Name: Anonymous 2006-05-01 17:58
It was prophesized since the beginning that in the end of time (this one) God would take other people as His rather than the Jewish people. Read the following: "...and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people, and they shall say, Thou art my God" (Hos. 2:23/Rom. 9:25) and with remarkable forcefulness, God reveals through Isaiah: "I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name". (Isa. 65:1) Reading and understanding this is easy to deduct that the Jewish people would be no longer the treasurer of God's new revelations. And that the Lord's manifestations in this era were not to be in Judea is very clear when the following verse is studied: "For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be...". (Mtw. 24:27"
But, does this necessarily mean that Mexico, a little and underdeveloped country, is the chosen place for the Second Coming of the Lord? Let's see. When Jesus explains to His disciples where is the Advent to take place, he said to them: "For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together".(Mtw 24:28) The national symbol of Mexico has always been, even before the arrival of the Spaniards, an eagle devouring a serpent -itself, a very spiritual metaphor: the high devouring the low- and considering, besides, that in the Mexican Valley there is a great variety of this magnificent bird. And in the OT we find another prophetic verse in which the Lord warns the Jewish people that because of its defiance, He will chose another people, and in this prophecy appears, again, the symbol of the eagle: "The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth as swift as the eagle fleth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand." (Dut. 28:49).
"...a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand". In this verse not only the Lord anticipates that in the time of the end He shall take another nation as His people, but also that that other people would speak a language totally unknown to the Jewish people. And not only that, in the following verse the use of another different language is clearly implied: "...for with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people..." (Isa. 28:11)
Finally, it is proper to remember that in His past communications, the Lord has never chosen powerful nations to deliver His messages and teachings. On the contrary, He always pleased in chosing the humble and the poor to be the receivers of His divine inspirations. Jesus emphasizes this by saying: " I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes"...
But, does this necessarily mean that Mexico, a little and underdeveloped country, is the chosen place for the Second Coming of the Lord? Let's see. When Jesus explains to His disciples where is the Advent to take place, he said to them: "For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together".(Mtw 24:28) The national symbol of Mexico has always been, even before the arrival of the Spaniards, an eagle devouring a serpent -itself, a very spiritual metaphor: the high devouring the low- and considering, besides, that in the Mexican Valley there is a great variety of this magnificent bird. And in the OT we find another prophetic verse in which the Lord warns the Jewish people that because of its defiance, He will chose another people, and in this prophecy appears, again, the symbol of the eagle: "The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth as swift as the eagle fleth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand." (Dut. 28:49).
"...a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand". In this verse not only the Lord anticipates that in the time of the end He shall take another nation as His people, but also that that other people would speak a language totally unknown to the Jewish people. And not only that, in the following verse the use of another different language is clearly implied: "...for with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people..." (Isa. 28:11)
Finally, it is proper to remember that in His past communications, the Lord has never chosen powerful nations to deliver His messages and teachings. On the contrary, He always pleased in chosing the humble and the poor to be the receivers of His divine inspirations. Jesus emphasizes this by saying: " I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes"...