A BETTER VIEW OF THE INTERNATIONAL BAHA'I COUNCIL
THE INTERNATIONAL BAHA'I COUNCIL IS FROM GOD.
All Biblical references
are from The King James Version
unless otherwise stated.
The International Baha'i Council is rooted in Baha'u'llah. It is written in His Book the Aqdas as the House of Justice. 'Abdu'l-Baha delineated it in His Will and Testament (W&T) calling it The Universal House of Justice (UHJ). Shoghi Effendi then set it up in four parts or steps in his Messages to the Baha'i World, those being: the first International Baha'i Council (IBC); the World Court; the International Tribunal (its body being elected); and in its efflorescence, into the UHJ, by it being elected by National (Baha'i) Houses of Justice (NHJ), which are the State Religions of the Baha'i Nations.
Shoghi Effendi, who was infallible, proclaimed that the "Constitution of the International Baha'i Council [IBC] which history will acclaim as the greatestevent shedding luster upon the second epoch of Formative Age of Baha'i dispensation potentially unsurpassed by any enterprise undertaken since the inception of Administrative Order of the Faith on morrow of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Ascension, ranking second only to glorious immortal events associated with the Ministries of Three Central Figures [the Bab, Baha'u'llah, 'Abdu'l-Baha] of Faith in the course of First Age of most glorious Dispensation of five thousand century Baha'i cycle" (Cablegram, January 9, 1951).[4] In other words this is the most important thing Shoghi Effendi had set up and will remain so for a half a million years. This IBC was the successor to Shoghi Effendi. Only an infallible body could possibly succeed the infallible Shoghi Effendi.
'Abdu'l-Baha explained that the reason Shoghi Effendi was infallible by being of the lineage of the "Twin Holy Trees"[5] was because this lineage was from both the Bab, who was a descendant of Muhammad, and Baha'u'llah, who was a descendant of King David. This connects Baha'u'llah's genealogy to the Covenant of God (Psalms 89). The descendence of King David was a father-to-son male line descendence, and it would continue forever. This is symbolized by wood of the vegetable kingdom. As a symbol God had Moses place in the Holy of Holies thewooden staff that budded. This staff is traced all the way back to the prophet Adam. The descendence of
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4 Messages to the Baha'i World p. 8.
5 Page 3, Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha.
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Muhammad (Imams), on the other hand, was through his daughter Fatima (female, or spiritual) whom Ali married. Thus the Imams were spiritual descendants symbolized by the rod of iron. 'Abdu'l-Baha went on to explain that when the wood and the iron come together they become theRod of Gold which is infallible. Had Shoghi Effendi sired a biological son this son also would have been infallible as was Shoghi Effendi, because of his lineage.
In order for the IBC to succeed Shoghi Effendi, it too must be infallible. That is, it is composed of both a rod of wood and rod of iron. When Shoghi Effendi set up the IBC, he composed it with a body of iron, his spiritual appointees, and of a head of wood, a descendant of King David, making the IBC a Rod of Gold, and infallible:
The meaning is that certain personages guided the people with a staff grown out of the earth, and shepherded them with a rod, like unto the rod of Moses. Others trained and shepherded the people with a rod of iron, as in the dispensation of Muhammad. And in this present cycle, because it is the mightiest of dispensations, that rod grown out of the vegetable kingdom and that rod of iron will be transformed into a rod of purest gold, taken from out the endless treasure houses in the Kingdom of the Lord. By this rod will the people be trained ('Abdu'l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Baha, p. 166).
By the body of the IBC being appointed by Shoghi Effendi it was a body of iron, and he appointed as president Mason Remey, who was 'Abdu'l-Baha's adopted son, therefore a hereditary descendant of Baha'u'llah who was a male descendant of King David and a head of wood. By combining the body of iron and the head of wood Shoghi Effendi's IBC was aGolden Rod. Shoghi Effendi could only be succeeded by a Rod of Gold.
The whole Baha'i faith ever since the passing of Shoghi Effendi has been in great confusion. The so-called "mainstream Baha'is" trashed the administration of the faith with their Covenant-breaking takeover of the administration by the Covenant-breaking "Hands" and their doctrine that because Shoghi Effendi didn't have a son the guardianship had come to an end. The followers of Mason Remey are also confused--he proclaimed himself to be the infallible guardian successor to Shoghi Effendi by being the president of the Universal House of Justice, through being appointed by Shoghi Effendi to be the president of the first International Baha'i Council that would go through four stages and then become the Universal House of Justice. The problem here is that the Baha'is have never really understood the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha. Shoghi Effendi said his generation stood too close to it to comprehend its meanings. The reasons for the coming of another authoritative person, such as "blessed is he who comes in 1963,"
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and the advent of the Knight of Baha'u'llah who fulfills the prophecy of the Knight on the white horse in Revelation chapter nineteen, and the return of the Lamb who opens the Book and breaks its seals of the Will and Testament is to explain its true meaning, to show that the W&T is inviolable and to show how its provisions were fulfilled so as to resolve the confusion and to get the faith back on the right track again. The reason the warring factions of the faith continue in their error is that they have failed to look for and find this promised one who is to explain the true meanings.
The two main functions of this document are to show that God always fulfills his Divine Promise, i.e. His Covenant, although the entire world had violated it, and that Shoghi Effendi did have a son (lineal descendant) that succeeded him, although it was not in the way the people had expected, by this God has tested His servants.
The most crucial point of this whole debacle is the understanding of what 'Abdu'l-Baha wrote on page eleven of the Will and Testament: "He [Shoghi Effendi] is the expounder of the words of God and after him will succeed the first-born of his lineal descendants." This is the only place in 'Abdu'l-Baha's W&T that could be construed that the guardians are the interpreters of the words of God. Certainly this applied to Shoghi Effendi and his "lineal descendants."
"Lineal descendant" doesn't solely mean a biological son. It means something descending in a direct line. Mason Remey was neither a biological or an adopted son of Shoghi Effendi, therefore he was not a lineal descendant of Shoghi Effendi and did not inherit Shoghi Effendi's infallibility or to be the interpreter of the words of God. So his claim to be the infallible guardian is in great error. As pointed out above only a rod of gold could be the successor of Shoghi Effendi as he was a rod of gold, therefore the only "lineal descendent" of Shoghi Effendi is the rod of goldwhich he set up as the first International Baha'i Council, the constitution of which will be the greatest event of a half million years.
Only this lineal descendent of Shoghi Effendi inherits his infallibility. Only this offspring is the infallible interpreter of the words of God, as 'Abdu'l-Baha mentioned the power of interpretation in his Will only once, using the words "expounder of the words of God," he conferred this upon Shoghi Effendi and after him his lineal descendant.
Baha'u'llah in His Covenant appointed two persons to be his successor and then after them comes the Universal House of Justice. The first person was His eldest son the Most Great Branch, 'Abdu'l-Baha. To succeed him was his half brother the Great Branch, Muhammad 'Ali. Although Muhammad 'Ali broke the Covenant God didn't
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break his Covenant. It remained inviolable and as it was God's Covenant it had to be fulfilled.
The Covenant-breakers don't understand this. They think that since one person didn't hold up his end of the deal God was freed from holding up His end as promised. They even use this as a precedent for further instances of God not following through on His promises, as in their doctrine on Shoghi Effendi's successor "not materializing." All of this is completely miss-guided, ignorant and false.
The promises of God, His Covenant, are always fulfilled by Him. God is not subject to time or the petty conditions of this world! Once He has given His word, that word will be accomplished.
In the Kitab-i-Iqan, Baha'u'llah explains that sometimes the promises of God are not fulfilled in the way that the people expect and this causes them to doubt.
These things We mention only that the people may not be dismayed because of certain traditions and utterances, which have not yet been literally fulfilled, that they may rather attribute their perplexity to their own lack of understanding, and not to the non-fulfillment of the promises... The people, therefore, must not allow such utterances to deprive them of the divine bounties, but should rather seek enlightenment from them who are the recognized Expounders thereof, so that the hidden mysteries may be unraveled, and be made manifest unto them (Kitab-i-Iqan, page 256).
He also explained that the Holy Scripture has an inward and outward meaning.
It is evident unto thee that the Birds of Heaven and the Doves of Eternity speak a twofold language. One language, the outward language, is devoid of allusions, is unconcealed and unveiled...The other language is veiled and concealed, so that whatever lieth hidden in the heart of the malevolent may be made manifest and their innermost being be disclosed. Thus hath Sadiq, son of Muhammad, spoken: "God verily will test them and sift them." This is the divine standard, this is the Touchstone of God, wherewith He proveth His servants. None apprehendeth the meaning of these utterances except them whose hearts are assured, whose souls have found favor with God, and whose minds are detached from all else but Him. In such utterances, the literal meaning, as generally understood by the people, is not what hath been intended (Kitab-i-Iqan, pages 254-255).
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The inner meaning of some statements are concealed from the minds of the Covenant-breakers, who only perceive the literal interpretation. In the case of Muhammad 'Ali the Covenant was not literally fulfilled.
Baha'u'llah further describes how the people are tested when they cannot perceive the fulfillment of the Covenant or promise when it was not fulfilled according to their expectation .
And now, consider and reflect a moment upon the waywardness of this people. What could have been the reason for such denial and avoidance on their part? What could have induced them to refuse to put off the garment of denial, and to adorn themselves with the robe of acceptance? Moreover, what could have caused the nonfulfillment of the divine promise which led the seekers to reject that which they had accepted? Meditate profoundly, that the secret of things unseen may be revealed unto you [the inward meaning], that you may inhale the sweetness of a spiritual and imperishable fragrance, and that you may acknowledge the truth that from time immemorial even unto eternity the Almighty hath tried, and will continue to try, His servants, so that light may be distinguished from darkness, truth from falsehood, right from wrong, guidance from error, happiness from misery, and roses from thorns. Even as he hath revealed: "Do men think that when they say 'We believe' they shall be let alone and not be put to proof?" (Kitab-i-Iqan, pages 8-9)
And Baha'u'llah explained that this has always happened because of those persons who set themselves up as the leaders or clergy class, such as the Hands in the Baha'i Faith did.
Such objections and differences have persisted in every age and century. The people have always busied themselves with such specious discourses, vainly protesting: "Wherefore hath not this or that sign appeared?" Such ills befell them only because they have clung to the ways of the divines of the age in which they lived, and blindly imitated them in accepting or denying these Essences of Detachment, these holy and divine Beings. These leaders, owing to their immersion in selfish desires, and their pursuit of transitory and sordid things, have regarded these divine Luminaries as being opposed to the standards of their knowledge and understanding, and the opponents of their ways and judgments. As they have literally interpreted the Word of God, and the sayings and traditions of the Letters of Unity, and expounded them according to their own deficient understanding, they have therefore deprived themselves and all their people of the bountiful showers
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of the grace and mercies of God. And yet they bear witness to this well-known tradition: "Verily Our Word is abstruse, bewilderingly abstruse." In another instance, it is said: "Our Cause is sorely trying, highly perplexing; none can bear it except a favorite of heaven, or an inspired Prophet, or he whose faith God hath tested." These leaders of religion admit that none of these three specified conditions is applicable to them. The first two conditions are manifestly beyond their reach; as to the third, it is evident that at no time have they been proof against those tests that have been sent by God, and that when the divine touchstone appeared, they have shown themselves to be naught but dross (Kitab-i-Iquan, pages 81-83).
But, Baha'u'llah states that to the faithful the meaning will be revealed.
...they themselves have failed to inhale the fragrance of the meaning...and are still oblivious of the fact that all the signs foretold have come to pass, that the way of God's holy Cause hath been revealed, and the concourse of the faithful, swift as lightning, are, even now, passing upon that way... (Kitab-i-Iqan, page 83).
So, guided by these statements of Baha'u'llah, we have, revealed to us, the fulfillment of God's Covenant for two male successors to follow Baha'u'llah: 'Abdu'l-Baha and Muhammad Ali.
'Abdu'l-Baha, in his W&T, states: "In short...Mirza Muhammad 'Ali, in accordance with the decisive words of God...hath grievously fallen and been cut off from the Holy Tree." And in his last tablet to America, 'Abdu'l-Baha told the believers: "Consider! The Divine Gardener cuts off the dry or weak branch from the good tree and grafts to it, a branch from another tree. He both separates and unites. This is that which His Holiness Christ says: that from all the world they come and enter the Kingdom, and the children of the Kingdom shall be cast out." [6]
Thus the Covenant was fulfilled with the grafting in of the "Chosen Branch," Shoghi Effendi, chosen by 'Abdu'l-Baha to replace Mirza Muhammad 'Ali in that same Will and Testament in which it was announced Muhammad 'Ali had been cut off the tree. Baha'u'llah knew and predicted that Muhammad 'Ali would break the Covenant and be cut off the tree:
The Blessed Perfection [Baha'u'llah] wrote a Testament or Covenant with His Own Pen so that no one who obeys it will deny or disobey God. This point is expressed very
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6 Baha'i World Faith, page 438
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clearly in the Covenant He revealed. Therefore, there can be no possibility, no position of disobedience. He knew that Muhammad 'Ali would disobey the Covenant. By violating the Covenant he has become a fallen branch. The Covenant was also written by Muhammad 'Ali's own hand from dictation of the Blessed Perfection who knew he would disobey (Ten Days in the Light of 'Akka p. 50).
Why would Baha'u'llah appoint Muhammad 'Ali to succeed 'Abdu'l-Baha as he knew that he would break the Covenant and be removed from the Holy tree? The answer can only be that Baha'u'llah anticipated Shoghi Effendi to succeed 'Abdu'l-Baha although Shoghi Effendi was not born yet. By appointing Muhammad 'Ali to succeed 'Abdu'l-Baha he created a slot for Shoghi Effendi to fulfill on the passing of 'Abdu'l-Baha.
The Covenant-breakers do not comprehend God's way of fulfilling His Covenant. They say that God broke His Covenant or God changed His mind. What liars! Today they are saying that the Covenant for Shoghi Effendi to be succeeded by a lineal descendant was not fulfilled just like the Covenant for 'Abdu'l-Baha to be succeeded by Muhammad 'Ali was not fulfilled.
Shoghi Effendi knew he had been grafted in and that this was according to the wishes of Baha'u'llah. Baha'u'llah knew that Muhammad 'Ali would violate and would have to be replaced and Baha'u'llah intended that this would be fulfilled with an Afnan descendent. Baha'u'llah said: "O Afnan, O thou that hast branched from Mine ancient Stock!"(7) An Afnan can only be branched from Baha'u'llah if he has been grafted onto Baha'u'llah's tree. This person had not yet been born into the world at Baha'u'llah's death in 1892 and this is the only reason Baha'u'llah appointed Muhammad 'Ali: to provide a station in His Covenant for Shoghi Effendi.
In the same way Shoghi Effendi provided for the station of the IBC by setting up the first one in four stages. The fact that Muhammad Ali was corrupt does not mean that Baha'u'llah was not perfect. He was perfect and in that manner provided for the station of Shoghi Effendi in His Covenant. The fact that the first IBC was corrupt doesn't mean that Shoghi Effendi was imperfect for it was intended to be that way to provide for the four stage plan for the return of Jesus to establish the second IBC which is true with his twelve apostles as the body of iron.
Shoghi Effendi understood that grafting in was permissible in the Baha'i Covenant, as it says in the W&T that the guardian should "choose another branch" if the first-born lacks the "spiritual within" (just as Muhammad 'Ali did not inherit of the spiritual within of Baha'u'llah). He also understood that the two male
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7 Tablets of Baha'u'llah, page 84
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successors to Baha'u'llah, 'Abdu'l-Baha and himself were to be succeeded by the Universal House of Justice. So he provided this Universal House of Justice, embryologically, as his lineal successor appointed by him during his lifetime. He knew an actual biological son would never materialize, so in the place of that Shoghi Effendi grafted in another golden branch, the plan of his International Baha'i Council, having both iron, the appointed body, andwood, the Davidic descendant, Mason Remey. Mason was grafted onto the lineage of wood through his adoption by 'Abdu'l-Baha, and consequently he was a collateral and not a lineal descendant of Shoghi Effendi and not, of himself, Shoghi Effendi's sole successor.
The first International Baha'i Council was defective in embryo--in that all of its members, including the guardian Mason Remey, broke the Covenant--and so it was prevented from being born, therefore, according to the Will and Testament, since it did not manifest in itself the truth of the words:
"The child is the secret essence of its sire," that is, should he not inherit of the spiritual within him (the guardian of the Cause of God [Shoghi Effendi]) and his glorious lineage not be matched with a goodly character,...
The following needed to be put into effect:
...then must he, (the guardian of the Cause of God) choose another branch to succeed him (W&T page 12).
As the above applies to a succeeding guardian, it also applies to the succeeding lineal descendent of Shoghi Effendi, the first International Baha'i Council. Because the violation took place while the IBC was in embryo but after the guardian, Shoghi Effendi, had passed on and was no longer able to appoint a successor International Baha'i Council, and as the embryonic guardian, Mason Remey, was part of the violation (in claiming to be the infallible guardian, the complete successor to Shoghi Effendi's position as head and heart of the Faith), God provided in this particular case for another authoritative person--"blessed is he"--who began his ministry in 1963. His mission is to graft in, in embryo, the second International Baha'i Council, to replace the first, but to remain in embryo so as to be born into this world on January 9, 1991, just exactly forty years after Shoghi Effendi formed the first International Baha'i Council on January 9, 1951.
But--just as the true successor of Baha'u'llah after 'Abdu'l-Baha (Shoghi Effendi) had not yet been born into the world by the hour of Baha'u'llah's ascension--the true successor of Shoghi Effendi (the first International Baha'i Council) had not actually been born into the world at his ascension in 1957. Only the station of Shoghi Effendi's successor had been provided for, in proto-type. This is because the body and the head broke the Covenant. The body
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of iron, the spiritual successor provided for by the Covenant of Jesus--the Covenant He had put in the temple in heaven--could then only be appointed by Jesus on his return from heaven. (Jesus cut the Jews off the tree of life and grafted in the gentiles. The return of Jesus does similar grafting into the tree of life.) This iron body, the second International Baha'i Council, is composed of Jesus' 12 Apostles.
Only male line descendants of King David and of Baha'u'llah can sit on the throne of David and be the heads of the IBC/UHJ. The succeeding heads of the UHJ are called guardians of the Baha'i faith by 'Abdu'l-Baha in his W&T. This distinguishes Baha'u'llah's guardians of the Baha'i faith by 'Abdu'l-Baha in his W&T. This distinguishes Baha'u'llah's "World Order from any other world order such as the new world order of Bush, the headless monster created by the Covenant-breaking "Hands" erected on MT Carmel, or those of Jacques Soghomoniam, and Joel Marengela.
Shoghi Effendi was not a male line descendant of Baha'u'llah or King David therefore he did not or could not sit as the president, or head, of the UHJ. However Shoghi Effendi was unique (different) in that he was a descendant "from the Twin Holy Trees."[8] That is, he was a male descendant of Muhammad through his father Mirza Hadi Afnan,[9] a collateral relative of the Bab and a spiritual descendant of Baha'u'llah through his mother who was 'Abdu'l-Baha's daughter. Because of this 'Abdu'l-Baha conferred infallibility on him. This infallible lineage did not pass on to the succeeding guardian, Mason Remey, because he was not a lineal descendant of Shoghi Effendi and was only a branch of wood. The only eligible person that Shoghi could have appointed to be the president or head of the International Baha'i Council was his mother's brother, Mason RemeyAghsan,[10] who was Shoghi's uncle. Not being Shoghi's son he did not inherit the infallible dual lineage of Shoghi Effendi, but he did inherit the lineage and throne of David that Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha sat upon. That's why Shoghi appointed him to be the president (head) of the UHJ. With the body and the head joined together it became infallible. Thus the IBC is the infallible body that succeeded the infallible guardian Shoghi Effendi, as this was the union of the branch of wood and the appointedbody of iron, thus making it a Golden Branch. The criteria for a succeeding guardian given in the W&T is that he must be a son and be appointed by a previous guardian. If the guardian doesn't have a son he must choose another branch. This was fulfilled by Shoghi Effendi in setting up the first IBC.
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8 W&T p 3.
9 A descendant of Muhammad.
10 A descendant of King David. "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Once have I sworn by my holiness thatI will not lie unto David. His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven" (Psalm 89:34-37).
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The Scepter of the Davidic king's was only of the Tribe of Judah, but in Genesis 49:10 KJV: "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet [male sex organ], until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be." 'Abdu'l-Baha adopted Mason Remey, a gentile, making him his son according to Palestinian law, thus making him a descendent of King David and of Baha'u'llah. Shiloh is Dr. Leland Jensen who regathers the people after the Administration was trashed by the Covenant-breakers. He has the authority to do this because he fulfills prophecies of both the Holy Scriptures and of 'Abdu'l-Baha, making him an authoritative person.
The Covenant-breaking "Hands" led by the arch Covenant-breaker Ruhiyyih Khanum trashed the Cause of God by putting themselves in control of the administration in the place of the God Given IBC. They in turn created that ugly monster, a body without a head,[11] as found on thebackside of the Hopi fire clan tablet, showing that this was prophesied to come to pass thousands of years ago. Without the head it does not have infallibility. Mason on the other hand set up something just about as ugly, a head with hands but no body. This also lacked infallibility. He did this after he tried to reinstate the International Baha'i Council by setting up what he called an IBC, but this failed for two main reasons. First, Mason, "the head," cannot create the body. Second, Mason was not an authoritative person as he did not inherit Shoghi's infallibility as he was not the son of Shoghi. The Baha'i administration is patterned after the form of the human body. A human body without a head cannot live, and visa versa a head without a body is also dead. In the matrix, the substance from which the human body comes (interuteral or inside the womb), the head does not create the body nor does the body create the head. Both exist together in the primal cell. Shoghi Effendi who was an authoritative figure had the authority to set up the UHJ in four steps, the first being the IBC. The constitution of this Council being the greatest event in the formative age, must be reestablished and go through the four stages that Shoghi set up. This can only be reestablished by another authoritative figure.
Shoghi Effendi anticipated the coming of another authoritative figure when he called his IBC the "first" International Baha'i Council (implying a second one), and when he changed Baha'u'llah and the New Era (BNE), by correcting the date for the Advent of "Blessed is He" from 1957 to 1963. The author, Esselmont, when he heard 'Abdu'l-Baha say to figure the "fulfillment of Daniel's prophecy from the date of the beginning of the Muhammadan era," thought that the Muhammadan era began with the Muslim calendar in 622 A.D. instead of the victory of Muhammad in 628 A.D. So he added the 1335 years to 622 and wrote in BNE that it would be fulfilled
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11 This was a heinous crime. Had it occurred in a national government she would have been taken out and hanged.
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in 1957. Shoghi Effendi corrected this date to the correct date of 1963, or 100 years from Baha'u'llah's Proclamation in 1863.
Both 'Abdu'l-Baha and Shoghi Effendi told us another authoritative person was to come. This is in reference to the many prophecies in scriptures. In perusing one of these prophecies in Baha'u'llah and The New Era 'Abdu'l-Baha explains in Daniel 12:12 of "Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days" is 1335 solar years from the victory of Muhammad in 628 A.D., or 1963 A.D., and that this "Blessed" person therefore was to come and establish the Kingdom in this century.
Jesus was questioned by his disciples as to when he was going to come again and he referred them to the prophet Daniel for the dates.[12] In the twelfth chapter Daniel gave three dates. In verse seven he gives 3 1/2 times which 'Abdu'l-Baha interprets as being fulfilled in 1260 A.H., or 1844 A.D. with the Advent of the Bab. In verse eleven he gives the date of 1290, which 'Abdu'l-Baha interprets as the number of years between the proclamation of Muhammad and the proclamation of Baha'u'llah (the second Christ [13]) in 1863 A.D. The third date, which 'Abdu'l-Baha said would be fulfilled in 1963, is for the return of Jesus the Lamb. Among the Covenant-breaking Baha'is, called the mainstream Baha'is, there is no one that makes the claim to be that person, nor did this person appear among them. Among the followers of Mason the only one that claims to fulfill the prophecies and give proofs is Dr. Leland Jensen. He is also the only remaining Knight of Baha'u'llah. All the rest have either died or been expelled from the Baha'i religious faith for Covenant-breaking. Therefore Dr. Leland Jensen is the only person who fulfills the prophecy in the Book of Revelation of the Knight on the white horse.
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called faithful and true, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns, and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood; and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vestures and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. And I
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12 Matthew 24:3, 15.
13 A male descendant of King David that is anointed.
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saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God...[14]
All the things prophesied in the Book of Revelation are to take place after the year 96 A.D.[15] As there is no evidence that this has been fulfilled previously it is reasonable to believe that the only remaining knight of Baha'u'llah is that knight. The white horse pertains to the pure unadulterated uncorrupted Revelation of Baha'u'llah that the knight is establishing. This knight is called faithful and true as he has continually refused to be a part of the worldwide apostasy of the Baha'i faith that was corrupted by various Covenant-breaking groups, especially the one labeled "the mainstream Baha'is," corrupted by the conspiracy of Arch Covenant-breaker Ruhiyyih Khanum and her cohort Husan Balyuzi. This knight also remained free from supporting any of the pseudoguardians, who were not lineal descendants of Baha'u'llah.
"With righteousness he judges and makes war" on the corrupter of this world. "His eyes are like a flame of fire" against violators, the malevolent, maleficent and malefactors. "The many crowns," or diadems on his head are the many titles that Jesus on his return is called such as the seventh angel, the Lamb with seven horns and seven eyes, blessed is he, Joshua the high priest, Jesus the high priest after the order of Melchizedek, The Word of God, etc., etc. "He had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself." The name that is written, "the land" in Zechariah 3:9, is the name for Jesus on his return which is the name of the only remaining knight of Baha'u'llah, "Le land." "Le" is the French article for English word "the." Dr. Leland Jensen was the only person in this world that knew this. Leland made this discovery when he was "wearing the dirty garment" in Zechariah 3:3,4 and had the "stone with seven eyes" (a stone wall with seven watch towers) before him, as prophesied in Zechariah 3:9. The iniquity of Jesus (Joshua)[16] in verse 4 and the iniquity of the land (Leland) in verse 9 is the same iniquity.[17] This was the great injustice perpetrated against Jesus; returned in the name of Leland, and symbolized by a dirty garment. It states that the garment was dirty, not Jesus the land. In the day of judgment that is now coming upon the whole world, the Lord of Hosts will remove the "iniquity of the land" in one day (verse 9). Leland kept his courts in Zechariah 3:7 when he set up the second IBC on the date specified as already explained.
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14 Rev.19:11-16
15 Rev. 1:1, 4:1.
16 "Jesus" is the English word for the Hebrew word "Joshua."
17 A "gross injustice" (Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary).
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"He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood." Baha'u'llah referred to his Revelation as a robe, and it was dipped in blood of the 20,000 martyrs that heralded his Revelation. 'Abdu'l-Baha stated that Jesus is referred to as the "Word of God" and Baha'u'llah as the "Greatest Name of God." "Those that follow this knight on a white horse" are also considered knights on white horses, and are "clothed in fine linen [their auras], white and clean." The sharp sword that goes out of his mouth are his explanations and commentaries by which he smites the nations. "He rules them with a rod of iron" which are the members that he appointed to the second IBC. Leland didn't appoint the head as this is the succeeding guardian. Shoghi Effendi appointed Mason Remey to be the president (head) of the first International Baha'i Council; therefore his son that Mason Remey appointed to succeed him is automatically the Head (of wood), an aghsanguardian, and president of the second International Baha'i Council. Thus the second International Baha'i Council is a Rod of Gold, giving it infallibility .
"And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS!" [18] King of kings and Lord of lords could only refer to Baha'u'llah. Every knight that goes into battle has on his being, banner or chaps (thigh) the name of the king or lord he is championing (defending or promoting). Thus this is the only remaining knight of Baha'u'llah, Dr. Leland Jensen, who is the only living authoritative figure, and the only person in this world that has the authority to establish the second International Baha'i Council.
On January 9, 1991 just exactly 40 years from the date Shoghi Effendi set up the first IBC on January 9, 1951, Dr. Jensen set up the second IBC. It shall bear the iniquity of Judah for 40 years.[19]
In chapter 13 of SAQ 'Abdu'l-Baha explains the 12th chapter of Revelation, but he only explained the first six verses, the Advent of the Bab after 1260 years comes out of the law of Islam. He left the rest of chapter twelve to be explained by the coming of another authoritative person.
In verse seven it no longer talks about Islam or the Advent of the Bab, but now talks of the Advent of Baha'u'llah in 1863: "Now war arose in heaven,Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon and his angels fought." The meaning of the name "Michael" is "one like God." This refers to the Manifestation of Baha'u'llah. Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha fought against the dragon, the apostate Sunni sect of the Turkish Empire. In the first World War the Turkish (Ottoman) Empire fought on the side of Germany. As a
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18 Rev. 19:16
19 Ezekiel 4:6.
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result in 1921 the League of Nations brought the Ottoman Empire to an end. However it continued not as an empire, but as the Al Baath Party which is the ruling party of Iraq that is trying to reestablish the empire. "And when the dragon saw that he was cast out (in 1921), he persecuted the woman which brought forth a man child (verse 13)." 'Abdu'l-Baha explains that the woman is sometimes referred to as the "New Jerusalem, or the law of God."[20] The man child at this time (1921) was the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha.[21]
1991 A.D. at the exact same time that Dr. Leland had set up the second IBC is just exactly three and one half times, or three score and ten years from the time that the dragon was cast down to earth: "And to the woman were given two wings of an Eagle [the US.] that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent (dragon)[22]." In Zechariah chapter one the three and a half is stated as three score and ten[23] or 70 years to the time of the establishment of the House of the Lord which is the second IBC/UHJ (Universal House of Justice).
Then the angel of the Lord answered and said, O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years? [70 years][24]
Taken from 1921 at the death of the dragon and the unveiling of the W&T we have these 70 years (threescore and ten) until l991 at the establishment of the second IBC/UHJ and the building of that house.
And the Lord answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words. So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealously. And I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction. Therefore thus saith the Lord; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: MY HOUSE SHALL BE BUILT IN IT,
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20 Some Answered Questions, p. 77.
21 WOB, p. 144.
22 Revelation 12:14.
23 Zechariah 1:12 KJV.
24 Zechariah 1:12.
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saith the Lord of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.[25]
The line that shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem is the golden rod used to measure that same city in Chapter 21 of Revelation, explained by 'Abdu'l-Baha in Selections of the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha. In the 11th Chapter of Revelation it describes a reed like a rod that measures the temple and the altar, 'Abdu'l-Baha explains this in Chapter 11 of Some Answered Questions:
This reed is a perfect man who is likened to a reed, and the manner of its likeness is this:--when the interior of a reed is empty and free from all matter, it will produce beautiful melodies; and as the sound and melodies do not come from the reed, but from the flute-player who blows upon it...Whatever he utters is not from himself, but from the real flute-player, and it is a divine inspiration.
The golden reed or rod of Chapter 21 is Shoghi Effendi, and the flute-player is Baha'u'llah. Thus Shoghi Effendi, inspired by God indirectly through Baha'u'llah, outlined a 4-Stage process for the creation and evolvement of God's Universal House of Justice, the heavenly Jerusalem. We recognize the true Jerusalem, enshrining the true temple and altar, through the measure of this 4-stage process.
It is only the second IBC/UHJ that measures up to the four stage plan of Shoghi Effendi the rod (branch) of gold, because the second IBC/UHJ itself is also that rod (branch) of gold.
Here is a further explanation of how and why the IBC of Dr. Jensen's 12 Apostles is that divine Jerusalem and none other:
In 'Abdu'l-Baha's explanation of Chapter 11 of Revelations, he conveys that the "outer court" signifies Jerusalem or the material part of the law. He says (in commentary on chapter 12) that this is the same Holy City as the Jerusalem or bride of Revelation 21.
The bride is the Revelation of Baha'u'llah which has two parts, material and spiritual (ethereal). She is embodied, as Shoghi Effendi said must come about,[26] as the IBC constituted by ethereal and material aspects of the Covenant.
Therefore in one sense this bride is the iron rod or Covenant of Jesus the Gentiles that they would inherit the kingdom. This is fulfilled in the return of Jesus, the Lamb, who is a gentile and is the Knight on the white horse who rules them with a rod of iron.
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25 Zechariah 1:13-16.
26 World Order of Baha'u'llah, page 19
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Jesus told them to pray for this: "Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed (glory) be Thy name, Thy kingdom come. Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in heaven...."(RSV)
When the believers pray and worship they are to turn and face the Qiblah so that their prayers might be accepted at the Holy Threshold.
When the Manifestation is physically present on earth He is the temple or Qiblah. Because He doesn't live forever on this physical plane He transfers His testimony of guidance to writings and successors that explain and guard His Revelation.[27] This then becomes the Qiblah after His passing. Today Baha'u'llah's resting place at Bahji is a physical symbol of the Qiblah, and the actual succeeding Temple or Qiblah in spiritual reality is His successor the IBC/UHJ.
The Holy of Holies and Ark of the Covenant are the heart of the Qiblah, and surrounding that is the temple and the environs of the Holy City. The whole area is regarded as the Qiblah. The only way to truly turn to the heart of the Qiblah (the Revelation) is to know where to find it. It is found in one place only--in the Temple, and these laws they find the temple and this Temple is found in one place only: in the Holy City.
The Qiblah is the Holy City, or the laws that the people are to obey. If they turn toward these laws they find the temple and inside that temple is the Holy of Holies or the real essence of religion which cannot be attained to without obedience to the material laws, or Teaching the Cause, Living the Life and Firmness in the Covenant (the spiritual essence of these 3 things is the 3 things in the ark).
The reason the Imams related themselves as being the Qiblah[28] was that they delineated and explained the law of Islam at a time when Mecca was in the hands of the apostate branch of Islam (Sunni).
The hereditary principle provides for successors who on the one hand protect and guard the true meaning of the Law, and on the other hand explain that true meaning. Both were true of the aghsan successors of Baha'u'llah: 'Abdu'l-Baha and Muhammad Ali. Because of Muhammad Ali's violation Shoghi Effendi was grafted in. This produced a dichotomy. No longer was the infallibility to rest in an aghsan descendent of Baha'u'llah, but a descendent of the Twin Holy trees of (the Bab and Baha'u'llah), as before explained a branch of wood and branch of iron united to form the double lineage of Shoghi
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27 Kitab-i-Iqan, p. 202.
28 Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 113.
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Effendi (a Branch of Gold). From here on the infallibility is passed on down no longer in just the single aghsan branch, but to the two-fold Shoghi Effendi's lineal descendants: "He [Shoghi Effendi] is the expounder of the words of God and after him will succeed the first-born of his lineal descendants" (W&T page 11). This dichotomy, with the passing of Shoghi Effendi who didn't have either a genetic or an adopted son, led to the biggest debacle and greatest confusion in the entire history of the Baha'i faith.
What Shoghi Effendi wrote in his book The World Order of Baha'u'llah on pages 148-152 talks about the twin pillars of the faith, the institution of the guardianship and the Universal House of Justice and that the guardian is the interpreter of the words of God. This has greatly added to the confusion. Certainly the guardian, Shoghi Effendi, was the interpreter of the words of God. To quote briefly:
"He is the Interpreter of the Word of God," 'Abdu'l-Baha, referring to the functions of the Guardian of the Faith, asserts, using in His Will the very term which He Himself had chosen when refuting the arguments of the Covenant-breakers who had challenged His right to interpret the utterances of Baha'u'llah.
Here Shoghi Effendi has made it indubitably clear that the guardian, Shoghi Effendi, is the infallible interpreter of the word of God. Then, going further he states:
"After him," He adds, "will succeed the first-born of his lineal descendants" (WOB, pages 148-149).
It is very clear and evident that Shoghi Effendi did not have either a genealogical or adopted son to be the infallible Guardian successor and interpreter of the word of God. Then does Mason inherit, as Shoghi Effendi explained in World Order of Baha'u'llah, pages 147-151, the position of true infallible Guardianship and interpreter of the Word as some of the believers hold to?
This is abstruse, very abstruse, bewilderingly abstruse--very difficult for the senses to understand. It is abstruse because it is a dichotomy. Because of this dichotomy the followers are divided on this issue causing some to become dissidents including the guardian. It is clear and evident that Mason was not a biological or an adopted son of Shoghi Effendi, thus Mason Remey did not inherit either the infallible guardianship or the interpretation of the Word of God so it must be clear and evident that neither he nor Pepe are infallible guardians and thus are not the interpreters of the word of God. Yet the Covenant must be fulfilled, for God never breaks His Covenant. Therefore there must be an infallible successor to Shoghi Effendi and this successor can only be his lineal descendent. "Lineal descendent" doesn't mean solely biological son. It means something descending in a direct line.
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His son, his lineal descendent, the International Baha'i Council, that Shoghi Effendi set up to succeed him, alone inherited the infallibility of Shoghi Effendi, and alone is the interpreter of the word of God.
As the first son, the first International Baha'i Council, the UHJ in embryo, violated and was thrown on the dust, the second son, the second International Baha'i Council which is a Branch of Gold that was born into this world on January 9, 1991 alone inherited this infallibility and the interpretation of the word. The aghsan guardians sit on the throne of David and thus gives the International Baha'i Council its source and point of unity in this world, as it designates the true Universal House of Justice, from any manmade House of Justice, such as that headless monster created by the Covenant-breaking Baha'is. This true explanation is backed up by the Center of the Covenant, 'Abdu'l-Baha. In his Will and Testament he states:
And now, concerning the House of Justice [Baha'u'llah's] which God hath ordained as the source of all good and freed from all error,....By this body all things must be referred. It enacteth all ordinances and regulations that are not to be found in the explicit Holy Text. By this body all the difficult problems are to be resolved and the guardian of the Cause of God is its sacred head and the distinguished member for life of that body (W&T page 14).
As the guardian is a member of that House of Justice he is not in himselffreed from all error nor is he the interpreter of the word, as was Shoghi Effendi, as he was not Shoghi Effendi's son. The International Baha'i Council alone was Shoghi Effendi's (child) son, and it alone inherited Shoghi Effendi's infallibility. 'Abdu'l-Baha further bears this out in his bookSome Answered Questions,[29] pages 198-199:
To epitomize: essential sinlessness belongs especially to the universal Manifestations, and the acquired sinlessness is granted to every holy soul. For instance, the General House of Justice, if it be established under the necessary conditions--with members elected from all the people--that House of Justice will be under the protection and the guardianship of God. If that House of Justice shall decide unanimously, or by a majority, upon any question not mentioned in the Book, that decision and command will be guarded from mistake. Now the members of the House of Justice have not, individually, essential
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29 The book Some Answered Questions was reviewed and corrected by 'Abdu'l-Baha himself, and it was so authentic that the guardian, Mason Remey, at one time told his followers that they should read that book only. Later he added another book All Things Made New, by John Farraby.
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sinlessness; but the body of the House of Justice is under the protection of God: this is called conferred infallibility.
Baha'u'llah, a Manifestation and of Wood, had inherent infallibility. Baha'u'llah's successors, His two sons, 'Abdu'l-Baha and Muhammad Ali inherited conferred infallibility.
But when Muhammad Ali violated he was cut off and Shoghi Effendi was grafted in. This is where the dichotomy began. The infallibility was no longer just the son of Baha'u'llah, 'Abdu'l-Baha, who was of a branch of wood being infallible but also Shoghi Effendi who was a descendent of thetwin Holy Trees, a descendent of both David's descendants who were of abranch of wood and of Muhammad's descendants who were a branch of iron making him a Branch of Gold. Shoghi Effendi, was grafted in and he and being a Branch of Gold could only be succeeded by another Branch of Gold.
Qiblah literally means point of adoration. In one sense this refers to the hereditary principle in that the hereditary principle (a father to son lineage) designates the direction of where to turn to for the holy city of Jerusalem, the Law of God. (It is not, in itself, the direction but it designates the true direction.)[30] From the time of Moses until Muhammad this hereditary principle was the father to son lineage of David which is the branch of wood.[31] At the time of Muhammad He switched this to the holy city of Mecca and the Imams stated that they were the Qiblah which was the iron rod. Baha'u'llah moves this point of adoration to Bahji, uniting the two into the rod of gold and we recognize and turn to the true Universal House of Justice of Baha'u'llah which is the second IBC/UHJ, distinguishing it from all others by the president (guardian) who continues the hereditary principlefrom Baha'u'llah through David.[32] This Universal House of Justice, bothiron and wood together, is the hereditary successor of Baha'u'llah,[33] being the hereditary successor of Shoghi Effendi (rod of gold), neither "iron" nor "wood" alone being the true successor.
The Qiblah is also the presence of God, the Shekinah, dwelling in the Temple which is in the Holy City. Jerusalem was the Qiblah because that is where the presence of God, His dwelling place, the Temple, was thought to be. Then Mecca was the Qiblah because that
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30 World Order of Baha'u'llah, page 9 "...the administration of the Cause is to be conceived as an instrument and not a substitute for the Faith of Baha'u'llah, that it should be regarded as a channel through which His promised blessings may flow..."
31 It was David that moved the Tabernacle and Ark of the Covenant from Shiloh to its permanent home at Jerusalem. Solomon then built the temple of stone for it.
32 See The Book of Certitude, p. 51 and The Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 113. Note in The Book of Certitude Baha'u'llah mentions David and Jesus referring to the hereditary principle.
33 World Order of Baha'u'llah, pages 19-20, 21-22.
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was the site of the Kaaba (Temple). In this day the Shekinah will rest upon the Universal House of Justice.
In Revelation 11 the outer court or city was not measured because it had been given into the hands of the Gentiles. "Only the form of the religion remaining," indicates, on one hand, that it is the Jews who spiritually have become Gentiles by apostasy, having only the form of the religion and who cling to the material part, the outer court or Jerusalem, as that is all that remained.
The Jews then trampled the new holy city, at that time embodied in Jesus, under foot for 1260 days, the 3 and a half years of His ministry. Then the spirit completely departed from them in their crucifixion of Jesus (the Spirit) at Jerusalem.
On the other hand, whereas the Jews crucified Jesus' physical body, the ones claiming to be His followers, the Christians, gradually crucified His spiritual body--His true believers and His Revelation. The ones who did this were gentiles physically and spiritually (non-Jews and from pagan backgrounds). Thus among the Christians, not only the spirit but the form of the Revelation departed as well, and gradually only a substitute form remained.
Because of these acts the spirit "fled into the wilderness" to Arabia, and when Muhammad came He turned His back upon the material Qiblah of the Jews and Christians, which could never again be the Qiblah as it had been desecrated by the crucifixion of the Spirit, Jesus.
Jesus anticipated such spiritual desolation of course and this is why He put His Covenant in the temple in heaven. This indicated the future fulfillment of His Covenant, which was that those who believed in Him would inherit the Kingdom as His spiritual children even though they were not physically or genetically in the lineage of the 12 tribes of Jacob, the descendants of Abraham and Sarah.
Meanwhile, to this day the Christians fail to comprehend the true inner meaning of the Revelation they claim fealty to, as they crucified that Spirit. It is for Jesus on his return to know the inner meaning and to bring that Covenant to its fulfillment on earth.
So the holy city was to be trampled under foot for 1260 years. Firstly, this is the cycle of Islam from 622 A.D. to 1844 A.D. (lunar years). Secondly, in the Christian cycle the city was trampled under foot for 1260 years beginning in 731 A.D. until 1991 A.D. (solar period).[34]
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Then, continuing with 'Abdu'l-Baha's explanation of Revelation 11, he says of verse 19 (the events that take place after the 7th Angel sounds his trumpet) where it says "then God's temple in heaven was opened" that this means "the divine Jerusalem is found." This is the Jerusalem that had departed from the midst of the people which is why Jesus put His Covenant in this temple in heaven to descend upon earth only after nearly 2,000 years.
This scenario is played out again in Revelation Chapter 12 but there it is encapsulated into 1921-1991, a 70-year period, and 1951-1991, a 40-year period.
The child, which was only a seed or primal cell in the W&T, is the IBC but because of the despotism of the Dragon Hands (who anticipated the 1963 date to take control of the child thereby destroying it) the child is caught up to God and to his throne (the promised one and the appointed guardian, embryologically this child) and the woman flees into the wilderness (America--amid the ignorance of the general mass of believers even those who followed Mason Remey). Just as Moses took His people into the wilderness for forty years before entry into the promised land (kingdom), the spirit remained for 40 years until the Heavenly Jerusalem, the bride, the Qiblah, descends again from heaven into its duly constituted body the second International Baha'i Council!
Even though the "Hands" threw out Shoghi Effendi's appointed body (by electing in 1963 a headless monster in its place) the "child" could not actually be destroyed because the Covenant for it had been safeguarded under God's divine protection in heaven, the heaven of the Holy Writings of Baha'u'llah, 'Abdu'l-Baha, Shoghi Effendi and the heaven of God's plan for the establisher, Dr. Leland Jensen, as it says: the child was caught up to God.
To sum up: The woman is the spirit or Shekinah that dwells therein. She and the child are both aspects of the "Bride." The child is the embodiment of the IBC, before that, it was embryonic under Shoghi Effendi. When the "Hands" eliminated it from their scheme in Ridvan l963, the child remained embryonic in Dr. Jensen who began his mission also in Ridvan 1963. On January 9, 199l he gave birth to it into this world as the child. This childfulfills the prophecy in the eleventh chapter of Isaiah where it states that a little child shall lead them:
The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and fatling together; and a little child shall lead them (Isaiah l1:6).
These beasts symbolize the various nations of today that are in conflict and are ready to enter into Armageddon. Without the guidance of this child all life would vanish from this planet, but God's promises are always fulfilled.
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Finally in chapter 21, after 6,000 years humanity is ready:
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband; and I heard a great voice from the throne saying,"Behold, the dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away."
The former things have passed away because the Promised One that came in 1963 by the power and authority of his iron rod, set up the second International Baha'i Council, the child that has overcome those former things: apostasy, corruption, violation, Covenant-breaking, etc., etc.
Shoghi Effendi designated only Acca (Bahji) as the Qiblah rather than the general area because the people did not have this more complex understanding of what the Qiblah is, because Carmel was to be violated with the apostasy of the Hands/illegitimate UHJ et al, and because the heavenly Jerusalem even though provided for (revealed, delineated and outlined in a 4-stage process) had not yet been manifested. So it would not have been appropriate at that time to institute the more full concept into the minds of the people.
By the end of this century there will no longer be any Covenant-breaking. The Baha'is will have learned their lesson. No longer will they ever believe that you can have "the Kingdom" without the King, that is, the UHJ cannot exist without the guardian (king) being the head or president, nor will they ever again believe that the president or head can function without the body. They will set up secondary Houses of Justice and these Houses of Justice will elect the Universal House of Justice. The Kingdom will be firmly established:
When asked, in February 1914 whether any of the great Powers would become believers, He ['Abdu'l- Baha] replied:--
"All the people of the world will become believers. Should you compare the influence the Word of God has, and now the Cause of God has encompassed the world....Unquestionably,all will come under the shadow of the cause of God."--Star of the West, vol. ix, p. 31.
He ['Abdu'l-Baha] declares that this consummation is near at hand and will come about during the present century.
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In an address to the Theosophists in February 1913, He said:--
"This Century is the Century of the Sun of Truth. This Century is the Century of the establishment of the Kingdom of God upon the earth."--Star of the West, vol. ix, p. 7.
All the above quotes are taken from the 1950 edition of Baha'u'llah and the New Era Chapter 14, titled "Prophecies of Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha," in the section sub-titled "Coming of the Kingdom of God."
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