Love Waxing Cold – Lawlessness – Violence – Homicide

Jesus indicated that one (of many) signs of the end times or the end of the age grace would be that love for one another would grow cold. Matthew 24:12, “And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” This can also be interpreted that lawlessness will abound. This includes violence, murder, terrorism, shootings, abortion, sexual attacks, knife attacks, car/van attacks, chemical attacks and other similar acts of destructive and evil behavior. Yes, these things have occurred in time past. But consider the frequency, intensity and devastation of these types of attacks and mass school shootings. They are like birth pangs in frequency and intensity. This is just one part of the CONVERGENCE or CONVERGING of signs.

Increasing Lawlessness, Violence, Homicide: French knife rampage in Lyon, France leaves almost 10 injured or killed. A 5 year wave of jihadist attacks that have killed at least 250 people in France since 2015. What do we know about the number Five (5)?

Sandra LAFFONT, Daniel ABELOUS. AFP•August 31, 2019

Lyon (AFP) – A man wielding a skewer and knife went on the rampage in the French city of Lyon on Saturday, leaving a 19-year-old man dead and eight others injured, including three critically.

A police source said the alleged perpetrator was an Afghan asylum-seeker, unknown previously to both the police and the intelligence services.

An eye-witness in Villeurbanne, a suburb of Lyon, described the attack as frenzied.

“There was a man at the 57 (bus stop) who started striking out with a knife in all directions,” said a young girl whose top was stained with blood.

“He managed to hit, to cut open one person’s stomach,” she said.

“He stabbed a guy in the head, he cut the ear of a lady and the lady was dying at the bus stop and no-one came to help,” she added, sobbing.

She eventually managed to get the woman on a bus, which closed its doors and drove away from the scene.

“There was blood everywhere,” she added.

Of the eight people wounded in the attack, three were in a critical condition, said the prosecutor’s office. Paramedics treated another 20 people at the scene for shock.

– ‘Deadly madness’ –

The mayor of Lyon Gerard Collomb, a former interior minister, visited the site of the attack but in comments to journalists would not be drawn on what had provoked it. The man who carried out the attack had acted quite suddenly, he said.

The mayor of Villeurbanne, Jean-Paul Bret, paid tribute to people at the scene and security staff at the nearby metro station who overpowered the suspect as he tried to make his escape.

Police arrested the suspected attacker and were holding him in custody on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, the Lyon prosecutor’s office told AFP.

The reasons for the attack were still not clear. The national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office had been informed but had not taken charge of the case at this stage.

Reacting to the attack, Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally, posted a tweet saying “the naivety and laxity of our migration policy seriously threatens the safety of the French people”.

A group representing the region’s mosques also issued a statement roundly condemning the killing and the “deadly madness that inhabits those who try to sow hatred and violence”.

Last May, a parcel bomb in front of a baker’s shop in central Lyon slightly injured 14 people.

The perpetrator, a young radicalised Algerian, who was arrested three days later, pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, according to his confession.

Lyon, France’s third city, had until then remained untouched by the wave of jihadist attacks that have killed at least 250 people in France since 2015.