Kastraki

Our final stop in Meteora this morning was the Holy Monastery of the Great Meteoron, the oldest and highest of the monasteries. Before leaving for Athens we walked through a powerful exhibit titled “The King of Glory.”

It explained something I’ve rarely seen presented so clearly:
that long before Jesus came, both the Hebrew prophets and even the Greek philosophers were pointing toward Him.

The prophets spoke of the Messiah.
And amazingly, Greek thinkers like Socrates, Plato, and the early Stoics described a coming Logos—a divine Reason, a light, a savior-figure beyond the human world.

Standing in this monastery, surrounded by rock pillars and ancient frescoes, you feel the weight of it:
History was preparing the world for Christ.

Both the Scriptures and the best of human thought were leaning forward toward the same hope.Read more