Tim Nolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
I am curious about the purpose of discussing this topic, given that none of us will be around in 900 years to see what happens.
Hi Tim,
To talk about Four and Seven Valleys, doesn’t actually means that any of us could reach the last valleys? (At least not me!!!) Or Church-State issue, or future International Tribunal, Commonwealth, Most Great Peace, etc., etc.
Anyway, I understand your point, but we can teach our future generations to be prepared in exactly 1000 years counting from the Blessed Beauty’s Revelation which according to our Writing had place in the Black Pit (1852-53).
Also, this topic is not completely off-time, why? Because time pass quickly! lol. Because it is a part of the Covenant, my understanding of “that not followed by night” is that though “winter” doesn’t have a place in!
this
Day, that could be exactly the reason people would think they don’t need a Prophet and therefore will reject Him/Her.
About the importance of acceptance the Prophets:
The Lord of the universe hath never raised up a prophet nor hath He sent down a Book unless He hath established His covenant with all men, calling for their acceptance of the next Revelation and of the next Book; inasmuch as the outpourings of His bounty are ceaseless and without limit. ("Selections from the Writings of the Báb", [rev. ed.] (Haifa: Bahá'í World Centre, 1982), p. 87)
Abraham, on Him be peace, made a covenant concerning Moses and gave the glad-tidings of His coming. Moses made a covenant concerning the promised Christ, and announced the good news of His advent to the world. Christ made a covenant concerning the Paraclete and gave the tidings of His coming. The Prophet Muhammad made a covenant concerning the Báb, and the Báb was the One promised by Muhammad, for Muhammad gave the tidings of His coming. The Báb made a Covenant concerning the Blessed Beauty, Bahá'u'lláh, and gave the
glad-tidings of His coming for the Blessed Beauty was the One promised by the Báb. Bahá'u'lláh made a covenant concerning a Promised One Who will become manifest after one thousand or thousands of years. That Manifestation is Bahá'u'lláh's Promised One, and will appear after a thousand or thousands of years. He, moreover, with His Supreme Pen, entered into a great Covenant and Testament with all the Bahá'ís whereby they were all commanded to follow the Centre of the Covenant after His ascension, and depart, not even to a hair's breadth, from obeying Him. ('Abdu'l-Bahá, from a Tablet - translated from the Persian, published in "Bahá'í World Faith" (Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1976), p.
About the next Prophet:
Verily God will raise up Him Whom God shall make manifest, and after Him Whomsoever He willeth, even as He hath raised up prophets before the Point of the Bayán. He in truth hath power over all things. ("Selections from the Writings of the Báb", p. 144)
Concerning the Manifestations that will come down in the future "in the shadows of the clouds," know, verily, that in so far as their relation to the Source of their inspiration is concerned, they are under the shadow of the Ancient Beauty. In their relation, however, to the age in which they appear, each and every one of them "doeth whatsoever He willeth."
('Abdu'l-Bahá, cited in "The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh - Selected Letters", p. 167)
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