Skywalker ?

“Star Wars” – as you may know, is a  film series whose ninth episode will premiere this winter, and which may soon be seen by multitudes in cinemas around the world.
The title will  be “The Rise of Skywalker”.
It can be transcribed as: “The Ascension of the One who Walks on the Sky”.

   Wait a minute !  Walk on the sky .. Come with the Clouds ?

Are there “signs of the times” woven into contemporary glamorous, more or less superficial Hollywood projects ?

I perceive, if nothing else, a certain reverberation of the word in the nineteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke, verse 40: “ if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out“.

      Who. among believers, are talking about “the One who is coming with the Clouds” nowadays ?
            He, who according to Scriptures,  does not “ascend”, but descends on the clouds                                                    

                                                                               1 Thess. 4: 16-17

Not to release the Mueller report would be a betrayal against God!

At least that is the impression I get when I put the contents of two articles in the morning’s news against each other.

One is the Democratic Presidential candidate and California-based Senator Kamala Harris, whose statement is highlighted by Breitbart:

“Kamala Harris: Trump Has ‘Relied on Vladimir Putin’ over Intel Community“

“...I believe there is no question, however, that the president has relied on Vladimir Putin over the men and women who have sacrificed in many cases or willing to sacrifice their lives – they are the intelligence community of the United States – to give the president information that he should believe, and upon which he should base his priorities around who our friends and who are not ... “

Another is the New York Times article “Putin’s One Weapon: The ‘Intelligence State’”

  “So, to best prepare for future Russian assaults, we should look to the past and study the mind-set of the Cold War K.G.B. — the intelligence service in which President Putin spent his formative years. The history of the brutal Soviet security services lays bare the roots of Russia’s current use of political arrests, subversion, disinformation, assassination, espionage and the weaponization of lies. None of those tactics is new to the Kremlin. 

In fact, those tactics made Soviet Russia the world’s first “intelligence state,” and they also distinguished it from authoritarian states run by militaries. Today’s Russia has become even more of an intelligence state after Mr. Putin’s almost 20-year tenure as its strongman“

How can it then be discussed at all whether the Mueller report should be published,
or not? 

(The Attorney General William Barr: “I don’t know at the end of the day what will be releasable,” Barr told the US Senate during his January confirmation hearing. “I am going to make as much information available as I can consistent with the rules and regulations“)

 

In the light of the above, it might not just be a betrayal of American citizens, but of humanity, if not against God himself.

Yesterday a memorial march was held for Boris Nemtsov in Moscow.

About him, Sergey Dorenko writes in Echo Moskvy: “Villainy interrupted the way of Boris“.

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“…posts shaking ..” – Amos 9:1

Or what impression could you get ? Here is an excerpt from a recent post (in english translation) from a blog written by the Russian Orthodox theologian  Andrey Kurayev:

 

Three Russian attempts to convene a General – Ecumenical – Council to Russia

Already in 1397 there was an idea of ​​convening a General Church Council to Rus. It was actually a Lithuanian idea.

The Metropolitan of Kiev and all of Russia, Kirian (who had lived in Moscow), turned to the Patriarch of Constantinople, Antonio, along with the Lithuanian prince Jagello from Smolensk. Then the purpose of the Church Council was to unite with the Catholics.

The Patriarch was not against it, but said that times were rebellious and warlike, and that no one would come (especially not from Egypt). “Yes, and even in peaceful times, Russia (“Rosias” in Greek) is an inappropriate place for a General Church Council”.

The second attempt to convene a General Church meeting took place in 1448.

And now before our eyes, Moscow is conducting a third approach to the theme – in the form of a call to gather an All-orthodox Church Council to address the actions of the Constantinople Patriarchy in Ukraine…

 

 

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