The Prophecy at Europe’s Door
Migration, Christianity and a Warning From 1968
I do not know whether the strange account you are about to read was truly a vision from God. I cannot prove that it was. I am also reluctant to dismiss it, because one particular passage has stayed with me for some time.
It concerns people from poorer countries coming into Europe in great numbers. The prophecy does not say that their arrival itself is Europe's great sin. Quite the opposite. It says that Europeans will begin to dislike them, become hard towards them and eventually treat them terribly.
That distinction matters.
Europe has a long and bloody history with Islam. Muslim forces conquered much of Iberia beginning in the eighth century, Christian kingdoms later fought for centuries to regain territory, and the Ottoman Empire pushed deep into Europe, besieging Vienna in 1529 and 1683. For centuries, Christianity and Islam sometimes met across battlefields and contested borders.
But that is not what we are watching today.
The people arriving in modern Europe are not an Ottoman army outside Vienna. They are migrants, refugees, families and individuals, coming for many different reasons. Some are escaping war or poverty; others simply hope to build a better life. Nor are they all Muslim. Pew estimates that, as of 2020, among migrants living in Europe who were born outside the region, 41 percent were Christian, 34 percent Muslim and 16 percent religiously unaffiliated.
And here is the thought I cannot quite get out of my head.
There was a time when Christians left Europe and travelled enormous distances to find people who had never heard the Gospel. Missionaries crossed oceans, endured hardship and sometimes died doing it.
Now people from many of those parts of the world have come to Europe's doorstep, just as Europe itself has become less Christian. The missionary no longer necessarily has to cross an ocean. The stranger may live across the road.
A Christian civilisation might have looked upon that stranger and seen a neighbour to love and a soul with whom to share the Gospel. A civilisation that has forgotten its Christianity may see only a foreigner, a cultural adversary or a target for its frustrations.
Perhaps that is what makes the passage to come so unsettling. The point is not simply that people would come to Europe, but how profoundly Europe itself would have changed spiritually by the time they arrived: “They will begin to dislike them and become hard with them.”
I cannot tell you whether what follows came from God. I can only tell you that it was reportedly spoken decades ago, that parts of it now make uncomfortable reading, and that I believe it is worth considering for yourself:
Valdres Prophecy
An old woman of 90 from Valdres in Norway had a vision from God in 1968. The evangelist Emanuel Minos had meetings (services) where she lived. He had the opportunity to meet her, and she told him what she had seen. He wrote it down, but thought it to be so unintelligible that he put it in a drawer. Now, almost 30 years later, he understands he has to share the vision with others.The woman from Valdres was a very alert, reliable, awake and credible Christian, with a good reputation among all who knew her. This is what she saw:
"I saw the time just before the coming of Jesus and the outbreak of the Third World War. I saw the events with my natural eyes. I saw the world like a kind of a globe and saw Europe, land by land. I saw Scandinavia. I saw Norway. I saw certain things that would take place just before the return of Jesus, and just before the last calamity happens, a calamity the likes of which we have never before experienced.
She mentioned four waves:
1. "First before Jesus comes and before the Third World War breaks out there will be a ‘détente’ like we have never had before. There will be peace between the super powers in the east and the west, and there will be a long peace. (Remember, that this was in 1968 when the cold war was at its highest. E. Minos) In this period of peace there will be disarmament in many countries, also in Norway and we are not prepared when it (the war) comes. The Third World War will begin in a way no one would have anticipated - and from an unexpected place.
2. "A lukewarmness without parallel will take hold of the Christians, a falling away from true, living Christianity. Christians will not be open for penetrating preaching. They will not, like in earlier times, want to hear of sin and grace, law and gospel, repentance and restoration. There will come a substitute instead: prosperity (happiness) Christianity.
"The important thing will be to have success, to be something; to have material things, things that God never promised us in this way. Churches and prayer houses will be emptier and emptier. Instead of the preaching we have been used to for generations -like, to take your cross up and follow Jesus, - entertainment, art and culture will invade the churches where there should have been gatherings for repentance and revival. This will increase markedly just before the return of Jesus.
3. "There will be a moral disintegration that old Norway has never experienced the likes of. People will live together like married without being married. (I do not believe the concept ‘co-habitor’? existed in 1968 - E. Minos.) Much uncleanness before marriage, and much infidelity in marriage will become the natural (the common), and it will be justified from every angle. It will even enter Christian circles and we pet it - even sin against nature. Just before Jesus return there will be TV- programs like we have never experienced. (TV had just arrived in Norway in 1968. E. Minos)
"TV will be filled with such horrible violence that it teaches people to murder and destroy each other, and it will be unsafe in our streets. People will copy what they see. There will not be only one ‘station’ on TV, it will be filled with ‘stations.’ (She did not know the word ‘channel’ which we use today. Therefore she called them stations. E. Minos.) TV will be just like the radio where we have many ‘stations,’ and it will be filled with violence. People will use it for entertainment. We will see terrible scenes of murder and destruction one of the other, and this will spread in society. Sex scenes will also be shown on the screen, the most intimate things that takes place in a marriage." (I protested and said, we have a paragraph that forbids this kind of thing. E. Minos.) There the old woman said: "It will happen, and you will see it. All we have had before will be broken down, and the most indecent things will pass before our eyes."
4. "People from poor countries will stream to Europe. (In 1968 there was no such thing as immigration. E. Minos.) They will also come to Scandinavia - and Norway. There will be so many of them that people will begin to dislike them and become hard with them. They will be treated like the Jews before the Second World War. Then the full measure of our sins will have been reached (I protested at the issue of immigration. I did not understand it at the time. E. Minos.)
The tears streamed from the old woman’s eyes down her cheeks. "I will not see it, but you will. Then suddenly, Jesus will come and the Third World War breaks out. It will be a short war." (She saw it in the vision.)
"All that I have seen of war before is only child’s play compared to this one, and it will be ended with a nuclear atom bomb. The air will be so polluted that one cannot draw one’s breath. It will cover several continents, America, Japan, Australia and the wealthy nations. The water will be ruined (contaminated?). We can no longer till the soil. The result will be that only a remnant will remain. The remnant in the wealthy countries will try to flee to the poor countries, but they will be as hard on us as we were on them.
"I am so glad that I will not see it, but when the time draws near, you must take courage and tell this. I have received it from God, and nothing of it goes against what the Bible tells.
"The one who has his sin forgiven and has Jesus as Savior and Lord, is safe."
