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The Prophecies of Elder Ephraim of the Skete of Saint Andrew “The greatest miracle in the world is the Holy Light in Jerusalem, which goes out every year at the Holy Sepulchre on Holy Saturday (between 12 noon and 2 pm). It comes down from the sky and cveryone sees it. Orthodox and non-Orthodox. It is Uncreated Light, which for a few minutes (about 4 - 10 minutes) does not burn! No one in the world can make a fire that does not burn. The Holy Light does not burn, does not wear out i.e. matter because it is spiritual Light, which renews, enlivens, and sanctifies! Many with the candles and lamps pass the Holy Light to various sick parts of their body and are healed! After a certain number of minutes, the Holy Light from Uncreated transforms into built and begins to burn. If this processing did not take place, the candles and lamps would never go out and many wicked people would make ‘little games’ with the Holy Light and we would have blasphemies and perversions. One year the Holy Light will not come out. It will be the age of the antichrist. The Holy Light is the shaking certification, that Orthodoxy is the only Truth, the only true religion and all other religions in the world are imaginary darknesses and delusions of the mind...”

“Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.” (Matthew 27:45) “And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.” (Mark 15:33) “It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, while the sun’s light failed; and the curtain of the temple was torn in two.” (Luke 23:44-45) “And on that day,” says the Lord GOD, “I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight.” (Amos 8:9)

Eleven years ago the world watched Islamic State militants behead twenty one Christians on a Libyan beach. The victims included twenty Coptic workers from Egypt and one from Ghana. They refused to renounce Jesus despite certain death. Images from the February fifteenth twenty fifteen executions shocked millions worldwide. Dressed in orange jumpsuits militants marched them to the shore near Sirte. Some cried out “Jesus help me” or “Lord Jesus Christ” in final moments. The men could have lived by converting to Islam but chose Christ instead. Their courage inspires believers facing persecution today. Christians hail them as modern martyrs of the cross. We honor their names so bravery endures: • Bishoy Adel Khalaf • Samuel Alhoam Wilson • Hany Abdel-Masih Salib • Melad Mackeen Zaki • Abanoub Ayad Attia • Ezzat Bushra Nassif • Yousef Shokry Younan • Kirillos Shukry Fawzy • Majed Suleiman Shehata • Samuel Stéphanos Kamel • Malak Ibrahim Siniot • Bishoy Stéphanos Kamel • Mena Fayez Aziz • Girgis Melad Sniout • Tawadros Youssef Tawadros • Essam Badr Samir • Luke Ngati • Jaber Mounir Adly • Malak Faraj Abram • Sameh Salah Farouk • Matthew Ayariga