The protest against Jahovah Witnesses, Trip to
Karapelec and an ancient thracian sanctuary
As most of the Sundays I was to the Orthodox Church for the
liturgy.
Today we celebrate in the bulgarian orthodox church, the
saints
who took participation in the 7th church universal gathering,
as well as the memory of st. Apostle Philip who was one of
the
12 direct despiples of the Lord Jesus, even more we celebrate the
memory of
St.
Theophan (the drawed) the text in the link is in Bulgarian. In
short this holy church father
was zealous defender of the veneration of icons.
After the liturgy we headed to the hall where the sect of Jehovah's
witnesses
had held one of their International congresses discussing how near
the end of the world is.
No strange since that's basicly what they do all the time, they
talk about the end,
this is extremely dangerous non-christian sect which is satanist in
it's origins,
however it's covered by preaching of pseudo Judeism without
Jesus.
We held a protest with members of
VMRO and Ataka (a nationalistic political
party here in Bulgaria).
The priest explained to the audiency the Truth about Bulgaria and
the simple fact
that our country has survived over the centuries solely to our true
Faith
the Orthodox Christian faith. He explained that we should remember
how the Holy
Brothers st. st. Cyril and Methodius has gifted us with the true
faith which is
the Orthodox Faith, how thanks to them we have received the
bulgarian, alphabet
and written letters. He also mentioned the Holy Tzar Boris who
officially introduced
the orthodox faith as a our natunal country faith and how that has
hold us together
in truth for all this years until now. He then outlined some of the
many false doctrines
of Jehovah's witnesses who's one and only goal is to mislead people
astray.
Some of them are their refusal to blood transmission, their refusal
to accept country
national symbols, the army, the established country institutions
etc. We also prayed with many orthodox
prayers asking the holy fathers and the Holy Theotokos to save us
and intercade
in front of our God the Holy Trinity and with their holy prayers to
chase out
the sects out of our country.
Earlier while we were still in the Church, Father Veliko the Priest
in service
for the liturgy in the sermon has explained that Jehovah Witnesses
take participation
in the attempts of some people to establish global government
headed by the Antichrist
for whom we read in Revelations, the refusal of country and signs
is one of their filth
actions to seperate us from our culutre and tradition and unite us
into
the fake global reality the antichrist is about to introduce in the
coming future.
After the protest I and Ceco his girlfriend and another girl I know
for quite some
time went to a small trip to Karapelec's Church and to the ancient
thracian sanctuary
located some 20 km away from the Village of Karapelec.
Sadly we could only look in the church through it's closed windows,
because it seemed
to be closed for at least a year or so. After we took a brief look
on the Church's
outside interior, we took a small walk around near the small lake
situated 50 meters
from the Church. After that we went to that Ancient Thracian
Sanctuary.
There wasn't much to be seen in the sanctuary, a few caves and
stones, some of which served
as a sort of altars where the thracians has sacrificed to their
Gods.
The exact type of the sacrifices is yet unknown, however it's
assumed that
they sacrificed animals and probably humans. On the center of the
altar the guide sign red
that it's found a human bone remains right under the so called
altar,
this makes the assumption for human sacrifices, even more
probable.
Though I was far from impressed to know that I might be visiting a
place where
a lot of human suffering has happened, the walk in the near forest
alley was quite enjoyable
, not to mention the nice talks with Ceco Dima and Perus :).
Thanks God one more good day for me!