It's Later Than You Think | Fr Seraphim Rose Quote in Yellow Halo | Modern American Orthodox Christian Saint | Orthodox Christian Long SleeveAre you not afraid of death, which we shall all face in a little while? How are we to look on the fearsome angels, as they come to take us from the body? How are we to journey on that long and unending road, if we have not obtained the necessities for the journey? + St Theodore the Studite

and so Christ was sent a letter from King Agbar V of Edessa

Blow the trumpet in Zion

You must not be greatly troubled about many things

not bodily

for Thou drivest away the demons by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ crucified on thee

Ephraim the Syrian

and observe the splendor of the kingdom there

- 1 John 1:7

and then he shall reward every man according to his works

- John 3:14-16 (KJV)

there will be great affliction

So if Christ breaks in pieces