially the history of the Assyrian Orthodox Church, the true Eastern Church, which is almost unknown in the West.

I think of those verses, Hebrews 11:37-38  "...they were stoned, they were cut apart with saws, they were tempted and were slain with the sword.  They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being in want, afflicted, tormented (of whom the world was not worthy).  They wandered in deserts and in mountains and in dens and caves of the earth."

Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

Psalm 139:7-10
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