«One of the signs of the final coming of God and of the Judgement that will follow the end of the world is the conversion of Israel which will be the extreme conversion of the world to God.
Why are they the last, they who were the first to be the people of God? It is through an eternal and human decree.
Nor does the eternal decree seem unjust. They, who were already the first - rather: the only ones - in knowing the eternal truths, should have been the very first of the new people of God: of the Christian people; just as Adam and his companion should have been the very first of the celestial people. However, not having exercised good will made of the first ones, the last ones. And while it is said in the Scriptures that Enoch and Elijah were, in life, taken by God out of the world into another better world in order to return, at the right time, to preach repentance and combat the Anti-christ when the world will have become the Babylon and the Anti-christ - and this due to their [Enoch and Elijah's] extraordinary justice - the same is said in the Scriptures that, out of its sins, Israel will be reproached by God and from being the first, it will become the last to enter into the Kingdom of Christ.
Adam is a good example of what it means to sink into the reproachfulness of God. He had to wait for a good number of centuries and millennia in the underworld despite having already expiated his sin for a long time on Earth before re-entering into at least terrestrial Paradise where Enoch and Elijah had already been enjoying the joyful friendship of God for centuries.
Even for the Hebrew people, though the Kingdom of God is not inexorably closed to them for their having rejected it when they could have welcomed it, centuries and millennia will have to pass before Israel can return to being a friend of God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. First, the other nations will become "the people of God". They, the Jews, will be the last. Last, even if from Zion, there with always come those who will be the salvation.
Zion, here, is meant for Israel, and Israel, here, is meant for the "people of the children of God". Jesus came from Israel. From Israel, there came Enoch and Elijah and they will return to prepare the return of the Son of God: the Christ, because at His coming, the impiety or the abomination of the desolation, according to the evangelical word, be not like a corrupted swamp upon the whole of the Earth and in all its places, and so that all, even those who, for centuries, had been the arrogant ones and all those predestined to the Life, could have it [the Life] before the end of time.
Everyone, even Israel. Because, if as it is said by He who is the Incarnate Word and Wisdom of the Father, the days of the desolation will be shortened thanks to the merits of the elect, it is also to be believed that not all of Israel will be reproached and excluded, and this thanks to the merit of its fathers (the patriarchs, prophets and the just ones of the Hebrew people). For the justice of these, God will use mercy and will not cancel the election of the Jews to His people in order not to separate the fathers from their children and because God is not mutable in His plans.
Full of mercy even for the pagans and the idolaters, full of mercy even for sinners who repent, He cannot cease being the Father of mercies for those who were His people and that, out of zeal that was no longer divine because it was no longer measured, and no longer order - a zeal that wanted and which believed itself to be more perfect than the same decree and will and design of God - they did not know how to believe, accept, and receive the Christ just as God the Father had sent Him.
Christ died even for the Hebrews. Rather, in His utmost requests from the Cross, He commended to the Father the Hebrews more than any other people because it was they who had merited the reproachfulness of God and who pertinaciously would have persisted in their errors.
Why did the elect people have to be the very one who was most guilty? Could God not have prevented them from becoming so? As He had fulgurated Saul, could He not have fulgurated the Chief Priests, the Pharisees and the scribes in order to convert them to the Truth and Justice? He certainly could have. But where, then, is the merit of their conversion which would not have been spontaneous but forced by a divine and powerful will?
Was there or was there not a mysterious motive in this conduct of God? There certainly was, because God does not do anything without a purpose and end. And every end is just, even if it is mysterious for mortals.
The moment will come in which all things worked by God, incomprehensible at this time, will be revealed to you. And then, together with Paul, you will repeat, "Oh the depths of the riches of the Wisdom and knowledge of God!"»