Posted by Orest Burtnik on May 25, 2000 at 07:10:42:
In Reply to: Ukraine posted by Phil Fijalkovich on March 25, 2000 at 05:47:31:
: Greetings,
: I'm representing the Ukraine for a model United Nations conference that I am attending. I was hoping some people could inform me on the ways of Ukraine. It wouldn't be too much, just a little bit. Such as: is there anything that Ukraine really, really stresses in its foreign policy? what it finds most important? etc. Any basic information would be great, thanks
: Phil Fijalkovich
Greetings to you Philip: I am from Toronto, Canada.
Did you ever read the history of Ivan Rasputin? He was assasinated in Russia
and he predicted that IF he were killed, Russia would undergo 70 years of turmoil.
Well, that is what actually happened. BUT -
While I was in Kiev a few years ago, and saw the poverty and backward way of
life, I recalled what I read about Rasputin. (By the way there is another rasputin
in power now in Russia. Only he is known as Putin. The RAS has been omitted.)
But my thoughts centered on their plight. WHY? Why this disaster?
You know that (and you may be one of them) the Orthodox Church rules in that
part of the world. Supposedly, they are Christians. But listen, the Bible emphatically
forbids the making of Icons and Statues, to be used in any form of Religion.
For many years, the barbaric nature of humanity in Russia and those parts of the
world, was NOT CHANGED. God would not allow blessing upon a country and its
people who deliberately broke that Commandment, (one of the 10 Commandments)
that says, "THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE ANY GRAVEN IMAGE, OR ANY
LIKENESS OF ANY THING THAT IS IN HEAVEN ABOVE,OR THAT IS IN THE EARTH
BENEATH . . . THOU SHALT NOT BOW DOWN THYSELF TO THEM NOR SERVE THEM.
FOR I THE LORD THY GOD AM A JEALOUS GOD, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children UNTO THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION OF THEM THAT
HATE ME." This is found in EXODUS, chapter 20, verses 4 & 5. (2nd Book of Moses)
What does the Orthodox Church do and promote??? Just exactly the opposite
to what God wants people to do. T H I S is why the calamity has befallen our
UKRAINE, RUSSIA, and all those countries where this idolatry exists.
And God has withheld blessing and allowed the curse of Communism to ravage
our people. Now, they have not learned this lesson, and the Religion that was
supposed to bring blessing has produced a curse upon the whole nation.
This, my brother, is what tradition and religion has accomplished for us.
One last thing, for now. Before Jesus Christ was crucified, Pilate the Roman judge
said to the Jews, "I find no fault in this man" (speaking of Jesus). The Jews were
so hateful against Jesus, that they replied, "Let His blood be upon us and our
children." Thus, after the Romans destroyed Jerusalem in 70 AD, most of the Jews
fled to the north, and many of them settled in Poland, Russia, Ukraine, etc.
So if you examine these scenes of history, The Jews brought THEIR curse with
them. These lands were therefore saddled with a DOUBLE CURSE.!!
Orthodoxy and Jewish hatred for Christ. God waited many years to fulfil His warnings
which I quoted from Exodus 20:4, 5. But in the New Testament, S. Peter writes,
"The Lord is not slack concerning His promise . . . but is longsuffering (patient)
toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."
2nd Peter 3:9. Those that are Born Again, according to St. John, chapter 3, receive
blessing, as Jesus Christ has promised. But don't be fooled, America and Canada
are next to receive a curse. Simply because of OUR turning from the obedience of
God's Commands, to going after sexual pleasures, and sports. Disregarding the
Lord's Day, Homosexuality, Divorces, etc, etc.
I Hope you will write me and give me your interpretation of the calamity that has
affected our Ukraine.
Your brother,
Orest Burtnik - lob@idirect.com