Last Days's Prophetess
Last Days's Prophetess
"The world is in flames. The battle between Christ and the antichrist has broken into the open. If you decide for Christ, it could cost you your life. Carefully consider what you promise. The world is in flames. The conflagration can also reach our house."
These are tough, truly prophetic words for our day. But they were not uttered in our day, nor by one of the legion of glib, modern-day "prophetesses"...teetering on high heels, lip gloss and jewellery sparkling on floodlit podiums.
This cut-to-the-bone oracle was uttered in Europe in 1939 as the dark, satanic clouds of Hitlerian nazism were relentlessly blanketing that continent. (Presaging the great Tribulation of the Last Days.)This genuine prophetess was a brilliant Jewish scholar who sacrificed a stellar academic career to become a Christian contemplative. (A night-and-day prayer!)
Edith Stein (Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross as she was known in the
Carmelite convents where she lived the last nine years of her earthly life!) was born in eastern Germany on the Jewish Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) in 1891.
She was murdered by gassing on Sunday, August 9, 1942,
in Auschwitz concentration camp.
Edith died an Old Testament and a New Testament martyr. Before she offered her life to the flames, she prophesied,
"More than ever the Cross is the sign of contradiction. The followers of the antichrist...desecrate the images of the Cross and they make every effort to tear the Cross out of the heart of Christians. All too often they have succeeded even with those who, like us, once vowed to bear Christ's Cross after Him.
Therefore, the Saviour today looks at us, solemnly probing us, and asks each one of us, 'Will you remain faithful to the Crucifed?'
"Carefully consider what you promise. The world is in flames. But high above all flames towers the Cross. They cannot consume it. It is the path from earth to Heaven. It will lift the one who embraces it in faith, love and hope into the bosom of the Trinity."
The greatest threat to the Church in these Last Days is not terrorism nor is it p/c, trendy, liberal government. It is Christianity minus the Cross; Christianity reduced to a flabby, effete programme of self-fulfillment and personal success and happiness.
"But we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block, and to Gentiles foolishness." (1 Corinthians 1.23)
"For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified." (1 Corinthians 2.2)
"But may it never be that I should boast, except in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world." (Galatians 6.14)
"That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead." (Philippians 3.10-11)
"And they overcome him because of the Blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even to death."(Revelation 12.11)
