The Third Rome?
TimeWatch Editorial
August 01, 2016
According to his Bio in the Free Encyclopedia, Patrick Joseph "Pat" Buchanan was born November 2, 1938. He is an American political commentator, author, syndicated columnist, politician and broadcaster. Pat Buchanan was a senior advisor to U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, and was an original host on CNN's Crossfire. He sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996. He ran on the Reform Party ticket in the 2000 presidential election. He co-founded The American Conservative magazine and launched a foundation named The American Cause. Pat Buchanan is therefore not easily ignored, based upon his years of political experience and involvement. On April 4, 2016 he wrote an article on the Creators.Com website entitled: “Whose Side Is God on Now?” Buchanan describes an element to Russia’s involvement that has been ignored, or overlooked. Listen to what he says.
“In his Kremlin defense of Russia's annexation of Crimea, Vladimir Putin, even before he began listing the battles where Russian blood had been shed on Crimean soil, spoke of an older deeper bond. Crimea, said Putin, "is the location of ancient Khersones, where Prince Vladimir was baptized. His spiritual feat of adopting Orthodoxy predetermined the overall basis of the culture, civilization and human values that unite the peoples of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus." Russia is a Christian country, Putin was saying. This speech recalls last December's address where the former KGB chief spoke of Russia as standing against a decadent West: "Many Euro-Atlantic countries have moved away from their roots, including Christian values. Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation." Patrick Buchanan , “Whose Side Is God on Now?” Creators.Com April 4, 2014
So, says Mr. Buchanan, western leaders have remained uniformed regarding the true motivations of Putin’s actions and positions.
“Western leaders who compare Putin's annexation of Crimea to Hitler's Anschluss with Austria, who dismiss him as a "KGB thug," who call him "the alleged thief, liar and murderer who rules Russia," as the Wall Street Journal's Holman Jenkins did, believe Putin's claim to stand on higher moral ground is beyond blasphemous. But Vladimir Putin knows exactly what he is doing, and his new claim has a venerable lineage. The ex-Communist Whittaker Chambers who exposed Alger Hiss as a Soviet spy, was, at the time of his death in 1964, writing a book on "The Third Rome." The first Rome was the Holy City and seat of Christianity that fell to Odoacer and his barbarians in 476 A.D. The second Rome was Constantinople, Byzantium, (today's Istanbul), which fell to the Turks in 1453. The successor city to Byzantium, the Third Rome, the last Rome to the old believers, was — Moscow. Putin is entering a claim that Moscow is the Godly City of today and command post of the counter-reformation against the new paganism.” Patrick Buchanan , “Whose Side Is God on Now?” Creators.Com April 4, 2014
It is one of the most unexpected situations to have developed in recent history. The reason why it is unexpected is the fact that today’s society is uniformed and not willing to be informed concerning the historical narrative of this world. The Fatima vision of 1917 has remained a hidden element in modern evaluation. The fact that this apparition could have an impact upon today’s political actions has remained ignored. Listen to how Buchanan continues:
“Putin is plugging into some of the modern world's most powerful currents. Not only in his defiance of what much of the world sees as America's arrogant drive for global hegemony. Not only in his tribal defense of lost Russians left behind when the USSR disintegrated. He is also tapping into the worldwide revulsion of and resistance to the sewage of a hedonistic secular and social revolution coming out of the West. In the culture war for the future of mankind, Putin is planting Russia's flag firmly on the side of traditional Christianity. His recent speeches carry echoes of John Paul II whose Evangelium Vitae in 1995 excoriated the West for its embrace of a "culture of death." What did Pope John Paul mean by moral crimes? The West's capitulation to a sexual revolution of easy divorce, rampant promiscuity, pornography, homosexuality, feminism, abortion, same-sex marriage, euthanasia, assisted suicide — the displacement of Christian values by Hollywood values.” Patrick Buchanan , “Whose Side Is God on Now?” Creators.Com April 4, 2014
Based upon his experience, it would not be easy to “startle” Pat Buchanan, however listen to this paragraph:
“This writer was startled to read in the Jan-Feb. newsletter from the social conservative World Council of Families in Rockford, Ill., that, of the "ten best trends" in the world in 2013, number one was "Russia Emerges as Pro-Family Leader." In 2013, the Kremlin imposed a ban on homosexual propaganda, a ban on abortion advertising, a ban on abortions after 12 weeks and a ban on sacrilegious insults to religious believers. "While the other super-powers march to a pagan world-view," writes World Council of Families Allan Carlson, "Russia is defending Judeo-Christian values. During the Soviet era, Western communists flocked to Moscow. This year, World Congress of Families VII will be held in Moscow, Sept. 10-12. In the new ideological Cold War, whose side is God on now?" Patrick Buchanan , “Whose Side Is God on Now?” Creators.Com April 4, 2014
When one thinks of the global dimension of the final prophecies, it is amazing how accurate the Word of God is!
Revelation13:3 - And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
Revelation 13:4 - And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who [is] like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
Cameron A. Bowen
