Notre Dame and The Bride of Christ, “Our Lady”

We want to say at the start how saddened we are for all that was lost during the recent fire at Notre Dame. We also want to join our hearts in empathy for the French people and their broken hearts at this loss. Beyond attempts to step into the prophetic context we do not forget for a moment what this iconic building has meant to Paris, France and Europe. We weep with those who weep.

Let us press on to what I believe we may glean and learn from this tragic event.

Yesterday morning I woke up and was impressed to read the following scripture. This was before I had turned on the news.

John 15:1-6 (NASB)

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.  If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.”

Before I go on, let’s put this more into a historic context.

This past Sunday was Palm Sunday and begins the Holy Week leading up to Passover and the celebration on Resurrection Sunday.

God has been speaking to many of us about crossing into the promise land. A few things we recognize that Moses was dead! (The name Moses means, “Drawn Out.”) He served his purpose to draw the people out of a futile life of bondage into the life God had intended for them. The old leadership of the nation was over; a new leader was on the scene. In this hour we are being brought out from under leadership that is bound by the traditions of the past. We are being set free from the powerless form of godliness into a living reality of His Kingdom.

Moses was a leader that brought the people out of slavery. He led them through the wilderness where they still carried the stigma of Egypt and a slave mentality. A whole generation had to pass away so a new generation would come forth without servitude perspective but with the knowledge we are sons and daughters of the King.

In the wilderness we talked about, preached about, and sang about the Gospel of Salvation. This is a new generation that is now moving into the promise land and we are declaring the Gospel of the Kingdom. We are not only crossing over but experiencing the Gilgal of history where the Ekklesia of God has the full stigma of sin and the world system rolled off.

On God’s calendar, the 9th of Nissan, the children of Israel began crossing the Jordan River under the leadership of Yashua Ben Nun--Joshua son of Nun. Joshua means, “Yehovah IS Salvation.” On the natural calendar for 2019, April 14 would be the same day as the 9^th of Nissan. We commemorate the children of Israel crossing over into the promise land on the 10^th of Nissan or this year, April 15^th. It is also noteworthy they celebrated Passover on 14th of Nissan, which on the natural calendar is April 19, 2019. On the 16th Nissan or April 17th the miracle of the Manna ended and they began to occupy the promise land. They had to get cows for milk and some bees for honey and tend them. They did not arrive at a place to lay down and rest, they were in a place to build, remove their enemies and go to work.

We are in the time of fulfillment of the promise that He would shake everything that could be shaken. The foundation of Notre Dame and its solid walls are still standing. The Bells are still there to ring out His praise. But the inside, the guts if you will have been removed. The Word says, “first the natural, then the spiritual!” What happened to Notre Dame is a prophetic picture of what will happen to the institution commonly called, “The Church.” The wood, hay and stubble will be burned up. The pretense of what people have interpreted as God’s will, revelation and appropriate worship will be confronted by fact, “our God is a consuming fire.”

We realize this will be a good thing in the end. Even if the enemy of our souls meant this for evil, God will turn it around. This is not just destructive in the sense of simply tearing down but a building up. The fact is somethings must be broken before we realize it needs to be fixed. When He said, “perfect them in Unity.” The Father intends to answer that prayer. Fire has a purging, purifying and refining quality. And what we saw before our very eyes was the beginning this process in earnest. There is no, “Oikos – Building,” that will be exempt anywhere in the world. It is the Jeremiah anointing to tear down. It is the pruning of the vine. All this is so that we may build better than we were and bear far more fruit. Look at this from heavens perspective and see this will ultimately be for good.

Our Yashua of Nazareth (Yashua Ben Yehovah) is leading His Bride into the Promise Land, without spot or blemish. 

Daniel 12:9-10 (NASB)

He said, “Go your way, Daniel, for these words are concealed and sealed up until the end time. Many will be purged, purified and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will understand.