ESCHATOLOGICAL PROPHECIES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

Abbot Anthony (Butin)

Kostroma Theological Seminary, Kostroma, Russia

Email: igumenantoniy@mail.ru

ORCID: 0009-0002-5091-5703

Issue: № 2 (22), 2023

Pages: 11

Annotation

In the article, the author examines the initial period of human history and the chain of Old Testament prophecies about the ultimate destinies of the earthly existence of the world. The fall of the first people entailed severe punishment for the human race, but the all-merciful Creator made a promise about the appearance of a Redeemer in the world and established a sacrifice that reminded people of the slaughter of God's Lamb, who took upon himself the burden of all human sins. The belief in the coming of the Savior-M essiah in different periods of human history was different. To strengthen faith, the Lord sent prophets, the central theme of whose predictions was the appearance of Christ, the redemption of the human race by a Great Sacrifice and the return of the lost Eden, the appearance of a new Heaven and a new Earth. But before these global universal upheavals, the antipode of Christ the Savior, the son of perdition, the Antichrist, must appear in the world. From the first days of its existence, the Christian Church has seen predictions about the last times of the existence of our world in scripture.

Keywords

The Old Testament, the ultimate destinies of the world, the Antichrist, the prophet Isaiah, the prophet Daniel, the prophet Ezekiel

For citation

Anthony (Butin), abbot. Eschatological prophecies in the Old Testament // Ipatievsky vestnik. 2023. № . 2. Р. 11–20 (In Russian). https://doi.org/10.24412/2309– 5164–2023–2–11–20