Why Do We Consider It Normal Today For Someone To Go To a Monk and Ask To Know “the Future”?

By Metropolitan Nektarios of Hong Kong

I read that some people write that they visit some Elders and ask them “when will the events happen”?

What does “the events” mean?

About world wars, the taking of Constantinople, and the like?

I believe you understand how foolish this is, if it really happens…

Does someone go to a place of monastic asceticism, meet a monk, and the questions he asks are whether there will be wars and when will they begin?

The Ascension of the Lord is the Penultimate Event of the Second Coming

By Demetrios Panagopoulos,
Preacher (1916-1982)

Someone will say:

"On the day of the Ascension, the season for swimming begins..."

This is what man sees... Beyond his flesh, beyond his pleasures, etc. He DOES NOT see.

What is the Ascension? Why is it celebrated? Why is it remembered? These people do not know these things. And the fact that they do not know gives them a little credit, but the fact that they do not want to know nullifies them.

The Ascension of the Lord is the penultimate event of the Second Coming. Because one more event is missing from this whole event in which God came into the world for man. What event?

The "He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead." With this the whole event of the Incarnate Economy ends.