Revisiting A Prophecy | Spirit Daily Blog

Mysterious it seemed thirty years ago when, during an interview in Caracas (see The Bridge to Heaven), mystic Maria Esperanza, whose apparition site was formally approved by the Church, said about her own homeland of Venezuela: “It will start here.”

We have revisited that apparently prophetic utterance several times because the situation has consistently escalated in her homeland and each time we do, what she was referring seems clearer. A headline today:

As Venezuela’s two presidents face off, children scavenge for food and soldiers run out of patience+

It started with the rise of a socialist leader, then deep economic problems after the collapse of Venezuela’s oil industry. Within years a situation in which stores were empty, men hunted stray dogs for food, desperate women turned to prostitution to sustain their families, and hundreds of thousands fled the nation has been in the news. The United Nations estimates two million people will leave Venezuela this year, joining the more than three million already scattered around South America.

There has been rioting. There is currently a chance of upheaval — civil war. There was street violence: crowds confronting police. In a word, chaos reigned. While the situation may finally be coming to a head, with a possible return to sustainability, one can parse Esperanza’s words and note she did not say “it” — chaos, social unrest, extreme poverty — would end in Venezuela, but start there.

There are glimmerings of that same trend around the world, including in the United States, which is now watching as a powerful tide toward socialism rises in reaction to wanton capitalism (the rich are now richer than ever, the top percent of wealthy controlling more than half the money) and there is a general sense of political, social, and economic chaos (see the government shutdown, or the passage of a drastic abortion law in New York State — a constitutional right there to kill a baby right up to the minute of birth, to the applause of all in the chamber).

Everywhere is the divisiveness and everywhere signs of deep unsettlement, with most people in one recent major survey saying they are unhappy with the course of the country, as standoffs and indictments dominate in Washington, D.C.

Many also are watching as the demographics radically shift and the “minorities” will soon out-populate European Caucasians.

Another mystic, Howard Storm, said he was shown a vision in 1985 in which he saw America turn into a third-world country with upheaval and chaos as a chastisement for not extending its wealth and its technology to third-world peoples.

If America didn’t go out to the third world, he said long ago, the third-world would come to the United States.

Each time we revisit that prophecy, the signs of what he and Esperanza predicted further evolve.

Will Venezuela’s socialist dictatorial leader be overthrown, and the nation head for economic recovery? Will there be conflict with Russia over it? A coup? Civil war? Who is the real president in that nation?

Even if it reverses course, Venezuela already has provided a prophetic template for what may be coming soon to Western nations.

[resources: The Bridge to Heaven and Michael Brown retreats: Tampa and New Orleans]