Interesting are the extreme fluctuations in weather out there, the record heat, the flooding rains in Florida, the unprecedented incineration of wetlands in South America. When it’s dry, dry. When it’s wet, wet.

Interesting also, as an irony: on the morning of the torrential downpours in the Miami area (last week), the Mass reading was from 1 Kings 18, whereby “Elijah said to Ahab, ‘Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.’ So Ahab went up to eat and drink, while Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel, crouched down to the earth, and put his head between his knees. ‘Climb up and look out to sea,’ he directed his servant, who went up and looked, but reported, ‘There is nothing.’ Seven times he said, ‘Go, look again!’ And the seventh time the youth reported, ‘There is a cloud as small as a man’s hand rising from the sea.’ Elijah said, ‘Go and say to Ahab, “Harness up and leave the mountain before the rain stops you.”‘ In a trice the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and a heavy rain fell.”

The Hand of God.

A recurrent prophecy, almost nettlesome—whether it be from Catholic prophetic circles, general Christian, near-death experiences, or arcane auguries—is that one day, an inland “sea” or massive lake will erupt in the middle of the United States.

Whether this is fantastical auspication or simple subconscious fear due to the great earthquakes that occurred in 1811-1812 along the Mississippi — or whether it hearkens to the current political divides, with geology as the metaphor — it’s a prevalent notion. (Along with it, of course, often adjunct visions of California divvied up by the sea or Florida and New York submerged.)

But the Midwest inundation (if a massive geophysical flooding event can be called that) seems the most striking of current predictions, offered here solely as a curiosity (for the devil likes to create mischief in this realm). Most recently, the idea of a yawning gap in the midst of our continent has been circulated on YouTube by a non-denominational near-death experiencer named Vincent Todd Tolman.

Many such “prophets” have a New Age edge. Thus: more caution yet. They call such things “earth changes.”

But striking is the concurrence with putative Christian soothsayers.

In an interview with former Weather Channel reporter Heather Tesch (who now hosts a YouTube channel about clinical death experiences), Tolman claimed that during his “death” in 2002 in Utah he was shown, before he “returned,” that in the next thirty to fifty years (but with other events much sooner), a sea would form that would be a hundred to two hundred miles on each side of the Mississippi, from the Louisiana delta to the Great Lakes.

“I saw that earth was very different than it is now and some major oceans, some major seas, were now land and in places there was land, there’s now oceans and seas.

“The geography of the earth is very different in the future. The United States itself: it feels as if there’s an inland sea that goes from the Gulf of Mexico all the way up to the Great Lakes. And now that’s a salton sea. Almost like a huge Gulf going all the way up to the Great Lakes. I almost didn’t recognize our continent of North America because of the big split in the middle. And it goes really wide. It’s probably a hundred and fifty to two hundred miles east and west of the Mississippi and it just opens up, so there’s got to be some seismic activity that facilitates that process. I feel that a pole shift—north and south on the earth—shifts and then it shifts back. It’s done this in the past many times and it will do it in the future. Each time it does, our geography changes a bit. Also California looks very very different.

“So there are some major displacements that will happen in this process of shifting.”

Sacred cities dotted around the world, but not where current cities are. “Like-minded” people were building their own communities, he saw of the future. A true vision or New Age anticipation?

It could be discounted as mere and suspect apocalypticism more easily if it didn’t coincide with Christian experiencers like James Wilburn Chauncey, of Fayetteville, Georgia, who likewise saw a chasm opening along the Mississippi or elsewhere in the general middle portion of the nation and who, though Protestant, saw the Virgin Mary. Chauncey, now deceased, had an impressive resume, including a stint as a weather forecaster in the military and work as a cost engineer for NASA, Disney, and the federal laboratories in Oak Ridge, Tennessee; before retiring, he owned a consulting firm in Orlando, Florida.

In the midst of a great war lasting twenty years, the Georgia man claimed to have seen great natural disasters, including quakes that would create a massive lake in the Midwest, disappearance of much of Florida and the East Coast, and a gulf of water between the mainland and California, along with volcanic eruptions and epidemics, as unprecedented perturbations afflicted the earth, which he was shown would wobble before regaining equilibrium and actually ending up, after great mayhem, straighter on its axis than it is currently—”totally”upright.”

Dramatic? To the point of evoking skepticism. Wars and massive disasters?

Yet, we don’t despise prophecy here, and in this case, it is coming from a man who recalled it from the very time it happened and says he was extremely reluctant for years to publicly discuss what he had been been shown at that “ledge.”

“Mountains had fallen; canyons disappeared; the courses of rivers were changed, and much land disappeared,” he claims. “Portions of Texas and Arizona were now lakes. What had been deserts of the west were now green and lush with trees and vegetation. Asia, Africa, Europe, and the world over became lush with vegetation, clear water, lakes, and rivers, and an abundance of fish, fowl, and animal life.”

It calls to mind an “enlightenment” about the image in the third secret of Fatima given Sister Lucia dos Santos (see Future Events) in 1944, about which she recorded, ““The tip of the spear as a flame unlatches and touches the axis of the earth. It shudders. Mountains, cities, towns, and villages with their inhabitants are buried. The sea, the rivers, and the clouds emerge from their limits, overflowing and bringing with them in a whirlwind houses and people in numbers that are not possible to count. It is the purification of the world as it plunges into sin. Hatred and ambition cause the destructive war!”

 

Word from Manuela Strack, alleged seer in Sievernich, Germany.

“Now it is time to remain in love with the beauty of our Catholic Church! Not to become extreme or even to leave. Heaven and the King of Mercy give us infinite love and show us what we can do. Let us pray and not allow resentment to enter our hearts. It is the time of hearts filled with love, ready to make sacrifices, burning, asking for reparation before God. The events are beginning. Yes! Don’t be afraid, but have faith the Lord is with us! Saint Joan of Arc and Saint Michael the Archangel don’t just appear like that. Neither does the Lord. They are with us! What is important now is that we go where a dignified Holy Mass is being celebrated and the Holy Sacraments are being administered. Please don’t become loveless and extreme. You know the heavenly message. Heaven doesn’t want that! We all want to remain in love because God loves us so much and is leading us through this time. Don’t let the devil steal your dignity as a child of God. We remain faithful to the Holy Catholic Church, the Church of the Son of Man, and pray in love for all other people. Serviam!”

[resources: Future Events]

[Footnote: In 2001, recalls Manuela, who resides in an old farmhouse (technically, in a nearby hamlet called Düren), “I saw Our Lady descending towards us on a golden ray. She then stood (as I see it) to the left of the altar. The Blessed Virgin wore a light blue cloak and a white dress underneath. The cloak featured gold trimmings at the hem. In her hands she held a golden rosary. She had folded her hands in prayer. Now she looked at us. She was standing on a cloud and had a golden rose on her left foot.”]

[Footnote: video for discernment only; please note that Amsterdam apparitions were not approved by Church]: