By
Miguel Angel Tinoco Rodriguez
Zion October 12th, 2009
Praise to the man.
Many people in the world today are trying to further demonize Christopher Columbus and are comparing the times then and now in order to blame him and him alone for all the atrocities during the discovery and bloody colonization of America. In justice, I stand firm against the deionization of this man and manifest that he is a man even worthy of praise for having endeavored such a risky and uncertain task. Before him, only those with express command and guidance of God himself were able to undertake such a mammoth task to cross these many waters. In fact, the discoverers and colorizations did not come to America; they were expressly brought here by God to do a work for him. This man must have communed with the spirit of God in order to have come thus far.
Putting all things in balance, I manifest that it was a blessing from God and the explorers were just a rough instrument in the hands of God to smite and vex a people that from many centuries had degenerated and corrupted themselves in the gross darkness of antisocial behavior. Had not this land been discovered in time by the gentiles, the aborigines already warring ferociously against each other, would have destroyed and annihilated themselves to the point that there would have not been a soul to tell the tale. I know that many people were, are and will still get offended at these assertions, especially those that come from the people that for the last 520 years have been smitten, scattered, hated, killed, rejected and oppressed. I am one of them and the truth does not offend me at all despite the great sorrow that is in my heart because of all that the y went through. I am even grateful, for had not been by the interposition of the gentiles, I would not exist today.
Now, many may ask, why would a God that is longsuffering and merciful do such a thing to a people? The answer lays waiting to be discovered in the annals that these people left for us to discover and decipher. Not only that. A script of ancient time was discovered and translated into our language that manifests the exact precedence, development and downfall of these civilizations that inhabited these lands before the discovery and conquest of America. The awful state of degeneracy in which this people were found even one thousand years before they were discovered had never been known in all the annals of the whole ancient world.
Many perhaps think that I am justifying the gentiles, but such is not the case. In fact by saying these words I am only justifying my own people stating that enough is enough. The price has nearly been paid and the possibilities for us henceforth are endless. In other words, it is time to claim and reclaim what has been promised and prophesied about us. Not only that, but also that the Gentiles better behave or they will suffer worst that what we have suffered, for if God did not spare his own people in the fire of affliction that were like a tender plant unto him, what can we expect of dry wood.
The aborigines of North, Central and South America were and are a branch snatched out of the fire from the house of Israel. Mainly, they were direct descendants of Ephraim and Manasseh, which were two tribes of the house of Israel through his son Joseph. It was promised to Israel that his people will form a multitude of nations in the midst of the earth and in the islands of the sea. And it is not the American continent an island in the middle of the earth. Not only they, but also the island of Great Britain and the countries that are near by are in the midst of the whole earth. Of such it is written by our father Jacob.
The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
(Old Testament Genesis 48:16)
Not only that, but to the tribe of Joseph were given specific promises and they were told that they his branches will grow beyond the wall and that they will become a fruitful branch as a branch that grows bountifully by a well of water.
Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb. The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting chills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
(Old Testament Genesis 49:22 - 26)
Now we all know that there are ten lost tribes of the twelve tribes of house of Israel, meaning that two of them are still standing as a people before the Lord and before the world in this day. These are the tribe of Judah and the tribe of Joseph which is composed of the descendants of his two sons Ephraim and Manasseh, the two horns before the Lord the move the nations of the world. The other ten lost tribes are in the midst of the earth, hither and thither confounded among the nations and the island of the sea. But that story is not a part of this work and for the moment I will not talk about them even though I know also where the majority of them are located. For what it is missing for the world, is always present before God. And if we do not humble ourselves sufficiently and ask God about their whereabouts, we will never know about them.
But as far as the tribe of Joseph it is concerned, they had men of God, prophets and scribes that kept a record of their history, their wanderings and also of their prophecies and revelations. Even the prophet Isaiah seeing the discovery of the new world in progress spake about a land behind the rivers of Ethiopia comparing the inhabitants of Mount Zion the them in reference to a land of peeled or naked people. And in one of those prophecies of the people that anciently inhabited the new world, the Lord revealed to his prophets the end from the beginning. In other words, it was revealed their journeys, their development, their progress, their wars and also their utter destruction and the downfall of their remnants. Not only that, but it was also vouchsafes nearly 2000 years aforetime that a man upon whom the spirit of God would wrought upon will advance and discover the land and inherit it. In one of those prophecies it is also written particularly about the voyages of Christopher Columbus and other Gentiles gropus. And these are the words of that prophet and historian from the house of Joseph written a little more than two thousand years in advance of the total of the nearly 2700 yeas of the Diaspora up to date of the entire house of Israel.
And it came to pass that I looked and beheld many waters; and they divided the Gentiles from the seed of my brethren. Ad it came to pass that the angel said unto me: Behold the wrath of God is upon the seed of thy brethren. And I looked and beheld a man among the Gentiles, who was separated from the seed of my brethren by the many waters; and I beheld the Spirit of God, that it came down and wrought upon the man; and he went forth upon the many waters, even unto the seed of my brethren, who were in the promised land. And it came to pass that I beheld the Spirit of God, that it wrought upon other Gentiles; and they went forth out of captivity, upon the many waters. And it came to pass that I beheld many multitudes of the Gentiles upon the bland of promise; and I beheld the wrath of God, that it was upon the seed of my brethren; and they were scattered before the Gentiles and were smitten. And I beheld the Spirit of the Lord, that it was upon the Gentiles, and they did prosper and obtain the bland for their inheritance; and I beheld that they were white, and exceedingly fair and beautiful, like unto my people before they were slain. And it came to pass that I, Nephi, beheld that the Gentiles who had gone forth out of captivity did humble themselves before the Lord; and the power of the Lord was with them.
(Book of Mormon 1 Nephi 13:9 - 16)
This record of which that was discovered and translated is called the Book of Mormon. It has been here with us translated in our modern languages for nearly two hundred years and the people of the world willfully reject it after so many witnesses of its veracity. Blessed forever and praise to the man who communed with Jehovah who was the chosen vessel that brought it to light even from the ground. And the Book of Mormon is of great worth unto us, the descendant of these peoples because it tell us the dealing of God with them since they left Jerusalem and also great promises for the residual of this people to which was given the land for a perpetual inheritance. It is a book that resurrects our true identity. And in this record is written as it is also in the Bible, what will become of them when they are brought back to the knowledge of their God. And according to these words, which I testify are a true account, woe be unto the Gentiles upon these land if they do not repent. For after they have been blessed above all other nations in the world; and after they had been given power to do these great things upon this people they will reject the God that brought them here, and they will pay a double measure of what they had done to this people.
Nonetheless, hereafter is an account why the aborigines were smitten and destroyed. They had already degenerated and lost all traces of civilization. And if we truly compare how tyrannical and evil were those that came upon these lands compared with the state of awful wickedness that was found upon these lands, one can only exclaim to the Living God. Just are thy judgments, oh Lord. And according to God and his prophets, nobody is ever destroyed without a warning and before they were admonished of the impending judgments that will fall upon the wicked.
Lo and behold in their own words.
And now I write somewhat concerning the sufferings of this people. For according to the knowledge which I have received from Amoron, behold, the Lamanites have many prisoners, which they took from the tower of Sherrizah; and there were men, women, and children. And the husbands and fathers of those women and children they have slain; and they feed the women upon the flesh of their husbands, and the children upon the flesh of their fathers; and no water, save a little, do they give unto them. And notwithstanding this great abomination of the Lamanites, it doth not exceed that of our people in Moriantum. For behold, many of the daughters of the Lamanites have they taken prisoners; and after depriving them of that which was most dear and precious above all things, which is chastity and virtue— And after they had done this thing, they did murder them in a most cruel manner, torturing their bodies even unto death; and after they have done this, they devour their flesh like unto wild beasts, because of the hardness of their hearts; and they do it for a token of bravery. O my beloved son, how can a people like this, that are without civilization—(And only a few years have passed away, and they were a civil and a delightsome people) But O my son, how can a people like this, whose delight is in so much abomination—How can we expect that God will stay his hand in judgment against us? Behold, my heart cries: Wo unto this people. Come out in judgment, O God, and hide their sins, and wickedness, and abominations from before thy face!
(Book of Mormon Moroni 9:7 - 15)
And these are the words of God according to Jeremiah, a prophet unto the nations, of why the children of Israel were time and again smitten and destroyed, sometimes directly from the hand of God and more often by a rented javelin.
Shall I not visit them for these things? Saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
(Old TestamentJeremiah 9:9)
And what did the children of Israel do, you may ask in contempt, to deserver such a grievous punishment form God. It is all written in the covenants and judgments given to us my Moses before our fathers received the promised land which are also written in the books of Zephaniah and in the book of Mormon. It all begun when they became an idolatrous and sinful people, for God spake these words unto Moses Saying:
AND God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
(Old Testament Exodus 20:1 - 5)
Nonetheless before the Jews and Israelites were first scattered and destroyed God spake to his prophet Jeremiah and said to him what would become of their people. And what he said by his mouth piece unto the Jews concern to every tribe of the house of Israel and not only them, but to all those to whom the law or the then commandments is given. And the gentles nations are not excludes, especially those that have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ when the Law of Moses was fulfilled and the new and everlasting covenant established. Therefore these were the words of Jeremiah unto the nations.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these. For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor; If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. Behold, ye trust in lying words that cannot profit. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
(Old Testament Jeremiah 7:3 - 11)
And here is an account of the destruction that fell to them after they had rebelled against their God after he had blessed above all other nation of the world.
And *when three hundred and eighty and four years(Since the birth of Christ) had passed away, we had gathered in all the remainder of our people unto the land of Cumorah. And it came to pass that when we had gathered in all our people in one to the land of Cumorah, behold I, Mormon, began to be old; and knowing it to be the last struggle of my people, and having been commanded of the Lord that I should not suffer the records which had been handed down by our fathers, which were sacred, to fall into the hands of the Lamanites, (for the Lamanites would destroy them) therefore I made this record out of the plates of Nephi, and hid up in the hill Cumorah all the records which had been entrusted to me by the hand of the Lord, save it were these few plates which I gave unto my son Moroni.
And it came to pass that my people, with their wives and their children, did now behold the armies of the Lamanites marching towards them; and with that awful fear of death which fills the breasts of all the wicked, did they await to receive them. And it came to pass that they came to battle against us, and every soul was filled with terror because of the greatness of their numbers. And it came to pass that they did fall upon my people with the sword, and with the bow, and with the arrow, and with the ax, and with all manner of weapons of war.
And it came to pass that my men were hewn down, yea, even my ten thousand who were with me, and I fell wounded in the midst; and they passed by me that they did not put an end to my life. And when they had gone through and hewn down all my people save it were twenty and four of us, (among whom was my son Moroni) and we having survived the dead of our people, did behold on the morrow, when the Lamanites had returned unto their camps, from the top of the hill Cumorah, the ten thousand of my people who were hewn down, being led in the front by me. And we also beheld the ten thousand of my people who were led by my son Moroni. And behold, the ten thousand of Gidgiddonah had fallen, and he also in the midst. And Lamah had fallen with his ten thousand; and Gilgal had fallen with his ten thousand; and Limhah had fallen with his ten thousand; and Jeneum had fallen with his ten thousand; and Cumenihah, and Moronihah, and Antionum, and Shiblom, and Shem, and Josh, had fallen with their ten thousand each. And it came to pass that there were ten more who did fall by the sword, with their ten thousand each; yea, even all my people, save it were those twenty and four who were with me, and also abfew who had escaped into the south countries, and a few who had deserted over unto the Lamanites, had fallen; and their flesh, and bones, and blood lay upon the face of the earth, being left by the hands of those who slew them to molder upon the land, and to crumble and to return to their mother earth. And my soul was rent with anguish, because of the slain of my people, and I cried:
O ye fair ones, how could ye have departed from the ways of the Lord! O ye fair ones, how could ye have rejected that Jesus, who stood with open arms to receive you! Behold, if ye had not done this, ye would not have fallen. But behold, ye are fallen, and I mourn your loss. O ye fair sons and daughters, ye fathers and mothers, ye husbands and wives, ye fair ones, how is it that ye could have fallen! But behold, ye are gone, and my sorrows cannot bring your return. And the day soon cometh that your mortal must put on immortality, and these bodies which are now moldering in corruption must soon become incorruptible bodies; and then ye must stand before the judgment-seat of Christ, to be judged according to your works; and if it so be that ye are righteous, then are ye blessed with your fathers who have gone before you. O that ye had repented before this great destruction had come upon you. But behold, ye are gone, and the Father, yea, the Eternal Father of heaven, knoweth your state; and he doeth with you according to his justice and mercy.
(Book of Mormon Mormon 6:5 - 22)
Now, after this detailed account of the suffering of my people due to their sins and iniquities do you suppose that they were more righteous than the Gentiles that came upon them nearly five hundred and twenty years ago? Therefore all those that demonize Christopher Columbus and the gentiles that cam with them out of captivity for all the suffering that was caused by them are talking without a full understanding of the facts. And their contempt of these grounds alone must be rejected, for the Lord often uses the wicked to punish the wicked for according to the Lord. The gentiles did not inherit these lands because they were more righteous than our ancestors, but because our ancestors forsake their God and gave themselves into idol worshipping and were smitten by the Lord the same way it was prophesies by Moses in the judgments, covenants and statutes to the very word.
But, behold, the judgments of God will overtake the wicked; and it is by the wicked that the wicked are punished; for it is the wicked that stir up the hearts of the children of men unto bloodshed.
(Book of Mormon Mormon 4:5)
And there never had been so great wickedness among all the children of Lehi, nor even among all the house of Israel, according to the words of the Lord, as was among this people.
(Book of Mormon Mormon 4:12)
Nonetheless, all the suffering and aggravation that has fallen upon the children of Israel, it is written, that God will remember the covenant that he made to our patriarchs that he will gather them back from their long scattering and dispersion to their lands of their possession. The wilderness will blossom and the children of Israel will begin to keep all the commandments for God himself will write his laws in their minds and in their hearts. And they shall be his people and he shall be their God. After which, it is the gentiles who need to worry and repent, for if thy do not repent, the Lord will cause the children of Israel that are already in the midst of them, to smite them trodden them under foot. Especially those who live in the continent of America which one day it will be only know as Zion. This is so because no one is exempt of drinking of the bitter cup of the Lord’s indignation. They will surely drink as we have drunk from it. For is God did not spare his own people that were like a tender plant unto him and were burned with fire, what can we expect of dry wood. It will not leave neither root nor branch. And of this it is written and prophesied by the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, even by himself. And these words are in the book of Isaiah and in the book of Mormon.
Ye remember that I spake unto you, and said that when the words of Isaiah should be fulfilled—behold they are written, ye have them before you, therefore search them— And verily, verily, I say unto you, that when they shall be fulfilled then is the fulfilling of the covenant which the Father hath made unto his people, O house of Israel. And then shall the remnants, which shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the earth, be gathered in from the east and from the west, and from the south and from the north; and they shall be brought to the knowledge of the Lord their God, who hath redeemed them. And the Father hath commanded me that I should give unto you this land, for your inheritance.
And I say unto you, that if the Gentiles do not repent after the blessing which they shall receive, after they have scattered my people— Then shall ye, who are a remnant of the house of Jacob, go forth among them; and ye shall be in the midst of them who shall be many; and ye shall be among them as a lion among the beasts of the forest, and as a young lion among the flocks of sheep, who, if he goeth through both treadeth down and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. Thy hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off. And I will gather my people together as a man gathereth his sheaves into the floor. For I will make my people with whom the Father hath covenanted, yea, I will make thy horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass. And thou shalt beat in pieces many people; and I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth. And behold, I am he who doeth it. And it shall come to pass, saith the Father, that the sword of my justice shall hang over them at that day; and except they repent it shall fall upon them, saith the Father, yea, even upon all the nations of the Gentiles.
(Book of Mormon 3 Nephi 20:11 - 20)
And according to the spirit of prophecy and revelation that is in me, I prophesy that within just a few years the arm of the Lord will be unveiled and manifested in the eyes of all nations since the time the gospel was given unto the gentiles by the apostles of Jesus Christ. And the times of the gentiles will be fulfilled in its entirety. Even within three years from now it will come to pass. And because the gentiles have rejected the Lord Jesus Chris and sinned against his gospel, unless they fully repent great destructions as they have never been known, nor shall it ever be know thereafter, will fall upon them. But if they repent of all their wickedness and secret works of darkness, they shall be counted among my people, saith the Lord. Then, the gospel will be taken from them and it will be given back to the house of Israel so that they can bring the fruits thereof. And at that time it will be also fulfilled that which says the last shall be the first and the first shall be as the last.
And these are the words that the Lord wants me to covey to all peoples even unto the ends of the earth whether Jew and gentiles, unless they repent.
Certainly, nothing will do the lord without first revealing his secrets to his servants the prophets.
(Amos 3:7)
Hearken, and lo, this is the voice as of one sent down from high, who is mighty and powerful whose going forth is unto the ends of the earth; yea, whose voice is unto men, prepare ye the way of the Lord and make his path straight. Repent ye, repent ye for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. And enter the way of salvation through baptism by immersion for the remission of sins and receive the Holy Ghost by the imposition of hands by those in authority.
The stone not cut with hand that was rejected on which the builders could have built has become the corner stone. Therefore, whosoever falls upon this stone will be crushed into pieces and onto whomsoever this stone falls shall be grinded into powder.
This is the counsel of Michael the Archangel, if you chose to accept it. As an agent fully endowed and authorized by the kingdom of God of the order of Aaron, I have measured your prayers and you righteousness and the Lord has found you wanting. Therefore, since you desired an idol to worship, I have created for you an Idol as in the days of Aaron in the times of the exodus. And due to this great evil the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob has been stirred up to anger in wrath against you, for he is a jealous God. And in his hot displeasure he has said that if we do not live by the law that we shall die by the law. For verily I say unto you that God spoke and wrote these words unto Moses saying:
I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee of the Land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shall not have other gods before me. Thou shall not make thyself any graven image or any likeness that of any thing that is in the heavens above or that is in the earth beneath; or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.
(Exodus 20: 1-5)
I came to my own and you did not receive me, and someone else comes in his own name and you have gladly received him embracing yourselves and with gifts and with much kissing. Due to this many will be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone alive even in this generation as it happen to those that reviled against God and his servant Moses and Aaron. But in these nowadays, the people have sold themselves for money and the earth has chosen darkness rather than light, for gross darkness is in their minds. You will receive the rewards of your idols that see nothing, hear nothing and speak nothing. And because you have put your heart in money and in riches the Lord will tempt you and he may give them unto you, so you can forget about him and he has a just cause to cast you away from his presence as he did with a great many of the children of Israel.
But thus saith the Lord: if those that call themselves after my name repent and bring unto me a righteous offering; yea, even a broken heart and a contrite spirit and seek my face I will be merciful unto them and heal their land. And their redemption will come by power. Zion redemption must needs come by power, even with a stretched out arm even if my whole wrath of the Lord shall fall upon the Land. But the righteous shall be delivered even if it were by fire.
And The Lord also said to the prophet Zephaniah also said concerning us:
I will utterly consume all things from of the Land, saith the Lord. I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the wicked. And I will cut off man from of the land, saith the Lord. And them that worship the host of heaven upon the house tops; and them that worship and swear by the Lord; and also them that are turned back from the Lord; and those that have not sought the Lord nor enquired of him.
And because I am also a jealous servant of God like the prophets of old, the lord told me.
Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God, for the day of the Lord is at hand: for the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests. The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth, even the voice of the day of the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord, The mighty man shall cry there bitterly. That day is a day of wrath; a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and think darkness: A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities and against the high towers. And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men because they have sinned against the Lord; and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung. Neither their silver nor their Gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath. But the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the Land. (Zephaniah 1:2-18)
Furthermore the Lord told me to tell you. Tell them this. This is the voice of one crying in the wilderness, repent ye, repent ye all ye ends of the earth and come unto me and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ in his restored church, which is the church of Jesus Christ of latter Day Saints, that ye might be sanctified by the reception of the Holy Ghost. Chose ye this day whom ye will serve, but as for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord.
These things I say not of myself; therefore, as the Lord speaks, he will also fulfill. And I say them in the sacred name of our savior and Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Will a trumpet sound in the city and the people not become afraid, will evil come upon a city and the Lord hath not known it? The Lion has roared, who will not fear? The Lord has spoken, who can but prophesy?
You have been forewarned and are soon to be smitten by the iron rod of the Lord’s mouth, even I, it is I.
This is the Lord’s servant, even a servant in the hands of Christ; even so, amen.
Miguel Ángel Tinoco Rodríguez 77
