We read in the Gospel, the Lord planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, built a tower in it, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country, until the season came to collect the fruits from it. But those who had been left to care for that land beat the Lord’s servants, and killed some, and stoned some others.
Then last of all He sent unto them his Son, saying, They will reverence my Son. But when those husbandmen saw that Son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. (Matthew 21:33-38)
Time and time again, this is what we have seen in the fallen world. Time and time again, evil men have seized on the land the Lord has entrusted to their care. Time and time again, evil men have created two classes of men:
The blacks and the whites.
The Jews and the Gentiles.
The vaxxed and the unvaxxed.
Saint John Chrysostom tells us that the intention of such men – such rulers – is evil from the beginning. https://orthodoxreflections.com/a-return-of-evil-signs/
Post #113
489