"Where the body is, there also the vultures will gather!" This refers to the Second Coming of the Lord – though we do not easily or readily identify it as such. It is referring to the different unmistakable but evident signs that the second coming of the Lord will produce – (it will be as apparent as vultures circling around a corpse)! There will be overindulgent eating and drinking and unfounded and ungrounded marriage and giving in marriage; there will be selling and planting and building with no thought of the city of God which must also be prepared for and built. Some will just simply be seen to be taken, others will be left behind until the Final Day! There will be signs in the heavens! There will be disturbances on the earth! Where the body is there also the vultures will gather!
In the first reading today St. John tells us of a sure defense against such a day: remaining steadfast in the love of God which they have been taught by Jesus himself. He encourages the Lady of the reading, and us to hold on to the commandment of love that we have heard from the beginning. He reminds us that the deceiver is the one who being in the world does not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. He is the "progressive one" who does not remain in the teaching of Christ (without dissecting it, manipulating it and rationalizing it for personal use) and therefore does not have God in him or her. Whoever remains in the teaching of the Christ has the Father and the Son – he simply has the Truth and can share it and encourage others to do so!
This is the time to stand tall, to raise our heads because our redemption is at hand! Blessed will they be forever who follow the law of the Lord!
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