Fire is throughout the Bible.

It is particularly related as far as signs or punishment.

There was also the mention of fire in recent prophecy.

Many warned of it.

All saw truly major happenings.

Are we seeing it in Los Angeles?

We are seeing it in recent years in many places.

When one looked into history, one saw the variance. In Wisconsin, in what would become America’s first approved apparition, the Blessed Mother, in 1859, near Green Bay, had forecast a “punishment” that took place in 1871—twelve years later—with fire.

So yes, it plays into heavenly “omens” and warnings.

“Water and fire will purge the earth and consume all the works of men’s pride,” said Our Lady of LaSalette.

California is hardly alone.

We see signs of the times or we ignore such “superstition” and proceed blindly.

Wasn’t 9/11 also fire “falling from the sky”?

We have seen greater holocausts (just last year) in Australia, scorching millions—yes, millions, not thousands—of acres. Actually, about twenty-five million acres.

Yet God protects. There was a spectacular photograph of a fire in southern California near San Diego years ago that shot high in the sky just beyond a Franciscan monastery but never touched it. In the Wisconsin apparition, the wildfire had destroyed miles around and scorched the fence rails around a shrine built to mark the vision but—impossibly—never entered the shrine itself.

But holy sites can certainly suffer. The wildfire in the Pacific Palisades sector of Los Angeles has destroyed Corpus Christi Catholic Church and forced the closure of sixty-five Catholic schools, archdiocesan officials said.

And so we pray.

And watch.

Recall that the Fatima secret showed Mary quenching—erasing—the angel’s fire.

“Water and fire will give the earth’s globe convulsions,” said the Virgin of LaSalette.

“The world is on the edge of catastrophe,” the Blessed Mother told another approved seer, Marie-Claire Mukangango of Kibeho, Rwanda, where Mary appears (Church-approved) starting in 1981 (the same year as Medjugorje). “Cleanse your hearts through prayer. The only way is God. If you don’t take refuge in God, where will you go to hide when the fire has spread everywhere?”

[resources: Michael Brown’s Fear of Fire]