https://catacombhistory.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-seal-of-antichrist-in-sergianism.html
(Excerpted from a letter of the ROCOR Metropolitan Innokenty Figurovsky of Peking and China [pictured above] who reposed in 1931.)
"...Metropolitan Sergius ordered to offer a prayer for the Soviet power before the throne of God and
recognized its joys as his joys and her sorrows as his sorrows.
It is difficult to think of a more terrible blasphemy against Orthodox hierarchs and the Orthodox people. Is it really still necessary to prove now that the government that openly fights with God, which turned more than 3,000 churches into temples of their satanic religion, which brutally destroyed thousands of hierarchs and priests, ruined more than 20 million by executions and starvation - that this power is not from God, but from the devil. Is it really necessary to convince someone that we cannot rejoice in the joys of this government, which has decided to wipe the very name of the Russian people from the face of the earth, which cripples and corrupts the souls of children and youth, inoculating them with vile vices and disgusting diseases! To argue otherwise, one must lose either reason or conscience.
After 12 years of bloody terror, it is clear to everyone except those who deceive themselves that one cannot speak of any power in Russia in the human sense of the word, there are no laws and human rights; for where a wild beast reigns, instead of law, a disgusting arbitrariness reigns!
And this satanic power you, Your Eminence, together with Metropolitan Sergius, now want to recognize as legitimate. How do you not feel the horror of such blasphemy? Do you really want, together with him and his Synod, to persecute the Orthodox Church, whose true hierarchs are now not in the cities nor in royal palaces, but in prisons and in exile. Do you really want, together with Metropolitan Sergius and the Chekists to plant the abomination of desolation in the holy place, do you want to join with the Antichrist and do his work?
Do not try to deceive yourself and others with words of guile. By recognizing Metropolitan Sergius as your head - does this not mean fulfilling all his orders, following the path along which he himself is going? To be loyal to the Bolsheviks, to renounce any active struggle with them, [this loyalty] is demanded by Metropolitan Sergius from all who recognize him - is not this a renunciation of Christ, the acceptance of that seal of the Antichrist, about which St. John the Evangelist speaks in his Revelation?
You are trying in vain to play on the tender familial feelings of the emigration for our brothers, who were captured in the USSR. Believe me, many of them preferred prison and exile to the confession of
Metropolitan Sergius. The time is coming in the USSR, and it has already come, when all who have
not accepted the seal of the antichrist will be deprived of the right to life, the right to sell and buy.
You, no doubt, have read about the persecution of the Bolsheviks against the "kulak" - honest workers
who earn their bread by their labor and are guilty only of not going into slavery to the satanic power.
For this, their property is taken from them; many of them are killed. But they continue to fight and suffer for the Orthodox faith and Holy Russia, sacrificing everything. And here, at large, will we calmly look at their torment, will we refuse to fight their executioners in our cowardice? Or do you not feel
that we will join the crimes of the Chekists, we will be guilty of the death of those tortured by them,
if we do not fight with all our might against the army of Satan, which is oppressing our Motherland? The fight against the communists is our sacred duty."
"...Metropolitan Sergius ordered to offer a prayer for the Soviet power before the throne of God and
recognized its joys as his joys and her sorrows as his sorrows.
It is difficult to think of a more terrible blasphemy against Orthodox hierarchs and the Orthodox people. Is it really still necessary to prove now that the government that openly fights with God, which turned more than 3,000 churches into temples of their satanic religion, which brutally destroyed thousands of hierarchs and priests, ruined more than 20 million by executions and starvation - that this power is not from God, but from the devil. Is it really necessary to convince someone that we cannot rejoice in the joys of this government, which has decided to wipe the very name of the Russian people from the face of the earth, which cripples and corrupts the souls of children and youth, inoculating them with vile vices and disgusting diseases! To argue otherwise, one must lose either reason or conscience.
After 12 years of bloody terror, it is clear to everyone except those who deceive themselves that one cannot speak of any power in Russia in the human sense of the word, there are no laws and human rights; for where a wild beast reigns, instead of law, a disgusting arbitrariness reigns!
And this satanic power you, Your Eminence, together with Metropolitan Sergius, now want to recognize as legitimate. How do you not feel the horror of such blasphemy? Do you really want, together with him and his Synod, to persecute the Orthodox Church, whose true hierarchs are now not in the cities nor in royal palaces, but in prisons and in exile. Do you really want, together with Metropolitan Sergius and the Chekists to plant the abomination of desolation in the holy place, do you want to join with the Antichrist and do his work?
Do not try to deceive yourself and others with words of guile. By recognizing Metropolitan Sergius as your head - does this not mean fulfilling all his orders, following the path along which he himself is going? To be loyal to the Bolsheviks, to renounce any active struggle with them, [this loyalty] is demanded by Metropolitan Sergius from all who recognize him - is not this a renunciation of Christ, the acceptance of that seal of the Antichrist, about which St. John the Evangelist speaks in his Revelation?
You are trying in vain to play on the tender familial feelings of the emigration for our brothers, who were captured in the USSR. Believe me, many of them preferred prison and exile to the confession of
Metropolitan Sergius. The time is coming in the USSR, and it has already come, when all who have
not accepted the seal of the antichrist will be deprived of the right to life, the right to sell and buy.
You, no doubt, have read about the persecution of the Bolsheviks against the "kulak" - honest workers
who earn their bread by their labor and are guilty only of not going into slavery to the satanic power.
For this, their property is taken from them; many of them are killed. But they continue to fight and suffer for the Orthodox faith and Holy Russia, sacrificing everything. And here, at large, will we calmly look at their torment, will we refuse to fight their executioners in our cowardice? Or do you not feel
that we will join the crimes of the Chekists, we will be guilty of the death of those tortured by them,
if we do not fight with all our might against the army of Satan, which is oppressing our Motherland? The fight against the communists is our sacred duty."
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