Obdurateness

Switzerland, you have rejected your God and therefore God will reject you as well!
Foreigners will dwell in your houses, your farmland will be cultivated by foreign people as well and from your churches everything will be taken out. “Oh what a pity?” Uttered the people; what is a pity?? What did you make your churches to be? Museums?!

In a dream I recognized myself on a tower on 17th January 1999. In my hand I was holding the sword (the word of God) and I prophesied this word over Switzerland. When I woke up I was filled with peace. I knew that the Lord will give Switzerland another chance to change its direction ... but if we are honest this word is being fulfilled daily in front of our eyes. One says that children are expensive. So we decided ourselves to prefer a career and stretch out for more money and our society also legalized the abortion. Now we are told that Switzerland is dying out, we are in need of young people and therefore we are obliged to import them from everywhere; also from northern Africa, mainly Moslems. In the meantime we also realized that we need 12000 children per year to guarantee the payments of our retirement provision. But, imagine, we kill every year approximately 12000 unborn babies! How ungodliness does make us just silly?!

After 09/11/01 many people opened themselves for the Gospel, especially young people, also men, businesspeople and a lot of foreigners. Since the war in Iraq our ministry in the streets has become more difficult. If I would like to speak with the people about Jesus, then often the question emerges how President Bush as a Christian could do what he does! These questions do not come from the Moslems but from the well fed Swiss people and Europeans. The people are not complaining against the terrorists, but against the Americans, the Israelites and the Christians.
For a lot of people the war in Iraq is a war Christians against the Moslems. So the poor Moslems are obliged to defend themselves. That’s the common meaning out there! There are also complaints against the crusaders but not against the warriors of the Crescent, because they cause only fear. The hatred is growing!

As mentioned above: After 9/11 mankind was more open than in earlier times! But since about last autumn, especially since the presentation of the movie and the book “The Da Vinci Code” something has definitively changed. I am observing an enormous obdurateness. People almost don’t have time, it’s a constant hurry to buy and to sell and to find all kind of distracting pleasures. In earlier times people were tired from work, today most people and especially the young are tired of the pleasures. This obdurateness is growing. Does that mean that nobody shows any interest towards the Gospel? No, every time when we go out the Lord shows us a few men and women, many of them are Moslems. Yesterday I could explain the Gospel to a man from Egypt. He asked me: “Do you know what happens, if a Moslem in our country will become a Christian?”….and he answered by himself: He will loose his head!

About 2000 years ago, shortly before his crucifixion Jesus said: “Look upon the fields, they are white for harvest”. Imagine, Jesus did see for 2000 years a harvest which has to be brought home. In the greatest ungodliness, in the deepest darkness the Lord sees a great harvest. When the Lord is watching today over Europe and Switzerland he is obliged to say: The harvest is over, the summer has gone no help has come to us!

What does the church say? The church has been widely hiding itself for the past twenty years; it took a position of seclusion and has been waiting for better times to come. We have got two extremes in the body of Christ: The everlasting pessimists, they are completely pessimistic, they lost all their faith, they are sitting on their sofa, drinking a glass of wine or beer, watching a worldly or a Christian TV-program ... and then they get up and are complaining about an ungodly world and about a weak church and are actually not aware that they are week and sleepy by themselves!

Then we have got people with pink glasses, they are waiting for the revival and only for that revival! In the last 10 to 15 years there was preached only about revival to the body of Christ, especially here in our city Winterthur. Nobody was willing to hear something about judgment or persecution. Now one tries perhaps to give some correction. But for many Christians it will be too late. A lot of Christians of the Pentecostal-charismatic movement have been waiting for revival. They have thought that if the ship “revival” will come, than they will jump on it and having their next party they will eventually use their talents, reap where they never took any responsibility for spreading the seed!
I am sorry, but another ship will come, it will be another one than you expect to come. Once in a dream I have seen a ship, it was black as pitch. When this ship arrived there was a flood and many people were just swept away. I could save myself in climbing up a hill where I met some Christians, also some from Winterthur whom I did know.

People of God, how long will you continue to sleep? When are you finally getting up, to throw out sin of your life and to bring home the harvest? There is always time for harvest. Many have given up the hope for revival, but what is revival? When the sleepy Christians are getting up!

Again and again I receive bulletins of prayer movements in Switzerland and I am wondering a lot. The prayer requests have been the same for 20 years, but the world has changed, the church has changed, why are the prayer requests remaining always the same? Why there is nobody who is speaking clearly and sharply? At the end it’s about heaven and hell! The answer is easy: Many have made compromises.
When you are speaking and writing clearly, then you are loosing your friends. Even people you work together with do not understand you, this is indeed painful! You are loosing perhaps some members, you don’t receive any financial support and so on ... that’s the reason why many are aware of this situation but they remain silent.

Fear of men is dominating in the body of Christ ... fear of men leads to a collapse ... ..how many prophets appeared in the last years and revealed nice prophecies for Switzerland!? Were some of them being fulfilled? No, why not? Because it’s simply not biblical! Have you ever read in the Bible, that the prophets and apostles of the Lord went to different countries to give them lovely prophesies? No! They arrived simply with the message: Turn back, repent! In Jeremiah 28,8 and 9 is written: The prophets have always been prophesying about war, disaster and pestilence; but if a prophet was prophesying about salvation and if the Lord really has sent him, he will be recognized by the fulfillment of His Word.

Why are we as human beings always in danger to tell the nice things only? Because lovely prophecies and speeches open the heart of man and also his wallet. The costs are too high to tell the truth and a few people are ready to pay the price.

In the past 15 years I have been warning many believers, leaders, people in general but also unbelievers about the judgments of God, but many won’t listen. Lots of people will experience an endless shock. I traveled to 16 nations and I met many Christians, who couldn’t believe that we are living in the last days. “Already 2000 years ago men had this impression”, they said. When I was speaking to a group in London, that the judgments of God will come because the church is not ready to repent, they all laughed at me. On the 05th July 2005 I sent a warning E-mail to Christian organizations in England with the result that only one of them wrote back to me. During our E-mail correspondence on 7th July 05 the first bombes were exploding in England.

I cannot say that Switzerland didn’t hear about the end of times and the judgments.
Since many years I have been warning them intensively through sermons in the streets, letters and other methods. With some brothers and sisters in Christ I also was allowed to warn in public in all district capitals and major agglomerations. No other city than Zurich has been warned so many times and this regularly in the last seven years ... therefore he responsibility of Switzerland is enormous.

Switzerland was hardly judged until the present time and some people think that our prayers have protected Switzerland.
Now I would like to ask some questions: Does America have less prayer? No, but they constantly are confronted with judgments because of their own sin and because of their pressure upon Israel. Does England have less prayer? No, but nevertheless the Lord started to shake England. The judgments of God are inevitable. There is a point where you cannot avert the judgments, but God has got His own timetable.
Has there ever been a nation which has legalized abortions, drugs, homosexuality, which is practicing euthanasia-tourism, which is hostile towards Israel, and …, and …, and was not being judged? Never, it is only a question of time. Could it be possible, that the Lord prepared something for Switzerland that no eye has seen, or ear heard, to bring Switzerland down to its knees? Many blessings mean many judgments as well. The Lord has a special call for every nation, Switzerland included. But it will only be fulfilled when our nation is lying on its knees and is crying out for mercy.
On 21st July 2007, when I stayed with my family in Greece, I had a dream. I observed myself praying for Switzerland, it was a moaning, crying and groaning without any words ... and then a schedule table was put in front of my eyes and I read “Schaffhausen”. So I knew, that I had prayed especially for Schaffhausen. There is a level in payer, where not you are praying but the Holy Spirit is praying through you! In many prayers I’ve seen myself praying for Switzerland as a child-bearing mother ... the Holy Spirit is crying, is complaining about this country. The Lord will bring Switzerland down to its knees. I do not talk about a few inundations; I am talking about catastrophes in apocalyptic dimensions. If a prophet proclaims a nice prophecy for a country without mentioning the conditions of God, then he is a false prophet or he has sold himself.

A sister in Christ wrote to me recently, that she was asked to pray for a pastor who has taken a timeout to search for the Lord. This pastor returned soon and reported that the Lord warned him of not preaching the whole Gospel, of not warning the people from hell and not sharing this message to his four fellow pastors. As he explained it to his co pastors they answered: “We cannot do that, the people will run away from us, we have built a new church, who is going to pay it ... …”

I would tell to this pastor, that he should save himself from Babylon and to build another church somewhere else!

I would say to these four pastors: If you do not repent, the same thing will happen as it happened to the pharaoh: His heart became obdurate. There will arrive a moment where you cannot go back anymore, also if you wish to do so. It’s about an everlasting heaven or an everlasting hell. Hell is a real place. Satan has deceived you; your heart is filled with fear.
It’s better to lose the building than your souls! But you will not lose it, and then if you are standing with Jesus, he will be at our side!

Perhaps you ask yourself, what should we do as the people of God? The answer can be found in Joel 2,15: “Repent ... blow the trombone, proclaim a holy fasting, call the church together!” Gather the people, sanctify the church, collect the elders ... .let the priests, the servants of the Lord cry out and say: “Lord, take care of your people” ... ..

We live in the year 2007 and we are standing before apocalyptic catastrophes and the churches do have the same program as it was 20 years ago! What a shame!

In June I could go to Jerusalem for two weeks. On the flight from Zurich to Budapest a tall and stoutly made man sat next to me. We hardly did exchange a word with each other, but in the bus I finally asked him, if he was about to go to Tel Aviv. He denied and asked if I would go there? I explained him quite a lot of things about the end days, Israel, Jeshua etc. So it came out that he was from Israel but working in Germany. As I told him, that he should go back, because Anti-Semitism would increase, he just told me silently: “He knows, he has to return ... I gave him a tract from Jacob Damkani. When we had to separate from each other, he looked back at me with gratitude waving his hands.

On the first evening in Jerusalem I got a severe headache. I didn’t know if the reason was that I didn’t drink enough or because of the religious pressure; just before I have been at the Wailing Wall. So I woke up and I had to fight against these pains. I fell asleep again and I had an appointment with the Lord. He just told me: “Come up into the higher realms!” I also got the impression to enter a nearby house of prayer. So I went almost daily to this house of prayer for a few hours and then I went out into the streets. On the first day I could pray for a young lady in her shop, she got struck by the message of the Gospel. I was allowed to speak daily with the people about Jesus, but it was different than the year before. Last year I was mainly dealing with young men and women. This year the Lord showed me many, also elderly people; some of them even asked me, why I would not come to live in Israel. I received from many of them a lot of love although I arrived with the sword of God and not with pleasant words.
I explained to the people of Israel, that they suffered, suffer now and will suffer even more because they left the Living God. The greatest enemies of Israel are not the Arabs but their ungodliness. Many of them had to admit, that my opinion is correct. An encouraging meeting I had with the two young men Aviv and Guy. Guy was lying in a coma for almost two month and eventually returned. At the moment he is very much involved in studying the “Kabala” (a deep occult approach of the Torah in Judaism) but he was very open for the Gospel and he fully “recorded” everything what I explained to him.

As I said, it was different in the last year. Many young people are influenced through Buddhism or they return to Judaism, they go to see the Rabbis who stir them up against Jesus and the Christians. I had the impression that the persecution of the Christians is not far away. I do not mean just a little, but as it happened during the time of Jesus on earth. Everywhere in Jerusalem you see posters of Rabbi Sneerson, a false Messiah; some are expecting his resurrection. One day the Gay-parade went through Jerusalem.

I was quite shocked when I recognized the joy of a lot of elderly people about the Gay-parade! One lady next to me said to me quite disappointed: In Tel Aviv they were dressed in their costumes, but here they are dressed normally! Many Israelis walked together with the homosexuals, this because of their solidarity with them. Everywhere where I went to I was aware of this ungodliness ... but when a Jew tells you: “There is no God”, then you are hit much more deeply. Brothers and sisters, we cannot believe it, but there will be a holocaust which will be much more severe than the first one! Not because the nations desire it, nor the Arabs, but because God is God. He has to judge Israel according to His Name. The word of God is very clear: Only a rest will turn to their God. You cannot be chosen and do what you what you want! Being elected means more responsibility, greater judgments if one remains in disobedience, this is valid for all chosen people.

When I see the present situation of Israel, the church and the world I have to say: To really realize the deep need of repentance, mountains have to fall on our head but even then many will not make a turnaround.

Brothers and sisters, great judgments are waiting for us. But those who remain faithful and do their work in a devoted attitude in midst of great darkness will once see the glory of God ... not only in Heaven but already here on earth. When do the Elias’s of the last period of time will be revealed? When chaos will predominate on the earth! Do we have this chaos?
No, not yet, God’s patience and generosity is not yet exhausted. Always when Israel, the church and the world were lying on the ground, our God came into action and did something nobody expected. Our Lord will rise after He led us to the point to go down on our knees before Him.

Are you living in sin and disobedience, then you have all reasons to fear the anger of the Lamb! Are you faithful and building the kingdom of God, then you will see the glory of God.
Don’t be discouraged but rejoice in your God!

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches!

Catherine Hafner, a servant of Jesus Christ!