Lance Wallnau

Notre Dame – A Prophetic Sign

Is the burning symbol of Western civilization a sign?
Three things about this impress me. 
1. The windows and skeletal structure and the altar somehow survived. Wood, hay and stubble burns but stone and gold do not. Must be a lesson in that about the test of fire and what endures.
2. Christianity is under attack in the United States and Europe. In 2017 there were 1,045 cases of church vandalism in France. When cemeteries and other sites are taken into consideration, the number of acts of church vandalism rose to 1,063 in 2018. Earlier this year in one week alone, France saw 12 churches vandalized, including attackers attempting to SET FIRE to the church of Saint-Sulpice.
But you dare not question if this was religiously motivated arson. We don’t know one way or the other, but over 2000 incidents in 2 years? Doesn’t that make you think?
3. Dennis Prager, a Jewish radio host, is more prophetic (and courageous) on this subject than most of us who believe in prophecy. Wait till you read this.
NOTRE DAME: AN OMEN
By Dennis Prager
The symbolism of the burning of Notre Dame Cathedral, the most renowned building in Western civilization, the iconic symbol of Western Christendom, is hard to miss.
It is as if God Himself wanted to warn us in the most unmistakable way that Western Christianity is burning — and with it, Western civilization.
Every major Western (and one major non-Western) social and intellectual force has conspired to rid Europe of Christianity and the civilization it produced.
Within the Western world, the French Enlightenment — the intellectual basis of the French Revolution and the modern West — sought to replace Christianity, and religion in general, with secularism rooted in reason. No God, Bible or Ten Commandments is necessary for morality or meaning: reason (and science) will replace them.
The two final deathblows to Christianity in Europe were the world wars. World War I ended most Westerners’ belief in the nation-state and the West. Christianity, already weakened by the Enlightenment, was further weakened by World War I. German Christians were killing millions of French and English Christians, and French and English Christians were killing millions of German Christians. So the argument and sentiment against Christianity went. Then World War II saw even more death on the Christian continent as well as the failure of Catholic and Protestant churches in Nazi Germany to offer even minimal noncompliance with the Nazis’ Jew-hatred.
With the end of World War II, every internal Western intellectual doctrine was secular. God, the Bible and religion were regarded at best as innocuous nonsense and at worst as noxious nonsense.
Meanwhile, Europeans brought a non-European ideology into Europe, an ideology that, for more than a thousand years, sought to replace Christianity as the world’s dominant religion. The Europeans, believing in nothing distinctly Christian or Western and believing in the moral and intellectual nonsense known as “multiculturalism” — a doctrine that asserts that all cultures are morally equivalent — saw nothing problematic in bringing millions of Muslims into Europe. They had no idea that most of these people actually wanted to replace Christianity with their religion. They had no idea because, in their ignorance and arrogance, they assumed that because they were secular multiculturalists, everybody else was, too — or would be, once they lived in Europe.
They were wrong, of course. And as a result, the two dominant forces in Europe — secular leftism and Islamism — sought the end of Christianity and the West. (The left believes that protecting Western civilization is equivalent to protecting white supremacy.)
This is not producing a pretty picture. Generally speaking, Islam has not been nearly as kind, tolerant, open, medically or scientifically innovative or intellectually curious as Western civilization (and yes, Nazism and communism were born in the West, but they were anti-Western).
Even without tens of millions of Muslims, post-Christian Europe has not produced a pretty picture. This was predicted in 1834, 100 years before Hitler’s rise, by the great German poet Heinrich Heine, a secular Jew (who later converted to Protestantism, “the ticket of admission into European culture”): “Christianity — and that is its greatest merit — has somewhat mitigated that brutal German love of war, but it could not destroy it. Should that subduing talisman, the cross, be shattered, the frenzied madness of the ancient warriors, that insane Berserk rage of which Nordic bards have spoken and sung so often, will once more burst into flame. This talisman (the cross) is fragile, and the day will come when it will collapse miserably. Then … a play will be performed in Germany which will make the French Revolution look like an innocent idyll.”
European Christians persecuted European Jews, often brutally. But it took a post-Christian ideology, secular Nazism, to produce Auschwitz — just as it took post-Christian communism to produce the Gulag, the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Ukrainian and Cambodian genocides.
Moreover, Nazism and communism aside, the left’s belief that secular reason can replace God and the Bible turns out to be completely wrong. The alleged citadels of secular reason — the universities — are the most irrational and morally confused institutions in the West.
I don’t know if a worker accidentally or a radical Muslim set fire to Notre Dame Cathedral (as they have scores of other churches around Europe). In terms of what the fire represented, it doesn’t much matter.

What matters is the omen: Europe is burning, just as Notre Dame was.

2 thoughts on “Notre Dame – A Prophetic Sign”

  1. From a Catholic perspective, another omen occurred when Notre Dame burned. The 300 foot tall spire the burned and collapsed into the church had a rooster on the top that served as a warning to French Catholics to remain vigilant to avoid denying Christ as Peter did before the rooster cowed in his day. The old Catholic symbols in the church (the cross, the display of Christ and Mary, among others) were spared while the Novus Ordo, or New Order mass table, was destroyed. The spirit of the new mass was intended to bring the church into the modern day, to let the world in, in the hope that it would retrieve fallen away Catholics, bring in non-Catholics, and inspire fervor among the young; however, since then, Christianity is being abandoned as well as attacked around the world while the Vatican remains mostly silent, far fewer Catholics attend mass, there is a serious shortage of priests and nuns, and many Catholics either ignore or undermine the conditions for keeping holy the sacraments of Communion, Penance and Marriage. Also, Pope Francis seems more concerned currying worldly favor condemning climate change and capitalism while ignoring the church’s teachings on matters of sex, family and marriage. The strange appearances within the last few years at the Vatican, such as the “staff” he carried at a youth conference appearing no different from a Wiccan stang, and the bizarre Christmas manger display at the Vatican bearing a homo-erotic component, symbolize the wayward nature of the church catering to the modern world. The rooster may be an omen hopefully removing the acceptance of sin and error that has entered the church so that the faith may finally get restored.

  2. Christians in the Christian countries should become strong Christians. Hindu temples should be demolished and ban should be put on idol worship and snake worship. It is igniting the wrath of God as idol worship is unpardonable sin and snake is considered Satan in Christianity. Our Lord abhor these things.

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