The “cleansing of the Sanctuary,” prophesied by Daniel and
confirmed by Jesus Christ in His reference to “the abomination of desolation,”
had been accomplished… The “forty and two months,” during which the “Holy
City,” as predicted by St. John the Divine, would be trodden under foot, had
elapsed. The “time of the end” had been ushered in, and the first of the “two
Witnesses” into Whom, “after three days and a half the Spirit of Life from God”
would enter, had arisen and had “ascended up to heaven in a cloud.”… The “Man
Child,” mentioned in the Book of Revelation, destined to “rule all nations with
a rod of iron,” had released, through His coming, the creative energies which,
reinforced by the effusions of a swiftly succeeding and infinitely mightier
Revelation, were to instill into the entire human race the capacity to achieve
its organic unification, attain maturity and thereby reach the final stage in
its age-long evolution. - Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’)
