hello and welcome to our program the orthodox christian mission presents i'm judith i remodel your host producer the program in america we have had a revival of a most insidious teaching that goes way back to the teachings of pagan greece and egypt among you isn't talking about outside the holy orthodox church is talking about the holy churches he founded and founded by the other apostles they were called orthodox after that council that constantine called to set the church in order the orthodox or right believing church by the grace of the holy spirit holds the correct tradition of the commentaries in scripture the teachings of the fathers and mothers of the faith we keep the tradition in prayer in our church councils what ever it is that is the proper flowing out of the gift of the holy spirit that resides within the church so where do we go to escape these heresies first of all where to go from glory to glory how are we to do that by praying the scriptures by becoming one with christ in his life in his church the church is the extension of the body and life of christ on the earth we are joined with our head who is seated at the right end of the father when we are part of the holy church and have been baptized into the faith not work careful of tradition so the safest place to go is to the greek orthodox  basil the new and theodora which goes in to the myth that is used by the russians in the nineteenth century some of the russian bishops who were terribly misled and also by sarah from rose this myth originated in the race which is now bulgaria the race was one of the hotbeds of given to gregory of the race and their door is talking to him from the dad saying that as she ascended into these twenty toll houses her friend  who was very holy allowed her to pay at each toll house for any thing lacking in her own good deeds so that she could go on to be with the lord suppose she describes a hassle coming to her as she began the toll house ascent he took something that appeared like a little big of gold and said to the angels here's the treasure prayers for this so that i have as you pass the torments of the air pay her debts with this in the first torment we see the holy angels offered some of my good deeds to pay off for my angry words and foul language since these were not enough they paid something from the treasure given me by bells of the hope each one of the twenty told houses with test whether she had done enough good deeds to balance the foul of these of murder fornication and others then at the fifteenth time and we see the real reason for these toll houses confession will save the person from many misfortunes and much unhappiness everything must be confessed to one's spiritual father in order to extract confession of every tiny detail of the life these clergy that are preaching  toll house will tell small children even as well as people captured by this thought that they must confess every small detail of their thought life this leads to to a toll house for instance the demons would judge which is the premise in this blasphemy the soul and take it to hell as if they have any power or live it go on to heaven so we have to dora having to draw on the virtuous deeds of basil to pay for her evil deeds as she goes from toll house to toll house from demon to demon who are extracting payments to join i had converted from her past life as a prostitute of course beloved to rescue her beloved who had gone and big captured by the god of the dead as she went down she had to pay tolls and gradually she was left without jewels she had to pay with clothing whatever she had to pay off the demonic evil one that would finally allow her after she paid to go in prostitutes it was a cult of fertility and during the winter time of course when she went to eighties there were no crops this tell how smith is a  she reaches the highest heaven and is in this case at home with the lord having peter her s egypt was enthralled with death they were surrounded by it of course in those days many diseases malaria dangers from warring tribes sickness and death all of this was a common everyday occurrence that that people in those days accepted so because a life was so short on this earth they wanted to make sure that they were prepared for an afterlife now until the jewish people came the first people from the patriarch jacob and all of his clan before they came to egypt there was no revelation of of god's plan of salvation and bringing people out of the thrall of satan and de after the israel lights came and were formed as a nation then the revelation of god started again through moses and we had the beginning of the fees of israel which would be picked up by messiah a thousand fifteen hundred years later as he came into his people in the restored nation promised to abraham and to his seed thousand years before that so in egypt they had eventually a revelation of a true god as he existed in the hebrew people as he revealed himself to moses and to aaron into the leaders and to the people of israel through the fe there was a blatant and overpowering culture of death and part of this love of death is be false idea that the so was the person that the body did not matter the most important thing we find is their belief in the judgement of the soul by the various gods of egypt that were worshiped the soul was weighed according to good deeds and bad now this would set up a formula kept by the nations the pagan nations in which the soul would be the main out existent after death the body was a throw away this happened this was brought into the greeks also and the soul would gradually goal into enlightenment by itself without the body the body was actually in this concept of paganism and evil a source of death a source of evil let's get into how this very false pagan idea was brought into somehow the christian life and understanding of the soul and as it existed after death in the deserts of egypt north africa even up into the arabian peninsula north of that into what we know is iran and iraq today along the grady's river there were people that thought of themselves as wanted to be purified they wanted to kill off or at least weaken the body because in their pagan idea they thought that the body was the source of death and evil now is the revelation of christ came into the world we realize the body was healed by christ obviously the body was poured out it shared in the redemptive actions of christ so in the desert right before christ and just after for the first three hundred years when they were still coming in to the faith in those areas we have non christian  we're christian monks monastics of course careful to live in separate communities in order to have a life of prayer and in order to overcome the enemy the christian monks had this their model christ in the wilderness who went in and overcame satan by the word of god these christian  and had memorized the book of psalms which was their daily prayer the gospels and many if not all of the epistles the new testament in those days was memorized they didn't have a lot of books and pyorrhea were very very expensive so they had to learn by rote even today in these tribes in these nations rote learning is used as the children learn to repeat all over and over what ever it is in their tribal memory since we have the holy spirit working in our christian and in the families all of us the holy spirit brings to mind as all that we need to know christ has said about the holy spirit he will bring to mind all that you need to say so we have the deserts very few people populating them the first three centuries the manichean a pagan group that believed that the body was the evil they were under that whole tradition of pagan ideology that thought that the body was evil and the less they feared the body the less they cared for the more they thought about death overcoming the life that was in the body that they would be triumphant in the next world you have these pagans with this idea this false idea and women there were many large women groups of monastics they were called monks too as we know in galatians there is no male or female in christ in that since there is a oneness in the search for salvation and the transformation of the human person as taught by christ through his apostles so we have these two groups pagan and christian was part of the manic eons for many years he was trained in the idea that the body was evil he never repented of this he lived in about three forty so this is where some of the cross pollination takes place you have st isaac of syria who is out there in those deserts talking in one of his hom lived in about the seventh century he writes be aware of corrupt heresies and demonic fantasies like ariel toll houses visions of angels in the sky  just lie the gnostics who were in the holy land in europe were teaching that there would be judgments just like the  egypt we would go down for the judgement into the nether parts in more christian renditions of this in order to attract christians they reversed this and made and they're sent into the heavenly to be equal with god which of course is the first temptation given to eve you can be equal with god and god still if he doesn't want you to be that was the garden of eden as we will see appearing both in the ancient and in our own times in america the soul is seen to be the seat a mystical experiences this is largely taught by a gust and we have it in the understandings these so called revelations of the soul appearing to people after death floating around and existence of its own this is completely contrary to holy scriptures we will talk about those who have introduced this blasphemous theory based in pagan traditions egyptian book of the dead the weighing of the soul all of this let's go to who introduced this and how in our own century serafin rose studied as a young man eugene rose chinese tao buddhism all sorts of eastern religions he was very intelligent he fits the bill for a saint isaac's warning that keen waited monks would start up with this celestial toll houses two or three people living with him in a monastery but writing and finding publishers for his work he was able to fund a great amount of writings he was able to publish them there translated into romanian russian all sorts of languages chinese now doing irreparable  also i can use myself as an example i came into orthodoxy of course through this marvelous descent into hades that is the very heart of the teaching of the resurrection and pasta which is the correct word instead of easter protestants you are absolutely correct easter is a very bad term it's nothing to do with of pass over which is what pasta means i came am exalting over these wonderful answers from the apostles teachings only to meet this teaching of from rose my hold background in seminary had been exposing the gnostic that is the pagan teaching of the body is evil the soul is good here i come face to face with this other blasphemy all the worse because people should know better he brings in again this parallel idea of salvation not based on the christian of christ saving us from our san on the cross say biggest from death as it goes into hades and route satan saving us from fear of death and bringing us into paradise as we wait with the old testament saints for heaven to open in the final time after his second coming sarah from rose feeding gnostic desert manichean which went into china all these people that hated the body supposedly doing away with the body instead of channeling bodily passions they wanted to kill the body trying to get rid of the physical aspects of the temptations of the body here i must interpose very necessary insight into sarah from rose's love of all things russian death and the moment of death and what happens to the soul after death leo tolstoy also became a narrative of the bizarre because society and its movement seeing death all around them the russian people surrounded by a very harsh nature where predisposed to understand that the soul was perhaps the only thing that they could rely on for an peter the great had done much damage to orthodoxy and little was left of a real spiritual teaching the orthodox faith that would have relieved this angsty this anguish of the russian spirit that forced them into an investigation of secrets of the debt because peter the great in the seventeenth century brought in the jesuits into these seminaries wanted to be westernized in very modern as he thought and others who are teaching this let know that whole houses which i've come to them through russian tales of meals and other gnostic sext told houses would appeal to someone ans chapter two verse twenty why is it living in the world you subject yourselves to regulations do not touch neither taste nor handle whatever the things are which things indeed have a reputation of wisdom in self devised to worship humility of mind unsparing or harsh treatment of the body not showing any honor for the gratification of the flesh what he's talking about is people who does honor the body by mistreating it and many of the pagans do that is a sign of that today we have kolache and to twenty one in following in living color here in america of course in the monastic movement there are people who have begun monastic foundations here that have never lived themselves under monastic obedience and if they have they've lived in a very unhealthy situation one of the major things that leads to mental illness is the  for attention paid to every thought when you have people required by false teachers to confess every track of thought you have what begins such a severe introversion into the human mind and heart that you can't function normally who are these false teachers that are requiring minute confession of every thought in the purity and very fick way themselves being mentally ill by their fruits y know them and you can see their teaching leads to others being mentally ill thoughts come in go out now our choices are whether we like that thought entertainment if it is good saint paul tells us in the libyans whatever is good an honorable thing on these things if it is bad and i allow it to come into my consciousness and i i i encourage it i do well on it whatever it is then i have a matter to mention to my spiritual father if i can't overcome it i confess it to the lord right away first ask his blood to wash me and forgive my sin to wash my mind my body because all this participates in our thought life but then i dismiss it so the real confession matter for christians is whether i entertained that thought brought it in and acted upon it especially in any way whether by further thoughts or by an actual act it is sinful to go into any kind of destructive pulling apart of the mind which is what happens when you you go into thoughts in every activity of the mind then we have the point better to have this angel of light dressed in monastic ro premier again patristic scholars available to us here in north america he corresponded with sarah from rose he tried to get him to stop teaching ramifications of the toll house myth are discussed now there are many people coming down into our own papal churches founded by charlemagne who picked up one of these pagan desert dwellers as h philosopher and used his interpretation false interpretation of scripture to differentiate himself against the roman orthodox faith which was already in europe he wanted to cut off all of that of course as we have studied in our videos and i urge you to go to youtube dot com under judith i remarked and look under the church there we have some wonderful history that has been written out of our western civilization and history classes we need to realize what was going on in europe before to jesus christ brothers and sisters christ is risen truly he has risen we have a short time ago been at calvary we have been in the room where christ came appearing to his disciples in his core of fide resurrected body revealing his resurrected body to them we have been again in that same room when thomas was with the disciples and the lord invited him doubting one to come to bring his finger hither and touch their wont is in his hands and his hand in his side we have been to the sheeps pool where the paral thirty eight years in his infirmity unable to enter the pool the sheep pool to be healed all of this occurring on the eighth and eternal day what is this a and eternal day so lord's day it was  the beginning all how grand how grandiose the economy of the lord's plan for the redemption of mankind  this plan began at the beginning when day one was created in the creation a narrative we read that it was evening and day and one day was created and this is because it has significance mystical significance and seventh day as well you see on the seventh day this is the day of ras this is the day when christ rest that in the tomb in the following day is the is not the first day of the week it is the eighth and he turned all day this is the day of the lord's resurrection and of course this is the completion of the creation narrative because this is the day when mankind was redeemed how fitting that this would be the completion of the creation narrative we have in the taking of the body to the two by joseph the just one the good one and the good demas the guileless one to show that in all of this is not by chance it's all providential it's all part of the plan joseph an actual real event that took place and then we have them are bearing women coming with murray to anoint the body of course the t christ is resurrected there is no need to anoint christ the body with more to assuage the stench of death he is assented his m the fragrance of his grace of his murder is greater than any murder that we can have that we have here on this earth and that  the fragrance of the grace of the lower assuage as it cleanse us washes away the stench of the death on mankind oh lord jesus christ son of the living god we glorify your name we praise your name we give thanks to you for all of the good things you have given to us when mary magdalen went to the to and christ calls her by name and she recognizes him she if you recall she goes to him to try to embrace and to hold him and he says to mary mary don't touch me i have not yet ascended to the father he was telling her that he did not want her to touch him as a man in this human body but rather he wanted her to touch him seated at the right hand of the father he was inviting her to ascend into that eternal kingdom where he is and she is and we all are seated there with him in him because when he ascends to the father he takes this body this human body with him glorified resurrected body and we are all in that body when he appears in the room with thomas and he invites him to bring his finger and touch his side by this he heals all the doubting thomases the wound of doll he heals it by having thomas come when thomas reaches forward to touch the wound he reaches forward saying my lord when he would try to touches and withdraws he says my god or how little you know glory to jesus christ and we all doubting thomases are invited to do the same to c touch him my lower and my god come to that belief now at the sheeps pool we have this paralytic thirty eight years the perseverance of this one is astounding but here he is unable as you recall in this in this narrative every once not very often perhaps away but once a year there is the sheep's pool the surrounded with five porches porticoes that feed into this pool and in the but only one when the water is trouble when the angel of the lower descends into this water and strobl of the water at that moment that instant the first person into that pool is healed and cleanse of any infirmity any and every infirmity that holds him or her well we have here a picture of the law the porticoes the five porticoes signifying the five books of moses the law this law of course we know has instruction on to do good and to avoid and what to avoid unfortunately the law doesn't help us to do and calm to ask for forgiveness but the law is not capable is not was not intended to provide forgiveness of sand we see this in the parable of the the man is is approached by thieves who beat him severely and robbed him of everything he has they strip him and leave him wounded half dead and then we have in the narrative we have a priest and a lever i that come by and it says they come by by chance and it wasn't providential for them it was by chance that they come and they come by in that says we read that they pass on the other side they don't even come over to where he is they just pass on the other side well the priest and the leverage run again represent the the law and the law again is shown to be inadequate to heal the wounds of this dying one but then we have the good samaritan come and it says in his case that it was not by chance it says he came to him it was providential that he come to him and he he wounds actually you have this picture of christ the divine his divinity being tempered by closing himself in with the human flesh so that he can reach down and lift up this wounded one on your shoulder and that he would not burn up because of his divine the fire of his divinity being back to the here people under the long that are are not able to receive any any healing and cleansing with the law so they fill the sporty goes but then here comes christ because the grace of forgiveness comes through jesus christ only so here he comes and he asks this one what he wants of course he knows what he wants and the man explains to him what christ already knows that he's been there how long he's been there and that he's not able to get into the pool because he has no one to help him well this this day this a day he has the man himself god man jesus christ to come and heal him st b puts it so it paints a beautiful picture the grace of our lord jesus christ wonderful is our lord glory to his name brothers and sisters calm let us ask though our lord and savior jesus christ to cast us out of the legalisms in our own time into this pool to be cleansed and washed and healed in the name of the father the son in the holy journey to the holy fire service began immediately after the service of lamentations saturday morning three a m our hosts had already left and were no longer answering their phone as the police were locking down to make hating the city due to increased security we stood in the courtyard wondering where would we sleep for the night knowing that we needed the state's close as possible inside the old city to ensure our ability to get to the holy subak or the following morning when all of a sudden a boy approached us soliciting us to stay in the shop of one of his relata nearby perfectly position between the holy sepulcher and the patriarchate where we are heading in the morning what a contrast this was this foretaste of eternal heavenly worship being embraced with open hearts and sincere christian hospitality by palestinian brothers and sisters versus the struggle we had all morning just to make it to the holy with the hostility and antagonism of the authorities after the initial unlocking of the doors by status quo the greek orthodox patriarchal delegation are given first rights to enter the holy supper but the armenian delegation broke their ranks and then massive pushing and shoving ensued as example here with everyone trying to get in to find the best place every space possible was filling quickly and i was scrambling to find the press areas inside a tent passes from the police as well as filming permissions from the three patriarchates the balcony and some of as well as the galleries were being filled by members of the international press people were even using the site of the tomb as a place to position themselves we ended up just to the northeast of the tomb which can be seen here in purple outside of the ring of pillars in front of the roman catholic area or in this picture just to the right of the crowd which houses the angel stone which is also where the armenian representative waits observing the service and the orthodox patriarch in its interior what we have here is what remains of the stone which had sealed the tomb of christ which the angel had moved and was seated upon when the murdering women approached early in the morning when the orthodox patriarch proceeds into the interior through this portal meals in beseeches christ to send the holy lights on the ever burning oil lamp which would sit here as a blessing for all the people and the marble slab here actually protect the stone where christ's body was la three candles each to read the prayers for the holy five one of the peers many people see it differently some is balls of fire others as lightning this of course depends upon personal faith but most importantly upon the providence of god as evidence by the fact that many nonbelievers our journey to the holy fire service began immediately after the service of lamentations saturday morning three a m our hosts had already left and were no longer answering their phone as the police were locking down to make a ding the city due to increased security we stood in the courtyard wondering where would we sleep for the night knowing that we needed the states close as possible inside the old city to ensure our ability to get to the holy subak or the following morning when all of a sudden a boy approached us soliciting us to stay in the shop of one of his relatives nearby perfectly position sepulcher and the patriarchate where we were heading in the morning in the open skylight but i experienced it feeling it as a tremendous amount of energy being poured over the top of my head slowly moving down my entire body to my feet and my eyes felt like they were opening as if from slumber where i saw everything so much more vividly and my heart leaped and told me that the holy light was here as a patriot brought forth the holy fire several miracles occur this candlelit spontaneously before the crowd had passed a fire into lastly as a testament to the supernatural properties of the fire which do not burn for the first few minutes a man walking through the crowd can be seen not only with his hands in it but he and his son also have their faces hanging over it which would normally burn much hotter likewise i didn't notice any heat coming from the two bundles of candles i was holding nor any burning sensation even though my hand and that covered completely in  the miracle of the holy lighting fire continue to be one of the greatest events in the eastern orthodox church drawing thousands from all over the world every year to draw reform shortly before midnight and into his haitian of the resurrection service of pasta the crowd our journey to the holy fire service began immediately after the service of lamentations saturday morning three a m our hosts had already left and were no longer answering their phone as the police were locking down to make a ding the city due to increased security we stood in the courtyard wondering where would we sleep for the night knowing that we needed to stay as close as possible inside the old city to ensure our ability to get to the holy subak or the following morning when all of a sudden a boy approached us soliciting us to stay in the shop of one of his relatives nearby perfectly position between the holy sepulcher in the patriarchate where we were heading in the morning where we met with friends until the pilgrims going strange stories about our experiences of the holy fire and how we got there and what we had gone through during the service most of us waiting and standing three hours amongst the throngin crowds some experience a holy light seeing it's a blue incandescence on the face of other opens in the crowd presenters so several candles light spontaneously within the church of the resurrection in greater still some song the whole of life is a rainbow descending from the sky coming down and touching the kissing and i kind of the virgin mary within the trip to the resurrection all miraculous and confirming that faith be it causes to reflect