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THE PURPOSE OF LIFE AND THE PROOFS FOR THE RETURN OF CHRIST



    Without a basic understanding of why we are alive, life
has no particular meaning--life is meaningless.  Little
children want to know why they are here, but this question
doesn't get answered, except perhaps it is put off by
saying, "The stork brought you," or, "We wanted a little
child."  Of course, these answers aren't really answers, and
the child wants to know the real reason why he or she is
alive.  But throughout a person's life, this question is
never answered: not in church, not in the streets, not in
school. So because life is meaningless to people, we have
wars and pillage and carnage, and a lot of suffering . All
this suffering exists because people don' t have an
understanding of the role they play in the scheme of the
universe.

    We know that nothing creates itself, therefore
everything has to have a creator, including us.  As we can
see the genius of the artist in a masterpiece of art, so too
in observing the world can we see the genius of the creator
of everything.  God is the invisible, omniscient,
omnipresent, omnipotent Creator who is responsible for the
ordered design of the natural world and the ingenious
perfections of all living and non-living things.

So the question is, why would God bring you into existence?

    In order to understand why we were created, we need to
understand the creation in general. The first kingdom is the
mineral kingdom which consists of the elements, the things
that other things are made of, such as iron, calcium, and
phosphorus . These elements have a life, an existence, but
it is a static existence. they don' t have growth and
movement.  They come into contact and form compounds, but
they don't have organic organization as do the other
kingdoms.

    An element in the mineral kingdom can evolve within its
own kingdom.  That is, a piece of coal, or carbon, under the
influence of heat and pressure, can be perfected into a
diamond.  But no matter how perfect a mineral may become, it
can't become a vegetable.

    What is the difference between the mineral and the
vegetable?  The vegetable has growth and reproduction, which
are due to the vegetable spirit.  Because a seed has the
vegetable spirit, it sends its roots into the mineral and
absorbs the mineral up into itself making vegetable.  We
call this organized or organic chemistry.  While the mineral
is unorganized---dirt falls however you happen to throw it
and cannot change---the vegetable changes the organization
to the mineral, and the vegetable grows and reproduces.

    Is there any difference between the vegetable and the
animal?  The animal has something that the vegetable
doesn't have.  The animal grows and reproduces, it's
composed out of mineral, but in addition the animal has the
five senses--hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch.  These
five senses are the attributes of the animal spirit, and
they give the animal consciousness of its particular
existence--the animal can hear it, see it, smell it, taste
it, and feel it.  The vegetable does not have the central
nervous system to record this information, so it is
unconscious of its existence.  Because it doesn't have a
recognition of its existence, no matter how far the plant
may evolve, no matter how sweet the orange, of its own
volition it cannot become an animal.  But the animal can
smell it, at the vegetable and in this way the vegetable
becomes animal.

    The purpose of the mineral is known, because without
the mineral, we can't have the vegetable.  The minerals are
the building blocks from which everything else is made.
For example, iron, phosphorus, and calcium go into the
plant, and then on into the animal kingdom.  Without these
minerals, the vegetable and the animal couldn't exist.  The
purpose of the vegetable is for the animal to eat the
vegetable--without the vegetable, the animal couldn't
exist. Now we're coming to another kingdom--mankind. Is
there any difference between man and animal?  Man has the
five senses of the animal, he has the growth and
reproduction of the vegetable, and he's composed out of
minerals, but he has something more than these kingdoms--
man is able to think in the abstract.

    The animal's reason is limited to the five senses.  You
couldn't go up to a cow and prove that the earth is round--
-in million years you wouldn't be able to do this.  No
matter how you tried to explain that the earth is round,
the cow could not comprehend this because the cow cannot
think in the abstract, it cannot think beyond its five
senses.

    Man having the capacity to think in the abstract makes
him different than all that other kingdoms.  The existence
of man answers the question of why the other kingdoms are
here, because without the mineral, the vegetable and the
animal, man couldn't exist.  But the reason for going
through this is to find the reason for the existence of man.
If the lowest kingdom, such as the mineral, has a reason to
exist, then could we say that the highest of creation, does
not have a reason for existence?  We see no greater being in
creation than man, therefore, we cannot come to the
conclusion that man has no purpose for existence.  We can
see that without the vegetable there would be no animal, and
the animal supports man, so we know the purpose of the lower
kingdoms.  Therefore, the highest of all kingdoms must have
a purpose for it existence. Have you any concept of why
mankind exists?

    If you were the only person in this world, how would you
feel?  Lonely.  There is only one invisible God that
pervades the entire universe.  There's not another God for
Him to associate with.  Without man, He would be lonely,
because the rock can't comprehend God, the plant doesn't
have the intellect and can't comprehend God, the animal
doesn't have the intellect and it can't comprehend God. Only
mankind has the capacity to comprehend the intangible. As
God is intangible, God had to make man in order that He
might be known.  He had a need to have man. Otherwise the
greatness of God would only be known to God alone. And he
would be awfully lonely in this whole universe that has no
end without a being capable of having the capacity to
comprehend the intangible.  Therefore He created the lower
kingdoms so that man could exist, and He created man so that
He Himself might be known.

    We are the crowning point of existence in this
contingent world.  We see nothing higher in this contingent
world than man. Mankind is the highest of God's creation in
this world, but the beginning of another world which is
spiritual. The reason man has the capacity to comprehend the
intangible, the reason man has the intellect  is that He
possesses a soul. We call the intellectual capacity in man
the soul.  The body is tangible, but the soul is intangible.
The intellect is intangible, the next life is intangible,
God is intangible.

    Man's physical body is the same as the animal's.  But
the soul, a breath of God, enters in at the time of
conception, making him different.  Eventually, as man
progresses in his physical body, he resembles a man riding
a horse--when the rider gets to his destination, his horse
goes into the barn and the man goes on into the house--
there's eventually a separation when man goes into the next
life, which is intangible.  But God starts out with man
first being able to recognize that He is intangible.  The
purpose of the creation of man is so that God would be
known.  But God wanted something more than to be known.
What do you think that is?

    God left a defect in man.  He gave man the freedom of
choice.  And if He only created man in order to be known,
he wouldn't have left that defect in man--everyone would
have to know God.  But He took a chance on man, He gave him
the freedom to turn towards Him or away from Him.  He did
this because He wanted something more than to the known, He
wanted to be loved.  All this existence without love is
meaningless.  God had a love to be loved.  He loves us,
that's why He called us into being.  But in order for His
love to reach us, we have to love Him. And in order for us
to love Him, we have to have the freedom not to love him.

    If someone wanted your love, they wouldn't hold a gun
to your head, and say "You love me or I'll shoot you."
You'd say, "Yes, yes, I love you, " but that wouldn't be
love--that would be fear.  True love comes form the heart.
So God places us on this earth and He spreads out the
mountains, and the prairies, and trees, and the
flowers..what is He doing?  He's wooing man.  Just like a
lover might woo you by bringing you flowers, or inviting
you out on a picnic. As you love your lover, your lover
would love you.  This is the relationship that God
wants..He made man so he could love God.  But sense man has
the freedom of love, he may turn away from God.

    When God created you, did he say, is it all right that
create you? He didn't ask you or take you into His
confidence,  He just went ahead and created you without
asking your permission.  Would you sell your life for a
million dollars?  Here God has given you something you
wouldn't sell for a million dollars, free without any
reservation or even asking you.  The most precious thing
you have is life.

    God gave you another gift, probably as great or even
greater, your intellect.  Without the intellect, you'd be
like the cow not knowing if the earth is round.  He didn't
ask you if it was all right if He gave you the intellect,
He gave it to you as a gift, for free.  Would you sell your
intellect for a million dollars?

    Imagine if you were out in the desert, with nothing but
sand, no vegetation, no water, and it was 120 degrees with
no shade, and you were trudging along, looking for an
oasis, a well, a river, a stream, a lake, or any type of
water, and any water you saw would turn out to be a mirage.
The whole day went by like this, and then the second day
the same thing.  The third day you were ready to take your
last breath.  And then someone came along and said, "Would
you like to have a glass of water?"  Would you thank that
person? Yes, every time you saw that person, you would say,
"You wonderful person, you wonderful  person, you gave me a
glass of water!"

    God has given you two gifts, life and the intellect,
which you wouldn't sell for a million dollars each.  He
spread out this beautiful world before you, and all the
other gifts that he gives you.  Would you thank him?  Yes.
The thanking of God is that you're turning to Him and
worshipping  Him. You're saying, "Thank you Oh Lord, for
this life that I have."

    God wants to give you another gift, a greater one, but
for this particular gift He's going to take you into his
confidence . He says, "I want to give you a third gift,
it's greater than the other two, but this gift depends upon
you. That is, in order to have this gift, eternal life,
you'll need to come into an agreement with Me, enter into
My Covenant, and turn to Me and worship Me.  And then I
will bring you into My Kingdom, in this life and the next.
And you will live with Me in My felicity." But God makes
this gift contingent, that is you can turn away from it, or
you can accept it.  This third gift is the gift that comes
to us from the Holy Spirit.

    God doesn't speak to us like that from a great voice in
the sky.  But from time to time God speaks to us through
the mouth of the Holy Prophets, and through these Prophets
the Thought of God becomes manifest to the world.  Thus
these Prophets are called Manifestations of God.  The only
knowledge we have of God comes from the Manifestations.
God in His essence is unknown.

Let's look at a poem by Tennyson:

          Flower in the crannied wall,
          I pluck you out of the crannies,
          I hold you here, root and all, in my hand.
          Little flower--but if I could understand
          What you are, root and all, and all in all, I
          should
          know what God and man is.

    Tennyson is saying that we could dissect a flower, and
find all of the elements that compose it, but its invisible
life essence escapes us. If we can't find the essence of a
plant, how can we know the essence of God? God is invisible-
-He pervades the entire universe--He' s closer to us than
our own jugular vein and our own breath . But we can't just
grab a hold of God and say, "Sit down  here in this chair,
God, I want to talk to you" God pervades the entire
universe.

    The only way we can know God is through His Spirit
contacting us.  In order for that Spirit to contact us,
from time to time there is a person born with what we call
the Holy-Spirit. This Holy Spirit is able to receive the
logos-the logos is the thought of God.  This person who has
the Holy Spirit expresses God's thoughts in words, in a
Revelation.

    These people that are able to receive the thought of
God have been created by God especially with something we
don't have.  We have the soul and the animal doesn't, the
animal has the five senses and the plant doesn't, the plant
has growth and  reproduction that the minerals don't have.
Likewise, the manifestation of God has a soul, he has the
five senses, he grows and reproduces, and He's composed of
minerals, but He also has the Holy Spirit.  Therefore He
receives the Thought of God, which is the logos, and He
gives us a Revelation revealing God to us.  And thus God
becomes manifest.  The only thing we can ever know of God
is this logos, this thought of God expressed in a
Revelation, because God is closer to us than our own
breath, and our own jugular vein, but we don't know Him.

    At the time of Adam, God revealed Himself to Adam as
the One Invisible God.  Before Adam, people didn't know
about the One Invisible God.  There were great
civilizations before Adam. There is no recorded history of
this, but there is evidence for it.  We know that there was
a civilization called Atlantis, another called Lemuria,
another called Mu, and there was another one besides that--
some people think it was called Titan.  There were four
universal Manifestations of God, one for each of these four
civilizations.  Each of these civilizations came to an end
with a great catastrophe.  These civilizations had not
evolved to the point that we have.

    Mankind came out of the sea as an ameba, just like the
animals did.  Over millions of years man evolved, just like
at one time, a sperm and ovum came together inside your
mother and you became a primal cell.  At one time you were
a primal cell so small it couldn't be seen by the naked eye-
-the primal cell can only be seen under the microscope.
Yet everything that you were going to be like was in that
primal cell: the color of your eyes, the color of your
hair, how tall you were going to be, everything was in that
cell.  All your characteristics, your hereditary traits and
your hereditary character going all the way back to the
ameba, was in that cell.  The experience of the human race
all the way back to its origin in the sea is transferred to
your soul when it comes into contact with the primal cell
at the instant the sperm and the ovum come together.

    Inside of an elephant, when the sperm and ovum come
together, no soul is joined to that primal cell. In the
womb of an elephant that cell is another elephant, in the
womb of a lion it's another lion, in the womb of a giraffe
it's another giraffe, but in the womb of a woman, it' s
another person. That person differs from the animal in that
it possesses the soul.  The soul is a breath of God that
comes in contact with the primal cell  the time of
conception.

    The body is composed of elements. These elements are
universal and continue to exist.  That is, these elements
existed before they came into the formation of your body.
In the body  these elements exist in a formation we call
organic chemistry.  After the body separates from the soul
it goes back into the elements.  These elements continue to
exist, the only thing that dies is the form and shape of
this combination.  The single elements are indestructible--
they continue forever.  It is only the combination of the
elements that has a beginning and has an ending.

    Your soul is like a single element.  The soul is an
emanation of God. An emanation of God is different from the
Manifestation of God--we've already seen what the
Manifestation of God is.  The emanation of God can be
understood like this: speech is the emanation of the
speaker, art is the emanation of the artist, and music is
the emanation of the composer.  But the music is not the
composer, the art is not the artist, and the speech is not
the speaker.  Your soul is an emanation from God, but it is
not God. It emanates from God, just like speech, art or
music emanates from a person.  And this emanation of God is
a single element therefore it is eternal.  When we were
talking about eternal life, this eternal life is in the
spiritual world, in the kingdom of God.  Outside this Jesus
said the people weep and gnash their teeth.  Outside of
this, the people aren't living in harmony and unity.  We
call one condition heaven and the other condition is hell.

    Heaven is evolving towards God by turning to Him.  You
love Him, therefore His love reaches you and you evolve
spiritually.  But if you don't love God, this love doesn't
reach you and you don't evolve spiritually.  This is hell.
Heaven is evolving to God hell is going the other way.

    So God offers eternal life to you--to your soul, which
is your individuality.  You have three personalities.  The
first personality is inherited from the chromosomes and
genes in the sperm and ovum, going all the way back to the
ameba.  This is an inherited personality.  The second
personality is the acquired personality, the chances of
this world.  Your parents educate you, you go to school,
you have tests, trials and tribulations that you undergo,
which are educational.  In school, the teacher purposely
gives you tests for your evolvement.  God does the same
thing--you have tests and trials in this life.  These tests
and difficulties are actually for your benefit and are
educational. Baha'u'llah says, "When calamity exists in the
greatest degree, rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for these
are the gifts and favors of God."

    These tests that you have ultimately lead you to God.
They lead you to ask, 'God, where are you, I need your
help,  or "God, you created me, why am I here?"

    These tests lead you to the third personality, which is
the spiritual development acquired through turning to God.
The Bible calls this becoming "created in the image of God"-
-God gives you His spiritual qualities and attributes such
as mercy, compassion, generosity, love, wisdom, justice,
and so on.

    At the time of Adam, man was in the image of the animal-
-he had two eyes, two ears, mouth, nose, arms, and legs.
But through the Revelation of Adam and the succeeding
Manifestations, man takes on spiritual qualities.  These
spiritual qualities prepare man for the next life. When we
separate from the body, we lose the inherited personality
and the acquired personality to a certain extent.

    The first pages of the Bible mention Adam and Eve in
the garden of Eden.  They are told, " If you eat of the
knowledge of good and evil you're going to die."  Our
second type of personality comes from eating of the
knowledge of good and evil, that is, the opposites of this
life.

    Everything in this life is in the opposites.  We have
light and dark--dark is the absence of light, cold is the
absence of heat, vacuum is the absence of atmospheric
pressure, bad is the absence of good, evil is the absence of
spiritual qualities.  All of the negative is replaced by the
positive--dark is replaced by light, cold is replaced by
heat--light, heat, and knowledge are the positive qualities.
Without these opposites, we wouldn't be able to know the
positive qualities.  If it wasn't for cold, we wouldn't know
what heat is, if it wasn't for darkness, we wouldn't know
what light is, and if it wasn't for ignorance, we wouldn't
know what knowledge is.

    The purpose of being in this world of opposites is for
us to evolve far enough so that we can think in the
abstract, turn to the Manifestation of God, and take on the
spiritual qualities.  Taking on the spiritual qualities
prepares our soul for the next life.  To the grave goes the
physical body, but the soul, your individuality, continues
on into the next life.  Although in the next life we lose to
some extent our inherited and acquired  personality
characteristics, we will have our individuality.  You will
always be you throughout eternity.  You won't become Jesus,
or Joan of Arc, or someone else.  We get our individuality
when the sperm and the ovum comes together, when the soul
comes in contact with the primal cell and we receive our
identity as an individual.

    In the analogy of the horse and the rider, the horse or
body finally goes on into the barn, and the rider goes on
into the house, or into heaven. When you make your choice
to turn to God, then  you go into His house, which is what
we call heaven. And hell is going the other way.

    The only way, however, that we can know God, is through
the Holy Spirit that comes to us through the
Manifestations, that is the Prophets of God.  They give you
this spiritual education in order for you to evolve towards
God.  But in order to evolve towards God, you first have to
love God, turn towards Him and supplicate to Him in order
that you may receive these spiritual qualities.  We can
receive a branch of the Holy Spirit through the
Manifestation of our day.  The Manifestation are like a
pure and polished mirror which reflects the light of God to
us.

    Spirituality does not consist of all the observances
that they have you do in the Church such as baptism or
confirmation. These things don't have anything at all to do
with spirituality. Spirituality consists of taking on the
spiritual qualities of knowing God and worshipping Him, and
evolving towards Him.  But the only way you can do this is
through the Manifestation which receives the logos--the
Revelation of God.

    So we're coming to the question, who is a Manifestation
of God?  Each of the world religions claims that their
religion is the true religion and the others are false.
For instance, the Jews say no one can equal Moses.  When
Jesus came along, they said, "This man is just a
carpenter's son--he can never equal Moses--no one can equal
Moses!"  They said. ''This man even puts himself above
Moses," so they rejected Jesus.

    The Christians deified Jesus by taking the pagan triune
god --the trinity--and making Jesus part of it, saying no
one can equal Jesus--He's God!  Thus the Christians
rejected Muhammad when He came, even though Jesus
prophesied Muhammad by name in the Bible.

    Muhammad called Himself the "seal of the Prophets," and
now the Muslims interpret this to mean that He's the last
Prophet and no one will ever come after Muhammad--therefore
everyone has to become Muslim.  So when the Bab
(Baha'u'llah's Forerunner) and Baha'u'llah came, who were
prophesied in the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the
Koran, the world has turned them down flat.

    Today the Christians say Jesus is the Prince of Peace,
but Jesus said that He wasn't--He told His apostle Peter,
"Suppose ye that I am come to bring peace on earth?  I tell
you. Nay; but rather division..." (Luke 12:51).
Christianity has resulted in great division, turning
peoples against each other and families against each other-
-confusion.

    But Jesus said that the Manifestation of God,
Baha'u'llah (1817-1892), was going to come---"Whoever is
ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful
generation, so will the son of man be ashamed of him when
he comes in Baha'u'llah."  (Mark 8: 38 ).  The word
"Baha'u'llah" that Jesus spoke in the Aramaic language was
translated into the English Bible as "the glory of the
Father." (Matthew 16:27, Luke 9:26).

    Now Baha'u'llah has come.  But all the people today are
doing just as all the previous people have done.  They are
rejecting the next Manifestation that has come to create
man...'God's image, even though the concept of the several
Manifestations appears in the first page of the Bible--"Let
us make man in our image.---this "us" refers to the Great
Divine Manifestations of God.

    We can't know God in His essence--only through His
logos or thought--the Revelation of God.  The logos
descended upon Moses in the burning bush.  The spirit of
God descended upon Jesus as a dove when He was baptized by
John in the river Jordan.  The logos descended upon
Muhammad in the cave of Hira.  The same happened with the
Bab and Baha'u'llah. These are the Great Divine
Manifestations.  And the only thing we can ever know of God
comes from the Manifestations.

    We receive a branch of this Holy Spirit.  A lot of
people say, "I'm full of the Holy Spirit."  The Holy Spirit
is actually the thought of God that descends upon the
Manifestations, just as the light of the sun would descend
upon a mirror.  That mirror then reflects the light to us,
but the primary rays go to the mirror.  In this analogy,
God would be the sun, the Manifestation is the mirror, the
rays of light are the Holy Spirit.  God speaks to us
through a Manifestation, just as the sun would be reflected
to us in a mirror.  The Holy Spirit reflected in the pure
and polished mirror of the Manifestation of God is the only
thing we can ever know about God.  The Manifestation
receives the Holy Spirit from God, and then we receive a
branch of the Holy Spirit from turning to the
Manifestation.

    Baha'u'llah fulfills the prophecies for the Prince of
Peace.  He said that the nations must form an International
Tribunal or World Court to settle their disputes around a
consul table rather than go to war.  In this World Court,
they must make a pact amongst themselves to disarm and
maintain peace through consultation.

    There have already been several attempts at
implementing Baha'u'llah's solution to the world problem.
The Czar of Russia, Nicolaevich Alexander II, believed in
Baha'u'llah. When Baha'u'llah was imprisoned in Tehran, the
Czar extended to Him the aid of one of his ministers and
got Him out of prison.  Baha'u'llah wrote to the Czar that
since he believed in Him, he should proclaim His Revelation
and implement His plan for world peace.

    Czar Alexander never arose to do this and was
assassinated.  But his son, Czar Alexander III, had
Baha'u'llah's principal works translated into Russian, and
Alexander's. son Czar Nicholas II, studied Baha'u'llah's
plans for world peace.  As a result Czar Nicholas called
the nations together in 1899 for the First Hague Peace
Conference which set  up the World Court. when the heads of
state heard the Czar explain the plan for world peace which
he took from Baha'u'llah's teachings, they were so
impressed that they eulogized the Czar for having such a
brilliant mind to come up with these concepts.  These
eulogies swelled the Czar's head to such an extent that he
failed to proclaim Baha'u'llah.  Since he didn't proclaim
Baha'u'llah, this body was merely secular and very
political, and we had World War 1.

    Another attempt to establish Baha'u'llah's peace Plan
was made by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.  Wilson's
daughter was a Baha'i, and he himself had studied the
writings of Baha'u'llah concerning an international House
of Justice or World Court. Wilson, after World War I, set
up the League of

    Nations as an attempt to set up Baha'u'llah's peace
program.  But since Wilson couldn't get the United States to
join, and the League of Nations was also merely secular and
very political, we had World War II.

    President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor
attended Baha'i firesides in Washington D.C. for three years
at the home of a Baha'i physician.  After World War II, FDR
made another attempt to implement Baha'u'llah's plan,
setting up the United Nations.  He got the United States,
England, France and Russia to take out the charter for this
world tribunal, and he intended to proclaim Baha'u'llah.
Roosevelt was waiting for the atom bomb to be perfected so
he could call the heads of state to the Nevada proving
ground, explode a nuclear device, proclaim Baha'u'llah, and
give this bomb to the United Nations so that if any nations
refused to disarm, the U.N. could force them to do so.  All
nations would have had to completely disarm, so that if any
nation violated another' s boundaries, they could call them
into the United Nations and make them pay a penalty.  If any
nation persisted in hostilities, if necessary the U.N. would
wipe that nation off the face of the earth.

    Roosevelt was going to do this, but he died before the
atom bomb could be perfected.  When they asked the next
American President, Harry Truman, if he wanted to carry out
Roosevelt's  program, he said, "Hell no, we've got the bomb-
-the other nations can dance to our tune!"  So now the
atomic bomb is in the hands of hostile independent nations,
and as a result, we' re going to have World War III.

    Neither the Czar, nor Wilson, nor Roosevelt proclaimed
Baha'u'llah, which is essential, since Baha'u'llah is the
Prince of Peace.  They were supposed to put into effect His
laws and His teachings in order to have universal peace.  We
will have World war III, which will be very destructive,
because the world has failed to turn to the Prince of Peace.
World War III is the Battle of Armageddon, which will be the
last war. This war will be so destructive that mankind will
be forced to turn to the Prince of Peace and establish the
Kingdom of God on this planet. In the Middle East today, the
stage is being set for this world war.  It will only be a
short time before this war happens.  What the world needs to
know before World War III is Baha'u'llah's plans for the
Kingdom of God on earth.

    But how do you know for sure that Baha'u'llah is the
Prince of Peace, or if any one of the Manifestations have
come from God?  If someone claimed to be the return of
Jesus, how would you be able to tell whether or not this was
true.  Do you have any way to tell the difference between an
ordinary person and a Prophet of God?

    The world seems to have no particular criteria to
recognize the One sent by God.  When Jesus came, 2000 years
ago, the people were expecting a Messiah.  It was
prophesied, and the clergy were telling the people the
Messiah was going to come.  But when He came, they nailed
him to a cross.

    The people expected that when the Messiah came, they
would listen to Him, and see what He had to say.  If they
agreed with what He said then they would accept Him.  But
Jesus brought a message which was different from what they
were preaching in the synagogues.  In fact, Jesus went into
the Temple with a whip and drove out the money-changers
there because they had made the Temple into a den of
thieves (John 2:14-16).  It's something like what happened
with the PTL ministry.

    Some people say about recognizing the return of Christ,
"I'll have a gut feeling--I'll just know."  Other people
say, "I'll ask my priest."  Well if the priests accepted
Baha'u'llah as the Promised One, the whole world would have
accepted it by now.  In fact, it was the clergy in the time
of Jesus that turned against Jesus.

    So we have to have a definite criteria by which anyone
can independently recognize the Promised One.  If you want
to know what the distance between two places is you use an
odometer.  If someone asked you how warm it is, you'd use a
thermometer.  If someone asked you how fast you were going,
you'd use a speedometer.  To find out how tall you are we'd
use a measuring stick, and to find out what direction you
were going you'd use a compass.  If someone asked you how
heavy something is you'd use a scale.  We have a criteria
for just about everything.

    But the most important thing for the people to have is
a criteria by which to recognize the Promised One.  This is
because the clergies of all the religions are in conflict--
-they come up with so many bad concepts that they resemble
people who are drunk on bad wine.  The garbage that the
clergy comes up with causes people to the leave the
churches and often to reject the Manifestations altogether.
The clergy are the cause of the confusion in religion, and
World War III is going to result from the confusion of the
nations---and religion plays a large part in this.
Religious confusion is at the crux of the world's problems,
especially between the Jews, Christians and Muslims.  They
need to have a criteria to know who is the Promised One
from God and who is not.  To recognize the Prince of Peace,
we need to have a criteria which is so accurate that we
won't make a mistake.  It has to be scientifically
accurate.

    The United States put a man on the moon.  When the man
stepped out onto the moon, it was within three seconds of
the calculated time.  To send a man to the moon and set him
down within three seconds of the calculated time is
accurate.  We have to have an accurate criteria, just like
2 plus 2 equals 4, in which there can be no dispute.
Unless we have an accurate criteria, every charlatan, every
false prophet, and every salesman can come along with a
line in order to lead you down the dark alley and hijack
you.  This is what is happening in the world today with the
TV evangelists, for example.  They're taking the people
down the dark alley and hijacking them.  If you ask them
for proofs of what they're saying, they say you have to
accept it on faith.

    I have nothing against faith--I have the strongest
faith in the world, but my faith is built on actual fact
that what I believe is true.  People have a lot of weeds in
their garden upstairs--most of the things people believe
regarding religion are weeds.  And many things the
scientific world tells us are also inaccurate.  They often
change their theories, such as how the world has come into
existence--this has been revised and revised and revised.
So these things are inaccurate.  But in order for me to
devote my time, my energy and my life to any cause, I need
to know absolutely, positively that what I believe is an
actual fact.  This is what I would like to present to you.
And if you find that what I tell you isn't so, I'll be the
first one to tell you not to believe it.  I won't be trying
to circumcise you, or baptize you, or enroll you, or have
you sign a card, or ask for money. All we will try do is
arrive at an understanding by using our intellect to look
at fact.

    This will be just as in school, when the teacher said,
"What are two apples and two apples?"  You said, "I don't
know, maybe it's three or maybe it's seven."  So the
teacher said, "No two apples and two apples are four apples
You asked the teacher how she arrived at that, and she
said, "We'll, count them one, two, three, four." and
through this type of proof you learned two, three, four."
And through this type of proof you learned that two and two
is four.

    Similarly, the Bible is a scientific approach to this
problem in the Bible. In the beginning of the Adamic Cycle,
God had a plan by which He was going to send a number of
Divine Manifestations to the world progressively, like the
grades in school to educate humanity.

    Before the time of Adam, there were civilizations, but
the people didn't think in the abstract.  Our abstract
thinking goes back to when we had our first recorded
history 6,000 years ago, and the Bible states that Adam
came 6,000 years ago.  Man had begun to use symbols to
portray something else.  This began with hieroglyphics
which was pictorial language--they'd draw a little horse or
a dog, or a tree.  They could draw these symbols very
quickly.  This system gave way to cuneiform, in which marks
represented certain things.  This, in turn, developed into
the various alphabets.  With an alphabet, a letter "A"
doesn't represent a horse, it represents a sound, and the
letter "B" represents another sound, and so on.  Each
letter of the alphabet is a symbol representing something
else.   Thus speech began to be recorded.  Speech had just
started before the Adamic Cycle.  As stated before, there
were four civilizations before Adam, each ending with a
catastrophe, such as the sinking of Atlantis.

    After the sinking of Atlantis, now that abstract
thinking was dawning, Adam gave a whole new concept to
history--that there is one in-visible God that made
everything.  Mankind was now going to be created in the
image of God.  It says in the 26th verse of the 1st
chapter of Genesis, "Let us make man in our image,"
meaning that man would be educated to take on the
spiritual qualities by turning to the Divine
Manifestations which reflect God.  This "our" pertains to
the Manifestations.

    God is a very scientific spirit.  That is, all the
sciences come from God, so He had to be scientific.  Thus,
God had a plan for the coming of these Manifestations in the
Adamic Cycle, just as an architect has a plan for building a
house.  The owner hires an architect, and the architect
decides where all the rooms are going to be--the kitchen,
the bedrooms, the bathroom, the front room, and so on.  He
doesn't put the bathroom in the front room, that wouldn't be
appropriate.  Likewise, when God made this plan to send
these teachers, He designated when they were going to come,
what their names would be, where they were going to appear,
and what they were going to teach when they came.  Four
things.

    These four things appear on a personal business card.
There are four cardinal points on a business card--name,
address, date and profession.  For instance, a calling card
for a physician would have the doctor's name, the address of
the office, the hours they would be there,  and their
profession.  Such card might read, Dr. Opal M. Jensen, 328
Stephens Avenue Missoula, Montana, chiropractic physician,
and it would state her hours. There might be other people
named Opal, and they might even be Opal Jensen, and some
might even be Dr.Opal M. Jensen.  Some of them might even be
chiropractors.  But there is only one person in this world
named Dr. Opal M. Jensen, who is a chiropractic physician,
who is at 328 Stephens Avenue, at her particular time.
There is only one person in this world who fulfills this,
not 10 people, not 1000 people, not 2 people, just one
person.

    You could be in China, and someone could give you her
card, and you could get on a plane to the Missoula airport,
take a taxi to 328 Stephens Avenue  and sit down in the
reception room of her office.  When she came out you
wouldn't call her a liar, would you?  Because on the wall
would be her diploma and her license, and she would come
out as her proof that she was there.

    God is that scientific about the coming of the
Manifestations.  At the time of Adam He had already pre-
named the Manifestations that would come.  For example,
Jesus said, "Before Abraham was, I am, " meaning that
before Abraham was born in the 2100's B.C., Jesus was in
the plan of God . So was Moses.  All the Manifestations
were in the plan of God, and in this plan of God, He had a
definite pre-ordained date for them to come, at a certain
address.  For instance, to show you how this works, Jesus
was prophesied in the Old Testament.

    He was prophesied by name, by the date at which He
came, the address at which He would appear, and what He
would teach when He got here:  the calling card.  To show
you that this is a scientific approach, we're going to go
through these prophecies, though Jesus is already accepted
as a Manifestation of God.  The thing is, there is definite
proof in the Bible that Jesus was the Promised One that was
to come.  The Jews didn't accept Him, and they don't accept
Him today, because they don't go by the criteria that is in
their own book.  If they went by the criteria in their own
book they would accept Him.
Jesus' name was prophesied in the book of Isaiah, which was
written over 740 years before He was born. In this passage,
Isaiah addresses the house of David:

     Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for
     you to weary
     men, but will ye weary my God also? Therefore the Lord
     himself
     will give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive,
     and bear a son, and
            shall call his name Immanuel. (Isaiah 7:13-14
King James version).

    Isaiah addresses the house of David because this
prophesied person is going to be a descendant of David.
This is one of the first proofs--this person has to be a
descendant of David.  The name "Immanuel' is Hebrew for
"God with us."  God is always with us, so this means God
with us in Manifestation.

    The apostle Matthew shows how this prophecy was
     fulfilled:

     ... The angel of the Lord appeared unto him
     [Joseph] in a dream,
     saying, Joseph, son of David, do not fear to
     take Mary your, wife:
     for that which is conceived in her is of the
     Holy Spirit [is a
     Manifestation of God]; she will bear a son,
     and you shall call
     his name Jesus, for he will save his people
     from their sins.
       All this took place to fulfill what the
     Lord had spoken by the prophet:
     "Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a
     son, and his name shall
     be called Immanuel." (which means, God with
     us ).
     When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the
     angel of the Lord commanded him; he took his
     wife, but knew her not until she had borne a
     son; and he called his name Jesus. (Matthew
     1:20-25 Revised Standard version).
     
 Why did Joseph ever call his son Jesus when the prophecy
says his name shall be called Immanuel?  "Jesus" is the
same as the Aramaic word "Joshua."  "Jesus" also has the
same meaning as the Hebrew word "Immanuel," which means
"God with us."  The reason Joseph used the Greek word
"Jesus" in place of the Hebrew word "Immanuel" is that the
prophecy was given by Isaiah in the Hebrew language 742
years previously.  By the time of Jesus, the Jews no longer
spoke Hebrew--they were speaking Greek.  So Joseph used the
Greek equivalent of "Immanuel," the Greek word "Jesus,"
which he named Him, and which means the same thing:  "God
with us. " And of course, "God with us" means God with us
in Manifestation; God is with us right here in essence--He
pervades the entire universe, but the Manifestation is the
mirror that reflects God to us and causes God to be come
manifest. His name is called Jesus because He was the one
that was going to reflect God. So this is how Jesus was
prophesied by name. The prophet Micah, over seven hundred
years before Jesus, foretold His address:
     
     But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are
     little to be among the clans of Juda, from
     you shall come forth for me one who is to be
     ruler in Israel, whose origin is from of old,
     from ancient days. (Micah 5:2 RSV).
     
 "Ephrathah" was the name of Bethlehem before David made
it his city.  The reason this person is going to come from
the city of David is that He is going to be a descendant of
David. We saw that the prophecy for Immanuel was addressed
to the House of David for the same reason.  So Bethlehem is
the city from which the Messiah will come forth. The
prophecy describes this person as a "ruler."  The Messiah
is a ruler, as the word "Messiah" means "a male lineal
descendant of King David that is anointed."  The prophecy
states that this person will be of the tribe of Judah--
which is the tribe of David.  Although Mary was of the
tribe of Levi, Jesus' father Joseph was of the tribe of
Judah.
 
 Everyone knows that Jesus was born in Bethlehem. But the
apostle Luke tells us how Jesus came to be born in
Bethlehem:
 
     In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus
     that all the world should be enrolled.  This was the
     first enrollment [census for tax purposes], when
     Quirinius was governor of Syria.  And all went to be
     enrolled, each to his own city.  And Joseph went also
     went up into Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to
     Judea, to the city of David, which is called
     Bethlehem, because he was of the house and of David,
     to be enrolled with Mary. his betrothed who was with
     child. And while they were there, the time cane for
     her to be delivered. And she gave birth to her first-
     born son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths, and laid
     him in a manger, because there was no place for them
     in the inn. (Luke 2:1-6)
     
 Caesar Augustus decreed that the Jews now had to be
taxed. They had to register to be taxed at the home of
their ancestors so everyone would be counted properly.  As
Joseph was a descendant of David, he had to go to the city
of David, Bethlehem, to register for the tax.  Thus while
Joseph and Mary were in Bethlehem to register for the tax,
Jesus was born in Bethlehem.  Jesus was raised in Nazareth
where Joseph and Mary had their permanent address, but He
was born in Bethlehem, the prophesied address from which
the Messiah was to come forth.
 
 The Old Testament prophet Daniel, writing 600 years
before Jesus, recorded the exact date at which the Messiah
would appear and carry out His mission. This part of the
book of Daniel, the ninth chapter, is one of the most
wonderful parts of the whole Bible, so I would like to go
into the background of what is going on in this section.
 
 Daniel was a prophet who was taken into captivity by the
Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar when he conquered Jerusalem
in 606 B.C.  Daniel was of the elite, the royal family of
the Jews, and he and the prophet Ezekiel and many other
Jews were taken captive to Babylon at that time.
Nebuchadnezzar totally destroyed Jerusalem and took the
rest of the people captive in 586 B .C.
 
 Nebuchadnezzar loved Daniel very much, since Daniel was
able to interpret a dream for him.  Nebuchadnezzar hadn't
been able to find anyone who could interpret the dream, and
then he forgot the dream.  He called together the
soothsayers, astrologers and wise men of Babylon, telling
them that if they couldn't tell him what his dream was and
what it meant he'd kill them all.  Daniel intervened,
telling Nebuchadnezzar not to kill them, and that he'd tell
him what the dream was and what it meant.  Daniel succeeded
in doing this, and Nebuchadnezzar recognized that the One
Invisible God that Daniel worshipped was certainly the true
God, though he, Nebuchadnezzar, was pagan.  As a reward,
Nebuchadnezzar made Daniel his vizier over all of Babylon.
 
 Daniel ultimately wanted to return to Jerusalem with his
people and rebuild the city and the temple.  Nebuchadnezzar
refused to go along with this, since he had already found
it necessary to conquer the Jews twice.  So Daniel decided
to take the case to a higher court--the Court of God
himself.  Daniel dressed in cheap raiment, gunny sack
material, and anointed himself with ashes, humbling himself
before God.  Daniel poured out his heart to God, saying, "O
Great Lord, who rules over everything, see our plight,
we're in captivity.  We deserve to in captivity, because we
broke all your laws, we violated your Covenant, we did
everything you us we'd go into captivity if we disobeyed
you.  But we're the people called by your name, and now the
people say the God of Israel is a weak God, He couldn't
protect His own people.  For your sake, O Lord, allow us to
go back and rebuild the Temple'"
     
 Daniel prayed very sincerely, confessing the sins of his
     people:
 
     "As it is written in the law of Moses, all
     this calamity has come upon us, yet we have
     not entreated the favor of the Lord our God,
     turning from our iniquities and giving heed
     to thy truth.  Therefore the Lord has kept
     ready the calamity righteous in all the works
     he has done, and we have not obeyed his
     voice....
     
     "O my God, incline thy ear and hear; open thy
     eyes and behold our desolation's, and the
     city which is called by thy name; for we do
     not present our supplications before thee on
     the ground of our righteousness, but on the
     ground of thy great mercy.  O Lord, hear; O
     Lord, forgive; O Lord give heed and act;
     delay not, for thy own sake, O my God,
     because thy city and thy people are called by
     thy name.
     
     "While I was speaking and praying, confessing
     my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and
     presenting my supplication before the Lord my
     God for the holy hill of my God; while I was
     speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I
     had seen in the vision at the first, came to
     me in swift flight at the time of the evening
     sacrifice.  He came and he said to me, 'O
     Daniel, I have now come out to give you
     wisdom and understanding. At the beginning of
     your supplications a word went forth, and I
     have come to tell  you, for you are greatly
     beloved; therefore consider the word and
     understand the vision."(Daniel 9: 13-14, 18-
     23).
     
    The angel Gabriel had been overseeing the Persian-Median
unity that was coming about at that, time in History.  But
when Daniel prayed, God heard his prayer and sent Gabriel by
swift flight to tell him what would take place in the
future.  Daniel was praying to be able to go back and
rebuild the city and the temple right away, but it was
already in the annals of God how this would come about--God
already had a plan for that.  Daniel was praying for
something which God had a different plan for--just as in the
building of a house, some of the builders might have an idea
to build it differently from the plan, and the architect
would say, "No, you have to go according to the plan.  Here
Gabriel comes to tell Daniel what God's plan is:

     "Seventy weeks of years are decreed
     concerning your people and your holy city, to
     finish the transgression, to put an end to
     sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in
     everlasting righteousness, to seal both
     vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy
     one.
     
     "Know therefore and understand that from the
     going forth of the word to restore and build
     Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a
     prince, there shall be seven weeks.  Then for
     sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with
     squares and moat, but in a troubled time.
     And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed
     one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing;
     and the people of the prince who is to come
     will destroy the city and the sanctuary......
     
     "And he shall make a strong covenant with
     many for one week." (Daniel 9:24-27).
     
 Here it says that from the order to restore and build
Jerusalem to the time that the Messiah will be cut off is
going to be 70 weeks or actually 70 weeks of years.  In 70
weeks we have 490 days.  Ezekiel 4:6 and Numbers 14:34
confirm that each day of the Lord's equals a year.  So these
70 weeks of years are 490 years.
     
    The order to restore and build Jerusalem was given in
457 B.C.  This order was recorded in the 7th chapter of the
Book of Ezra (see dated Bible enclosed).  So we subtract
457 B.C. from the 490 years in order to get the date, A.D.,
for the coming of the Messiah.  When we do this we get 33
years, the age of Jesus when he was crucified.

    It so happens that there are 456 years from 457 B.C. to
the birth of Christ, since there was no "zero year."  This
gives us 34 years left over, so we see that Jesus, at the
age of 33, was crucified in 34 A. D.  Here is the exact
date for the crucifixion of the Messiah.

    This date is also divided up in the prophecy as 7
weeks, 62 weeks, and 1 week.  In 7 weeks we have 49 years,
since there are 49 days in 7 weeks, and each day is equal
to a year.  This 49 years is the length of time it took to
restore and build Jerusalem with walls around the city and
a moat.  This bring us to 408 B.C. Then we have 62 weeks,
which equals 434 years.  This is the time between the
rebuilding of the city until we come to the last week, the
week of the covenant, and this brings us to 27 A.D.

The last week is described as follows:

     "And he shall make a strong covenant with
     many for one week, and for half of the week
     he shall cause the sacrifice and offering to
     cease." (Daniel 9: 27).
     
 We divide the last week into two periods of 3 1/2 years,
since there is a division in the middle of the week, the
middle of the seven days or seven years. The beginning of
the week is the time when John the Baptist, the forerunner
of Jesus, started baptizing. After 3 1/2 years he baptized
Jesus, and this caused the sacrifice in the Temple to
cease, because the perfect sacrifice Jesus had come.  The
animal sacrifices of the temple no longer had any effect on
the removal of sins, as the start of Jesus' mission
inaugurated a whole new dispensation.  After 3 1/2 years of
teaching, Jesus died on Calvary Cross for the remission of
sins.
 
 The Book of Daniel not only prophesied Jesus'
crucifixion, but also the start of His ministry and when
John the Baptist started His ministry.  So here we have the
date for the coming of Jesus.  And Jesus' mission, as
Daniel prophesied, was to "finish  the transgression, to
put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in
everlasting righteousness..." (Daniel 9:21).
     
    There might have been a lot of people called Jesus .
But there was only one person in history whose name was
called Jesus, who was born in Bethlehem, that started His
mission in 30 A.D. and died on the date 34 A.D. according to
the 70 weeks prophecy, for the remission of sins.  This will
never be fulfilled by anyone else.  Jesus fulfilled that
prophecy. But the Jews weren't going by their own book from
which I took these prophecies.  These proofs for Jesus came
out of the Jews' own book.  Jesus was prophesied in their
book by name, by date, by address and by mission--there
should have been no argument.  But the people were fanatical-
-they built up all kinds of theologies and mythologies about
how the Messiah was going to come, and Jesus did not fulfill
their imaginations--He fulfilled prophecy--the calling card.
And this calling card is just as accurate as can be.

    This establishes a criteria by which to recognize the
Promised One.  To day we have all kinds of people saying
they're Jesus--on street corners there might even be three
or four people saying they're Jesus, all in competition
with each other.  We have seen the prophecies for the
coming of Jesus, but now the  people await the return of
Christ, and the Christians are looking for the same Jesus
that was crucified in 34 A.D. to come again.

    The Christian author Hal Lindsey writes on this subject
in his book  The Late Great Planet Earth.  This book has
been a best seller for over twenty years, and over twenty
million copies have been sold.  Several movies have been
made based on this book.  The following quote from page 18
of this book concerns the prophecies for the Messiah or the
Christ:

     Two completely different portraits of a coming Messiah
     were described by the Old Testament prophets.  The
     portraits, painted by the sure hand of God, were
     placed on the same canvas, framed in one picture.
     For those who lived prior to the birth of Jesus of
     Nazareth, the perspective of these two portraits of
     the Messiah was difficult to understand.
     Imagine a man looking at a range of mountains.  He is
     able to see the peak of one mountain, and beyond it is
     the peak of another.  However; from this vantage
     point, he cannot see the valley which separates these
     two mountains.
     Men viewed the two portraits of the Messiah in the
     same manner.  They saw two different persons...
     
 Well first of all, do you know the meaning of the word --
"Christ"?   Most Christians don't know what the word
"Christ" means.  They think it means, "Son of God," or
"God," or was Jesus' last name, or some other
misconception, because the clergy and the Christians never
mention what the word Christ means.  The word Christ
doesn't mean that Jesus was God or the son of God.  And
it's not Jesus' last name either.  If Christ was his last
name, then his father would be Joseph Christ and his mother
would be Mary Christ.
 
 Christ is a title--it is the same word in the Greek
language as the Hebrew word "Messiah."   "Christ" and
"Messiah" both have the same one meaning: "an anointed male
lineal descendant of King David."
 
 The apostle Paul talks about this subject in the first
chapter of the book of Romans.  This is what the Bible says
about the subject, not what the Church says.  You have to
go by what the Bible says, not what the Church says.  Paul
says, "Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was
made of the seed of David according to the flesh." (Romans
1: 3-4 KJV).  The " seed" of David is a sperm--Mary had an
ovum.  Therefore, Jesus was physically the son of David
through the sperm of His father Joseph.
 
 Paul says that Jesus was only "declared to be the son of
God with power according to the spirit of holiness."  In
other words, Jesus the Christ was a son of David.  Jesus
was only spiritually declared or designated the son of God.
But Paul clearly states that Jesus the Christ was
Physically a son of David.
 
 You might ask, how can Jesus be physically a descendant
of David through his father Joseph if his mother was a
virgin?  This is the big bogeyman that has come down
through the ages.  At the time of Jesus they didn't have
microscopes, so they didn't know that sperm have tails.
Under the microscope, sperm look like little polliwogs and
they swim around very fast.  If you put a sample of a
male's urine under a microscope, you will see these sperm
swimming around.  Sperm can stay alive outside the body for
as long as three days in a moist, warm medium.  If a sperm
should happen to be on the belly of a female virgin, for
some reason or other, that sperm could swim with its tail
down into the vagina, through the pores in the hymen,
through the uterus and all the way to the fallopian tubes
and find an ovum.  The hymen would remain intact but the
woman would be pregnant.

 Many virgins bear babies every year--this is on record in
hospitals and in the medical literature.  Dear Abby even
talks about this (from The Missoulian, May 9, 1986; full
article enclosed):
     
     "One of the questions I have been asked often by
     teens is:  How far can l go without getting
     pregnant?"
     
     "That is not a dumb question.  It's a very
     intelligent one. A lot of kids get aroused by just
     lying close to each other while kissing.  Then
     they just naturally proceed to the next step,
     which is petting.
     
     "Sometimes they remove some of their clothing
     because it's 'in the way,' or they burrow
     underneath it to explore each other's bodies with
     their hands.  This is known as heavy petting, or
     'doing everything else but.'
     
     "The technical and legal definition of sexual
     intercourse is 'penetration.' (The male's sex
     organ must penetrate the female's.)  However, as
     impossible as it may sound, in the medical
     literature can be found cases where there has been
     no penetration -- the girl remained a virgin, but
     after engaging in heavy petting she found herself
     pregnant.
     
     "How can that be? Simple.
     
     "The boy and girl were lying very close to each
     other (unclothed), doing 'everything but, ' when a
     small amount of sperm leaked out... near (not
     inside, but very close to) the girl's vagina.  The
     sperm got into the moisture around the vagina and
     found its way up into it, and fertilized the egg.
     
 It doesn't state in the Bible exactly how Joseph's sperm
got onto Mary and to her ovum for instance, whether they
were "heavy petting," or if Mary inadvertently inserted
Joseph's sperm in her vagina after touching urine with
Joseph' s sperm in it. The Bible only says that Joseph was
the father--and Paul confirms this.
 
 Christians try to get around this fact by saying that
Mary was a descendant of David--but Mary didn't have a
sperm, and Paul says Jesus was of the "seed [sperma is the
Greek word Paul used] of David. "  And the genealogy of
Jesus back to David given in both the book of Luke and
Matthew is through Joseph, not Mary (see Luke 3:23; Matthew
1:16).  Mary was of the tribe of Levi and was of the
priestly class, while the Davidic lineage is of tribe of
Judah.  So the Bible gives the genealogy back to Joseph
because only Joseph had the sperm of David, and Mary
didn't.  So we have the genealogy of Jesus going back to
David through Joseph, and we have Paul telling us that
Jesus was made of the sperm of David according to the
flesh.
 
 Paul said that Jesus was only "declared" or "designated"
to be the Son of God "according to the spirit of holiness."
(Romans 1:4).  Why was he designated the Son of God?  Jesus
received this designation because His Revelation was of the
potency of the "Son of God," compared to Abraham who was
the "Friend of God," and Muhammad who was the "Comforter."
Baha'u'llah's Revelation is of a greater potency than
Jesus', which is why Baha'u'llah comes in the "Glory of the
Father."  It was Jesus' Revelation that was the Son of God;
Jesus was only called the Son of God because He brought
that Revelation that was designated the Son of God.
 
 Just like the when the "ice cream man" comes, all the
little children run into the street yelling, "The ice cream
man, the ice cream man!"  The ice cream man receives that
designation because he brings ice cream.  The ice cream man
isn't made of ice cream! Is the grocery man groceries, or
does he deliver groceries?  Jesus was designated the Son of
God because that was the title of the Revelation he
delivered.  Just like in school you have a history class
and a geography class, Jesus gave a class in the Son of
God.  That was the elevation of the Revelation Jesus gave.
Returning to Lindsey, he points out that there are going to
be two Messiahs. according to the prophecies:
     
     Men viewed these portraits of the Messiah in the
     same manner they saw two different persons but
     missed the connection.  They did not perceive that
     there could be just one Messiah, coming in two
     different roles, and separated by the valley of
     time.
     
 It's actually Lindsey and the Christians who miss the
connection.  They think Jesus wasn't the son of David.  If
He wasn't the son of David, then He couldn't be the Christ,
because the word Christ means a son of David.  They're
denying that Jesus was the Christ, and therefore, the Bible
says that they are of the anti-Christ.  John says anyone
who says that Jesus is not the Christ is the anti-Christ (1
John 2:22).  When they say Jesus is not a descendant of
David, they are anti-Christ.
 
 The reason that Lindsey and the Christians say there can
only be one Messiah is that they believe in deifying Jesus,
making Him God by saying God is the literal father of Jesus.
God is not a descendant of David.  And if Jesus is not a
descendant of David, He's not the Christ
 Lindsey continues:
 
      One portrait of the Messiah depicts Him as a
     humble servant who would suffer for others and be
     rejected by His own countrymen.  This portrait we
     may call "the Suffering Messiah."  (Look into the
     prophecies of Isaiah 53 for the perfect picture of
     this Messiah). The other portrait shows the
     Messiah as a conquering king with unlimited power,
     who comes suddenly to earth at the height of a
     global war and saves men from self-destruction. He
     places the Israelites who believe in Him as the
     spiritual and secular leaders of the world and
     brings in an age free of prejudice and injustice.
     
 Baha'u'llah's Universal House of Justice fills the role of
bringing in an age of justice, and one of His principles is
the elimination of all forms of prejudice.

  Lindsey continues:

  It's easy to see why this would be the most popular
  portrait.
  
    We may call this second picture "the Reigning
  Messiah."  We find this description in such
  prophecies as  Zechariah 14 and Isaiah 9:6,7.

 In these prophecies of Isaiah and Zechariah, the Reigning
Messiah appears as a man sitting on David's throne.
According to Psalm 89, David's throne is a kingship which
will always continue--there will always be a male lineage
descendant of David seated on his throne.

 Jesus didn't marry and have a son, so he left no
descendants to establish the Davidic kingship back in the
world.  In fact, Jesus explicitly said that He Himself did
not sit on David's throne;  "My Kingship is not of this
world.  If my Kingship were of this world, my servants
would fight, that I might not be handed over to the Jews;
but my kingship is not of this world" (John 18:36 RSV).
Thus Jesus proves He was not the Reigning Messiah, but
rather the Suffering Messiah.
 
 Baha'u'llah, on the other hand, was directly descended
from the descendants of David who were the Kings that ruled
Israel and  then went into exile as the Exilarchs (short
for exiled monarchs).  The royal line Exilarchs or exiled
monarchs preserved the throne of David for thousands of
years in Iraq and later, in Iran, and Baha'u'llah was born
from this royal family of David.  Baha'u'llah did marry and
have a son 'Abdu'l-Baha, and He appointed this son to be
His successor, and this appointed His grandson Shoghi
Effendi to be his successor, and Shoghi Effendi appointed
'Abdu'l-Baha's adopted son Mason Remey to be his successor,
and this Davidic Kingship continues infinitely.
 
 So the word "Christ" means a descendant of David, and the
Christians don't know this. But two Christ's are
prophesied.
 
 The question arises, since you know the Second Christ was
prophesied to come, how are you going to recognize Him when
he comes?  If you had lived in the time of Jesus, would you
have been able to recognize Jesus without a criteria?  No,
you would have been among the crowd saying, "Crucify Him,
give us Barabbas."

 Jesus would not have been recognized by the people of
today if they had lived in His time.  And today the people
reject the Second Christ, because paganism has entered into
Christianity.
 
 This paganism of having a triune god began in the time of
the first Babylonian Empire, polluted the whole world with
its deception, and crept into Christianity in Pergamum; we
will get into this history a little later.
 
 But there is a bigger reason why the Christians are not
looking for anyone other than Jesus coming to be the Second
Christ.  Although there are two Christ's prophesied,
they're looking for the same Christ.  This is because the
Christians say that Jesus physically, bodily resurrected
from the grave and went up into heaven and that He will
return again from this heaven.  Therefore, since they think
the same person will come again, they cannot accept another
person to be the Second Christ.
 
 This situation is analogous to the situation in which
Jesus sent His disciples out to teach the Jews that He was
the Messiah.  These disciples were just ordinary people--
fishermen, a bank teller, a tax collector, and so forth.
They came up against the intelligentsia of the Jewish people-
-the rabbis, the priests, the lawyers, the scribes.  The
scribes told the disciples that Jesus couldn't possibly be
the Messiah.  They pointed out that the book of Malachi, the
last book of the Old Testament, says that the prophet Elijah
must return before the Messiah (Malachi 4:5).  And according
to the second chapter of the Second Book of Kings, Elijah
ascended into heaven in a flaming chariot.
 
 So the disciples came back to Jesus and asked Him, "How
come it says right here in Malachi that Elijah the prophet
is going to come first?"  In other words, how can you claim
to be the Messiah when we haven't seen Elijah come
streaking across the sky in a flaming chariot?
 
 Do you know what Jesus told them?  Jesus told them that
John the Baptist is Elijah! The disciples were dumfounded.
They said to Jesus, "John? John is your cousin, your aunt
Elizabeth was pregnant with John when your mother Mary was
pregnant with you.  You grew up together, you played
marbles together.  How can this man John be Elijah?"  (I'm
paraphrasing here). Jesus said," If you are willing to
accept it, he is Elijah. " (Matthew 11:14).

 Well today the Christians accept that John the Baptist is
the return of Elijah although he's a different person.
They went to John and asked him if he was Elijah, and he
said, " I am not" (John 1:21), meaning that he wasn't the
same person.  But Jesus said that John was Elijah.
 
 Jesus was looking at the light, and not at the lamp.  For
instance, Elijah was living in the desert, wearing a
camel's hair coat, living on locusts and honey, and telling
the people to repent and return to the Lord. Nine hundred
years later, here comes John the Baptist, walking in the
same desert living on locusts and honey, and telling the
people to repent and return to the Lord . If you looked at
one, and you looked and the other, you couldn't tell the
difference. They both had the same message--repent and
return to the Lord. They were talking to a wayward people,
calling them to have the sin of error washed away from
them. Therefore, when it says that Elijah is going to come,
it means that someone will come to fulfill that mission, as
the forerunner of Jesus.
 
 So the people asked John, "Well then who are you?" He
said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make
straight the way of the Lord, ' as the prophet Isaiah
said." (John 1:2,3)  This was prophesied by Isaiah, that
one would come in the wilderness to prepare the way of the
Lord. (Isaiah 40:3)

 Today the Christians accept that John the Baptist was the
return of Elijah, because Jesus said so.  But today the
Christians are making the exact same mistake the Jews made.
It says in the Bible that Jesus went up into heaven just as
it says in the Bible that Elijah went up into heaven.  And
Jesus said He would return, just like the Bible says Elijah
would return.  Although the return of Elijah was John the
Baptist--the Christians say, "No, it must be the same
Jesus! " because they deified Jesus--made Jesus a god.
This was a hanky-panky, monkey-business that the pagans did
when they came into Christianity, and we'll get into that
later, but first, we need to look at the resurrection:

     Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said
     to him [Jesus], "Teacher, we wish to see a
     sign from you." But he answered them, "An
     evil and adulterous generation seeks for a
     sign; but no sign shall be given to it except
     the sign of the prophet Jonah.  For as Jonah
     was three days and three nights in the belly
     of the whale, so will the Son of man be three
     days and three nights in the heart of the
     earth. ( Matthew 12: 39)
     
 In other words, here the clergy asks Jesus, "If you're
the Messiah, the one we're waiting for, give us a sign so
that we all can believe in you."  Jesus told them that a
wicked generation looks for a sign of the type they were
seeking, and they would get no such sign, except for the
sign that "as Jonah was three days and three nights in the
belly of a whale, so will the Son of man be three days and
three nights in the heart of the earth."
 
 It is a well known fact that Christ was crucified on
Friday by sundown, and that his tomb was empty Sunday
morning.  So the Christians say this refers to Jesus '
death and bodily resurrection, and the "three days and
three nights" are Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
 
 But the Christians didn't get through first or second
grade in school if this is the way they calculate.  From
Friday night to Sunday morning is not three days and three
nights. Friday night, all day Saturday, and Saturday night
are two nights and a day--only thirty-six hours.  Three
days and three nights is seventy-two hours.
 
 Christians will tell you that Jesus rose on the third
day, but they never say He rose in three days and three
nights.  The question arises, if this is the sign that
Jesus is the Christ why was the tomb empty on Sunday
morning in just half the time?  Why wasn't his body in the
tomb three days and three nights?  There's a real reason
that tomb was empty.  The tomb was empty in only half the
time so that neither you nor anyone else would ever believe
there was a physical resurrection.  It did not meet the
criteria.
 
 Christians might be able to slosh over these very vital
points in order to put forth the theology that His physical
body resurrected.  But the vital point is Jesus gave this
sign to show that His physical body is not important.  In
the sixth chapter of John He says, "The flesh is of no
avail.  The words that I have spoken, they are spirit and
life" (John 6: 63 ) . And Jesus's words were dead not on
Friday night, but on Thursday night, the night before the
crucifixion.
 
 After the Last Supper, Jesus took his disciples up on a
mountain and told them, "I'm going to be arrested, and
they're going to crucify me."  The apostle Peter had said
when Jesus told them this before, "God forbid, Lord!  This
shall never happen to you."  And Jesus said to Peter, "Get
thee behind me Satan!" (Matthew 16:22-23).
 
 Why did Jesus call Peter Satan?  Peter thought, as did
the other apostles, that Jesus was the reigning Messiah
that would establish the kingdom of God on earth by re-
establishing David' s throne in the world, and He would
have a horse and an army and conquer the Roman Empire,
setting the Jews up in ascendancy over the people of the
world.  This was the clergy' s concept at the time--the
whole world better watch out, they thought, because the
Messiah would be their conquering king.  And the apostles
also wanted Jesus to be the Messiah that would be the
conquering king.  But as we saw previously, there are two
Messiahs--the Suffering Messiah and the Reigning Messiah.
So when Peter said, "Not you O Lord," Jesus told Peter that
he was Satan, meaning, "You've been with me all this time
and you still don't comprehend who I am (the Suffering
Messiah)."
 
 And during the Last Supper, Judas was all fidgety,
thinking to himself, "Gee, maybe we'd better turn Jesus
in." Jesus told him, "Judas, go do what you have to do."
So Judas went to have Jesus turned in, for thirty pieces of
silver in return, telling the Roman guards the one he
kissed on the cheek would be the one they should arrest.
 
 When Jesus called the apostles up on the mountain
Thursday, Judas came to Him with some Roman guards and
kissed Jesus on the cheek, and Jesus was arrested.  Then
all the apostles fled, and disbelieved in Jesus, thinking,
"How could Jesus be the Reigning Messiah when he's been
arrested?"
 
 Just before this happened, Jesus told the apostles.
"Tonight, everyone in the world will disbelieve in me."
Peter said, "O Lord, even if everyone disbelieves I'll
still believe." Jesus told him, "Peter, before the cock
crows you'll deny me three times."  And this was fulfilled
after Jesus' arrest.
 
 What I'm pointing out here is that there were no longer
any believers in Jesus Christ that night.  Jesus said this
would happen.  Jesus' body was the church--this is found in
the books of Colossians and Ephesians (Ephesians 1:22-23;
Colossians 2:19). It says the body of Christ is the
"ecclesiasia" believers.  The night Jesus was arrested,
there any believers, so the body of Christ was dead.
 
 The body of Christ was dead the day before the body that
was of no avail was crucified.  And that's why the tomb of
the body that was of no avail was empty,  It was empty
because it did not contain the body that was going to
resurrect.
 
 Three days and three nights from the time that Jesus was
rejected by His body of believers, the apostles were in the
upper chambers.  Mary Magdalene had already told them that
the tomb was empty, and then she spoke with them, and after
she left they discussed this matter.  The apostles were in
"the upper chambers," meaning that they were in meditation,
in the highest regions of the intellect.  In this
meditation, Jesus appeared to them--and in their
meditation, they recognized that Jesus was the Suffering
Messiah.  They saw the holes in His hands, in His feet and
His side.
     
They said, "How dumb we are!  Jesus didn't come to
establish the throne in the world.  He said His kingdom was
not of this world.  Jesus is the Suffering Messiah, not the
Reigning Messiah"  They admitted, "We had hoped he was the
one to redeem Israel" (Luke 24:21).  Thus they all became
believers in Him again, and the body of Christ resurrected
in three days and three nights!

 Why does the Church teach otherwise?  We're just about to
get into that.

 But before we get into that, it says in the first chapter
of Acts:

     Men of Galilee; why do you stand looking up
     into heaven This Jesus, who was taken up from
     you into heaven, will come in the same way as
     you saw him go into heaven. (Acts 1.11)
     
 The Christian reads this and says, "Oh, Jesus' body did
resurrect, and as He went up into the sky He's going to come
down from there.  But this Bible passage doesn't say Jesus
went up into the sky, it says He went up into heaven.  Jesus
said He came from heaven (John 3: 13), and He didn't come
from the sky.  He came from His mother.
 
 Do you know any men of Galilee?  If you don't, then how
would you know how Jesus went up into heaven, because the
men of Galilee were the only ones who saw how this happened?
And there isn't any place in the Bible where these men of
Galilee say how Jesus went up there.
 
 But the Bible does say that the way Jesus left was in the
hands of the law--He was arrested.  He was judged.    He was
put in jail.  He was condemned to death.  He was crucified.
And He said the same way you see Him go, is the same way
He's going to come again.

 That is, the people that rejected Him were the religious
people of His day.  They were the clergy!  I want you to
know that it was the clergy.  They were going by their
theologies--which are mythologies.  These are the ones that
condemned Him.  And on His return, the same People re
rejected Him--the clergy.  And they had Him arrested and put
in jail.  Baha'u'llah spent 40 years as a prisoner and an
exile, although He was born an earthly prince with gold
buttons on His coat.  He was arrested and put in Jail for
the same reason as Jesus--Baha'u'llah proclaimed He was the
second Messiah, just as Jesus claimed to be the first.
 
 One more thing.  Why is the clergy today in opposition to
the return of Christ?  Why do they want the same man to
come back when the Bible is clear that the return is not
the same man?  The Bible says that Jesus was the son of
David, that His physical body was not in the tomb three
days and three nights, that His father Joseph was His
physical father as a descendant of David, and Paul says
that Jesus was born of the sperm of David.  Why does the
Christian clergy today teach otherwise?  Because of
paganism.

 Today the people don't know they're in paganism.  They
don't even know what paganism is.  The reason why there is
the same confusion about the return of Christ like there
was at the time of the first coming of Christ is because
the Church has become pagan.  That is, the Church has
accepted in the place of the one God, three gods as one
god.
 
 There is not three gods as one God.  There is not one god
"the Father," one god "the Son," and another god "the Holy
Spirit."  There is but one supreme God that is invisible,
that pervades all space, that is all-knowledgeable and is
all-powerful.  He does not become a person.
 
 How do they explain the conception of Jesus?  Some
Christians say that God had an intercourse with Mary and
placed His seed in her.  Others say that God compressed
Himself out of the universe into a tiny little pill and got
inside of Jesus.  Well if God was in there then the whole
universe would be without protection.  God surrounds all,
He's not surrounded, so all these theories are bunk.
 
 Where did they get this theory of the trinity?  Not out
of the Bible, but out of the pages of paganism'...which was
a universal religion alive at the time of Jesus.
 
 Paganism started after the flood.  Before the flood, the
first Manifestation Adam had the people He was teaching
separated from the people in the world that were pagan.
Paganism started before Adam.
 
 Before Adam there were four great civilizations coming
after one another with four great Manifestations.  There
has never been a time when humanity was without the
guidance of a Manifestation.  But during these four earlier
civilizations, which each ended in a catastrophe, the
people had not evolved to thinking in the abstract, so
their civilizations did not teach an abstract God.  The
people knew they didn't create themselves, but since they
hadn't evolved to understanding the abstract invisible God,
they worshipped whatever they thought was more powerful
than them or gave life to them--mostly the sun, moon and
stars.  This nature worship was the earliest type of pagan
religion.

 The first pagan civilization's name is not known, but the
next were Mu, Lemuria and Atlantis.  The sinking of
Atlantis came just before Adam.
 
 These people were just starting to think in the abstract
so --God for the first time revealed Himself as the One
invisible God through the words of the Prophet Adam.  The
book of Genesis mentions the Prophet Adam, who had a wife
named Eve, and it also mentions a story about them in the
Garden of Eden--a parable that is outside of the scope of
this present writing.

 When He s started revealing God to the people of His day,
Adam found that most people had not evolved far enough to
accept His message, so He taught His family.  The
descendants of Adam became spiritual, and He moved them to
a secluded region in the mountains between Tibet and
Eastern Turkestan called the Tarim basin.
 
 After 1500 years, these descendants of Adam started
having intercourse with people outside of the Adamic race
who weren't living according to His Revelation.  Adam's
people started to revert back to their old condition, and
they became corrupt, which was why they were drowned in the
flood.  The valley or mountain basin they were in filled up
like a kitchen sink, drowning everyone except for those
that were on Noah's ark.
 
 After the ark landed on Mt. Ararat, the people Noah
taught went into Shinar in Mesopotamia, which was populated
by pagans.  These pagans lived through the flood because
they weren't surrounded by mountains--the water just
destroyed their dwellings.

 After the flood, the wild animals began increasing faster
than man.  Of course, the animals could run faster than
man, and they had sharp teeth and claws with which they
would tear up and eat people.  The people, who were now
without dwellings, had become vulnerable to the attacks of
wild animals, and were easy prey.
 
 However there was a giant among the Adamites named
Nimrod, an enormous man who was able to tear a lion or bull
apart with his hands, and would wear the horns of the bull
on his head as sign of his might.  Babylonian art depicts
Nimrod as half man, half bull, with cloven hoofs, a tail
and the horns of a bull on, his head, the typical depiction
of the devil or Satan (see enclosed).  This shows where
this concept of the devil began.

     The 10th chapter of Genesis describes Nimrod:
     
     Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the
     first on earth to be a mighty man.  He was a
     mighty hunter before the Lord; therefor it is
     said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the
     Lord."  The beginning of his kingdom was
     Babel, Erech, and Accad, all of them in the
     land of Shinar.  From that land he went into
     Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir,
     Calah, and Resen between Niveveh and Calah;
     that is the great city.(Genesis 10:8-12)
     
 Nimrod's empire, starting in Babylon, extended from the
Middle East to the Straits of Gibraltar in the west.  It
was the first empire in the history of the world.

 Nimrod established his empire by forming horseback
hunting parties--he was the first man to tame the horse--
with which he protected the people and gathered them from
the forests into cities. The family of his wife Semiramis,
who were masons, built walls around these people that they
gathered together, and they built a tower.  They went from
place to place gathering the people, protecting them from
the animals. Nimrod would kill many of the wild animals so
that the people could plant gardens and forage for food.
 
 Nimrod became a great man and was a renowned benefactor,
as he taught Adam' s revelation of the One Invisible God
everywhere he went.  He was a very highly religious person.
This is why he is referred to as "Lucifer," which means
"light-bringer"--Nimrod spread the civilizing light of
Adam's Revelation   People were more than happy to accept
his empire, as they considered him like an angel.
 
 But later on Nimrod fell.  The fourteenth chapter of
Isaiah says "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,
son of the morning!" (Isaiah 14:12; KJV).

 As Nimrod expanded his empire, the hunting party he
formed became the first calvary, or the first army, to put
down any instances of rebellion,  This introduced war into
history. As the people had not learned war up to this
point, it was very easy for Nimrod to maintain his empire
in this way.  Although the people loved Nimrod, as they
were greatly in his debt, they came to dislike the
spiritual laws of Adam , resenting the strict personal
discipline these entailed.  They put pressure upon Nimrod
to release them from these laws, and Nimrod relented.

 Mythology recounts Nimrod's fall in the story of Atlas,
who lifts the heavens up to his shoulders.  Since Atlas
(Nimrod) was a giant, this allowed the people to walk in
complete freedom rather than bowed in humility before the
discipline of Adam's Revelation.  With another heave Atlas
(Nimrod) raises the heavens above the sycamores, and then
with a third heave he raises the heavens up above the
mountains, which represents the total perversion of
religion which Nimrod allowed--resulting in all types of
licentiousness, corruption, perversion, orgies, drinking
parties, drugs, etc...and this all entered into their
religion.  This brought the people away from turning to the
One True Invisible God, and returned them to the worship of
the sun, moon and stars, with Nimrod's father Cush
represented by Jupiter, and Nimrod represented by Saturn.
According to mythology Saturn was born from Jupiter.  We
get the word 'Satan"  from the word "Saturn"--the star of
Nimrod.

 This religion spread all over the world.  The Bible says
that there were different languages throughout Nimrod's
empire, there was a confusion of tongues.  The way to say
Nimrod and his attributes was different from place to place.
Thus it eventually became lost that the various pagan male
gods were the same--it was all the same religion centered
around Nimrod.
 
 At the time that Nimrod's empire was becoming corrupt,
there was alive in the world a very highly spiritual being-
-Shem--who is also known in the Bible as Melchizedek.
Shem, who lived 500 years after the flood, was the beloved
son of Noah.  He became aware of Nimrod ' s violations of
the revelation of Adam.  Shem spoke to the 72 judges of
Egypt, who administered  the laws Adam, notifying them that
Nimrod had completely corrupted Adam' Revelation and was
now an apostate.  These 72  judges listened to him and
agreed with him.

 At this time, Nimrod was away expanding his empire, but
when he returned, he was brought to trial before 30 of the
judges.  They found him guilty of apostasy, of perverting
the religion of Adam, and they sentenced him to death.
Before they could execute the sentence, he had to be
brought before the full body of 72 judges, and this full
Council decided he should be cut up in pieces, with the
different parts of his body sent to the different nations
of his empire to show them how dastardly a matter it is to
corrupt the Revelation of God.
 
 When Nimrod's widow Semiramis received a chunk of her
husband's body with a note attached explaining this was in
punishment of Nimrod's apostasy, she was furious.  She was
greatly loved by the people, as her family had built the
walls of their cities, and she was considered the most
beautiful woman in the world.
 
 Religious scholar and historian of Babylon, Alexander
Hislop, writes in The Two Babylons (p. 58 ):
 
     If there was one who was more deeply
     concerned in the tragic death of Nimrod than
     another, it was Semiramis, who from an
     original humble position, had been raised to
     share with him the throne of Babylon.  What,
     in this emergency, shall she do?   Shall she
     quietly forego the pomp and pride to which
     she had been raised?  No. Though the death of
     her husband had given a rude shock to her
     power, yet her resolution and unbounded
     ambition were in nowise checked.  On the
     contrary, her ambition took a still higher
     flight.  In life her husband had been honored
     as a hero, in death she will have him
     worshipped as a god...
     
 Semiramis decided that since her husband was considered a
god in life, she would make him eternally a god.  To the
paganism Nimrod encouraged, and to his deification,
Semiramis added yet another new concept in: the Trinity--a
triune god.
 
 Semiramis became pregnant, but since Nimrod had died long
before her pregnancy, people wondered how this pregnancy
came about.  Semiramis explained that she was impregnated
by the Holy Spirit, which resided in her womb.  When the
child was born, she said he was the divine incarnation of
his father Nimrod, and she named him Bar-Nin, meaning "son
of Nimrod" (The word Nimrod comes from "Nimr," which means
"leopard," and "rod," which means "to subdue.")
 
 Because of the diverse languages, Nimrod and Bar-Nin were
called by different names from place to place.  For
instance, in Egypt, Bar-Nin was called Horus, the divine
son in whom Osiris  (Nimrod) incarnated after he was
dismembered and the pieces of his body were dispersed among
the nations.  The divine mother who gave birth to this
divine son was Isis, the Egyptian name for Semiramis.  Thus
there were now three gods to whom worship was due--a father
god, a son god, and a holy mother goddess--yet all of these
were to be considered equal, because they were all to be
considered equal parts of a triune god.
 
 Semiramis replaced the emperor ship of Nimrod with this
new trinitarian religion.  She indoctrinated her "divine
son" into this religion, teaching him the Babylonian
mystery of the three gods in one, and she set him up as the
first high priest or Pontifex Maximus of trinitarianism.
The people of the decaying empire of Nimrod turned to this
religion in place of the emperor Nimrod.  The trinity
became an international pagan religion that spread
throughout the world, and it eventually took over the
Revelation of the true Divine Religions as they appeared--
Judaism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism and
Christianity.
 
 Thus from Semiramis came a whole new type of paganism.
Some of this religion retained worshipping the sun, moon
and stars as god, but most importantly, it produced the
triune god with Nimrod being god, Nimrod becoming incarnate
in the son through the Holy Spirit, and Semiramis being the
first madonna.  Thus this trinitarian religion was born
into the world.
 
 At first the people had to be convinced that this trinity
was really true. In response, Semiramis offered a golden
cup of intoxicants to the people who would come to pay
tribute to her and her divine son.  This concoctions dulled
their senses, convincing them to submit to initiation into
the Babylonian mysteries of the three separate gods as one
god, and she indoctrinated some of the people it a
priesthood.

 A great deal of regalia and pomp accompanied this new
trinitarian religion.  The Pontifex Maximus, or "chief
priest," wore a great hat or miter shaped like a fish,
since they said that Nimrod had originally come into the
world from the sea.  These narration's show Nimrod's
identity with the Philistine fish god Dagon.  The Pontifex
Maximus held a shepherd's crosier, representing the fact
that Nimrod had been the "shepherd king" who herded the
people into cities after the flood.  And the Pontifex
Maximus bore with him the "keys of Janus and Cybele, keys
representing the "mysteries" brought into the world by
Nimrod and Semiramis.
 
 This trinitarian religion spread all over the world.  The
people of Greece got their religion from Phoenicia and
Egypt which had both been part of Nimrod's empire.  Rome
also got its religion from Phoenicia and Egypt.  This pagan
religion spread throughout Europe, so that the Druids in
England, the Norsemen the Danes, the Norwegians, and the
Germans all had the same gods, only under different names.

 Each son of Bar-Nin was called the Pontifex Maximus, with
the individual who bore this title filling the role of both
king of Babylon and head of the pagan trinitarian church.
Each pontiff was worshipped as a god, and when he died, his
statue was placed in a pantheon to be worshipped.  The
pontiffs, and Semiramis as well, were each worshipped for a
different specific purpose.  One was worshipped for
fertility, another for wealth, another for health, another
for salvation, and so forth.
 
 This religion revolving around the throne of Satan
(Satan=Saturn=Nimrod) continued from century to century,
although the breadth of Nimrod's empire was never again
brought together under one supreme control.  There were
clashes for supremacy, with various nations trying to win
control.

 Finally, in the last quarter of the 7th century B.C., the
Pontifex Maximus Nebuchadnezzar, who was a direct
descendant of Bar-Nin, established an empire in Babylon
simulating Nimrod's, though not nearly as large.
Nebuchadnezzar called himself "the Conqueror of the world,"
and he conquered the monotheistic Jews, taking them and
their king back with him to Babylon.
 
 However in 538 B.C., Cyrus, the King of the newly formed
Median-Persian empire, conquered the Babylonian empire.
Cyrus hated the trinitarian pagan religion of Babylon,
since he worshipped the One True Invisible God which he
learned of through Zoroaster, the ancient Persian
Manifestation of God (Zoroaster began His mission in 1000
B.C.).  Cyrus allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem were
they would later rebuild their temple, and he drove the
pagan Babylonian throne of Satan completely out his realm
and out of the Middle East.

 The throne of Satan did not die, however.  It was
continued in the kingship of Pergamum in Asia Minor, which
is Turkey today.  The second chapter of the Book of
Revelations describes Pergamum as the city of Satan's
throne (Revelations 2:12-13) where trinitarian paganism
entered Christianity.
 
 Once the kingship of Pergamum died out, the position of
Pontifex Maximus needed a new home.  The pagan triune god
found its new capital city in Rome.  Hislop writes:

  Pergamos itself became part and parcel of the Roman
  Empire, when Attalus III, the last of the kings, at
  his death, left by will all his dominions to the
  Roman people, B.C. 133  For some time after the
  kingdom of Pergamos was merged in the Roman
  dominions, there was no one who could set himself
  openly and advisedly to lay claim to all the dignity
  inherent in the old title of the kings of
  Pergamos...But when Julius Caesar, who had
  previously been elected Pontifex Maximus became
  also, as emperor, the supreme civil ruler of the
  Romans, then, as head of the Roman state, and as
  head of the Roman religion, all the powers and
  functions of the true legitimate Babylonian Pontiff
  were supremely vested in him, and he found himself
  in a position to assert these powers...Then, on
  certain occasions, in the exercise of his high
  pontifical office, he appeared in all the pomp of
  the Babylonian costume, as Belshazzar [an ancient
  Pontifex Maximus of Babylon himself] might nave
  done, in robes of scarlet, with the crosier of
  Nimrod in his hand, wearing the miter of Dagon and
  bearing the keys of Janus and Cybele. (The Two
  Babylon's, p. 241 ) .
  
 Up until the Roman emperor Constantine Christianity in
the early 4th century A.D., were both head of the Roman
empire and also Pontifex Maximus--head of the pagan church.
Constantine's proclamation of Christianity led to the
merger of Christianity and paganism in the Roman empire.
 
 As head of the pagan church, Constantine wore the garb
and paraphernalia of Satan which had been passed down
through the Babylonian empire, preserved in Pergamum,
willed to Rome, and was worn by Julius Caesar and the
subsequent Roman emperors.  The Roman emperor Constantine
had the fish hat, the crosier, and the keys of Janus and
Cybele.
 
 In 325 A.D. at the Council of Nicea, Constantine made an
official decree combining the doctrine of the pagan trinity
the Revelation of Jesus Christ.  The trinity became the law
of the Roman empire if anyone refused to accept the new
trinity with Jesus as the physically incarnated divine son
of the father god, they would be put to death.
 
 In 381 A.D., the Roman emperor Gratian refused to wear
the paraphernalia of Satan, but he passed it to the Roman
Pope Damasus.  Since Damasus, every Pope of Rome has worn
the garb of Satan--the fish hat, the crosier, and the keys
of Janus and Cybele.  Today, Pope John Paul II wears the
garb of Satan.
 
 As the pagans had worshipped their gods (icons of their
deceased pontiffs) in their pantheons and temples, they now
worshipped their patron saints and their lcons in
cathedrals and churches.  Semiramis--who was Ashtoreth to
the Jews, Aphrodite in Greece, Venus in Rome, known also as
Astarte, Ishtar, Aurora, Diana, Rhea, Urania, and Isis--was
worshipped now as Jesus' mother Mary.  These pagan
practices and concepts of the trinity continue in full
bloom today in the Catholic church!
 
 Historian Will Durant states that paganism conquered
Christianity, saying that paganism continued "in the form
of ancient rites and customs condoned or accepted and
transformed by an often indulgent Church."  Durant
explains:
 
     "An intimate and trustful worship of saints
     replaced the cult of the pagan gods, and satisfied
     the polytheism of simple or poetic minds. Statues
     of Isis and Horus were renamed Mary and Jesus(The
     Story of Civilization, Vol. IV (p. 73).
     
 The trinitarian pagan clergy withheld the Bible from the
people for over a thousand years in order to firmly
establish the trinity in Christianity, since everything
about the trinity is reviled in the Bible.  God plainly
states in the second commandment:
 
     Thou shalt have no other gods before me.  Thou
     shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any
     likeness of anything that is in the heaven above,
     or 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;  And
     showing mercy unto thousands of them that keep my
     commandments. (Exodus 20:3-6; KJV).
     
 By the time Martin Luther got the Bible into the hands of
the people, the trinity which included the perverse concept
of a deified son god Jesus had become so ingrained in their
minds that they accepted it as fact.  Today's pagan
trinitarian clergy won't go against the pagan triune god,
for they find that the trinity is good business--people love
it, as have all trinitarian pagans for thousands of years.
So this is the world to which the second Christ comes.  Why
haven't the people turned to the second Christ, the One that
God sent to bring the Kingdom of God on earth?  Because
they're drunk with the wine of the Babylonian
whore...believing in three gods in the place of the One True
God.  Jesus never said He was a god or that there was a
trinity of gods that were all gods.  Nor did Jesus say that
Mary or anyone else was a god or goddess to be prayed to.
No wonder the people don't accept the return of Christ--
they're in paganism.

 The second Christ, Baha'u'llah has come, and He fulfills
the prophecies for the Prince of Peace.  In order to show
you to show you his proofs, we first had to clear away some
cobwebs and see what kind of a world Baha'u'llah comes to,
and why the people of the world have not accepted Him.  No
wonder Baha'u'llah was arrested, no wonder He was put in
prison, no wonder the clergy today reject Him--they're in
the religion of Satan.

 We will now look at how the criteria we used to prove
Jesus prophesied name, date, address, and mission--also
proves Baha'u'llah.  If these criteria prove Jesus, the same
criteria applied to Baha'u'llah would prove Baha'u'llah.
First, let's look at where Baha'u'llah was prophesied by
name from the lips of no less than Jesus Himself.  Now if
Jesus tells us that Baha'u'llah is coming, who is it to say
that He's wrong?  What Christian could say that He didn't
know what He's talking about?  If He says Baha'u'llah is
going to come, why would anybody say anything different.
 
  Jesus prophesied Baha'u'llah by name in Mark 8:38:

     For whosoever is ashamed of me and my words in
     this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will
     the Son of man also be ashamed when he comes in
     the glory of his Father with the holy angels. (See
     also Matthew 16:27, Luke 9: 26 ).
     
 Jesus spoke Aramaic--the language of the Middle East in
His time.  So when Jesus spoke of the "Glory of the
Father," he didn't use the English for this but rather the
Aramaic, word which is "Baha'u'llah."
 
 Jesus says the "Son of man" is ,going to return in
"Baha'u'llah," meaning that this "glory of the Father" is
going to be a man--the son of a man--and He's going to have
holy angels.  These holy angels are those that were
martyred for the sake of Baha'u'llah's Revelation, just as
the apostles were martyred at the time of Jesus.
 
 This is like the name prophecy for Jesus, in which He was
prophesied to come as "Immanuel," and He came in the name
"Jesus" which meant the same thing in a different language.
In our Bible we have the words "Glory of the Father," which
means the same as 'Baha'u'llah."  "Baha'u'llah" is the way
to say "the glory of God the Father" in Arabic, Persian and
in the Aramaic language Jesus spoke (Baha=glory, u'llah is
short for "of Allah"= of God the Father).
 
 This is a very important proof, but perhaps other people
have had the name Baha'u'llah.  Therefore, we need to see
what address is prophesied for the coming of Baha'u'llah.
 
 The 43rd chapter of Ezekiel gives this address.  Ezekiel
was a prophet who wrote his visions down while in
Babylonian captivity.  Ezekiel spoke language of his
captors, which was Aramaic, and so he originally wrote his
book in Aramaic.
 
 In giving the following excerpts from Ezekiel's vision I
will reinsert some of the original Aramaic words Ezekiel
used.  Where Ezekiel writes "gate," I will re-insert the
Aramaic word for "gate," which is "Bab."  and where Ezekiel
refers to "the Glory of God" or "the Glory of the Lord, " I
will re-insert the original Aramaic word, which is
"Baha'u'llah"
 
 " Afterwards he brought me to the Bab, the Bab facing
east." (Ezekiel 43:1).
 
 The forerunner of Baha'u'llah was called "the Bab;"  The
Bab (1819-1850) was the John the Baptist for Baha'u'llah.
Thus Ezekiel literally prophesied the Bab by name.  The Bab
spent His last days awaiting execution in various prisons
in Adhirbayjan, in the northwestern corner of Iran.  While
imprisoned in the Castle of Chihriq, the Bab gathered
together all of His writings that were in His possession,
His pen-case, His seals, and His rings, and had them
delivered to Baha'u'llah, who lived a journey of several
days east in Tehran.  So the Bab, in facing the Promised
One He foretold, was facing east.
 
     "And behold, Baha'u'llah of Israel came from the east"
(Ezekiel 43:2).

 Here Ezekiel literally mentions Baha'u'llah by name in
Aramaic.  Baha'u'llah was born in Tehran, which is east of
Tabriz, where the Bab was executed, and which is also very
far east of the Euphrates, the ancient dividing line
between the Middle East and the East.  Baha'u'llah was
exiled from Tehran in Persia as a prisoner, and was taken
in chains to the prison of Akka near Mt. Carmel in Israel.
Thus Baha'u'llah cane to Israel form the East, fulfilling
this prophecy.

     "and the sound of his coming was like the sound of
     many waters, and the earth shone with his Baha."
     (Ezekiel 43:2).
     
 In the 17th chapter of the Book of Revelations, the "many
waters" means many peoples, nations and tongues.
Baha'u'llah's Revelation is not for just a certain country
or a certain people, but rather it is for the oneness of
mankind. Baha'u'llah's first principle is the oneness of
the world of humanity.  Thus the whole earth will shine
with His Baha (Glory or Splendor).
 
     "And the vision I saw was like the vision which I
     had seen when he came to destroy the city, and
     like the vision I  had seen by the river Chebar;
     and I fell upon my face."
     
 Here Ezekiel fall on his face in thanksgiving to God.
Ezekiel sees the Great manifestation, Baha'u'llah, who the
whole Bible talks about, who all the religion talk about--
the One who will establish universal peace and unite all of
humanity in brotherhood in the Kingdom of God on earth.
 
     "As Baha'u'llah entered the temple by the Bab
     facing east, the Spirit lifted me up, and brought
     me into the inner court.... (Ezekiel 43:4)
     
 Baha'u'llah entered the temple by the Bab.  Just as Jesus
entered into His ministry through His forerunner John the
Baptist, Baha'u'llah entered into His ministry through his
forerunner the Bab.
 
     "...And behold, Baha'u'llah filled the temple.
     While the man was standing beside me, I heard one
     speaking to me out of the temple; and he said to
     me, 'Son of man, this is the place of my throne
     and the place of the soles of my feet, where I
     will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel
     forever. "' (Ezekiel 43:6-7).
     
 The Revelation of Baha'u'llah fills the Temple.  The one
speaking from out of the Temple in this vision is the
person Baha'u'llah--we know this is a man because he speaks
of Israel as the place of the "soles of his feet."  The
throne that Baha'u'llah speaks of is David's throne.
Baha'u'llah sat on the throne of David as a direct male
lineal descendant of King David through the Exilarchs
(exiled Davidic monarchs).  The Baha'i World Center is on
Mt. Carmel in Haifa, Israel, which is now the permanent
seat of David's throne.

 Just as Jesus was prophesied to be born in Bethlehem,
Baha'u'llah was prophesied to come from the East to Israel.
And Baha'u'llah had a forerunner by the name of the Bab,
just as Jesus had a forerunner by the name of John the
Baptist.  So here we have Baha'u'llah's address.  There is
more prophecy for His address in the 35th chapter of the
book of Isaiah:
 
     "The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad,
     the desert shall rejoice and blossom; like the
     crocus it shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice
     with joy and singing.  The glory of Lebanon shall
     be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon.
     They shall see the glory of the Lord
     [Baha'u'llah], and the majesty of our God."
     (Isaiah 35:1-2).
     
 Here it says that the desert will blossom like a crocus.
When Baha'u'llah, the Glory of the Lord, was brought to
Israel, He was placed in the prison at Akka.  Akka sits
right across the bay of Haifa from lt. Carmel.  Akka was
the foulest prison of the Turkish empire--people would say
that if a bird were to fly over Akka, it would die from the
stench.  The prisoners were kept in pestilential
conditions, and many died after a short time. In addition,
it was a barren land, without cultivation.

 After Baha'u'llah's exile to Akka in 1868, thousands of
His followers from Iran and Baghdad visited Him there, and
they started cultivating the land, planting flowers, and
bringing in irrigation.  Later on the Jews started settling
Palestine, since in 1844, the Sultan of Turkey had lifted
the ban of Omar and allowed the Jews to enter Jerusalem
again, and in 1868, the Jews were allowed to buy land there
once again.  These Jews rapidly began irrigating the entire
country.  If you should go to Mt. Carmel today, you would
find it to be one of the most beautiful spots in the world.
While Palestine, and Akka and Mt. Carmel in particular,
were without cultivation at the time of Baha'u'llah, since
His coming the desert has literally blossomed.  And after
Baha'u'llah was given a release from prison, He pitched His
tent on Mt. Carmel with His Son 'Abdu'l-Baha and laid out
the site for the universal government of the Kingdom of God
on earth.
 
 Baha'u'llah completely fulfilled the prophecy of the
address. He was exiled to Mt. Carmel and Sharon--the name
for Israel's Mediterranean seacoast adjoining Mt. Carmel.
Just as Jesus was prophesied to be born in Bethlehem, here
Isaiah specifies that Baha'u'llah will come from the East
to Israel. Isaiah say that Sharon and Carmel will see the
Glory of the Lord--Baha'u'llah.
 
 We can see that the prophesied address for Baha'u'llah is
even more detailed than the address for Jesus.  In fact,
there are myriad's of prophecies about the coming of
Baha'u'llah, but for the sake of brevity we will just be
looking at the essential name, address, date and mission
prophecies.
 
 We will now look at the date prophecies, which are very
important.  There might have been someone else named
Baha'u'llah, and he might have come from Iran to Israel, so
we need to get this in the framework of when.  Let's start
with the book of Matthew, where the disciples ask Jesus
about the date of His return:
 
     "As he [Jesus] sat on the Mount of Olives, the
     disciples came to him privately, saying, ' Tell
     us, when will this be and what will be the sign of
     your coming  and of the close of the age? "
     (Matthew 24: 3; RSV).
     
 Here the disciples ask Jesus three questions:   when are
you coming, what will be the sign of your coming  and what
is the sign of the close of the age?  Jesus then gives many
signs which you can read on your own, but we will focus on
the conclusive sign He gives for the close of the age:

     "So when you see the desolating sacrilege spoken
     of by the prophet, Daniel; standing in the holy
     place (let the reader understand)." (Matthew
     24:15; RSV).
     
 Here Jesus Himself doesn't give you the date, but he says
to turn to the book of Daniel, the book that gave the date
for Jesus Himself, for the date at which the Second Christ
will come.  Jesus tells us to go to the chapter which
speaks of the desolating sacrilege and the holy place.
This is as follows:
 
     "Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another
     holy one said to the one that spoke, 'For how long
     is the vision concerning the continual burnt
     offering, the transgression that makes desolate,
     and the giving over of the sanctuary and host to
     be trampled under foot?'  And he said to him, 'For
     two thousand and three hundred evenings and
     mornings; then the sanctuary shall be restored to
     its rightful state." (Daniel 8:13-14).
     
 Here Daniel mentions the "transgression that makes
desolate," and also the "sanctuary."  These are the
"desolating sacrilege" and the "holy place" that Jesus told
us to look fort so we know we're in the right place.
 
 In the 43rd chapter of Ezekiel we read about the temple.
Ezekiel was a high priest, and he was concerned with the re-
establishment of the temple.  He told us that the re-
establishment of the temple would be the coming of the Bab
and Baha'u'llah.  Here Daniel tells us about the sanctuary
of the temple being restored to its rightful state.

 When Nebuchadnezzar took the Jews into captivity, he
removed the ark of the Covenant from the Holy of Holies and
brought it to Babylon where it was lost.  After this the
Jews rebuilt the temple and the sanctuary, but they lacked
the ark of the Covenant to complete the Holy of Holies.  So
the Jews wanted to know when their sanctuary would be fully
restored.  In the above prophecy, Daniel says this will be
in 2300 days, and since in prophecy each day is a year,
these are 2300 years.
 
 These 2300 years start from the time that the abomination
of desolation came to an end--457 B.C., when the edict was
issued to restore and rebuild Jerusalem.   From 457 B.C. to
the birth of Jesus gives us 456 years.  This leaves 1844
years left over, which means that the 2300 years come to an
end in 1844 A.D.  This is the date Jesus indicates that the
sanctuary would be restored.
 
 Under the law of Moses, the sanctuary was cleansed with
the blood of sheep and goats.  According to the 7th, 8th,
and 9th, chapters of the Book of Hebrews, Jesus cleansed
the sanctuary not with the blood of sheep and goats but
with his own blood.  But now we are looking for the birth
of the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven that
Jesus told us to pray for, so we're looking for the
cleansing of the sanctuary on earth. The date we are given
is 1844.
 
 Baha'u'llah's forerunner the Bab started the Baha'i
calendar in 1844.  The Bab made His proclamation on May 23,
1844.  But He started the calendar on March 21, 1844.
According to the Book of Ezra, King Artaxerxes' order to
rebuild Jerusalem was given on March 21, the first day of
the first month of the Persian calendar, which started with
the vernal equinox (Ezra 7:9). March 21, 1844, is the
starting of the Baha'i calendar, which occurs exactly 2300
years from the order to restore and rebuild Jerusalem
issued by Artaxerxes.
 
 The Bab purified the sanctuary by being killed six years
after His mission started.  The Bab was shot with 750
bullets in an execution arranged by the clergy, just as the
clergy was behind Jesus' execution.  In addition, 10,000 of
the Bab's followers were martyred with Him in the course of
His mission, shedding their blood to cleanse the sanctuary.
 
 The Book of Jude says (verse 14):
 
     And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied
     of these saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten
     thousands of His saints, to execute judgment upon
     all, and to convince all that are ungodly among
     them of all of their ungodly deeds, which they
     have ungodly committed, and of all their hard
     speeches, which ungodly sinners have spoken
     against Him.
     
 10, 000 of the Bab's followers were martyred in Persia,
practically down to the last one.  They were killed in the
most inhuman manner--they were split apart, their enemies
drove holes in their flesh, put lighted candles in the
holes, and made them run down the street with horseshoes
nailed to their feet, they put rings in their noses and
paraded them through the streets naked, and so on.  These
martyrs sacrificed themselves so that the holy Revelation
of God would be established in the world.
 
 Yet despite these great sacrifices, today the peoples of
the world remain sunk in the depths of paganism, following
Satan, and their leader is seated on the throne of Nimrod
or Satan, wearing the fish hat in Rome.  So you can't
expect much from the majority of the people.  That's why
there will be the great calamity in the world before the
people awake and accept the Revelation of God for this age.

 Having seen the date prophecy for the Bab, let's turn to
the 12th chapter of Daniel which gives us some more
important dates.  Of course, a lot of Christians read this
next chapter but the poor Christians are under the delusion
of Satan, so how can they understand anything?
 
     "At that time, shall arise Michael the great
     prince. who has charge of your people." (Daniel
     12:1).

 The word Michael means "one like God."  Each of the
Manifestations are mirrors which reflect God--they are
'like God" because they reflect God.  Thus this "Michael"
refers to a Manifestation.  He is the "great prince"
because He's a direct descendant of King David and is
seated on the throne of David.
 
     "And there will be a time of trouble, such as never
     has been since there was a nation, till that time."
     (Daniel 12:1).
     
 Jesus said something similar:

     "For then there will be great tribulation, such as has
     not been from the beginning of the world until now,
     no, and never will be, and if those days had not been
     shortened, no human being would be saved." (Matthew
     24:21-22).
     
 Has there ever been so much trouble in the world?  We've
made instruments of war by which within an hour, two thirds
of mankind will be dead.  How terrible this age in its
problems.  The people have been coalesced together by rapid
transit and rapid communication.  You can go around the
world in no time, while before most people never got more
than 30 miles from their home and they did this mostly on
foot.  While today, we're all thrown together, and this has
caused all the different ideologies, religions and concepts
to clash together, giving us a very dangerous situation,
especially considering the trouble in the Middle East.  The
great trouble in the Middle East is the starting of
Armageddon.
 
     "But at that time your people shall be delivered,
     every one whose name shall be found written in the
     book." (Daniel 12:1).
     
 Everyone that turns to Baha'u'llah's Covenant will be
delivered--God's people.  And all those who are in paganism
and the various Covenant-breaking sects and denominations
are going to get their medicine, too, whatever that may be.

     "And many of those who sleep in the dust of the
     earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and
     some to shame and everlasting contempt." (Daniel
     12:2).
     
  Those who "sleep in the dust of the earth" are the
materialist.  Practically everyone is a materialist,
abiding by the "get mine while I can get it" way of life.
Some of these people will get away from the paganism, awake
to become believers in the Second Messiah  Baha'u'llah, and
will win everlasting life, while some will not awake until
the bombs drop and the destruction is about to fall upon
them. but they'll awake to shame and everlasting contempt.
  
     "And those who are wise shall shine like the
     brightness of the firmament; and those who turn
     many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and
     ever." (Daniel 12:3).
     
 The wise are they who use their intellect to know the
truth.  They don't just believe on faith.  They don't just
follow some false leader.  The wise decide for themselves
whether something is true.  Most of the Christians say you
should believe on faith, and you don't need any proof.  But
the wise judge justly, by proof.
 
     "But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the
     book, until the time of the end." (Daniel 12:3).
     
 The book of Daniel was sealed, meaning no one would
understand what it means until the time of the end.

     "Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall
     increase." (Daniel 12:4)

 There has never been a time in history with so much
intercontinental travel and communication, and with
such great expansion of knowledge as is going on today.
 
     "Then I Daniel looked, and behold, two others
     stood, one on this bank of the stream and one on
     that bank of the stream.  And I said to the man
     clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the
     stream, '  How long shall it be till the end of
     these wonders? ' The man clothed in linen, who was
     above the waters of the stream, raised his right
     hand and his left hand toward heaven; and I heard
     him swear by him who lives for ever that it would
     be for a time, two times, and half a time;"
     (Daniel 12:5-7)

 Daniel is receiving a date here.  He gives the date as "a
time, two times, and a half a time."  This gives us three
and a half times.  A time is a circle, and a circle is the
length of time it takes to get back to the beginning.  It
doesn't matter how large or small the circle is, it always
consists of 360 degrees. We have three and a half times; so
360 multiplied by three and a half is 1260.

 The Bab and Baha'u'llah came in Iran, where they use the
Arabian lunar calendar.  This calendar begins with
Muhammad's flight from Meca to Medina, which is called the
Hegira. 1260 on the Muslim calendar is the same as 1844 on
the Christian calendar, when the Bab made His proclamation.
1844 A.D. is the same as 1260 A.H. (After the Hegira).  On
May 23. 1944 which is 1260 A.H., the Bab made His
proclamation.  So here we have the date for the Bab, this
time on the Arabic calendar as 1260.  We're approaching the
date for Baha'u'llah, so let's continue on.
 
     "..and that when the shattering of the power of
     the holy people comes to an end, all these things
     would accomplished." (Daniel 12:7).
     
 The shattering of the power of the holy people who follow
the Manifestation of God continues today, but it will be
over soon.
 
     "I heard, but I did not understand.  Then I said, 'O
     my lord, what shall be the issue of these things?'  He
     said, 'Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up
     and sealed until the time of the end.'" (Daniel 12:8-
     9).
     
 Here Daniel says,  'God, I don't understand all this!"
God means by His reply, "Those words are sealed until the
time of the end when they will be fulfilled, and those who
fulfill it will explain what it means.
 
 In fact, numerous Christian writers figured out the date
1844, and this date was also discovered in the
chronological time line in the Great Pyramid of Giza, but
they didn't understand what it meant.

 In 1844 the Bab closed the door to the prophetic age and
opened the door to the age of fulfillment.  The word "Bab"
means "door" or "gate."  On the very day of the Bab's
proclamation, the inventor Samuel Morse sent from Baltimore
to Washington the world's first telegraph message.  Morse's
message read, "See what God hath wrought."  Since the date
of the Bab, all the countries of the world have become
connected through communication and transportation.  Since
the date of the Bab, a whole new world has unfolded with
the railroad, the steamship, the air  plane, the forms of
rapid communication--the horse and buggy is gone.  The
Promised One, the Door came in 1844, and He opened the door
to this age.  They asked Jesus, when would be the  close of
the age, and He refers us to Daniel who says 1844.  Are we
going to call Jesus a liar, Daniel a liar, God a liar?
 
 Now we're going to get the date for Baha'u'llah:

     "Many shall purify themselves, and make the
     themselves pure and be refined, but the wicked
     shall do wickedly, and none of the wicked shall
     understand; but those who are wise shall
     understand."  (Daniel 12:10).

 Here we see none of the wicked will understand.  Who are
the wicked?  The ones that refuse to use their intellect to
understand.  God gave you your intellect to understand--but
if you don't use your intellect and you just follow a
clergyman that is corrupted with Satan you'll end up in the
den of Satan.  You have to use your intellect.
 
 None of the wicked will understand, but the wise will
understand--the wise are those that use their intellect.
 
 The clergy says, "You don't want to use your intellect,
you have to go by the heart."  But the intellect must lead
the heart.  The heart is not intelligent, it's liable to
love anything.  We have to be guided by the intellect.  God
tells us the wise shall understand.
  
     "And from the time that the continual burnt
     offering is taken away. and the abomination that
     makes desolate is set up, there shall be a
     thousand two hundred and ninety days." (Daniel
     12:11)
  
 When Muhammad came, He did away with all types of "burnt
offerings" or sacrifices, including the eucharist which
existed in Christianity.  Thus the beginning of this date
prophecy refers to the proclamation of Muhammad, which was
10 years before the start of the Arabic calendar.  The
"abomination that makes desolate" refers to treachery
committed against Muhammad by Jewish tribes during a
battle, after which Muhammad changed the direction of
prayer from Jerusalem to Mecca, thus making the holy city
of the Jews desolate.
 
 From the proclamation of Muhammad to the proclamation of
Baha'u'llah was exactly 1290 years (In prophecy a day
equals a year, so 1290 days equal 1290 years).  The
proclamation of Baha'u'llah was on April 21, 1863.  This
proclamation was 1,290 years on the Muslim lunar calendar
from the proclamation of Muhammad 10 years before the
Hegira.  The date in 1863 A.D. when Baha'u'llah proclaimed
himself was near the beginning or the Muslim year 1280 A.H.
1280 plus the 10 years back to when Muhammad proclaimed
Himself 10 years before the start of the Muslim calendar
gives us 1290 years.  Thus Daniel gives us the date for
Baha'u'llah.
 
 So here we have just seen the dates for the close of the
age and the coming of the Second Christ which Jesus said we
should refer to Daniel for.  Now we have Baha'u'llah's
name, His address, and His date, but we still need to see
what mission is prophesied for the Second Christ.  We find
this in the second chapter of the book of Isaiah:
 
     "It shall come to pass in the latter days that the
     mountain of the house of the Lord shall be
     established as the highest of the mountains, and
     shall be raised above the hills and all the
     nations shall flow to it..." (Isaiah 2:2)
     
 This prophecy is for the latter days, which we are in
today.  This mountain is Mt. Carmel, the seat of the
International Baha'i Center where the Universal House of
Justice will be established.  The King James version says
that the mountain of the Lord's house will be "established
in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the
hills;" this exaltation is a spiritual height rather than a
physical height.  All the nations shall flow to it, meaning
that all the people will come into the Kingdom and will
flow to this International Center on top of Mt. Carmel.
 
     "... and many peoples shall come, and say: 'Come,
     let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the
     house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us
     his ways and that we may walk in his paths.'"
     (Isaiah 2:3).
     
 Contrary to the Christian triune God, the God of Jacob
is the One Invisible God that created everything.  The
peoples of the world will flow to the One True Invisible
God of Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham, not to the pagan
trinity.

     "For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the
     word of the Lord from Jerusalem." (Isaiah 2:3).
     
 Baha'u'llah, the Prince of Peace, established that there
will be a Universal House of Justice with the Davidic
Kingship as the President or head of it.  This kingship
will exist as long as there is life on this planet.  "Zion"
is the city of David, thus with t