Niagara Falls prophesied as site of Second Coming
By Bill Michelmore - NEWS NIAGARA BUREAU
Updated: 10/28/07 9:05 AM
- Isaiah Robertson has his own personal take on how things will unfold and has turned his city home, yard and church into symbols of his faith.
The Second Coming of Christ will occur in Niagara Falls, Isaiah Robertson believes.
“The revival of Jesus Christ will start right here,” he said. “God said he would take his glory from one of the wonders of the world — and that wonder is Niagara Falls.”
Millions of Christians believe in the Second Coming of Christ, in which the Christian savior will return to earth for a final judgment of both the living and the dead.
According to the Old Testament prophecy, “I will show wonders in the heaven and in the earth: blood and fire and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord.”
Robertson has his own personal take on how things will unfold and has turned his city home, yard and church into symbols of his faith.
“Niagara Falls is a holy place, like Jerusalem,” he said. “The sound of the water going over the falls is the voice of God.”
At the second coming, Robertson believes, the water at the base of the falls will turn into a “lake of fire.”
Three Sisters Islands will be the judgment seat of Jesus, said Robertson, also known by some as Prophet Isaiah, and Goat Island will be where he will separate the sheep, his followers, from the goats, who are rejected in the judgment.
“There will be two ways to go,” he said, “left into the ring of fire or right into eternal salvation.”
People who believe in Jesus will go right, and nonbelievers will go left.
Robertson expects this to happen in 2014. He has erected a 20-foot-tall wooden cross in front of his house on Ontario Avenue to symbolize the Second Coming of Christ.
Before that event, however, total war lasting three years — Armageddon — will break out in the Middle East.
“Millions will die because God is preparing for the rapture,” he said, referring to the ascent to heaven of Christian believers.
The followers of Jesus will be carried away to safety, while those still on earth will face the period of tribulation — seven years of worldwide pestilence, famine and death.
“This world is not our home,” Robertson said. “We are just passing through.”
Robertson’s own home is adorned with religious symbolism, inside and outside. Small rock gardens in the front yard, containing painted stones and thousands of colored beads, represent a variety of biblical prophesies, including the kingdom of heaven and the fire and brimstone of hell.
Robertson, a carpenter by trade, recently spent two years carving intricate designs on the wooden walls of Mount Erie Baptist Church on nearby Fairfield Avenue to illustrate stories from the Bible and symbolize Christian beliefs.
A sign at the side of his house carries this inscription from Luke 17:26: “And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of coming of the son of the living God.” At the bottom of the inscription is his name, Prophet Isaiah, and his telephone number: (716) 282-2994.
The centerpiece of Robertson’s holy home is the handcarved oak cross.
Curious motorists and tourists have been stopping to be photographed next to the cross, he said.
“This cross is straight from God,” Robertson said. “It’s not man’s work. This cross is telling you that the coming of the Lord is at hand. If you walk away from this cross and don’t accept Christ, then you’re lost forever.”
