The Exodus Case
Is there a doctrine of exodus to America as a country of refuge from the former USSR among Pentecostals? It is necessary to distinguish exodus from emigration. The exodus is not for a better life. The people of the exodus left because of persecution and by revelation. Emigration, which possibly accounts for over 80% of those who entered America, was indeed in search of a better life. Emigrants do not understand God’s plan and the essence of the exodus and corrupt it from within.
There were revelations about the exodus from the USSR since 1930—the time when total persecution of the church by the godless USSR began.
The first revelations in the Dnepropetrovsk region about going to America are dated to 1930 and were repeated in 1946. Notably, a revelation about the exodus to America for Armenians shortly before their genocide in 1915 was given through a Molokan boy living in Transcaucasia, who was shown a map of the exodus across the seas to America with a settlement location in California.
When we were fighting to change the legislation on religious cults or for the opportunity to leave the USSR, we did not know which country would receive us. We appealed to various capitalist countries, but the countries that actively assisted us where we found support were the old countries of refuge for religious refugees: mainly the USA and, to some extent, Canada.
Persecutions in Europe, particularly the recent imprisonment of believer Vins in Germany, as well as the state regulation of child-rearing in Germany, and the re-emigration of believers from Germany to Canada, from Israel to America and Canada, once again show that Europe is not for religious refugees.
The exodus continues even after the collapse of the USSR in 1991. Immediately after the collapse of the USSR, the CIS was formed, where persecution continued with imprisonments in Central Asia and Belarus. No repentance for the many years of persecution of believers in Jesus Christ has been offered by the states of the former USSR, which leaves a spiritual root of persecution.
Many did not manage to leave before 1991, especially since there was anti-emigration propaganda organized by the Soviet government and continued by the presiding bishop Viktor Belykh and his evangelist, Bishop Nikolai Kotyakov, which continued until about 1996.
Protestants are not a traditional denomination in Russia. The call to live in Russia is inappropriate given the status of the evangelical faith as a non-traditional religion, but one entrenched by years of persecution—a traditionally persecuted religion. A person decides as it is revealed to him by God. For those who think that there is religious freedom in Russia and therefore the exodus is unjustified, it is necessary to compare religious freedom in Russia and the countries of the former USSR with religious freedom in the USA. Religious ‘freedom’ in Russia for church representatives means going ‘under Ryakhovsky’. The successes with freedom in Ukraine must be viewed in the context of Ukraine’s membership in the CIS, where the church-persecuting countries are found, and its satellite status vis-à-vis Russia, where at least state-scale religious intolerance toward fellow believers is cultivated.
Christians who thirst for persecutions and find happiness in them have a nostalgia for persecution and do not fully understand what it means when you and your family are persecuted.
The exodus took place according to:
“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5:10)
“Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death. And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved. When they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For assuredly, I say to you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.” (Matthew 10:21-23)
“Were you called while a slave? Do not be concerned about it; but if you can be made free, rather use it.” (1 Corinthians 7:21)
The USSR collapsed because of the struggle and sufferings of Christians for whom God intervened—the steadfastness and refusal of believers to participate in the godless ideology.
The old lie, voiced long ago by the head of the American Pentecostal Assemblies of God and chairman of the World Pentecostal Congress, Zimmerman: “If believers leave the USSR, there will be no one to preach the gospel to the unbelievers.” The same lie is repeated by today’s apologists for life under persecution, some of whom live in Canada and America. Other opponents of the exodus reside in the currently prosperous republics of the former USSR.
The opinion about the falling away of children and believers in America among those who left is partially justified. But it was used as an argument by opponents of the exodus to persuade people not to leave. Partly this is true because of the takeover of power over Christians in America by a depraved, wanton, profit-hungry religious mafia. But those who kept themselves in the former USSR keep themselves in America too, and their children are brought up in faith and godliness, carrying on the gospel fire of faith passed on to them by their grandfathers and fathers.
Another myth of the opponents of the exodus is the well-known story of the departure to Arabia of Plotnikov and Gladnikov, which the anti-departure agitators Kotyakov and his ilk explained as madness, saying: first they went to America, then to Arabia, and where will they go next.
Was the exodus a special operation of the CIA or the KGB, as the spiteful say? It was indeed an exodus from the Lord! And the USSR was officially a belligerent party against God.
Effort to Preserve the Lautenberg Amendment. Funds are needed to publish a book to distribute to every congressman and senator. The price paid for religious freedom in the former USSR and the place of refuge from persecution in the USA is very high. I myself and my family have endured enough suffering to stand guard over this Lautenberg Amendment.
It is necessary to organize into alternative assemblies, but not charismatic ones, since they only have the appearance of an alternative, but in fact are a game with the world and occultism, with a materially interested elite — pastors. It is necessary to organize into evangelical, sound assemblies, in which your fathers and grandfathers stood. So transitioning to American churches is not an alternative for Christian youth. Trip to assemblies and cities of like-minded people: Seattle, Portland, and Sacramento. Get in touch. Time is short. Coordination phone 1-350-223-1351.
Gather like-minded people. Determine how to move forward. To get into the number of like-minded people, to meet, to communicate, to talk about the situation, to outline what to do and how to do it – then call. It is necessary for like-minded people to unite. Many have despaired of finding anything – “everywhere it’s the same – but no action.” It’s time to create a society-assembly. If we say how not to do, then we are saying how to do.
Now it is necessary for everyone who arrived under refugee status and parole to sign a letter to their local congressman and senator, which we will provide. Those who came to enrich themselves are corrupting our exodus. The people need to remember the tears of their fathers and grandfathers and stand up for the place of refuge and for freedom in the former USSR.
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For financial support of the refuge cause in the USA:
My address:
ARRC Boris Perchatkin
2070 Greenview Lane.
Lynden, WA. 98264
Make checks payable to: ARRC
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