Dear Vinson,
The people of Baha do not understand the Baha'i Revelation. If they did, this great violation of God's Covenant would not have been possible. Baha'u'llah declared His Revelation as the Abha Kingdom, and defined it as a democratic monarchy as found in Great Britain. In His proclamation to the kings and leaders of the world He wrote: "...and the Ancient Beauty ruleth upon the throne of David." Just as David's throne ruled over the nation of Israel, now David's throne is to rule over a multitude of nations (Gen. 48:19).
Baha'u'llah, in His Covenant, continued this seed of David in His eldest son 'Abdu'l-Baha. 'Abdu'l-Baha's son died as a toddler and his brother Muhammad Ali broke the Covenant--'Abdu'l-Baha then adopted a son, Mason Remey. He then appointed his grandson Shoghi Effendi, a twig (Afnan) (Will and Testament, p. 25), to protect the Davidic throne as the Guardian of the Cause of God. The Cause of God is the monarchy that Baha'u'llah establishes.
'Abdul-Baha continued Baha'u'llah's democratic monarchy by adopting Mason Remey, thus continuing David's line of descent and fulfilling the coming of Shiloh (Gen. 49:10, King James Version--KJV). Shoghi Effendi was not a male descendant of King David, but an Afnan--a descendant of Muhammad. 'Abdu'l-Baha, in his Will & Testament (W&T), places the descendant of David, entitled the Guardian, at the head of the Universal House of Justice (UHJ) (W&T, p. 14). Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Davidic Kingship, appointed Mason Remey as the head of the embryonic UHJ (Cablegram, Jan. 9, 1951; Cablegram, Mar. 2, 1951--Messages to the Baha'i World, 1950-1957, pp. 7-8).
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The Baha'i world didn't understand even a little bit of it. Most of them were just twelve basic principle Baha'is. Most of them never read the Will & Testament, and if they did they did not deem it important. All they thought they needed to do was to be obedient to their assemblies and their leaders. Baha'u'llah refers to them as carrion--rotten meat, being preyed upon by a number of voracious beasts (Iqan, p. 31). They were all told over and over again to be firm in the Covenant, and not to deviate even a hair's breadth either to the right or to the left (W&T, p. 6). They are like the Christians who broke Jesus' Covenant and henceforth did not understand Jesus' Revelation.
If you ask the Christians today, and you should ask some, what the meaning of the word Christ is, you will find that 99.9 percent of them don't know. Some think it is the last name of Jesus, which would make His mother Mary Christ and His father Joseph Christ.
Or they think it means God, or the Son of God, or Savior, etc., not knowing that it is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew word Messiah, meaning a male sperm descendant of King David.
Of the nine great Manifestations of the Adamic Cycle, only two of them are Messiahs. Jesus revealed to His apostles that he was the Christ, a male descendant of King David (Matt. 16:16-20).
Paul tells us that Jesus was a sperm descendant of David and only designated to be Son of God according to the spirit (Romans 1:3-4-- see both KJV & Revised Standard Version, RSV). Luke gives Jesus' genealogy back to David through His father Joseph (Luke 3:23-31--All Bible references are from RSV unless indicated otherwise).
"Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Gospel [good news] of theKingdom of God, and saying, the time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel."
(Mark 1:14-15)
Everywhere Jesus went, He focused on one major theme--the good news of the coming of the Kingdom of God. The twelve disciples were sent out to preach the same message (Luke 9:1-2). The apostle Paul also preached the Kingdom of God; in fact he said that if you preach any other gospel than that of the Kingdom of God you are not preaching the Gospel of Christ (Acts 19:8; 20:25; 28:23 & 31).
Christians in that first century were in no doubt as to what that Kingdom would be. It is to be a literal Kingdom--a real government with a king, laws and subjects--destined to rule over the earth. It is the government of God ruling upon the throne of David (Isaiah 9:6-7).
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The prophet Daniel, for example, wrote of a succession of governments that would rule throughout the ages (Daniel 2). He wrote of four great empires: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome. He also prophesied the coming of four beasts (Daniel 7). These are the same beasts that are found in Revelation, chapters 13 & 17. Everything in the book of Revelation would take place after John received his visions (Rev. 1:1). These visions were of future events (Rev. 4:1; 22:10 & 18). Therefore the four beasts of Daniel would exist during the Christian era.
"The first was like a lion and had eagle's wings: Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand upon two feet like a man, and the mind of a man was given to it."
(Dan. 7:4)
The lion is the symbol of England (see a British pound note). On July 4th of 1776 the eagle, the United States of America, was plucked off from England and became a separate nation.
"And behold, another beast, a second one, like a bear. It was raised up on one side; it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and it was told, 'Arise, devour much flesh.'"
(v. 5)
The bear is the symbol of Russia (see the Russian ruble). It was raised up on one side. Russia straddles two continents, the Asian side being much larger. The three ribs in its mouth are three countries that are not part of the USSR but are in the grasp of Russia. Ezekiel tells us these three ribs are Persia, Lybia and Ethiopia (Ez. 38:5).
"Then I looked, and lo, another, like a leopard, with four wings of a bird on its back; and the beast had four heads; and dominion was given to it."
(v. 6)
The leopard is the body of the Holy Roman empire. When Charlemagne, king of the Francs, and the Francs, who had the panther as their symbol, conquered the Saxons, who had the lion as their symbol, the panther and the lion were joined together to form the body of the Holy Roman empire. In French the word for panther is "pard" and the word for lion is "leo." When you join the "leo" and the "pard" together you have the leopard. The four wings and four heads of this third beast in Daniel are the four parts of the empire: These parts are France, Germany, Austria, and Italy. The throne of Charlemagne's empire was situated at one time or another in one or another of these four countries.
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The fifth beast in Daniel is the same as the Dragon in the book of Revelation, and is explained by 'Abdu'l-Baha in the thirteenth chapter of "Some Answered Questions."
In the eleventh century Russia broke away from this union symbolized by the leopard. In the sixteenth century England broke away, and on July 4, 1776, the United States broke away from England. When Franklin Delano Roosevelt took out the charter of the United Nations these four beasts became united again into one beast.
The Holy Roman Empire began in 728 A.D. when the Pope of Rome, Gregory the second, separated Rome and the province of Italy from the Byzantine Empire. This beast in Revelation has only forty-two months to live (Rev. 13:5). After these forty-two months it goes to perdition--utter destruction (Rev. 17:8). In the Bible each day is as a year (Ez. 4:6). In forty-two months there are 1260 days or 1260 years. Therefore, this beast that began in 728 A.D. will die in 1988 A.D. (728 + 1260=1988). Nostradamus says that in 1988 there will be a great earthquake.
"I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. And to him was given dominion and glory and Kingdom, that all people, nations and languages should serve him; and his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his Kingdom one that shall not be destroyed."
(Dan. 7:13-14)
The throne of David with a man seated upon it will exist forever. Daniel declared that after the demise of these earthly kingdoms, "the God of heaven will set up a Kingdom which shall never be destroyed.... It shall break in pieces all these Kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand for ever" (Dan. 2:44).
Jesus told Pilate He was born to be a king. But His Kingdom was not of this world (John 18:36). That is, although Jesus was a Messiah--a descendant of David that is anointed--he did not, according to Luke, descend from David through the line of David that sat upon the throne, but rather from Nathan, the brother of King Solomon.
The throne of David was taken into Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar, and the reigning Davidic king, Jehoiachin was placed in prison. Nebuchadnezzar's successor Evil Murdach took Jehoiachin out of prison and dressed him in royal robes and placed him on his (David's) throne (II Kings 25:28). Baha'u'llah descended from Jehoiachin's son Shennazar. The main stream of Judaism thus remained in Babylon and became great.
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This throne with a descendant of King David through Jehoiachin and Shenazzar seated upon it, is called the "Exilarchate." This throne was protected by King Ahaasuerus, king of Media and Persia. King Ahaasuerus married Esther, a Jewess who had been raised by her Uncle Mordecai. The king subsequently made Esther's uncle the Prime Minister over the entire empire, which ruled over 137 captive nations that stretched all the way from India to Ethiopia. For details read the Book of Esther in the Bible.
THE ANCESTRY OF BAHA'U'LLAH
"He derived His descent on the one hand, from Abraham (the Father of the faithful) through his wife, Keturah, and on the other from Zoroaster, as well as from Yazdigird, the last king of the Sassanian dynasty. He was, moreover, a descendant of Jesse."
(God Passes By, Shoghi Effendi, p. 94)
"Call out to Zion [the House of David], O Carmel... the Ancient Beauty ruleth upon the THRONE of David."
(The Proclamation of Baha'u'llah, p. 89)
Jesse was the father of King David; God promised King David that his descendants would rule forever as Kings over the Kingdom of God on earth (2 Samuel 7:13). Baha'u'llah is that descendant of King David who fulfills the prophecies for the Messiah or Christ. He was prophesied by name, the date for His appearance, the address of His appearance and by His mission which was to establish David's throne in the world and bring peace--not only to the Middle East but to all the world.
The promoter of this Kingdom also fulfills the same golden criteria. He also has been prophesied by name, date, address and profession. Due to these bonafide proofs the establisher of God's Kingdom on earth and thus the promulgator of world peace through a world government around the Throne of David, as delineated in the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha, can claim authenticity from God.
Baha'is have long been aware of the prophecies that Baha'u'llah fulfills, but they have been divorced and separated from the Kingdom of God for following the corrupt teachings of the 26 dirty Hands of the Cause. They lied to the people when they said that the throne of David now entitled the "Guardian of the Baha'i faith," has come to an end. Shoghi Effendi was not the last Guardian; he was the first.
In the Bible, 1st Chronicles chapter 3, the descendants of King David are listed. Only those descendants through Solomon are seated upon the Throne of David.
Jehoiachin was the last descendant of David to hold royal position as King in Jerusalem. Then Jehoiachin was the first to sit upon the throne of David after it had been moved to Babylon. "It has long been known by the Jews that the Messiah would be a descendant of Jehoiachin" (Ginsberg, Legends of the Jews, Vol. IV, p. 287).
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Altogether King Jehoiachin had seven sons. The first three had already died by 592 B.C., leaving Jehoiachin's fourth son Shenazzar "to head the Davidic family" (Albright, W.F., The Biblical Periods from Abraham to Ezra, p. 86).
The Jews were freed from Babylonian captivity in 539 B.C. by the monotheistic Zoroastrian "Cyrus the Great" of Persia. Only a few of the many captive Jews returned to Jerusalem, the land from which they were taken so many years earlier. The mainline Jews along with the Exilarchate, remained in Persia.
The leader of the party that returned was named Zerubbabel. Although Zerubbabel was descended from David through Shealtiel, he did not inherit the Throne of David. He returned to Judah as a mere empty figurehead for the newly released captives. He is of little importance, aside from the fact that Jesus, the suffering Messiah descended from him. Jesus did not inherit the Throne of David on earth because Zerubbabel was from the nonreigning line of David's sons. As well, the throne of David had remained in Persia with the Exilarchs seated upon it. This is why Jesus said that His kingdom was not of this world. He did, however, prophesy by name the coming of Baha'u'llah, who would have full legal birthright to the Throne of David (Mark 8:38).
The Babylonian Jewry remained in Mesopotamia for over 2300 years. During the reigns of the Achemenid Persians--Alexander the Great and the Seleucid dynasty--the Throne of David was passed down through inheritance from father to son. The Jews remained a rather quiet community during these occupations although their relation with the ruling dynasties varied a great deal.
The greatest activity of the Babylon Jewry since the time of Mordecai and Esther, was the activity of the Exilarchate under the Parthian rule. Here, there is absolutely no dispute that the origin of the Exilarchate goes back to Jehoiachin.
Some claim the Exilarchate is connected to Jehoiachin through Zerubbabel. This is false, as the recently published cuneiform documents reveal (Ibid, Albright, p. 86). Furthermore, Zerubbabel returned to Palestine with his descendants; he did not remain in Babylon as Shenazzar did.
The detailed list of Exilarchs that dates back to Jehoiachin begins its documentation in the midst of the Parthian rule, circa 140 A.D.
Aside from graft, corruption and many political intrigues, the Jews and the Parthians remained on good terms for many generations. Some of the Parthian royalty even converted to Judaism. The Jews were able to survive for a very long time and preserve their heritage and distinct customs.
In 224 A.D. Ardashir Papakin overthrew the Parthian rule and established the Sassanian dynasty. The Sassanians had descended from Abraham through his wife Keturah. Zoroaster was a descendant of Abraham and Keturah and an ancestor to the Sassanians. Zoroaster had only daughters and one of them married the king.
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The Sassanian rulers of Persia were not as friendly toward the Jews and Exilarchs as the Parthian rulers had been. Although Sassanian kings like Adil the Just (Chosroes) stand out as a select few who favored the Exilarchs, for the most part the Exilarchs were unfavored because of their pure heritage and the blessings that God had lavished upon David and his seed. The Sassanians in fact had similar prophecies about one of their descendants ruling the entire world.
Eventually, one Hormuzd, an evil Sassanian king, sought to destroy all the descendants of David.
In a dream, after seeing her husband murdered, a woman pregnant with the son of an Exilarch, fled for refuge from the killers. She found refuge with a friend until she could give birth to the baby whom she named "Bostanai," after the dream which helped save her and the baby.
The dream told of Hormuzd chopping down a tree and cutting off all its branches. Before it was completely destroyed, however, a branch was spared. Later the branch grew and prospered greatly. The dream was interpreted as God's promise to David that one of His descendants would eventually rule the world as king over God's Kingdom on earth. This dream was actually about Baha'u'llah and His Branches, or descendants--the Guardians of the Baha'i Faith.
The last of the Sassanian kings before this great empire fell to the Arabs in 641 A.D., was Yazdigird.
The Arabs who conquered the Sassanians favored Bostanai, and gave him one of the daughters of the Persian King:
"Bostanai had heirs from his Jewish wives and also from the daughter of the Persian King who was given to him by the Caliph Ali. After his death the status of his sons by the Persian wife was in doubt and was the source of much controversy and intrigue."
(The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, p. 209)
Baha'u'llah is a descendant of Bostanai through the son of his Persian wife. Baha'u'llah is a male sperm descendant of David, just as He claims. His father was an Exilarch and sat upon the throne of David in Mazanderan. In the Tablet of Carmel, Baha'u'llah moved the throne of David to Mount Carmel, and His descendants will be seated upon that throne forever.
The lineage from Bostanai down to Baha'u'llah is easily correlated with the general outline Mirza Abul Fazl has put forth in a copy of his work. When asked about Baha'u'llah's genealogy, 'Abdu'l-Baha said Mirza Abul Fazl had established Baha'u'llah's genealogy and we should refer to it.
The Baha'is never really taught the Kingdom. They taught mostly the twelve basic principles, progressive revelation and the administration. With the passing of Shoghi Effendi the administration of the Hands and then the headless, Handless UHJ completely separated themselves from the Davidic Kingship. Thus, they have completely separated themselves from the central core of the Baha'i Revelation.
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Now let us return to Christianity. In the first century Jesus and the apostles were preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom based around Jesus being a descendent of David as in Luke 3:23-31 and Romans 1:2-3. However they were already saying that corruption was beginning to appear: Paul tells us "the mystery of iniquity doth already work" (2 Thess. 2:7) and John tells us the antichrist "is in the world already" (1 John 4:3). Also, John says, "as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come" (I John 2:18).
Just what is the antichrist? The prefix "anti" means against. Antichrist means "against Christ," or against the descendant of David who is anointed--as given in Luke 3:23-31 and Romans 1:3-4. "Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ, a descendant of David that is anointed? This is the antichrist" (1 John 2:22). In Revelation John sees Paganism coming into Christianity in three locations: in Ephesus (Rev. 2:2 & 4); in Pergamum: "I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is ... where Satan dwells" (Rev. 2:13); and in Thyatira: "But I have this against you that you tolerate the woman Jezebel... I will throw her on a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation... and I will strike her children dead" (Rev. 2:20-23).
The church made great progress in the first century and hundreds of thousands were converted to this new Revelation, but corruption was nevertheless beginning to creep in. Not much history of the church was recorded in the second and third centuries, and by the fourth century a whole new Christendom had appeared. It was no longer the religion of Jesus, however--it was a religion about Jesus. Joseph was no longer thought to be the father of Jesus, but His foster father. God had supposedly become His physical father. If God was Jesus' physical father, then Jesus could not be the Christ, as God is not a descendant of David. Jesus emerged as the Incarnate God, a new doctrine not found in the Bible. The triune god of the pagans actually replaced the ONE TRUE INVISIBLE GOD of all the Holy Scriptures revealed by all the Manifestations. This triune God is now placed in the churches (temples) to be worshiped as God in the place of God. Paul told us about this:
"Now as we beseech you brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God [the triune God].
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"Remember ye not, that when I was with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
(2 Thess. 2:1-12, KJV)
Where does this doctrine of the trinity come from? It is not in the Bible. Neither Jesus nor the apostles taught it. Paul in the quote above said it comes from Satan (v. 9). Where does Satan dwell, and where is his throne? John tells us in the book of Revelation that in his time it was in Pergamum (Rev. 2:13).
The serpent is the sign of the intellect. Physicians have the serpent around the staff of life. The intellect is also the window of the soul. Through it man thinks in the abstract. It is through this faculty that man can conceive of an abstract God through the Manifestations. When man uses this intellect to go against God through His Manifestations and turns aside from His Covenant, the intellect then becomes Satanic. To understand why Satan's throne is at Pergamum and that he dwells there we need to turn to the pages of history...
After the flood the animals were increasing in number faster than man. The ferocious animals had four legs, sharp teeth and claws. When they caught a man that had only two legs, they killed and ate him. Nimrod, the great-grandson of Noah, was a giant. "He was a mighty hunter before the Lord" (Gen. 10:9). Nimrod went out and killed the man-eating animals. Then he gathered the people together into cities, and his wife, Semiramis and her family, built walls around the cities and towers within the walls so the people could see whether wild animals were lurking outside the walls.
Nimrod trained the leopard to assist him in the hunt. The name Nimrod comes from the Chaldean word for leopard; "nimr" and "rod" mean "to subdue." He was the first to ride the horse and he is the scintar of mythology. He trained others to hunt and he and his band became a hunting party, then a fighting force. Nimrod thus built the first empire in the world.. The whole Middle East and as far as the Strait of Gibraltar became part of his empire.
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Nimrod and his wife were called by different names throughout the empire, because all the different nations of his empire had different languages. He taught the people in his empire the Adamic religion of the one true invisible God who created everything. These people were pagan and had been worshiping nature. He said to them, "Why worship nature, which is created? Worship God." The people loved him because he was a great benefactor. But they had trouble with thinking in the abstract and conceiving of the invisible God. Their brains had just started to develop to abstract thinking, and they found it difficult to live by the strict discipline of the Adamic Revelation. Nimrod's head swelled from the praises of his people and from his great accomplishments. He was the king of this world. What did he need God for? So he set his throne above that of God. He was like the Covenant-breaking Hands. He reversed himself and returned the people to their pagan religion of worshiping nature, the sun, moon and stars. He designated his father Cush as Jupiter and made him governor of Egypt; he designated himself Saturn. Thus we get the word Satan from the word Saturn. His wife's name Semiramis means Aurora, or "of the dawn." The "son of the dawn" in Isaiah 14:12 is therefore Semiramis' son, and since Semiramis' son was supposedly the incarnation of Nimrod, Nimrod is Lucifer of the fourteenth chapter of Isaiah.
Shem, the beloved son of Noah was appalled at Nimrod. He went down into Egypt where Nimrod was called Osiris and his wife Semiramis was called Isis. Shem explained to the 72 judges in Egypt that Nimrod was apostate. Nimrod was out someplace expanding his empire at the time. When he returned he was arrested and brought to trial before 30 of the judges and found guilty and condemned to death. But before he could be executed he had to come before all 72 judges so they could determine how he would be killed. They decided his body should be cut up into chunks and one piece should be sent to all the nations of his empire.
When Semiramis, who was back in Babylon, received a part of her husband's body she became furious. She said: he was worshiped as a god in life, I will make him a god eternally. So she became pregnant, claiming the pregnancy was due to the Holy Spirit which she claimed was the habitation of her womb. When the son was born she named him Bar-Nin--the incarnation of his father Nimrod.
In Egypt this son was called Horis. This new concept of religion--the father, the son and the Holy Spirit: "the trinity"soon spread throughout the empire. Although the empire eventually broke up into independent nations, this new religion became the universal pagan religion with this "trinity" at its core.
Semiramis set up a priest class over this new religion and her son became the first Pontifex Maximus. Supposedly this son was the Son of God (son of Nimrod), and therefore the incarnate god, the second person of the trinity.
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On special occasions the Pontifex Maximus wore the robe of scarlet (cardinus) representing the hinge. He wore the key of his father and another of his mother (the keys of Nimrod and Semiramis). He carried the augur's crooked staff, or the magic rod of Nimrod, the crosier (Nimrod had been the first to bear the title of the Shepherd-king). This first Pontifex Maximus also wore the headdress or mitre of Dagon, which depicted the gaping jaws of a fish, representing Dagon the fish god. Dagon was actually Nimrod, who had supposedly been retrieved from the sea by his mother-wife Isis, or Semiramis.
Many were the attempts to reestablish Nimrod's empire, but the attempts weren't successful until Nebuchadnezzar established the greater part of the Babylonian empire.
Nebuchadnezzar was then adorned with the official robe of scarlet, the cardinis. Nebuchadnezzar then wore the fish hat--the gaping jaws representing Dagon or Nimrod, carried the auger, crook or crosier, and wore the keys of Nimrod and Semiramis.
After the conquest of Babylon by Darius and Cyrus, the Persian Kings, the Babylonian Pontifex Maximus and his throne were expelled out of the new Persian Empire. The throne was at that time, as already explained, established in Pergamum. It would eventually move to Rome, however:
"The true legitimate Babylonian Pontiff representative of that god had his seat beyond the bounds of the Roman empire. That seat, after the death of Belshazzar, and the expulsion of the Chaldean priest from Babylon by the Medo-Persian kings, was at Pergamos, where afterwards was one of the seven churches of Asia. There, in consequences, for many centuries was "Satan's seat" (Rev. 2:13; "The Two Babylons," Alexander Hislop, p. 240).
It is here at Pergamum that the trinitarian doctrine with its associated lie of the incarnation took place. All they had to do was transfer the names of their pagan trinity to those of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit--deifying Jesus by making Him the incarnate God. "Halley's Bible Handbook," an aid for Christians to understand the Bible says about Pergamum:
"A church, faithful to the name of Christ, even unto martyrdom (Rev. 2:13), but tolerant of false teachers: probably the same class of false teachers as those in Ephesus. But, it seems that while in Ephesus the pastors as a body stood solidly against the false teachers, here in Pergamum, the pastors, though not themselves holding to the false teaching, tolerated within their ranks those who did.
(p. 580)
These pagan Christian zealots proselytized more vigorously than did the true Christians, and they were very successful because it was easy for a believer in the pagan trinity to become converted to belief in this similarly man made Christian trinity.
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This conversion continued for three hundred years until the Council of Nicea where it became Roman law for all Christians to be Trinitarians.
This throne of Satan had already paganized the western world. All of Europe including Great Britain and the Norse countries had the same paganism, except the characters of the trinity had different names as they all had different languages. It had truly become an international pagan religion. The pagans were easily converted into the Christian trinity religion because they didn't have to give up their triune God.
"At first, the Roman Pontiff has no immediate connection with Pergamos and the hierarchy there; yet in course of time, the Pontificate of Rome and the Pontificate of Pergamos came to be identified. Pergamos itself became part and parcel of the Roman empire, when Attalus III, the last of its 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. The original powers even of the Roman Pontiffs seem to have been by that time abridged, 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 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 he seems to have laid claim to the divine dignity of Attalus, as well as the kingdom that Attalus had bequeathed to the Romans, as centering in himself; for his well-known watchword, "VENUS GENETRIX," which meant that Venus was the mother of the Julian race, appears to have been intended to make him "The Son" of the great goddess, even as the "Bull-horned" Attalus had been regarded. Then, on certain occasions, in the exercise of his high pontifical office, he appeared of course in all the pomp of the Babylonian costume, as Belshazzar himself might have done, in robes of scarlet, with the crosier of Nimrod in his hand, wearing the mitre of Dagon and bearing the keys of Janus and Cybele.
(The Two Babylons, p. 241)
"Venus" in the above quote is one of the Roman and Greek names for the Babylonian Semiramis. At the time of the exile of Babylonian paganism by the Persians to Pergamum, some people called the Etruscans migrated to Italy and settled a city called Satanuria (named after Satan). The founding of Rome by Romulus was at the site of Satanuria.
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Julius Caesar of the Julian race descended from Semiramis (Venus). Thus by inheritance he claimed the Pontifex Maximus. By becoming emperor and being the Pontificate Maximus he was then entitled to sit upon the throne of Satan at Pergamum which was bequeathed to Rome by Attalus III. He then became the head of Babylonian Paganism. He put on the garb of Satan: the crosier of Nimrod, the fish hat, the scarlet robe and the keys of Janus and Cybele; which were the keys of Nimrod and Semiramis. Janis is a Roman name for Nimrod and Cybele the Roman name for Semiramis.
All the Caesars of Rome, from Julius on down into the Christian era sat on the throne of Satan wearing the scarlet robes, the crosier of Nimrod, the fish hat and the keys of Janus and Cybele. This includes Constantine, the one who chaired the Nicene Council which made the Trinitarian doctrine the law of the Roman empire. This continued until the time of the emperor Gratian. Although these were Christian kings, at the same time they were head of the pagan religion, seated on the throne of SATAN.
When Gratian became emperor in 378 A.D. he abolished paganism in the Roman Empire, closing down the pagan temples, and it was Gratian "who, as shown by Gibbon, was the first to refuse to be arrayed in the idolatrous pontifical attire, or to act as Pontifex" (The Two Babylons, p. 242). Three years later, in 381 A. D., Gratian, the same emperor who had abolished paganism in the Roman empire, turned the Babylonian Pontificate over to the Pope Damasus.
Then in his Pontificate, exercising the power of the pope and appearing in his new role as the true legitimate Babylonian Pontiff, Damasus appeared in public as the head of the pagan world in all the pomp of the Babylonian costume, just as Belshazzar himself might have done: wearing robes of scarlet, the mitre of Dagon--the fish hat, with the crosier of Nimrod in his hand, and bearing the keys of Janus and Cybele--even as had occurred under the Christian emperor.
Although paganism was legally abolished in the Western Empire of Rome, yet in the city of Rome it was still rampant. Jerome, writing of this very period called it:
"the sink of all superstitions. Throughout the empire, the Imperial edict for the abolition of paganism was respected, but in the city of Rome it was a dead letter. The prefect of the city as well as the people, were fanatically devoted to the old religion. Four hundred and twenty-four pagan temples or chapels still remained to satisfy the devotion of the people, and in every quarter of Rome, the Christians were offended by the fumes of idolatrous sacrifice" (Decline and Fall, Chap. 28, Vol. 5, p. 87).
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So strong was paganism in Rome even after the people lost their Pontifex Maximus, that when Pope Damasus appeared in the full regalia of their Pontiff, they danced with joy and filled the Christian churches, and the pope welcomed them as members of his church without conversion, instruction or baptism. The priests objected and Damasus responded by martyring a number of them. The others that didn't submit crossed the Alps into Europe leaving the churches unattended by clergy. So Damasus went into the pagan temples and commissioned some of the pagans as Catholic priests and installed them in the Christian churches without instruction or conversion.
Thus all the pagan rituals, dogma and practices were incorporated into Christianity. Everything was changed to paganism: the baptism of babies, the chants and rituals including the pagan holidays--even the Easter bunny and the Christmas tree. Christianity didn't conquer paganism; paganism took over Christianity, even down to our present day.
Pope John Paul, for example, wore the fish hat when he visited America in 1987. He had the crosier of Nimrod and the keys of Janus and Cybele. As well, he and the Cardinals wear the scarlet robes. He sits upon the throne of Satan claiming to be the successor to St. Peter. But Peter, as well as Jesus and the other apostles, taught the religion of Jesus, which was that of the Kingdom, with Jesus being a male sperm descendant of King David through his father, Joseph.
It is this papacy that brought the Beast of the 7th chapter of Daniel and the 13th and 17th chapters of Revelation into being. This trinitarian whore religion, which is the prostituted religion of Jesus, sits on the Beast that has seven heads and ten horns in the 17th chapter of Revelation:
"...and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of blasphemous names and it had seven heads and ten horns."
(v. 3)
The seven heads are the seven alive revealed apostate religions that are standing before the throne (Davidic) to be judged. They are the Jewish, Hindu, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim and the Covenant-breaking Baha'i.
The ten horns are the ten Islamic countries that were part of the Ottoman empire which came to an end in 1920 A.D. This is the Dragon of the twelfth chapter of Revelation that also had seven heads and ten horns, and it also had 1260 years to live. It started in 660 A.D. when Mu'awiya, a Ummayad, and the son of Abu Suffian, took over the Islamic empire by force. There were seven dynasties in that empire--with the Ummayads being the first. The last was the Ottoman or Turkish, which ended in 1920 A.D. There are 1260 years between 660 A.D. and 1920 A.D.
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When the League of Nations stripped Turkey of its empire in 1920 A.D., it put the ten countries that had been ruled by Turkey under the protection of France and England. Turkey at this time became a democracy, and Atta-turk was elected its first president. After World War II, these ten countries (horns) got their independence from France and England one at a time and each subsequently joined the United Nations, thus becoming the ten horns of the Beast.
"The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and bedecked with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her fornication."
(Rev. 17:4)
The scarlet robe is the robe of Satan. When Nimrod put on the scarlet robe, cardinis, he then became the red devil. When the pope and certain high-ranking bishops put on the scarlet robes they became the incarnation of Satan.
When Gregory the Second put on the Purple (Royal) Robe in 728 A.D. after separating himself from the Byzantine empire, he started a new empire: the Holy Roman Empire.
When my wife visited Rome in 1952, an official Vatican guide who also happened to be a Baha'i, took her on a tour of the Vatican. Being she was also a Baha'i, he took her into places in the Vatican that only a few people were permitted to see. They entered a large room laden with diamonds, gold, jewels and pearls and other exquisite wealth. She gasped; then he told her there was more wealth in that room than the wealth contained in any country and one-half in all of Europe.
Recall Semiramis, the Babylonian emperous queen, whose husband Nimrod had ruled over the world and was eventually cut down by Shem, who was still alive and well. When Semiramis held in her arms the "divine child who was the incarnation of his father," she became the first Madonna. To reveal this openly at that time, however, would have been dangerous. To introduce this dogma into the world therefore she decided that to establish a priestcraft, and this in the utmost of secrecy. To introduce this it was necessary to dull the minds of the initiates with a mysterious beverage given in a golden cup.
"Thus was this Chaldean queen a fit and remarkable prototype of the "Woman" in the Apocalypse, with the golden cup in her hand, and the name on her forehead, 'Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and abominations of the earth.' The Apocalyptic emblem of the Harlot woman with the cup in her hand was even embodied in the symbols of idolatry and the trinity derived from ancient Babylon as they were exhibited in Greece; for thus was the Greek Venus originally represented, and it is singular that in our own day, and so far as appears for the first time, the Roman church has actually taken this very symbol as her own chosen emblem.
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"In 1825, on the occasion of the jubilee, Pope Leo XII, struck a medal, bearing on the one side his own image, and on the other, that of the Church of Rome symbolized as a "Woman," holding in her left hand a cross, and in her right a CUP, with the legend around her, "Sedet super universum," "The whole world is her seat."
"Now, the period when Semiramis lived--a period when the patriarchal faith was still fresh in the minds of men, when Shem was still alive to rouse the minds of the faithful to rally around the banner for the truth and cause of God, made it hazardous to all at once and publically to set up such a system as was inaugurated by the Babylonian queen."
(The Two Babylons, pp. 576)
This is the iniquity foretold by Paul: "The mystery of iniquity doth already work, and would continue until it should be destroyed by the coming of Jesus' mouth, and consumed by the brightness of His coming" (2 Thess. 2:7). Baha'u'llah didn't claim to fulfill the prophecies for the return of Jesus, for if He did He would have been a false prophet (Matt. 24:4-5). Baha'u'llah fulfilled the prophecies for the return of "Christ," or the second Messiah. The return of Jesus, the High Priest, is the one who slays this wicked iniquity with the words of His mouth.
(Rev. 17:4)
"and I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus."
(Rev. 17:6)
There have always been pure and true Christians down through the ages that believed Christianity the way that Jesus and the Apostles taught it: the Gospel of the Kingdom. They knew the trinitarian dogma was pagan, but when they resisted conversion they were labeled as barbarians and/or heretics and were slaughtered. This is just like the true Baha'is who are labeled as Covenant-breakers by the Covenant-breakers, so they can prevent their own followers from investigating the truth of the matter themselves. In Imperial Rome, only a few thousand Christians were martyred by the emperors, but in the Holy Roman empire many millions were killed. In the inquisition alone over a million people were killed by the order of the Pope.
This Babylonian whore religion with its trinitarian doctrine is the "Mother of Harlots." This is because when the Protestants rebelled against the Roman rule of Christianity and broke away, they took along with them the very heart of the apostacy: The pagan trinitarian doctrine, and thus they became daughter Harlots. When other sects and denominations broke away from them, they became granddaughter Harlots, etc.
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"When I saw her I marveled greatly. But the angel said to me, "Why marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her. The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is to ascend from the bottomless pit and goes to perdition: and the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world marvel to behold the beast, because it was and is not and is to come."
(Rev. 17:7-8)
The mystery of the woman is that she is the second Babylon of that whore trinitarian religion. She was sitting on the Beast, meaning that she is the whore religion that brought the Beast into existence, and she rides the beast because she has a certain control over the Beast.
"The Beast that you saw was, and is not, and is to ascend from the bottomless pit and goes to perdition"--John saw this Beast in his vision, but it hadn't appeared yet. When it does appear it will come out of the pit of error, and go into utter destruction. The people of the world that have not been written in the "Lamb's Book of Life" will marvel over this present civilization. All the nations of the world are members of the United Nations which is the united Beasts of Daniel.
"This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven hills on which the woman is seated."
(Rev. 17:9)
Both the Catholics and the Protestants agree that this is Rome, as it is the city that is surrounded by seven hills. The Catholics referred to this as Imperial Rome, before it became Catholic. The Protestants, like those in England, say this is the Holy Roman Empire.
"They are also seven kings, five of whom have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when it comes he must remain only a little while."
(Rev. 17:10)
These seven kings are the seven dynasties that corrupted the seven alive revealed religions. For instance the dynasty that corrupted Islam was the Ummayads. They no longer exist. They were exterminated by the Abbassids. The dynasty that corrupted the Buddhists also no longer exists. Also the same is true for the dynasties that corrupted the Zoroastrians, the Hindus and the Jews.
"The one that is," is the papacy that claims to have started in the days of the apostles with the passing of St. Peter. It will continue to exist until it is completely destroyed in the fire of the oncoming thermonuclear war. The last one to come is the Apostacy of the Baha'i faith by the Covenant-breaking Hands. It will only exist for a little while. It started in 1957 and it goes into destruction along with the Beast and the papacy.
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Baha'u'llah states in the "Tablet of the Holy Mariner" that a burning meteor will cast the Covenant-breakers off of mount Carmel. The Covenant-breaker Adib Taherzdeh, in his book "The Revelation of Baha'u'llah" says:
"Man is created to love and worship God, to recognize His Manifestations and obey Him. His greatest attainment is to abide in the realm of servitude and to develop spiritual qualities. But there have ever been those who, having recognized the Manifestation of God, rise up to oppose Him and consciously try to elevate themselves to His station. Such an act invokes the wrath of God and brings destruction upon man. For instance, those who broke the Covenant of the Bab and opposed Baha'u'llah were of this kind, as were those who broke the Covenant of Baha'u'llah and opposed the Centre of His Covenant, 'Abdu'l-Baha.
"It is concerning such individuals that Baha'u'llah in the "Tablet of the Holy Mariner" writes:
They have desired to ascend unto that state which the Lord hath ordained to be above their stations.
Whereupon the burning meteor cast them out from them that abide in the Kingdom of His Presence,
And they heard the Voice of Grandeur raised from behind the unseen pavilion upon the Height of Glory,
'O guardian angels! Return them to their abode in the world below,
'Inasmuch as they have purposed to rise to that sphere which the wings of the celestial dove have never attained...,
The first sentence of "The Holy Mariner" above refers to the fact that the Hands desired to ascend to that state which was deemed to be above their stations. Their stations were those of Hands of the Cause. Instead, they took over the functions of the Guardian, in place of the Guardian.
One of the houses to be built on Mount Carmel is that of the Guardian: who is the king of the Kingdom. In the place of that they built a house for the headless, handless body, the same that is found on the back of the Hopi Tablet. In scriptures there are many prophecies of a stone, a rock, a star that hits the earth (Dan. 7:34 & 44; Rev. 8:8 & 10; 18:21).
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Nostradamus tells us a comet or meteor about five miles across will hit the earth. This will cast those Hands out of the Kingdom of His Presence. Mount Carmel is where the king of the Kingdom, entitled the Guardian, is to reside. In the 3rd and 4th sentences of "The Holy Mariner," the phrase "Return them to their abode in the world below" refers to hell. This same sentence was given to Lucifer (Isaiah 14:15 & 19).
Adib goes on to explain:
"In these words Baha'u'llah has, for the first time, clearly indicated that those who oppose the Centre of the Cause and break His Covenant will be cast out from the people of Baha."
(p. 241)
In the next paragraph Adib explains that 'Abdu'l-Baha is the Centre of the Covenant. His Covenant is the Will and Testament that delineates the provisions of Baha'u'llah's Covenant. That is when Baha'u'llah appointed 'Abdu'l-Baha to be His successor, He made him the expounder of the words. 'Abdu'l-Baha, in his Will and Testament, appointed Shoghi Effendi to be his successor using the same words Baha'u'llah had used, making Shoghi Effendi the expounder of the words of God.
After his passing this is to pass to succeeding Guardians (W&T, pp. 11-12). No place in any of the writings are either the Hands or the Universal House of Justice designated to be the expounder of the words of God. This is limited to the Guardian and the Guardian alone. Shoghi Effendi also stated that only a Guardian can determine who is a Covenant-breaker. He never gave that authority to anyone else. That authority only goes to the succeeding Guardian.
Adib goes on:
"The burning meteor may be regarded as symbolic of a mighty instrument that Baha'u'llah has instituted for the protection of His Cause, namely, His Covenant. In the days of Baha'u'llah the authority to expel Covenant-breakers was vested in Himself alone. Later it evolved upon 'Abdu'l-Baha, as the centre of the Covenant, and then upon Shoghi Effendi, as the Guardian of the Cause of God, to exercise this authority. In this day, should anyone break the Covenant his expulsion would be by decision of the Hands of the Cause of God residing in the Holy Land, subject to the approval of the Universal House of Justice."
(p. 241)
Adib knows very well that no place in any of the sacred writings are the Hands or the UHJ given the right to take over the functions of the Guardian. Both 'Abdu'l-Baha and Shoghi Effendi state that Covenant-breakers know full well they are Covenant-breakers but by various pretenses they lie to justify their claims (W&T, p. 12, line 8).
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This "Hand-made" religion as well as the Christian Babylonian trinitarian doctrine are Jezebel of Revelation 2:20-23; whoever has intercourse with this prostitute catches her spiritual disease. Just as gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes and AIDS are passed through intercourse, so this spiritual disease is passed through intercourse with these corrupt spiritual beliefs. 'Abdu'l-Baha explains that Covenant-breakers have the disease of leprosy, which was at that time incurable. Today, if cured, leprosy leaves the victim maimed.
No place in any of the writings of 'Abdu'l-Baha or Shoghi Effendi is authority given to any other institution to take over any of the functions of the Guardianship. This provision making the Guardian the expounder of the words is given in the Covenant and no one in any way can annul any of the provisions of the Covenant for a full thousand years, until the next Manifestation comes. The role of the Hands is to protect the Guardian, but they reversed their role and became the prime movers in opposition.
The Guardian in his second encyclical letter expelled these Covenant-breaking Hands from the Baha'i religious faith. In his third encyclical letter he expelled the people that support and follow these Covenant-breaking Hands. In 1966 he expelled the administration of the Hands from the Baha'i religious faith and the people that remain in that administration. The Covenant-breaker Adib Taherzadeh will find out whether the burning meteor is symbolic or not when it descends upon these Covenant-breakers. 'Abdu'l-Baha wrote in his Will and Testament:
"No doubt every vainglorious one that purposes dissension and discord will not openly declare his evil purposes, nay rather, even as impure gold, would he seize upon divers measures and various pretexts that he may separate the gathering of the people of Baha."
(W&T p. 12)
One of the pretexts that the Covenant-breaking Hands used to separate the gathering of the believers from the Guardianship was to state that they had the right to do such a thing because Shoghi Effendi said they were to be considered the "chief stewards" of the faith. On board a ship the stewards' function is to take care of the food, beds and lodging of the passengers. If the Captain of the ship should die the stewards are not the ones who take over the control of the ship: the first mate is. Shoghi in every manner indicated that Mason Remey was the first mate of the Baha'i ship. Not only was Mason appointed to succeed him in the Guardianship, but Shoghi also had Mason sit next to him in the seat of honor at the table, he had Mason walk right behind him in all processions, etc.
It was prophesied that these stewards would shame the master's, 'Abdu'l-Baha's, house:
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"Thus says the Lord God of hosts, "Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him: What have you to do here and whom have you here, that you have hewn here a tomb for yourself, you who hew a tomb on the height, and carve a habitation for yourself in the rock? Behold the Lord will hurl you away violently, O you strong man. He will seize firm hold on you, and whirl you round and round, and throw you like a ball into a wide land; there you shall die, and there shall be your splendid chariots, you shame of your master's house. I will thrust you from your office, and you will be cast down from your station. In that day I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your girdle on him, and will commit your authority to his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David; he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. And I will fasten him like a peg in a sure place, and he will become a throne of honor to his father's house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups to all the flagons. In that day, says the Lord of Hosts, the peg that was fastened in a sure place will give way; and it will be cut down and fail, and the burden that was upon it will be cut off, for the Lord has spoken.
(Isaiah 22:15-20)
Jesus said he spoke in parables and in fact he said he never spoke but what it was a parable (Mark 4:10-13; 33). The above quote from Isaiah is a prophecy for today because it uses such phrases as 'the Lord of hosts' and 'in that day' meaning in the latter days, at the time of the fulfillment of the Apocalypse. This passage is very germane to what is happening now. It starts out by saying "Come, go to this steward, to Shebna," or to the high person or persons in control over the household, or in this case to those in control of the affairs of the Baha'i faith.
It then goes on to say, "What have you to do here," that is to say what are you doing occupying the position of Guardian of the faith, you who "have hewn here a tomb...on the height," or at the head of the faith. This error will cause their spiritual deaths and thus they have carved a habitation in the rock. The rock is the symbol of the Christ, or the Davidic Kingship. When the Covenant-breaking Hands, or the headless body, replaced the Christ, or David's throne, they created a tomb for themselves.
The phrase, "Behold, the Lord will hurl you away violently," foretells the Meteor hitting the earth. And will "hurl you round and round, and you shall die, for you have shamed your master's house." One of 'Abdu'l-Baha's titles which Baha'u'llah preferred calling him was "Master." The Covenant-breaking Hands have shamed 'Abdu'l-Baha's house by breaking every provision of his Sacred Will and Testament.
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"I will thrust you from your office [of stewards] and you will be cast down from your station [of being Hands]. I will call my servant Eli'akim..."
"Eli" means high priest and "servant" in many places refers to God's promised ones. Smith's Bible dictionary says a servant is a good man.
"And I will commit your authority to his hand." This servant has the key to the house of David, that is, the Davidic kingship.
This kingship (the Christ) has never been taught. The Christians never taught it and neither have Baha'is. The Covenant-breakers are teaching a headless republic in the place of the Kingdom. Whatever this establisher of the Kingdom opens, none will be able to shut. And whatever he shuts none will be able to open. That is, my explanations are irrefutable. I am fastened on a sure peg in a sure place, that is, I fulfill prophecy. I am prophesied in Bible scriptures as well as in the Baha'i writings, which gives me authenticity, and authenticity is the criteria for believability. "And he will become a throne of honor in his father's house [Baha'u'llah's house]." On me has been hung the full weight of establishing Baha'u'llah's Kingdom. This sure peg that I am placed on will be succeeded first by the International Tribunal that will bring peace to the world. By the end of this century all the nations will be Baha'i. They will set up Secondary Houses of Justice and these Secondary Houses of Justice will elect the Universal House of Justice (UHJ) with the Guardian at its head. I will be replaced by this UHJ.
The Book of Revelation (Apocalypse) is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to Him to show the people what must take place after He gave His Revelation. These were prophecie's of future events; they were given in symbols, signs and allegories to such a degree that nobody down through the pages of history was able to explain them until the coming of 'Abdu'l-Baha. He only explained the eleventh and twelfth chapters and part of the twenty-first chapter, as they pertained to the coming of Islam and the prophesying of the coming of the one in this day, the Seventh Angel. He left the rest of the book untouched. 'Abdu'l-Baha's explanations are found in the Book "Some Answered Questions."
Many have been the attempts by Christians and others down through the ages to interpret the meanings found therein, but they have miserably failed to give even the foggiest meanings to the hidden information. Even among the Baha's in our time efforts by Ruth Moffet and others have failed to unlock its mysteries. There is a Covenant-breaker who is completely blind with the sin-covering eye, foolishly saying that he has succeeded in interpreting the book of Revelation. The title to this Covenant-breaking book by Robert F. Riggs is "The Apocalypse Unsealed." Riggs doesn't see a thing. He doesn't have the foggiest glimpse as to what this book is all about. Even in explaining the 11th chapter which 'Abdu'l-Baha had already explained, he missed the point altogether.
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For example, on page 59 of "Some Answered Questions" 'Abdu'l- Baha explained that Ali was the fifth angel and that Ali was like Joshua who established Moses' Revelation. Joshua did this by taking the twelve tribes of Israel across the River Jordan, conquering the seven nations of Palestine and establishing the nation of the twelve tribes of Israel. In a similar way, Ali was the promoter of the Revelation of Muhammad.
Then on page 64 'Abdu'l-Baha explains that Muhammad and Ali came alive again in the Bab and Quddus. He explains that Quddus is the sixth angel in the book of Revelation, and being the return of Ali he was like Ali, who was in turn like Joshua who established Israel in the Holy Land. Then on page 66 'Abdu'l-Baha tells us that the Seventh Angel (who is like Quddus, who was like Ali, who was like Joshua) WILL arise with heavenly qualities and will establish the Kingdom brought by Baha'u'llah, in the world. The Covenant-breakers have separated themselves from this Kingdom and thus from God.
Riggs in his explanation of the Beast in the thirteenth chapter, again is as blind as a bat. He makes it a rehash of the Dragon. He says the lion represents ancient Babylon, the bear represents the Medeo-Persian empire, the leopard represents Greece and Rome is the eagle.
First of all, these are not the symbols of these countries. Not only this, everything in the Apocalypse was to take place after it was revealed by John and this interpretation by Riggs has all the events taking place before John's time.
The book of Revelation has concealed in it many mysteries that 'Abdu'l-Baha left for the seventh angel to explain to the world. For instance in the fourth chapter of Revelation it says:
"At once I was in the spirit, and lo, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne! He who sat there appeared like jasper and carnelian, and around the throne a rainbow that looked like emerald."
(verses 2-3)
This refers to the throne of David which Baha'u'llah sat upon. In His Covenant He continues this throne in His descendants. The heaven is the heaven of prophecy. The Jasper refers to the first basic principle of the Baha'i revelation and the carnelian refers to the fifth principle which states that religion and science must agree. The rainbow represents the Covenant (Gen. 9:13) of Baha'u'llah and the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha. The emerald represents the fourth principle, which states that religion must be the source of unity. The purpose of the Davidic kingship, entitled the Guardianship, is to preserve that unity.
The stone is the title Christ. Jesus the first Christ was the stone that the builders rejected (Matt. 21:42). The "stone" and "rock" refer to the "title of Christ" (1 Cor. 10:1-4; Exodus 17:6).
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The builders who rejected the stone are the trinitarian Christians. They are the ones who built on the teachings of Jesus; not the Jews.
The trinitarians rejected Jesus' title of Christ (the stone), when they made God, instead of Joseph, the literal father of Jesus. They thus became the antichrist. "Anti" means being against Jesus being a descendant of David. Today, along with the trinitarians, the Covenant-breaking Baha'is are antichrist, by breaking the Covenant.
"And I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals."
(Rev. 5:1)
The one seated on the throne refers to Mason Remey Aghsan, the first Guardian of the Baha'i faith and the second Guardian of the Cause of God. First of all, only a male descendant of King David can sit upon this throne. Shoghi Effendi's name was Shoghi Effendi Afnan, a male descendant of Muhammad and a collateral relative of the Bab. He was the Guardian of the Cause of God, and the Cause of God is the Davidic throne. He guarded this throne and appointed 'Abdu'l-Baha's adopted son Mason Remey Aghsan to succeed Him. Every king holds a scepter in his right hand to show the authority of his power. The scepter that Mason Remey held in his hand was the scroll written within and on the back. This scroll is the Covenant of Baha'u'llah and the part written "on the back" is the addendum, the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha. Mason Remey was the first to be seated on the throne according to the provisions of the Will and Testament:
1. He must be a son of Shoghi Effendi--If he has no son then: (W&T p 11).
2. "It is incumbent upon the Guardian of the Cause of God to appoint in his own lifetime him that shall become his successor." If he doesn't have a son "then must he the Guardian of the Cause of God choose another Branch to succeed him"
(W&T p. 12)
Shoghi Effendi had no son, therefore he had no son who possessed the spiritual qualities, so he chose another Branch to succeed him. Six years before he passed on in 1951, "during his lifetime," he fulfilled his obligation to guard the Cause of God (the Davidic Kingship) by appointing the only qualified Aghsan in the world to be his successor: 'Abdu'l-Baha's son, Mason Remey Aghsan. All the other Aghsan had been expelled from the Baha'i religious faith for Covenant-breaking, and thus they didn't have the spiritual within them. Therefore Mason Remey was the first Aghsan Guardian to sit upon the throne.
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Thus, the stone that the builders rejected in our day is the first Guardian to sit upon the throne who fulfills the criteria of being a son and being appointed by the previous Guardian. The true Baha'is are those who build their faith on the fact that Baha'u'llah is the second Christ (a descendant of David who is anointed), as prescribed in the Covenant and delineated in the Will and Testament.
When the Hands and their followers rejected this descendant of David who is seated on the throne that is to exist forever, they rejected the stone and God.
This king, Mason Remey, who was seated on the throne with the scepter in his right hand, or with the Covenant of Baha'u'llah and the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha in his right hand, was not able to establish this scroll in the world because it was sealed with seven seals and he could not break the seven seals. In fact, "no one in heaven and earth was able to open the scroll or break its seals" except "the Lamb with seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into the earth" (Rev. 5:1- 14).
Riggs in his book couldn't decide who the Lamb was. According to him it was either the Bab or 'Abdu'l-Baha--but neither of them could be the Lamb. Riggs has Baha'u'llah seated on the throne and he says that Baha'u'llah couldn't break the seals. What blaspheme! Then he goes on to say that because Baha'u'llah couldn't break the seals the Bab came along and broke them for Baha'u'llah. But the Bab passed on before Baha'u'llah started his mission.
Then he also has 'Abdu'l-Baha breaking the seals because Baha'u'llah couldn't break the seals. 'Abdu'l-Baha was a Davidic King also seated upon the throne, so he couldn't have also been the Lamb standing before the throne who breaks the seven seals.
The Lamb is before the throne and is among the elders and is not a Davidic King. This lamb is alive and in the world at the present time. He fulfills the prophecies for the return of the Lamb that was slain, and he has seven horns and seven eyes. The seven horns are the seven revelations and the seven eyes are symbolic of the fact that he is able to look into these revelations and has given irrefutable scientific proofs that the revelators of these religions were of God. When these proofs are shown to the world, the whole world will become Baha'i.
Both Daniel and 'Abdu'l-Baha tell us that the establisher of Baha'u'llah's Revelation will come in 1963 A.D. The disciples of Jesus Christ asked Him when He would come again and when the close of the age would be (Matt. 24:3). In the fifteenth verse he told them to turn to Daniel, where Daniel speaks about the "desolated sacrilege, standing in the Holy Place let the reader understand." In the twelfth chapter, Daniel gives three dates: The first is in the seventh verse, where he states that it would be for a time, two times, and a half a time. On pages 51 and 52 of "Some Answered Questions" (SAQ) 'Abdu'l-Baha explains that this was fulfilled by the Bab (meaning the "door" or "gate"), who
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made His proclamation on May 23, 1844. He was the one who closed the door to the prophetic age and opened the door to the age of fulfillment. In verse 11 Daniel gives the date of 1290 days for the coming of the return of Christ. 'Abdu'l-Baha explains on page 52 of SAQ that this pertains to Baha'u'llah's Proclamation on April 21, 1863.
Baha'u'llah fulfilled the prophecies for the second Christ, but as you explain in your book, He did not fulfill those for the return of Jesus, for if He came in the name of Jesus and claimed to be the Christ he would be an impostor. However, all throughout the New Testament Jesus is also prophesied to return. In chapter twelve verse 12, Daniel prophesies the return of Jesus, who is not a Messiah but the High Priest as found in the Book of Hebrews and in Zechariah chapter three: "Blessed is he who waits and comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty five days." In the book "Baha'u'llah and the New Era," Dr. Esslemont explains in the chapter on the "Prophecies of Baha'u'llah," under the subtitle "Coming of the Kingdom of God" that:
"Many have been the attempts of learned students to solve problem of the significance of these words. In a table talk at which the writer was present, 'Abdu'l-Baha reckoned the fulfillment of Daniel's prophecy from the date of the beginning of the Muhammadan era."
The Muhammadan era began with the victory of Muhammad over Mecca, in the year that he wrote his victory Surah in 628 A.D. The addition of 1335 to 628 gives the date of 1963. Esslemont goes on from the passage above to explain the meaning of 'Abdu'l-Baha's tablet concerning the coming of the establisher of the Baha'i faith:
"'Abdu'l-Baha's Tablet makes it clear that this prophecy the one in Daniel about the 1335 days refers to the one-hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of Baha'u'llah in Baghdad, or the year 1963."
This is the prophesied date for Jesus, the "Son," to return to establish his Father's kingdom--Baha'u'llah's kingdom. The "Son" refers to the Revelation of Jesus, which was the gospel of the Kingdom of God, that was thrown out of Christianity by the Covenant-breaking trinitarians, and was later thrown out of the Father's, Baha'u'llah's, Revelation by the Covenant-breaking Baha'is. 'Abdu'l-Baha tells us in this same subtitle of the "Coming of the Kingdom of God" that this Blessed one will establish Baha'u'llah's Kingdom.
Not only are these Covenant-breakers devoid of the guidance of the Guardian because they have separated themselves from him and God: they also do not have the guidance of this "Blessed One" that commenced his ministry exactly on April 21, 1963--which is the date given by Daniel as elucidated by 'Abdu'l-Baha. The reason is that this Promised One could never be found among the Covenant- breakers.
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In your book you gave the address where Baha'u'llah could be found. This Promised One, the establisher, like Baha'u'llah, was not only prophesied by date, but also by the address where he could be found. He had "the stone with seven eyes before him" and he is now residing at "Masau," or Masaula, the address where the Hopis, after they finish their migration pattern on the front side of their Fire Clan Tablet, find their "Guardian of the land," who has the cornerstone of their tablet. This Promised One was promised by name also: "The Land," or "Leland". Le is the French article for the English article "the." Their Guardian is the living Davidic King, entitled the Guardian of the Baha'i faith, as established in the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha. This Guardian is the present king of the Kingdom that this Promised one is establishing.
This Promised One fulfills the prophecies for the coming of Joshua, or Jesus, the High priest who is to establish the Branch, or Aghsan, in the world as prophesied in the third chapter of Zechariah:
1. And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
2. And the Lord said unto Satan, the Lord rebuke thee, O Satan: even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
3. Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
4. And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
5. And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the Lord stood by.
6. And the angel of the Lord protested unto Joshua, saying,
7. Thus saith the Lord of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.
8. Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.
9. For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua: upon one shall be seven eyes: behold I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
10. In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree (KJV).
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I have bonafide documentation that when I stood before the angel I was resisted by Satan (v. 1) on the date of April 21, 1963 as prophesied by Daniel, and verified by 'Abdu'l-Baha.
I have bonafide documentation that the Lord had rebuked Satan, the same Lord that sent down the New Jerusalem (the New Law of God) in Revelation 21:1 and on pages 69-70 in SAQ (v. 2).
I have bonafide documentation that I wore the dirty garments when I stood before the angel (v. 3).
After I stood before the angel I received the white aura (v. 4).
The fair mitre is the mitre of knowledge. In this case it is the turban of the High Priest, like when Moses set the turban on Aaron and placed him in the Holy of Holies of His Revelation. Only the High Priest can stand in the Holy of Holies of this revelation. The raiment here refers to Baha'u'llah's revelation which He symbolizes as His robe in such phrases as "cling to the hem of the robe" (v. 5).
The angel of the Lord talked to me telling me I must establish the BRANCH in this world and if I follow in His ways I will be in charge of setting up the Baha'i courts including the establishing an International Tribunal that will establish peace in the world and is a prelude to the Universal House of Justice; and they who stand in opposition to the plan of God will perish (verses 6 & 7).
Those that sit before me are the chosen angels that learn the "New Song" and go out and gather the 144,000--the misguided friends among the violators, and they will establish the Davidic Kingship, entitled the Guardianship, in the world (v. 8).
I have absolute bonafide documentation that, for neigh unto four years no matter which way I turned, I had "the stone with seven eyes before me" (v. 9).
My name is the-land (Leland). In translations other than the King James Version, such as "A New Translation by James Moffett," and "The New English Bible" it says "In one day I will wipe away the guilt of 'the land.'" The guilt, or iniquity of the land (Leland) and that of Joshua the high priest is the same dirty garment (verses 3 & 9), showing that Leland and Joshua is the same individual.
I, the Seventh Angel, am like Joshua in the time of Moses, just as the 6th angel, Quddus, and the 5th angel, Ali, were like Joshua (Chap. 11, SAQ). As well, the name "Jesus" is the Greek equivalent of the Aramaic word "Joshua." In fact, the Catholic Douay version of the Bible uses the name Jesus instead of the name Joshua in the third chapter of Zechariah.
"In that day...shall ye call every man h is neighbor," means that the oneness of mankind will be established, and the Promised One, the land (Leland) will establish it (v. 10).
The Hopis need to complete their migration pattern and come to Masaula (Missoula) and find the Guardian of the land (Leland) their white brother, the Pahana. They were told not to enter any other religion until they are joined by their white brother, for
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he is the same person that is prophesied to establish Baha'u'llah's Abha Kingdom in the world. He will do this by establishing the head or Guardian of the Kingdom, who is depicted on the front side of the Hopi Fire Clan Tablet.
In your book, "Warriors of the Rainbow" page 55 you advise them to look for a religion that has some of the basic principles of the Baha'i Faith, but those that took your advice ended up following the headless, handless body that the Hopis were told to avoid, which was represented on the back side of their tablet. When they find their Pahana who has the cornerstone to their Fire Clan Tablet they will then find their promised Guardian that is depicted on the front side of the Fire Clan Tablet; they will then bring this message to the world.
The Native American people have been especially chosen to bring this message to the world. 'Abdu'l-Baha tells us that there were seven Universal Divine Manifestations of God. Four of them appeared before the time of Adam and three have appeared in this cycle, the Adamic cycle. These three are Adam, Jesus Christ and Baha'u'llah.
The other Manifestations to appear during the Adamic cycle had messages limited to specific peoples. Each of the Divine Manifestations had an establisher--such as Joshua for Judaism, Paul for Christianity, Ali for Islam, Quddus for the Babi, and today, the Seventh Angel.
The establisher of Adam's religion was Enoch. Enoch brought the Revelation of Adam to the world. He also built the Great Pyramid of Giza and the pyramid in Central America.
Enoch's return is "The coming of the Hopis' lost white brother Pahana, or Bahana, like the return of the Mayas' bearded white god, Kukulcan, the Toltecan and Aztecan Quetzalcoatl" (Book of the Hopi, p. 251). The return of the true Quetzalcoatl to the Aztecs of Mexico was to take place on the date their calendar ended: August 16, 1987. For the Mayans, Kukulcan was to come at the end of the "thirteen heavens and nine hells," which ended on the same date: August 16, 1987.
The Hopis were given the Fire Clan tablet. They were instructed to follow the front side of their tablet so they wouldn't end up on the back side and have their head cut off:
"One of the Tablets Masaw gave to the Fire Clan. As shown on figure two (enclosed), it was very small, about four inches square, made of dark-colored stone, and with a piece broken off from one corner. On one side were marked several symbols, and on the other the figure of a man without a head. Masaw was the deity of the Fire Clan; and gave them this tablet just before he turned his face from them, becoming invisible, so that they would have a record of his words.
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"This is what he said, as marked on the tablet: After the Fire Clan had migrated to their permanent home, the time would come when they would be overcome by a strange people. They would be forced to develop their land and live according to the the dictates of a new ruler, or else they would be treated as criminals and punished. But they were not to resist. They were to wait for the person who would deliver them.
"This person was their lost white brother, Pahana, who would return to them with the missing corner piece of the tablet, deliver them from their persecutors, and work out with them a new universal brotherhood of man. But warned Masaw, if their leader adopted any other religion, he must assent to having his head cut off."
(Book of Hopi, p. 31)
Most of the prophecies depicted on this tablet have already been fulfilled. The government that abused the Hopi is the government of the United States of America. Having their head cut off refers to some of them entering the Baha'i faith before finding the promised Pahana. These Hopis are thus in the Covenant- breaking sect of the Baha'i Faith, the members of which separated themselves from their head, the Guardian and God, just as depicted on the back side of the Hopi tablet.
The Hopis have a prophecy which was related to me by Oh Shinna'h Fastwolf, a woman adopted into the Hopi tribe as the daughter of Grandfather David: "The Hopis have a prophecy," she said, "that when they see the nine-pointed star in the Hopi sky, they they would know that their true White Brother, the Pahana, had returned." She said this occurred in 1963. It is no coincidence that this date, 1963, is the same date given by Daniel and ratified by 'Abdu'l-Baha, as the date for the coming of the one who is to establish the Kingdom of God by the end of this century.
Oh Shinna'h also told me that Grandfather David told the Hopis to go out and look for their Pahana. She said they knew that the nine-pointed star represented the Baha'i faith. Baha'u'llah is the ninth Manifestation in the Adamic Cycle, and nine is the value of Baha in the Persian language. She then said that she had gone to California to look into the Baha'i Faith, in search of the Pahana. She said one of the people she visited in California was you, Vinson Brown. She found no trace of the Pahana in California, so she then decided to go to the place where the Pahana was to be found--in "Massoula," by the pointed rock or pointed mountain, called Squaw Peak (Book of the Hopi, p. 112).
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There are several spellings for the Hopi Guardian spirit, Pahana and the place where he would reside on his return:
MASAU--Book of the Hopi
MAASAUU--The Hopi Story
MASAUWA--Truth of the Hopi
MASSAU'U--Pole Shift
MISSOULA--pronounced Massoula
To find Masau, or Massoula, one takes Interstate 90 or 9 (9 + 0 = 9) the number of Baha, or Bahana. He then directs them to their Guardian, who is depicted on the front side of their tablet. In your book "The Warriors of the Rainbow," you advised the Hopis to look for a religion that had several of the principles of the Baha'i faith. When they took your advice and disobeyed their Creator by not waiting for their Pahana, they then became separated from their head, and God, their Creator.
The promised one of the Hopis is also the Promised One of all the nine Revelations of God. He is prophesied by many names.
In fact, there are more prophecies for my coming than for the coming of any one else in history. For instance, 'Abdu'l-Baha told us that the Knights of Baha'u'llah would establish the Kingdom. Shoghi Effendi knighted about 150 'Knights of Baha'u'llah' in 1952-53, from among five to six million Baha'is. These are the only Baha'is who were ever knighted. The only two Knights left, however, are my wife and I. All the rest have either died or have been eliminated from the Baha'i religious faith by the Guardian for Covenant-breaking. There are no active Knights among the Covenant-breakers. The Knight that is to establish the Kingdom of God is also prophesied in the 6th and 19th chapters of Revelation as the Knight on the white horse.
The whole world needs the guidance of the Lamb and the Guardian, who is "he who sits upon the throne" (Rev. 7:9-,13), for the people are asleep in the darksome night of error. They cling to handmade religions and their own devices.
"For you say, I am rich, I have prospered and I need nothing: not knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. Therefore, I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may be rich, and white garments to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see. Those whom I love, I reprove and chasten: so be zealous and repent. Behold I stand
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at the door and knock; if any one hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. He who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I myself conquered and sat down with my Father on His throne.
(Rev. 3:17-21)
The Son
The Land
Source: Dave Cornell, http://web.archive.org/web/20030525182629/www.lelandjensen.net/html/doc/880000brown.htm