To Him Jesus Christ had referred as the “Prince of this
world,” as the “Comforter” Who will “reprove the world of sin, and of
righteousness, and of judgment,” as the “Spirit of Truth” Who “will guide you
into all truth,” Who “shall not speak of Himself, but whatsoever He shall hear,
that shall He speak,” as the “Lord of the Vineyard,” and as the “Son of Man”
Who “shall come in the glory of His Father” “in the clouds of heaven with power
and great glory,” with “all the holy angels” about Him, and “all nations”
gathered before His throne. To Him the Author of the Apocalypse had alluded as
the “Glory of God,” as “Alpha and Omega,” “the Beginning and the End,” “the
First and the Last.” Identifying His Revelation with the “third woe,” he,
moreover, had extolled His Law as “a new heaven and a new earth,” as the
“Tabernacle of God,” as the “Holy City,” as the “New Jerusalem, coming down
from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” To His
Day Jesus Christ Himself had referred as “the regeneration when the Son of Man
shall sit in the throne of His glory.” To the hour of His advent St. Paul had
alluded as the hour of the “last trump,” the “trump of God,” whilst St. Peter
had spoken of it as the “Day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be
dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.” His Day he,
furthermore, had described as “the times of refreshing,” “the times of
restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy
Prophets since the world began.”
- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’)
