Thank you both for your kind remarks. Another thought along these lines which I had is this:
The Gospel According to Luke says in chapter 23:
27And following Him was a large crowd of the people, and of women who were mourning and lamenting Him. 28But Jesus turning to them said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, stop weeping for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 29“For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’ 30“Then they will begin TO SAY TO THE MOUNTAINS, ‘FALL ON US,’ AND TO THE HILLS, ‘COVER US.’ 31“For if they do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
Look how inhuman the Soviets were in their cruelty and flouting of the basic rights simple devout Christians with their tortures, mass executions, starvation and forced labour that killed millions of them. And those times were green by comparison because they had what was only about 20 years before an Orthodox Country awash in Orthodox Truth and history and the witness of living saints. What then, in our comparatively much, much drier times? Also notice that prophetic end times reference to what the men of the great tribulation when the Lord arises to shake the earth terribly on the eve of his great second coming:
14The sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 15Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains; 16and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; 17for the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”
(Rev. 6:14-17) It is very interesting that the governments of the World are building huge underground cities in preparation for what they believe will be a cataclysm of one kind or another, natural or manmade--it matters not. The point is, John the Apostle foresaw that such caves would be the Last Day refuge of the sinners of that hour in history. I believe it is fast approaching and He who tarried, will not tarry much longer.