"And when He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who were slain on account of the word of God and on account of the testimony of the Lamb which they were holding; and they cried with a loud voice, saying, Until when, O Master, the Holy One and the True One, dost Thou not judge and avenge our blood from those dwelling on the earth? And there was given to each of them a white robe; and it was said to them that they should rest yet for a little time, until there should be fulfilled also their fellow slaves and their brethren, those being about to be killed even as they."-Revelation 6:9-11

"What began in Russia will end in America"-A prophetic utterance from the 1930s of the clairvoyant Staretz Ignatius of Harbin, Manchuria (+1958)

"Formerly, if one was a pious lay person or priest or monk who occupied himself with secular matters, they had him locked in the towers. Today, if one does not pursue secular matters, he should be locked in the tower, because they are setting out to destroy everything. The Apostle [i.e. Saint Paul] told the Christians not to busy themselves with secular things, to separate themselves from the world, as all the people were idol worshippers. The world belonged to the idol worshippers, they did as they pleased. After Constantine the Great, though, things changed. The people became Christian. Churches, foundations, the Church was freed. We have responsibility. These are our responsibilities. Now they are setting out to destroy everything."-Geronda Paisios of the Holy Mountain, +1994

"Things are now in such a state of deterioration, a condition that is common throughout the entire world. And it is subsequent to this specific condition, this precise limit, that the wrath of God will begin. We have reached this extreme. And it will now happen that what the Lord, in His mercy, formerly endured, He will now, acting in accordance with His righteousness, chastise, because the time has now come for that. There will be a war, and wars, and we will experience great difficulties. World power has now been seized by the Jews, and their goal is to annihilate Christianity. The wrath of God will be such that all those secret foes who are bringing about this state of affairs will be destroyed themselves. It is for this purpose, in particular, that the wrath of the Lord is being sent down: in order to destroy them, in one way or another. But this should not unduly frighten us, because we must always have hope in God. Because thousands, millions of martyrs, including our New Martyrs, suffered in exactly the same way. Many [icons] are streaming myrrh. The word is that the Savior is weeping, and the Mother of God is weeping, and the icons weep. This is the beginning of these events, troublesome events, military ones. The movers and shakers of this evil are the Jews. They are being prompted to do this by the devil, in order to start this, in order to destroy the seed of Orthodoxy in Greece and in Russia. This will be their chief obstacle to world domination."-Geronda Joseph of Vatopaidi, +2009