Archimandrite Lazar Abashidze (+August 17, 2018)

The last Christianity will take from the ancient only a shell, the content will be imperceptibly replaced by a new spirit, a different lifestyle, way of thinking and other values.

Secularized Christianity, with its wings cut off, is not only not scary for the devil, but also will serve him: after all, the antichrist will impersonate Christ, the Messiah, the God-man.

The devil, preparing the way for the antichrist, will be interested in spreading secularized, lifeless, formal Christianity throughout the world, and even all religions will try to “make friends” with him.

All religions recognize their “spiritual kinship” with Christianity, and even will admire the height of his teachings, the sanctity of his moral requirements, the beauty of his symbolism, etc.

Many Christians themselves will applaud, seeing such a respectful attitude of the world to their faith and with ardent enthusiasm, leaving their passions and spiritual ulcers to the mercy, will rush to preach their secularized Christianity to the whole world.

About such preachers the Scripture says: “I did not send these prophets, but they themselves ran; I did not tell them, but they prophesied ”(Jer. 23, 21).

Preaching the “Christianity” adapted to the carnal will of fallen humanity, these “zealous heralds of the words of the gospel” will actually take the world away from Christ and incline him to the path of anti-christ. But these preachers themselves will not notice this.