Moses received the Covenant from God, Who appeared as a burning burning bush on Mount Sinai

Moses knew He wasn’t going to live forever. He had written the laws, ordinances and teachings for a whole new civilization, a whole new society. He put them in a box called the Ark of the Covenant. Then He built a temple called a tabernacle. It was in the desert. It was a tent divided in two by a curtain. The sanctuary was on one side of the curtain and the Holy of Holies on the other. In front of entrance to the sanctuary was an altar on which they slew the animals. The blood from the animals was taken and spread on the walls of the sanctuary to purify it, because without the shedding of blood there was no forgiveness of sins. So they purified the temple with the blood of animals. Then the priests would pray for the forgiveness of the sins that had brought about the need for sacrifice. The people would bring the best of their flock: the best sheep or roosters, to be sacrificed to the One True God.
 

When Moses took the Israelites out of Egypt, the Egyptians were worshiping animals as gods. This practice was carrying over into the Israeli civilization. In order to stamp this out, Moses had the Israelis bring their best animals, which were their gods, to be sacrificed to the One True God. Thus when they put these animals on the altar and burned them, the smoke went up to the nostrils of the One True God. This was symbolic. The purpose of this was to stamp out animal worship and the triune god, and to establish the worship of the One True God.
 

Moses had erected this tabernacle according to God’s instructions. In the Holy of Holies, he placed a box. In the box (or Ark of the Covenant) he placed the laws. On top of the box he placed the Covenant. The Covenant was the most important thing because it is an agreement between God and man.
 

With each of the manifestations, God makes a Covenant with man. The Covenant is a two-way pact. God will do such-and-such if you do such-and-such. This brings about a civilization as the people obey the laws.
 

We need to know what the Covenant of Moses was. The study Moses’ Covenant will be a prelude to the study of Baha’u’llah’s Covenant.
 

Turn to Deuteronomy 28 in your Bible. The Covenant is in three parts. The first part deals with the blessing or the promise. The second part deals with the curse, and the third part deals with the reestablishment or the establishment of the Kingdom.
 

Start with 28:1: “If you obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments which I command you this day, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the Earth.
 

Here’s what God is going to do for them. He’s going to set them above all the nations of the earth. He says I’ll make you the richest, the greatest, the happiest, the most intellectual people in the world.
 

“And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough. Blessed shall you be when you go in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.”
 

In other words everything they do will be blessed. Read on.
 

“The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you; they shall come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways. The Lord will command the blessing upon you in your barns, and in all that you undertake; and he will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you. The Lord will establish you as a people holy to himself, and he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and walk in his ways. And all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of you. And the Lord will make you abound in prosperity, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, within the land, which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. The Lord will open to you his good treasury the heavens, to give the rain of your Land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. And the Lord will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall tend upward only and not downward; if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day, being careful to do them, and if you do not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.”
 

This is the blessing. The main thing is not to go after other gods and serve them. Among some of the laws of Moses it said that although a man could have as many wives as he wanted, he couldn’t take a foreign wife. The reason for that was that foreign wives might beguile the man and get him to bow down before their gods. The word Israel means “people special unto God.” All the rest of the people believed in the triune god, and God was trying to keep the Israelites separate from this triune god heresy. Therefore He says don’t take a foreign wife. Here He says don’t go after foreign gods. He wanted them to worship the One True God and the One True God only — not to become Trinitarian. So if you do this, He says, Be special unto me, obey my commandments and keep my law, and in return I will make you the best people in the world, the greatest, the richest.
 

Then He goes on, and this goes on for page after page, and He tells them of the curse that will fall upon them if they don’t keep His laws. You can start in reading there, at Deut. 28:15:
 

“The Lord will send upon you curses, confusion, and frustration, in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly, on account of the evil of your doings, because you have forsaken me. The Lord will make the pestilence cleave to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. The Lord will smite you with consumption, and with fever, inflammation, and fiery heat, and with drought, and with blasting and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish. And the heavens over your head shall be brass, and the earth under you shall be iron. The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down upon you until you are destroyed.
 

Now go on to verse 36:
 

“The Lord will bring you, and your king whom you set over you, to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known; and there you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone.”
 

He’s going to bring them into a nation that their fathers didn’t know. Their fathers came out of Egypt.
 

At the time of Solomon this promise of the blessing came to pass. They became the greatest people of the world. All the kings of the earth paid tribute unto Solomon. They were the richest people. They were the healthiest people. They were the most spiritual people. If someone wanted to give someone a compliment they’d say, “You must be an Israelite.” The Israelites were considered the highest of the people of the world. King Solomon had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. These wives came from the  pagan nations around him. The kings paid tribute to Solomon, and the best way other kings could pay tribute was to send their daughters. Thus he had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. He had riches beyond compare. The streets were paved with gold. There was a fabulous civilization at the time of Solomon.
 

First Solomon built a temple on Mount Moriah for the Lord. The Lord was real happy with Solomon. He had taken the Ark of the Covenant out of Moses’ tabernacle, the tent, and had it put into this new temple of stone. A lot of workmen, labor and money were used in this. Since the purpose for man’s creation is to know God and worship Him, God was very happy with Solomon.
 

Solomon Breaks the Covenant and The Curse Begins
 

But then Solomon built five other temples around the Lord’ s temple, and these were temples to the pagan gods. In his old age, Solomon went into one of these temples that he had built for his wives from foreign countries and bowed down to one of the gods, to Ashtoreth, who was Semiramis, the wife of Nimrod. God became very angry with Solomon. He said, “Solomon, you broke the Covenant. I told you not to bow down before, or to serve other gods. I told you not to do this because you were a special person unto me.” He says, Because of this, the curse is going to fall upon Israel. He says, I won’t do this ‘during your lifetime because you built me a temple and made me happy. But He says, When you die, ten of the nations will be taken from your son and successor, and given to someone else, and your son will only be left with two——Judah and Benjamin.
 

So when Solomon died, his son Rehoboam ruled over only two nations and Jeroboam rose and got the other ten. He separated them from temple worship and he separated the twelve tribes into ten tribes and two tribes.
 

Three hundred years later, in 721 B.C., King Salmanazar the fifth conquered the ten tribes and took them into captivity in Assyria and Media. He removed them from their land. Then he replaced them with pagans. These tribes then became known as the ten lost tribes, as I explained to you. They later became converted to Zoroastrianism, then to Islam and so forth.
 

A hundred years after Salmanazar the fifth had taken the ten tribes, Nebuchadnezzar, in 586 B. C, conquered the two tribes and took them into captivity in Babylon. Here they’re going into a “nation that their fathers didn’t know” (Deut. 28:36). Later they were taken into other countries, fulfilling prophecy. They were in Babylon for seven years and then they were allowed to go free because Babylon was conquered by Cyrus, a Zoroastrian Persian king. Cyrus allowed them to go back and rebuild their temple because he believed in the One True God. But they were still under the curse because they had violated the Covenant.
 

All the trouble in the world has come from the violation of the Covenant of God. Each manifestation makes a Covenant with the people, and when they violate it this brings about the trouble in the world. Now read verse 45:
 

“All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you, till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.”
 

In other words there were all sorts of terrible things upon them because they broke the Covenant. Read Deut. 28:49:
 

“The Lord will, bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you do not understand.”
 

This is a prophecy that Israel is going to be taken over by the Romans. Pompeii, in 65 B. C., conquered Jerusalem for Rome. He had the flying eagle on the top of his flag. The Latin language was quite a bit different from their native language, so they had a hard time understanding that language’. Read Deut. 28:64:
 

“And the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other; arid there you shall, serve other go~, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.”
 

This took place for the Jews in 70 A.D. when Titus conquered the Jews and Jerusalem. He cut them up into little pieces and. threw the remnant to the different nations as slaves. But the Israelites were still in captivity. Titus said no Jew was allowed to enter Jerusalem.
 

Then 150 years later Adrian, another Roman Caesar, made another ban so the Jews couldn’t enter Jerusalem. In 640 A.D. Omar conquered Jerusalem for Islam and made another ban. They had become a people without, their temple and city.
 

The Jews: Still Apostate
 

When they came out of Babylon in 457 B.C., they rebuilt the temple, but they had no ark of the Covenant and no high priest. Therefore they were still apostate. Without the Ark of the Covenant they knew they couldn’t reestablish the Covenant. They said, When the Messiah comes we will reestablish the Covenant. They crucified Jesus. They said He was of tribe of Judah, and only someone from the tribe of Levi could go in the temple. Jesus said His Covenant was for a temple not made by hands. He placed His Covenant there, and purified it with His own blood (Hebrews 9). Jews are still without a Covenant, and apostate.
 

The Mosque of Omar was built at the site of the Jewish’ temple, over its remains. Two hundred years after the Jews crucified their Messiah, their high priesthood came to an end. There was no pure’ blood from the line of Aaron, due to intermarrying. Jews by the name of “Cohen” are of the line of Aaron, but it’ S not pure.
 

They asked Master Dianne, What if the Jews should rebuild their temple? He said the Jews would never again be a captive people. He said the Jews would cause a holy war if they tore down the Mosque of Omar. They were digging under the mosque but had to stop because they were weakening its foundation. Also, if anyone found the Covenant, their presence would desecrate the Holy of Holies. He said maybe there would be an earthquake. Some Jews say the new Messiah will bring the Covenant, and some say they need the old Covenant. Even if they did get the Covenant, they have no high priest.
 

The Messiah would have to come first before they have the temple, high priest, and Covenant. The Jews know they are apostate. Now they have a democracy, armed to the teeth to fight off being a taken captive again, not knowing the reason they were chosen was because their Messiah did come and He has His democracy on Mount Cannel. There are two governments in Israel.
 

One is the government of the Jewish state, and other one is on Mount Cannel. The one on Mount Cannel is apostate. The Baha’is don’t have their Covenant and they don’t have their high priest.
 

Ezekiel saw the Bab as the sanctuary of the temple. Then he saw the Holy of Holies: Baha’u’llah. These are represented in the King’s and Queen’s chambers in the Great Pyramid.
 

Because the Jews murdered their Messiah they were scattered in 70 A.D. among the nations, until 1948 when they established the Jewish state. They were scattered all over the world. But the ten tribes of Israel were taken into Assyria and Iran by Salmanazar, and became lost. The way they got lost was because they became Zoroastrian.
 

The Heirs to King David’s Throne Survive
 

Thus the kingship of David finally became the kingship of ‘the second Zoroastrian dynasty, the Sassanid dynasty. The last king of the Sassanid dynasty was Yazdigird. In 640 A.D. Oman -invaded Iran and destroyed everything Zoroastrian. He knocked -down temples, put out the eternal flame, killed off the priests, and Yazdigird was killed. When the Moslems went in there they thought the Zoroastrians were pagan because ‘Muhammad had given sanctuary to the Jews and Christians, but he said nothing about Zoroastrians.
 

Zoroatrian priests fled to the mountains and rocks. Sortie went up into the center of Iran to the city of Yaz, which is about 10,000 feet ‘above sea level, and reassembled the Avesta called the Zend-Avesta. So much was lost that they were unable to reestablish their sovereignty again. Some of them escaped across to Bombay in India. About 150,000 Zoroastrians now live in Bombay. They are very clean, spiritual people. This is the head of the beast that was wounded unto death (Rev. 13:14).
 

So the ten lost tribes became converted to Zoroastrianism, and the second dynasty of the Persian Zoroastrians, the Sassanid dynasty, was taken over by the Davidic kings, and that dynasty was conquered by the Moslems.
 

Thus in 300 B.C., Alexander and the Greeks conquered the Persians, and that Zoroastrian dynasty came to an end. Then in 200 B.C. the Parthians conquered the Greeks and they ruled for 400 years until 200 A.D. Then the Zoroastrians, headed by Sassanid, a Davidic king, conquered the Parthians, and they ruled for 400 years, until the invasion of Islam.
 

Baha’u’llah Reigns on the Throne of David and Regathers Israel
 

This is where Baha’u’llah’s ancestors came in. The ten lost tribes were in and around Iran. Baha’u~11ah’s ancestors had been taken into captivity in what is now Baghdad, which was ancient Babylon, and they migrated to Tehran. The Sassanid dynasty and throne ended up in Mazandaran, which is outside of Tehran.
 

Baha’u’llah’s father Mirza Buzburg was the king ‘of the province of Mazandaran, and the heir to the throne of the ancient Sassanid dynasty. Baha’u’llah was an earthly prince, and the richest man in Iran. He married a woman who was equally as wealthy, and that made Him by far the richest man in Iran. He gave it all up and went to prison.
 

Who were the ten lost tribes? After the Islamic invasion, the Zoroastrians became Islamic. They remained pure. They believed in the One God Jehovah, then in the One God Ormazd (also Ormuzd), and the One God Allah, which is ‘all the same God. Just like today when some Jews get converted to Christianity, they are still Jews by blood. Baha’u’llah’s family was still Jewish by blood. Baha’u’llah made His proclamation in Baghdad. The Babis in and around Tehran all became Baha’is. These were the ten lost tribes, and Baha’u’llah and his family were of the two tribes:
 

Judah and Benjamin. Therefore, 10 + 2 = 12.
 

When Baha’u’llah went into captivity, seventy people were in His train with Him. These were his family. The Sultan sent Him elephants (Ho’dahs) and money and transportation to come to his court. He went a prisoner in royal honor, because they recognized that He was a king–the King of the Mazandaran dynasty. He was a king of kings, as talked about in Revelation (Rev. 17:14 & 19:16~. When He got to Constantinople, He wouldn’t go and see the Sultan–wouldn’t kiss his boot.
 

While He was in Constantinople He was at the crossroads of the empire. The’ throne of the Ottoman empire was in Constantinople, which ruled over Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Lybia, Sudan, and Algeria. People were coming from all over the empire to the capital in Constantinople, and Baha’u’llah was teaching them and they were coming in by the multitudes. The clergy complained. They pressured the Sultan, so he exiled Him to Adrianople. While there, Baha’u’llah wrote to the kings of the world. He wrote to Napoleon, President Grant, Queen Victoria and the Kaiser, and He proclaimed that He was the One. A lot of them responded. The Czar of Russia recognized Him and got Him out of the dungeon in Tehran later.
 

In His teachings, Baha’u’llah talked about an International Tribunal, which is an intermediary government between the present government and the kingdom of God on earth. Baha’u’llah said to all these kings, “Proclaim me!” So the Czar wrote to all the kings of the world, and invited them to come to The Hague in Brussels, Holland. The Czar got them together and said let’s do this plan where we have a world court and when conflicts arise we will try the parties at the court, and if they persist in creating problems, wipe them out. They were so overjoyed that the Czar could think of such a great idea, that they eulogized him and he never proclaimed Baha’u’llah.
 

Baha’u’llah wrote to Napoleon at the height of his glory and told him He was of God, and he said, “If you’re God then I’m two Gods!”
 

Baha’u’llah wrote back and said, “For this you will die a prisoner in exile.” Nobody thought when Germany declared war on France, that Germany would win. Napoleon was taken a prisoner, defeated, his son was killed in the war in Africa, he caught syphilis and other diseases, and he died in misery.
 

Baha’u’llah wrote to Queen Victoria and she wrote back and said, if you are of God you will prosper, and if not you will fail. Baha’u’llah wrote back and said, Because of these words you will become the greatest monarch in the world and the sun will never set on British soil. This was fulfilled shortly after that Britain had colonies in every part of the world: India, Africa and America. Victoria was the longest-reigning queen in history, and the most beloved.
 

So the remnant of the ten lost tribes, who were pure-hearted Moslems and then Babis; and Baha’u’llah’s family, who were of the tribes of Benjamin and Judah, all went along with Baha’u’llah to exile in Constantinople and Adrianople. When. Baha’u’llah was sent to Akka (also spelled Acca and Achor) as a prisoner, thousands of people from these ten and two tribes came to live in Israel. Thus Baha’u’llah regathered Israel.   THE COVENANT OF MOSES

 Moses knew He wasn’t going to live forever. He had written the laws, ordinances and teachings for a whole new civilization, a whole new society. He put them in a box called the Ark of the Covenant. Then He built a temple called a tabernacle. It was in the desert. It was a tent divided in two by a curtain. The sanctuary was on one side of the curtain and the Holy of Holies on the other. In front of entrance to the sanctuary was an altar on which they slew the animals. The blood from the animals was taken and spread on the walls of the sanctuary to purify it, because without the shedding of blood there was no forgiveness of sins. So they purified the temple with the blood of animals. Then the priests would pray for the forgiveness of the sins that had brought about the need for sacrifice. The people would bring the best of their flock: the best sheep or roosters, to be sacrificed to the One True God.
 

When Moses took the Israelites out of Egypt, the Egyptians were worshiping animals as gods. This practice was carrying over into the Israeli civilization. In order to stamp this out, Moses had the Israelis bring their best animals, which were their gods, to be sacrificed to the One True God. Thus when they put these animals on the altar and burned them, the smoke went up to the nostrils of the One True God. This was symbolic. The purpose of this was to stamp out animal worship and the triune god, and to establish the worship of the One True God.
 

Moses had erected this tabernacle according to God’s instructions. In the Holy of Holies, he placed a box. In the box (or Ark of the Covenant) he placed the laws. On top of the box he placed the Covenant. The Covenant was the most important thing because it is an agreement between God and man.
 

With each of the manifestations, God makes a Covenant with man. The Covenant is a two-way pact. God will do such-and-such if you do such-and-such. This brings about a civilization as the people obey the laws.
 

We need to know what the Covenant of Moses was. The study Moses’ Covenant will be a prelude to the study of Baha’u’llah’s Covenant.
 

Turn to Deuteronomy 28 in your Bible. The Covenant is in three parts. The first part deals with the blessing or the promise. The second part deals with the curse, and the third part deals with the reestablishment or the establishment of the Kingdom.
 

Start with 28:1: “If you obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments which I command you this day, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the Earth.
 

Here’s what God is going to do for them. He’s going to set them above all the nations of the earth. He says I’ll make you the richest, the greatest, the happiest, the most intellectual people in the world.
 

“And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough. Blessed shall you be when you go in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.”
 

In other words everything they do will be blessed. Read on.
 

“The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you; they shall come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways. The Lord will command the blessing upon you in your barns, and in all that you undertake; and he will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you. The Lord will establish you as a people holy to himself, and he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and walk in his ways. And all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of you. And the Lord will make you abound in prosperity, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, within the land, which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. The Lord will open to you his good treasury the heavens, to give the rain of your Land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. And the Lord will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall tend upward only and not downward; if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day, being careful to do them, and if you do not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.”
 

This is the blessing. The main thing is not to go after other gods and serve them. Among some of the laws of Moses it said that although a man could have as many wives as he wanted, he couldn’t take a foreign wife. The reason for that was that foreign wives might beguile the man and get him to bow down before their gods. The word Israel means “people special unto God.” All the rest of the people believed in the triune god, and God was trying to keep the Israelites separate from this triune god heresy. Therefore He says don’t take a foreign wife. Here He says don’t go after foreign gods. He wanted them to worship the One True God and the One True God only — not to become Trinitarian. So if you do this, He says, Be special unto me, obey my commandments and keep my law, and in return I will make you the best people in the world, the greatest, the richest.
 

Then He goes on, and this goes on for page after page, and He tells them of the curse that will fall upon them if they don’t keep His laws. You can start in reading there, at Deut. 28:15:
 

“The Lord will send upon you curses, confusion, and frustration, in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly, on account of the evil of your doings, because you have forsaken me. The Lord will make the pestilence cleave to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. The Lord will smite you with consumption, and with fever, inflammation, and fiery heat, and with drought, and with blasting and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish. And the heavens over your head shall be brass, and the earth under you shall be iron. The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down upon you until you are destroyed.
 

Now go on to verse 36:
 

“The Lord will bring you, and your king whom you set over you, to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known; and there you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone.”
 

He’s going to bring them into a nation that their fathers didn’t know. Their fathers came out of Egypt.
 

At the time of Solomon this promise of the blessing came to pass. They became the greatest people of the world. All the kings of the earth paid tribute unto Solomon. They were the richest people. They were the healthiest people. They were the most spiritual people. If someone wanted to give someone a compliment they’d say, “You must be an Israelite.” The Israelites were considered the highest of the people of the world. King Solomon had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. These wives came from the  pagan nations around him. The kings paid tribute to Solomon, and the best way other kings could pay tribute was to send their daughters. Thus he had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. He had riches beyond compare. The streets were paved with gold. There was a fabulous civilization at the time of Solomon.
 

First Solomon built a temple on Mount Moriah for the Lord. The Lord was real happy with Solomon. He had taken the Ark of the Covenant out of Moses’ tabernacle, the tent, and had it put into this new temple of stone. A lot of workmen, labor and money were used in this. Since the purpose for man’s creation is to know God and worship Him, God was very happy with Solomon.
 

Solomon Breaks the Covenant and The Curse Begins
 

But then Solomon built five other temples around the Lord’ s temple, and these were temples to the pagan gods. In his old age, Solomon went into one of these temples that he had built for his wives from foreign countries and bowed down to one of the gods, to Ashtoreth, who was Semiramis, the wife of Nimrod. God became very angry with Solomon. He said, “Solomon, you broke the Covenant. I told you not to bow down before, or to serve other gods. I told you not to do this because you were a special person unto me.” He says, Because of this, the curse is going to fall upon Israel. He says, I won’t do this ‘during your lifetime because you built me a temple and made me happy. But He says, When you die, ten of the nations will be taken from your son and successor, and given to someone else, and your son will only be left with two——Judah and Benjamin.
 

So when Solomon died, his son Rehoboam ruled over only two nations and Jeroboam rose and got the other ten. He separated them from temple worship and he separated the twelve tribes into ten tribes and two tribes.
 

Three hundred years later, in 721 B.C., King Salmanazar the fifth conquered the ten tribes and took them into captivity in Assyria and Media. He removed them from their land. Then he replaced them with pagans. These tribes then became known as the ten lost tribes, as I explained to you. They later became converted to Zoroastrianism, then to Islam and so forth.
 

A hundred years after Salmanazar the fifth had taken the ten tribes, Nebuchadnezzar, in 586 B. C, conquered the two tribes and took them into captivity in Babylon. Here they’re going into a “nation that their fathers didn’t know” (Deut. 28:36). Later they were taken into other countries, fulfilling prophecy. They were in Babylon for seven years and then they were allowed to go free because Babylon was conquered by Cyrus, a Zoroastrian Persian king. Cyrus allowed them to go back and rebuild their temple because he believed in the One True God. But they were still under the curse because they had violated the Covenant.
 

All the trouble in the world has come from the violation of the Covenant of God. Each manifestation makes a Covenant with the people, and when they violate it this brings about the trouble in the world. Now read verse 45:
 

“All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you, till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.”
 

In other words there were all sorts of terrible things upon them because they broke the Covenant. Read Deut. 28:49:
 

“The Lord will, bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you do not understand.”
 

This is a prophecy that Israel is going to be taken over by the Romans. Pompeii, in 65 B. C., conquered Jerusalem for Rome. He had the flying eagle on the top of his flag. The Latin language was quite a bit different from their native language, so they had a hard time understanding that language’. Read Deut. 28:64:
 

“And the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other; arid there you shall, serve other go~, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.”
 

This took place for the Jews in 70 A.D. when Titus conquered the Jews and Jerusalem. He cut them up into little pieces and. threw the remnant to the different nations as slaves. But the Israelites were still in captivity. Titus said no Jew was allowed to enter Jerusalem.
 

Then 150 years later Adrian, another Roman Caesar, made another ban so the Jews couldn’t enter Jerusalem. In 640 A.D. Omar conquered Jerusalem for Islam and made another ban. They had become a people without, their temple and city.
 

The Jews: Still Apostate
 

When they came out of Babylon in 457 B.C., they rebuilt the temple, but they had no ark of the Covenant and no high priest. Therefore they were still apostate. Without the Ark of the Covenant they knew they couldn’t reestablish the Covenant. They said, When the Messiah comes we will reestablish the Covenant. They crucified Jesus. They said He was of tribe of Judah, and only someone from the tribe of Levi could go in the temple. Jesus said His Covenant was for a temple not made by hands. He placed His Covenant there, and purified it with His own blood (Hebrews 9). Jews are still without a Covenant, and apostate.
 

The Mosque of Omar was built at the site of the Jewish’ temple, over its remains. Two hundred years after the Jews crucified their Messiah, their high priesthood came to an end. There was no pure’ blood from the line of Aaron, due to intermarrying. Jews by the name of “Cohen” are of the line of Aaron, but it’ S not pure.
 

They asked Master Dianne, What if the Jews should rebuild their temple? He said the Jews would never again be a captive people. He said the Jews would cause a holy war if they tore down the Mosque of Omar. They were digging under the mosque but had to stop because they were weakening its foundation. Also, if anyone found the Covenant, their presence would desecrate the Holy of Holies. He said maybe there would be an earthquake. Some Jews say the new Messiah will bring the Covenant, and some say they need the old Covenant. Even if they did get the Covenant, they have no high priest.
 

The Messiah would have to come first before they have the temple, high priest, and Covenant. The Jews know they are apostate. Now they have a democracy, armed to the teeth to fight off being a taken captive again, not knowing the reason they were chosen was because their Messiah did come and He has His democracy on Mount Cannel. There are two governments in Israel.
 

One is the government of the Jewish state, and other one is on Mount Cannel. The one on Mount Cannel is apostate. The Baha’is don’t have their Covenant and they don’t have their high priest.
 

Ezekiel saw the Bab as the sanctuary of the temple. Then he saw the Holy of Holies: Baha’u’llah. These are represented in the King’s and Queen’s chambers in the Great Pyramid.
 

Because the Jews murdered their Messiah they were scattered in 70 A.D. among the nations, until 1948 when they established the Jewish state. They were scattered all over the world. But the ten tribes of Israel were taken into Assyria and Iran by Salmanazar, and became lost. The way they got lost was because they became Zoroastrian.
 

The Heirs to King David’s Throne Survive
 

Thus the kingship of David finally became the kingship of ‘the second Zoroastrian dynasty, the Sassanid dynasty. The last king of the Sassanid dynasty was Yazdigird. In 640 A.D. Oman -invaded Iran and destroyed everything Zoroastrian. He knocked -down temples, put out the eternal flame, killed off the priests, and Yazdigird was killed. When the Moslems went in there they thought the Zoroastrians were pagan because ‘Muhammad had given sanctuary to the Jews and Christians, but he said nothing about Zoroastrians.
 

Zoroatrian priests fled to the mountains and rocks. Sortie went up into the center of Iran to the city of Yaz, which is about 10,000 feet ‘above sea level, and reassembled the Avesta called the Zend-Avesta. So much was lost that they were unable to reestablish their sovereignty again. Some of them escaped across to Bombay in India. About 150,000 Zoroastrians now live in Bombay. They are very clean, spiritual people. This is the head of the beast that was wounded unto death (Rev. 13:14).
 

So the ten lost tribes became converted to Zoroastrianism, and the second dynasty of the Persian Zoroastrians, the Sassanid dynasty, was taken over by the Davidic kings, and that dynasty was conquered by the Moslems.
 

Thus in 300 B.C., Alexander and the Greeks conquered the Persians, and that Zoroastrian dynasty came to an end. Then in 200 B.C. the Parthians conquered the Greeks and they ruled for 400 years until 200 A.D. Then the Zoroastrians, headed by Sassanid, a Davidic king, conquered the Parthians, and they ruled for 400 years, until the invasion of Islam.
 

Baha’u’llah Reigns on the Throne of David and Regathers Israel
 

This is where Baha’u’llah’s ancestors came in. The ten lost tribes were in and around Iran. Baha’u~11ah’s ancestors had been taken into captivity in what is now Baghdad, which was ancient Babylon, and they migrated to Tehran. The Sassanid dynasty and throne ended up in Mazandaran, which is outside of Tehran.
 

Baha’u’llah’s father Mirza Buzburg was the king ‘of the province of Mazandaran, and the heir to the throne of the ancient Sassanid dynasty. Baha’u’llah was an earthly prince, and the richest man in Iran. He married a woman who was equally as wealthy, and that made Him by far the richest man in Iran. He gave it all up and went to prison.
 

Who were the ten lost tribes? After the Islamic invasion, the Zoroastrians became Islamic. They remained pure. They believed in the One God Jehovah, then in the One God Ormazd (also Ormuzd), and the One God Allah, which is ‘all the same God. Just like today when some Jews get converted to Christianity, they are still Jews by blood. Baha’u’llah’s family was still Jewish by blood. Baha’u’llah made His proclamation in Baghdad. The Babis in and around Tehran all became Baha’is. These were the ten lost tribes, and Baha’u’llah and his family were of the two tribes:
 

Judah and Benjamin. Therefore, 10 + 2 = 12.
 

When Baha’u’llah went into captivity, seventy people were in His train with Him. These were his family. The Sultan sent Him elephants (Ho’dahs) and money and transportation to come to his court. He went a prisoner in royal honor, because they recognized that He was a king–the King of the Mazandaran dynasty. He was a king of kings, as talked about in Revelation (Rev. 17:14 & 19:16~. When He got to Constantinople, He wouldn’t go and see the Sultan–wouldn’t kiss his boot.
 

While He was in Constantinople He was at the crossroads of the empire. The’ throne of the Ottoman empire was in Constantinople, which ruled over Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Lybia, Sudan, and Algeria. People were coming from all over the empire to the capital in Constantinople, and Baha’u’llah was teaching them and they were coming in by the multitudes. The clergy complained. They pressured the Sultan, so he exiled Him to Adrianople. While there, Baha’u’llah wrote to the kings of the world. He wrote to Napoleon, President Grant, Queen Victoria and the Kaiser, and He proclaimed that He was the One. A lot of them responded. The Czar of Russia recognized Him and got Him out of the dungeon in Tehran later.
 

In His teachings, Baha’u’llah talked about an International Tribunal, which is an intermediary government between the present government and the kingdom of God on earth. Baha’u’llah said to all these kings, “Proclaim me!” So the Czar wrote to all the kings of the world, and invited them to come to The Hague in Brussels, Holland. The Czar got them together and said let’s do this plan where we have a world court and when conflicts arise we will try the parties at the court, and if they persist in creating problems, wipe them out. They were so overjoyed that the Czar could think of such a great idea, that they eulogized him and he never proclaimed Baha’u’llah.
 

Baha’u’llah wrote to Napoleon at the height of his glory and told him He was of God, and he said, “If you’re God then I’m two Gods!”
 

Baha’u’llah wrote back and said, “For this you will die a prisoner in exile.” Nobody thought when Germany declared war on France, that Germany would win. Napoleon was taken a prisoner, defeated, his son was killed in the war in Africa, he caught syphilis and other diseases, and he died in misery.
 

Baha’u’llah wrote to Queen Victoria and she wrote back and said, if you are of God you will prosper, and if not you will fail. Baha’u’llah wrote back and said, Because of these words you will become the greatest monarch in the world and the sun will never set on British soil. This was fulfilled shortly after that Britain had colonies in every part of the world: India, Africa and America. Victoria was the longest-reigning queen in history, and the most beloved.
 

So the remnant of the ten lost tribes, who were pure-hearted Moslems and then Babis; and Baha’u’llah’s family, who were of the tribes of Benjamin and Judah, all went along with Baha’u’llah to exile in Constantinople and Adrianople. When. Baha’u’llah was sent to Akka (also spelled Acca and Achor) as a prisoner, thousands of people from these ten and two tribes came to live in Israel. Thus Baha’u’llah regathered Israel.

  This paganism of having a triune god began in the time of the first Babylonian Empire. It polluted the whole world with its deception, and crept into Christianity in Pergamum. We will get into this history a little later.

But there is a bigger reason why the Christians are not looking for anyone other than Jesus coming to be the Second Christ. Although there were two Christs prophesied, they’re looking for the same Christ. This is because the Christians say that Jesus physically, bodily resurrected from the grave and went up into heaven and that He will return again from this heaven. Therefore, since they think the same person will come again, they cannot accept another person to be the Second Christ.

This situation is analogous to the situation in which Jesus sent His disciples out to teach the Jews that He was the Messiah. These disciples were just ordinary people — fishermen, a bank teller, a tax collector, and so forth. They came up against the intelligentsia of the Jewish people — the rabbis, the priests, the lawyers, the scribes. The scribes told the disciples that Jesus couldn’t possibly be the Messiah. They pointed out that the book of Malachi, the last book of the Old Testament, says that the prophet Elijah must return before the Messiah (Malachi 4:5).

And according to the second chapter of the Second Book of Kings, Elijah ascended into heaven in a flaming chariot. So the disciples came back to Jesus and asked Him, “How come it says right here in Malachi that Elijah the prophet is going to come first?” In other words, how can you claim to be the Messiah when we haven’t seen Elijah come streaking across the sky in a flaming chariot?

Do you know what Jesus told them? Jesus told them that John the Baptist is Elijah! The disciples were dumfounded. They said to Jesus, “John? John is your cousin. Your aunt Elizabeth was pregnant with John when your mother Mary was pregnant with you. You grew up together, you played marbles together. How can this man John be Elijah?” (I’m paraphrasing here). Jesus said,” If you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah.” (Matthew 11:14).

Well today the Christians accept that John the Baptist is the return of Elijah although he’s a different person. They went to John and asked him if he was Elijah, and he said, “I am not” (John 1:21), meaning that he wasn’t the same person. But Jesus said that John was Elijah.

Jesus was looking at the light, and not at the lamp. For instance, Elijah was living in the desert, wearing a camel’s hair coat, living on locusts and honey, and telling the people to repent and return to the Lord. Nine hundred years later, here comes John the Baptist, walking in the same desert living on locusts and honey, and telling the people to repent and return to the Lord. If you looked at one, and you looked and the other, you couldn’t tell the difference. They both had the same message — repent and return to the Lord. They were talking to a wayward people, calling them to have the sin of error washed away from them. Therefore, when it says that Elijah is going to come, it means that someone will come to fulfill that mission, as the forerunner of Jesus.

So the people asked John, “Well then who are you?” He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness saying: ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.” (John 1:2-3) This was prophesied by Isaiah, that one would come in the wilderness to prepare the way of the Lord (Isaiah 40:3).

Today the Christians accept that John the Baptist was the return of Elijah, because Jesus said so. But today the Christians are making the exact same mistake the Jews made. It says in the Bible that Jesus went up into heaven just as it says in the Bible that Elijah went up into heaven. And Jesus said He would return, just like the Bible says Elijah would return. Although the return of Elijah was John the Baptist, the Christians say, “No, it must be the same Jesus!” because they deified Jesus–made Jesus a god. This was the same hanky-panky, monkey-business that the pagans did when they came into Christianity, and we’ll get into that later, but first, we need to look at the resurrection.

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him [Jesus], “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign; but no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth (Matthew 12: 39).

In other words, here the clergy asks Jesus, “If you’re the Messiah, the one we’re waiting for, give us a sign so that we all can believe in you.” Jesus told them that a wicked generation looks for a sign of the type they were seeking, and they would get no such sign, except for the sign that “as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a whale, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”

It is a well-known fact that Christ was crucified on Friday by sundown, and that his tomb was empty Sunday morning. So the Christians say this refers to Jesus ‘ death and bodily resurrection, and the “three days and three nights” are Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

But the Christians didn’t get through first or second grade in school if this is the way they calculate. From Friday night to Sunday morning are not three days and three nights. Friday night, all day Saturday, and Saturday night: this is two nights and one day — only thirty-six hours. Three days and three nights is seventy-two hours.

Christians will tell you that Jesus rose on the third day, but they never say He rose in three days and three nights. The question arises, if this is the sign that Jesus is the Christ why was the tomb empty on Sunday morning in just half the time? Why wasn’t his body in the tomb three days and three nights? There’s a real reason that tomb was empty. The tomb was empty in only half the time so that neither you nor anyone else would ever believe there was a physical resurrection. It did not meet the criteria.

Christians might be able to slosh over these very vital points in order to put forth the theology that His physical body resurrected. But the vital point is this: Jesus gave this sign to show that His physical body is not important. In the sixth chapter of John He says, “The flesh is of no avail. The words that I have spoken, they are spirit and life” (John 6: 63). Jesus’s words were dead not on Friday night, but on Thursday night, the night before the crucifixion.

 After the Last Supper, Jesus took his disciples up on a mountain and told them, “I’m going to be arrested, and they’re going to crucify me.” The apostle Peter had said when Jesus told them this before, “God forbid, Lord! This shall never happen to you.” And Jesus said to Peter, “Get thee behind me Satan!” (Matthew 16:22-23).

Why did Jesus call Peter Satan? Peter thought, as did the other apostles, that Jesus was the reigning Messiah that would establish the kingdom of God on earth by re-establishing David’ s throne in the world, and He would have a horse and an army and conquer the Roman Empire, setting the Jews up in ascendancy over the people of the world. This was the clergy’s concept at the time–the whole world better watch out, they thought, because the Messiah would be their conquering king. And the apostles also wanted Jesus to be the Messiah that would be the conquering king.

But as we saw previously, there are two Messiahs–the Suffering Messiah and the Reigning Messiah. So when Peter said, “Not you O Lord,” Jesus told Peter that he was Satan, meaning, “You’ve been with me all this time and you still don’t comprehend who I am (the Suffering Messiah).” During the Last Supper, Judas was all fidgety, thinking to himself, “Gee, maybe we’d better turn Jesus in.” Jesus told him, “Judas, go do what you have to do.” So Judas went to have Jesus turned in, for thirty pieces of silver in return, telling the Roman guards the one he kissed on the cheek would be the one they should arrest.

When Jesus called the apostles up on the mountain Thursday, Judas came to Him with some Roman guards and kissed Jesus on the cheek, and Jesus was arrested. Then all the apostles fled, and disbelieved in Jesus, thinking, “How could Jesus be the Reigning Messiah when he’s been arrested?” Just before this happened, Jesus told the apostles. “Tonight, everyone in the world will disbelieve in me.” Peter said, “O Lord, even if everyone disbelieves I’ll still believe.” Jesus told him, “Peter, before the cock crows you’ll deny me three times.” And this was fulfilled after Jesus’ arrest.

What I’m pointing out here is that there were no longer any believers in Jesus Christ that night. Jesus said this would happen. Jesus’ body was the church. This is found in the books of Colossians and Ephesians (Ephesians 1:22-23; Colossians 2:19). It says the body of Christ is the “Ecclesiasia,” which means: believers. During the night after Jesus was arrested there were no longer any believers, so the body of Christ was dead. The body of Christ was dead the day before the body that was “of no avail” was crucified. That’s why the tomb of the body that was “of no avail” was empty. It was empty because it did not contain the body that was going to resurrect. Three days and three nights from the time that Jesus was rejected by His body of believers, the apostles were in the upper chambers. Mary Magdalene had already told them that the tomb was empty. Then she spoke with them, and after she left they discussed this matter. 

The apostles were in “the upper chambers,” meaning that they were in meditation, in the highest regions of the intellect. In this meditation, Jesus appeared to them–and in their meditation, they recognized that Jesus was the Suffering Messiah. They saw the holes in His hands, in His feet, and in His side.

They said, “How dumb we are! Jesus didn’t come to establish the throne in the world. He said His kingdom was not of this world. Jesus is the Suffering Messiah, not the Reigning Messiah” They admitted, “We had hoped he was the one to redeem Israel” (Luke 24:21). Thus they all became believers in Him again. Thus on Sunday evening the body of Christ resurrected after three days and three nights!

There were no believers after the Lord’s Supper on Thursday night, until three days and three nights later, when the belief of the apostles was resurrected! Why does the Church teach otherwise? We’re just about to get into that.

But before we get into that, it says in the first chapter of Acts: Men of Galilee; why do you stand looking up into heaven: This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven (Acts 1.11).

The Christian reads this and says, “Oh, Jesus’ body did resurrect, and as He went up into the sky He’s going to come down from there. But this Bible passage doesn’t say Jesus went up into the sky, it says He went up into heaven. Jesus said He came from heaven (John 3: 13), and He didn’t come from the sky. He came from His mother. Do you know any men of Galilee? If you don’t, then how would you know how Jesus went up into heaven? …Because the men of Galilee were the only ones who saw how this happened! And there isn’t any place in the Bible where these men of Galilee say how Jesus went up there. 

But the Bible does say that the way Jesus left was in the hands of the law. He was arrested. He was judged. He was put in jail. He was condemned to death. He was crucified. And He said the same way you see Him go, is the same way He’s going to come again. 

That is, the people that rejected Him were the religious people of His day. They were the clergy! I want you to know that it was the clergy. They were going by their theologies, which are mythologies! These are the ones that condemned Him. And on His return, the same people rejected Him: the clergy! And they had Him arrested and put in jail. Baha’u’llah spent 40 years as a prisoner and an exile, although He was born an earthly prince with gold buttons on His coat. He was arrested and put in jail for the same reason as Jesus–Baha’u’llah proclaimed He was the second Messiah, just as Jesus claimed to be the first Messiah.

One more thing: Why is the clergy today in opposition to the return of Christ? Why do they want the same man to come back when the Bible is clear that the return is not the same man? The Bible says that Jesus was the son of David, that His physical body was not in the tomb three days and three nights, that His father Joseph was His physical father as a descendant of David, and Paul says that Jesus was born of the sperm of David. Why do the Christian clergy today teach otherwise? It’s because of paganism!

Today the people don’t know they’re in paganism. They don’t even know what paganism is. The reason why there is the same confusion about the return of Christ like there was at the time of the first coming of Christ is because the Church has become pagan! That is, the Church has accepted in the place of the One True God, three gods as one god.

There is not three gods as one God. There is not one god: “the Father,” one god: “the Son,” and another god: “the Holy Spirit.” There is but One Supreme God that is Invisible; that pervades All Space; that is All-Knowledgeable, and is All-Powerful. He does not become a person.

How do they explain the conception of Jesus? Some Christians say that God had an intercourse with Mary and placed His seed in her. Others say that God compressed Himself out of the universe into a tiny little pill and got inside of Jesus. Well if God was in there then the whole universe would be without protection. God surrounds all. He’s not surrounded so all these theories are bunk.

Where did they get this theory of the trinity? Not out of the Bible, but out of the pages of paganism. This was a universal religion alive at the time of Jesus.

Paganism as a religion started after the flood. Before the flood, the first Manifestation Adam had the people He was teaching separated from the people in the world that were pagan. Paganism as a belief started before Adam.

Before Adam there were four great civilizations coming after one another with four great Manifestations. There has never been a time when humanity was without the guidance of a Manifestation. But during these four earlier civilizations, each of which ended in a catastrophe, the people had not evolved to thinking in the abstract, so their civilizations did not teach an abstract God. The people knew they didn’t create themselves, but since they hadn’t evolved to understanding the abstract invisible God, they worshiped whatever they thought was more powerful than them or gave life to them: mostly the sun, moon and stars. This nature worship was the earliest type of pagan religion. The first pagan civilization’s name is not known, but the names of the next three were Mu, Lemuria and Atlantis. The sinking of Atlantis came just before Adam.

These people were just starting to think in the abstract, so God, for the first time, revealed Himself as the One Invisible God through the words of the Prophet Adam. The book of Genesis mentions the Prophet Adam, who had a wife named Eve, and it also mentions a story about them in the Garden of Eden, a parable that is outside of the scope of this present writing.

When He started revealing God to the people of His day, Adam found that most people had not evolved far enough to accept His message, so He taught His family. The descendants of Adam became spiritual, and He moved them to a secluded region in the mountains between Tibet and Eastern Turkestan called the Tarim basin.

After 1500 years, these descendants of Adam started having intercourse with people outside of the Adamic race who weren’t living according to His Revelation. Adam’s people started to revert back to their old condition, and they became corrupt, which was why they were drowned in the flood. The valley or mountain basin they were in filled up like a kitchen sink drowning everyone except for those that were on Noah’s ark.

After the ark landed on Mt. Ararat, the people Noah taught went into Shinar in Mesopotamia, which was populated by pagans. These pagans lived through the flood because they weren’t surrounded by mountains. The water just destroyed their dwellings.

After the flood, the wild animals began increasing faster than man. Of course, the animals could run faster than man, and they had sharp teeth and claws that they would use to tear up and eat people. The people, who were now without dwellings, had become vulnerable to the attacks of wild animals. They were easy prey. 

However there was a giant among the Adamites named Nimrod, an enormous man who was able to tear a lion or bull apart with his hands, and would wear the horns of the bull on his head as sign of his might. Babylonian art depicts Nimrod as half-man, half-bull, with cloven hoofs, a tail, and the horns of a bull on his head. This is the typical depiction of the devil or Satan. This shows where this concept of the devil began.

The 10th chapter of Genesis describes Nimrod: Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefor it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.” The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar. From that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and Resen between Niveveh and Calah; that is the great city (Genesis 10:8-12). 

Nimrod’s empire, starting in Babylon, extended from the Middle East to the Straits of Gibraltar in the west. It was the first empire in the history of the world. Nimrod established his empire by forming horseback hunting parties. He was the first man to tame the horse, with which he protected the people and gathered them from the forests into cities. The family of his wife Semiramis, who were masons, built walls around these people that they gathered together, and they built a tower inside the walls. The people could then climb up the to the top of the tower to observe the sunrise. Therefore, Semiramis became known as the goddess of the dawn or morning. Nimrod and Semiramis went from place to place gathering the people, protecting them from the animals. Nimrod would kill many of the wild animals so that the people could plant gardens and forage for food.

Nimrod became a great man and was a renowned benefactor as he taught Adam’s revelation of the One Invisible God everywhere he went. He was a very highly religious person. This is why he is referred to as “Lucifer,” which means “light-bringer.” Nimrod spread the civilizing light of Adam’s Revelation. People were more than happy to accept his empire. They considered him like an angel. But later on, Nimrod fell. The fourteenth chapter of Isaiah says “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!” (Isaiah 14:12; KJV).

This is referring to the fact that later, Semiramis, goddess of the dawn, claimed that her son was the reincarnation of Nimrod, so the son and the father were one, and her son was “the son of [goddess of] the morning.” 

As Nimrod expanded his empire, the hunting party he formed became the first Calvary, or the first army, to put down any instances of rebellion. This introduced war into history. As the people had not learned war up to this point, it was very easy for Nimrod to maintain his empire in this way. Although the people loved Nimrod, as they were greatly in his debt, they came to dislike the spiritual laws of Adam, resenting the strict personal discipline these entailed. They put pressure upon Nimrod to release them from these laws, and Nimrod relented.

Mythology recounts Nimrod’s fall in the story of Atlas, who lifts the heavens up to his shoulders. Since Atlas (Nimrod) was a giant, this allowed the people to walk in complete freedom rather than bowed in humility before the discipline of Adam’s Revelation. With another heave Atlas (Nimrod) raises the heavens above the sycamores, and then with a third heave he raises the heavens up above the mountains, which represents the total perversion of religion which Nimrod allowed, resulting in all types of licentiousness, corruption, perversion, orgies, drinking parties, drugs, etc. And this all entered into their religion. This brought the people away from turning to the One, True, Invisible God, and returned them to the worship of the sun, moon and stars. Nimrod’s father Cush was represented by Jupiter, and Nimrod was represented by Saturn. According to mythology Saturn was born from Jupiter. We get the word ‘Satan” from the word “Saturn,” the star of Nimrod.

This religion spread all over the world. The Bible says that there were different languages throughout Nimrod’s empire. There was a confusion of tongues. The way to say Nimrod and his attributes was different from place to place. Thus it eventually became lost that the various pagan male gods were the same god. It was all the same religion centered around Nimrod.

At the time that Nimrod’s empire was becoming corrupt, there was alive in the world a very highly spiritual being: Shem. Shem is also known in the Bible as Melchizedek.

The Bible says Melchizedek was the King of Salem. Salem was named after Shem. The word Jerusalem means City of Shem. Shem lived 500 years after the flood, and he was the beloved son of Noah. Shem became aware of Nimrod’s violations of the revelation of Adam. Shem spoke to the 72 judges of Egypt, who administered the laws Adam, notifying them that Nimrod had completely corrupted Adam’ Revelation and was now an apostate. These 72 judges listened to him and agreed with him.

At this time, Nimrod was away expanding his empire, but when he returned, he was brought to trial before 30 of the judges. They found him guilty of apostasy, of perverting the religion of Adam, and they sentenced him to death. Before they could execute the sentence, he had to be brought before the full body of 72 judges, and this full Council decided he should be cut up in pieces, with the different parts of his body sent to the different nations of his empire to show them how dastardly a matter it is to corrupt the Revelation of God.

When Nimrod’s widow Semiramis received a chunk of her husband’s body with a note attached explaining this was in punishment of Nimrod’s apostasy, she was furious! She was greatly loved by the people, as her family had built the walls of their cities, and she was considered the most beautiful woman in the world.

Religious scholar and historian of Babylon Alexander Hislop writes in his book The Two Babylons (p. 58): “If there was one who was more deeply concerned in the tragic death of Nimrod than another, it was Semiramis, who from an original humble position, had been raised to share with him the throne of Babylon. What, in this emergency, shall she do? Shall she quietly forego the pomp and pride to which she had been raised? No. Though the death of her husband had given a rude shock to her power, yet her resolution and unbounded ambition were in nowise checked. On the contrary, her ambition took a still higher flight. In life her husband had been honored as a hero, in death she will have him worshiped as a god.” 

Semiramis decided that since her husband was considered a god in life, she would make him eternally a god. To the paganism Nimrod encouraged, and to his deification, Semiramis added yet another new concept in: the trinity–a triune god.

Semiramis became pregnant. But since Nimrod had died long before her pregnancy, people wondered how this pregnancy came about. Semiramis explained that she was impregnated by the Holy Spirit, which resided in her womb. When the child was born, she said her child was the divine incarnation of his father Nimrod, and she named him Bar-Nin, meaning “son of Nimrod” (The word Nimrod comes from “Nimr,” which means “leopard,” and “rod,” which means “to subdue.”)

Because of the diverse languages, Nimrod and Bar-Nin were called by different names from place to place. For instance, in Egypt, Bar-Nin was called Horus: the divine son in whom Osiris (Nimrod) incarnated after he was dismembered and the pieces of his body were dispersed among the nations. The divine mother who gave birth to this divine son was Isis, the Egyptian name for Semiramis. Thus there were now three gods to whom worship was due–a father god, a son god, and a holy mother goddess–yet all of these were to be considered equal, because they were all to be considered equal parts of a triune god.

Semiramis replaced the emperorship of Nimrod with this new trinitarian religion. She indoctrinated her “divine son” into this religion, teaching him the Babylonian mystery of the three gods in one, and she set him up as the first high priest or Pontifex Maximus of trinitarianism. The people of the decaying empire of Nimrod turned to this religion in place of the emperor Nimrod. The trinity became an international pagan religion that spread throughout the world, and it eventually took over the Revelation of the true Divine Religions as they appeared: Judaism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism and Christianity.

Thus from Semiramis came a whole new type of paganism. Some of this religion retained the worship of the sun, moon and stars as god, but most importantly, it produced the triune god with Nimrod being god, Nimrod becoming incarnate in the son through the Holy Spirit, and Semiramis being the first Madonna. Thus this trinitarian religion was born into the world.

At first the people had to be convinced that this trinity was really true. In response, Semiramis offered a golden cup of intoxicants to the people who would come to pay tribute to her and her divine son. This concoction dulled their senses, convincing them to submit to initiation into the Babylonian mysteries: into the belief in three separate gods as one god. She also indoctrinated some of the people into her priesthood. A great deal of regalia and pomp accompanied this new trinitarian religion. The Pontifex Maximus or “chief priest” wore a great hat or miter shaped like a fish, since they said that Nimrod had originally come into the world from the sea. These narrations show Nimrod’s identity with the Philistine fish god Dagon. The Pontifex Maximus held a shepherd’s crosier, representing the fact that Nimrod had been the “shepherd king” who herded the people into cities after the flood. And the Pontifex Maximus bore with him the “keys of Janus and Cybele,” keys representing the “mysteries” brought into the world by Nimrod and Semiramis.

This trinitarian religion spread all over the world. The people of Greece got their religion from Phoenicia and Egypt which had both been part of Nimrod’s empire. Rome also got its religion from Phoenicia and Egypt. This pagan religion spread throughout Europe, so that the Druids in England, the Norsemen, the Danes, the Norwegians, and the Germans all had the same gods, only under different names.

Each son of Bar-Nin was called the Pontifex Maximus, with the individual who bore this title filling the role of both king of Babylon and head of the pagan trinitarian church. Each pontiff was worshiped as a god, and when he died, his statue was placed in a pantheon to be worshiped. The pontiffs and Semiramis as well, were each worshiped for a different specific purpose. One was worshiped for fertility, another for wealth, another for health, another for salvation, and so forth.

This religion revolving around the throne of Satan (Satan = Saturn = Nimrod) continued from century to century, although the breadth of Nimrod’s empire was never again brought together under one supreme control. There were clashes for supremacy, with various nations trying to win control.

Finally, in the last quarter of the 7th century B.C., the Pontifex Maximus Nebuchadnezzar, who was a direct descendant of Bar-Nin, established an empire in Babylon simulating Nimrod’s, though not nearly as large. Nebuchadnezzar called himself “the Conqueror of the world.” He conquered the monotheistic Jews, taking them and their king back with him to Babylon. 

However in 538 B.C., Cyrus, the King of the newly formed Median-Persian Empire, conquered the Babylonian empire. Cyrus hated the trinitarian pagan religion of Babylon, since he worshiped the One, True, Invisible God which he had learned of through Zoroaster, the ancient Persian Manifestation of God (Zoroaster began His mission in 1000 B.C.). Cyrus allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem where they would later rebuild their temple. He drove the pagan Babylonian throne of Satan completely out his realm and out of the Middle East.

The throne of Satan did not die, however. It was continued in the kingship of Pergamum in Asia Minor, which is Turkey today. The second chapter of the Book of Revelation describes Pergamum as the city of Satan’s throne (Revelation 2:12-13) where trinitarian paganism entered Christianity.

Once the kingship of Pergamum died out, the position of Pontifex Maximus needed a new home. The pagan triune god found its new capital city in Rome. Hislop writes: “Pergamos itself became part and parcel of the Roman Empire, when Attalus III, the last of the 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…. 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 as 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, on certain occasions, in the exercise of his high pontifical office, he appeared in all the pomp of the Babylonian costume, as Belshazzar [an ancient Pontifex Maximus of Babylon himself] might have done, in robes of scarlet, with the crosier of Nimrod in his hand, wearing the miter of Dagon and bearing the keys of Janus and Cybele” (The Two Babylons, p. 241).

Up until the Roman emperor Constantine and Christianity in the early 4th century A.D., the Roman emperors were both head of the Roman Empire and also Pontifex Maximus: head of the pagan church. Constantine’s proclamation of Christianity led to the merger of Christianity and paganism in the Roman Empire.

As head of the pagan church, Constantine wore the garb and paraphernalia of Satan which had been: passed down through the Babylonian Empire, preserved in Pergamum, willed to Rome, and worn by Julius Caesar and the subsequent Roman emperors. The Roman emperor Constantine wore the fish hat, the crosier, and the keys of Janus and Cybele.

In 325 A.D. at the Council of Nicea Constantine made an official decree combining the doctrine of the pagan trinity the Revelation of Jesus Christ. The trinity became the law of the Roman Empire if anyone refused to accept the new trinity with Jesus as the physically incarnated divine son of the father god, they would be put to death. 

In 381 A.D., the Roman emperor Gratian refused to wear the paraphernalia of Satan, but he passed it to the Roman Pope Damasus. Since the time of Damasus, every Pope of Rome has worn the garb of Satan: the fish hat, the crosier, and the keys of Janus and Cybele. Today, the pope wears the garb of Satan.

Just as the pagans had worshiped their gods (icons of their deceased pontiffs) in their pantheons and temples, the Christian pagans now worship their patron saints and their icons in cathedrals and churches. Semiramis–who was Ashtoreth to the Jews, Aphrodite in Greece, Venus in Rome, known also as Astarte, Ishtar, Aurora, Diana, Rhea, Urania, and Isis, is worshiped now as Jesus’ mother Mary. These pagan practices and concepts of the trinity continue in full bloom today in the Catholic Church!

Historian Will Durant states that paganism conquered Christianity, saying that paganism continued “in the form of ancient rites and customs condoned or accepted and transformed by an often indulgent Church.” Durant explains: “An intimate and trustful worship of saints replaced the cult of the pagan gods, and satisfied the polytheism of simple or poetic minds. Statues of Isis and Horus were renamed Mary and Jesus” (The Story of Civilization Vol. IV p. 73).

The trinitarian pagan clergy withheld the Bible from the people for over a thousand years in order to firmly establish the trinity in Christianity, since everything about the trinity is reviled in the Bible. God plainly states in the second commandment: Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in the heaven above, or is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And showing mercy unto thousands of them that keep my commandments. (Exodus 20:3-6; KJV).

By the time Martin Luther got the Bible into the hands of the people, the trinity which included the perverse concept of a deified son-god named Jesus, had become so ingrained in their minds that they accepted it as fact. Today’s pagan trinitarian clergy won’t go against the pagan triune god, for they find that the trinity is good business–people love it, as have all trinitarian pagans for thousands of years. So this is the world to which the second Christ comes. Why haven’t the people turned to the second Christ, the One that God sent to bring the Kingdom of God on earth? Because they’re drunk with the wine of the Babylonian whore, believing in three gods in the place of the One True God. Jesus never said He was a god or that there was a trinity of gods that were all gods. Nor did Jesus say that Mary or anyone else was a god or goddess to be prayed to. No wonder the people don’t accept the return of Christ. They’re in paganism!

The second Christ, Baha’u’llah has come, and He fulfills the prophecies for the Prince of Peace. In order to show you to show you His proofs, we first had to clear away some cobwebs and see what kind of a world Baha’u’llah comes to, and why the people of the world have not accepted Him. No wonder Baha’u’llah was arrested, no wonder He was put in prison, no wonder the clergy today reject Him. They’re in the religion of Satan!

We will now look at how the criteria we used to prove Jesus prophesied name, date, address, and mission–also proves Baha’u’llah. If these criteria prove Jesus, the same criteria applied to Baha’u’llah would prove Baha’u’llah.

  Note: Bible verses are taken from the Revised Standard Version unless otherwise indicated.
 

We will now look at the prophecies for the date of the Return of Christ, which are very important. There might have been someone else named Baha’u’llah, and He might have come from Iran to Israel, so we need to get this in the framework of a time period. Let’s start with the book of Matthew, where the disciples ask Jesus about the date of His return.
 

“As he [Jesus] sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, ‘Tell us, when will this be and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?’” (Matthew 24:3, RSV).
 

Here the disciples ask Jesus three questions: When are you coming, what will be the sign of your coming, and what is the sign of the close of the age? Jesus then gives many signs which you can read on your own, but we will focus on the conclusive sign He gives for the close of the age:
 

“So when you see the desolating sacrilege spoken of by the prophet, Daniel; standing in the holy place (let the reader understand)” (Matthew 24:15; RSV).
 

Here Jesus Himself doesn’t give you the date, but He says to turn to the book of Daniel. Daniel gave the date for the coming of Jesus. As well, Daniel gives the date at which the Second Christ will come. Jesus tells us to go to the chapter which speaks of the desolating sacrilege and the holy place. This is as follows:
 

“Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to the one that spoke, ‘For how long is the vision concerning the continual burnt offering, the transgression that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and host to be trampled underfoot?’ And he said to him, ‘For two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary shall be restored to its rightful state” (Daniel 8:13-14).
 

Here Daniel mentions the “transgression that makes desolate,” which is the same as the “desolating sacrilege” that Jesus told us to look for in Matthew 24. It also refers to the “sanctuary,” with is the same as the “holy place” that Jesus told us to look for in Matthew 24. So we know we’re looking in the right place.
 

In the 43rd chapter of the book of Ezekiel, Ezekiel has a vision about the temple about the Glory of the Lord [Baha’u’llah] coming from the east to Israel. This is explained in the information about the prophecies for the address of the Return of Christ. Ezekiel was a high priest so he was concerned with the re-establishment of the temple. His vision told us that the re-establishment of the temple would take place with the coming of The Bab and Baha’u’llah. Similarly, Daniel tells us about the sanctuary of the temple being restored to its rightful state.
 

Daniel and Ezekiel were Jews who were taken into captivity in Babylon. When Nebuchadnezzar took the Jews into captivity he removed the ark of the Covenant from the Holy of Holies and brought it to Babylon where it was lost. After this the Jews rebuilt the temple and the sanctuary but they lacked the ark of the Covenant to complete the Holy of Holies. Therefore, Jews like Daniel and Ezekiel wanted to know when their sanctuary would be fully restored.
 

In the above prophecy, Daniel says this will be in 2300 days. In prophecy each day is as a year. This is explained in Numbers 14:34: “…forty days, for every day a year….” This is also mentioned in Ezekiel 4:6: “forty days I assign you, a day for each year.”
 

Therefore, the 2300 days that Daniel is referring to are 2300 years. These 2300 years start from the time that that abomination of desolation came to an end. This took place in 457 BC when the edict was issued to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. From 457 BC to the birth of Jesus gives us 456 years. This leaves 1844 years remaining, which means that the 2300 years come to an end in 1844 AD. This is the date Jesus indicates that the sanctuary would be restored.
 

Under the law of Moses, the sanctuary was cleansed with the blood of sheep and goats. According to the 7th, 8th, and 9th, chapters of the Book of Hebrews, Jesus cleansed the sanctuary in heaven not with the blood of sheep and goats, but with his own blood.
 

But in this day we are looking for the birth of the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven that Jesus told us to pray for in the Lord’s prayer which says: “Thy kingdom come… on earth as it is in heaven.”
 

In Matthew 24, Jesus was being asked about the time of his return and the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth. So we’re looking for the time of the cleansing of the sanctuary on earth. The date we are given is 1844 AD. Baha’u’llah’s forerunner, The Bab, started the Baha’i calendar in 1844 AD. The Bab made His proclamation on May 23, 1844. But He started the calendar on March 21, 1844.
 

According to the Book of Ezra, King Artaxerxes’ order to rebuild Jerusalem was given on March 21, the first day of the first month of the Persian calendar, which started with the vernal equinox (Ezra 7:9). March 21, 1844, is the starting of the Baha’i calendar, which occurs exactly 2300 years from the order to restore and rebuild Jerusalem issued by Artaxerxes.
 

The Bab purified the sanctuary by being killed six years after His mission started. The Bab was shot with 750 bullets in an execution arranged by the clergy, just as the clergy was behind Jesus’ execution. In addition, 10,000 of The Bab’s followers were martyred with Him in the course of His mission, shedding their blood to cleanse the sanctuary. The Book of Jude says (verse 14):
 

“And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand saints, to execute judgment upon all….”
 

Ten thousand of The Bab’s followers were martyred in Persia, practically down to the last one. They were killed in the most inhumane manner. They were split apart, their enemies drove holes in their flesh, put lighted candles in the holes, and made them run down the street with horseshoes nailed to their feet. They put rings in their noses and paraded them through the streets naked, and so on. These martyrs sacrificed themselves so that the holy Revelation of God would be established in the world.
 

Yet despite these great sacrifices, today the peoples of the world remain sunk in the depths of paganism, following Satan.
 

To explain, Nimrod, the grandson of Ham, who was the son of Noah, organized this world’s first kingdom. Nimrod was known as the god of the Chaldean Mysteries. In the Chaldean mysteries, the Babylonian dictator Nimrod was deified as Saturn. Satan and Saturn are the same words, one ‘Early Latin’, and the other ‘Late Latin.’ His birthday was celebrated on December 25th or the Saturnalia. The worship of Saturn was adopted into the Christian church formally during the time if the Roman Emperor Constantine. He called for a council to meet in Nicea, and from that council came the Nicene Creed, which delineates the doctrine that Jesus is a god, part of a three-god trinity made up of the father-god, the son-god, and the holy spirit that supposedly inhabited the womb of a virgin, causing the reincarnation of the father in the form of a son.
 

The leader of this pagan religion was first Nimrod, and later, the King of Babylon. The King of Babylon was called the Belshazzar, and he paraded around the streets wearing the same outfit that the pope wears today. This is because the pope took on this role of the Belshazzar, after the beliefs of Nimrod’s religion crept into Christianity. The pope is now seated on the throne of Nimrod, Saturn, or Satan. He wears the fish hat, representing the fish god, which was one way to depict Nimrod.
 

The apostle John spoke about this in the book of Revelation:
 

“And to the angel of the church in Per’gamum write: ‘I know where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is; …I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice immorality’” (Rev. 2:12-14).
 

Here John is writing down what Jesus was telling him in a vision. Jesus told him the throne of Satan had crept into Christianity in Pergamum in Rome. At that time, Rome ruled over this area but today, this would be near the city of Bergama in western Turkey.
 

To go into detail a bit more, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, reestablished Nimrod’s Empire and was the head of the Trinitarian religion that was invented and established by Nimrod’s wife Semiramis.
 

Nimrod’s Empire consisted of an area extending from the Middle East all the way to the straits of Gibraltar. Nimrod claimed that his star was Saturn, giving us the name of Satan.
 

After Noah’s son Shem went against Nimrod and went to the judges of Nimrod’s empire and convinced them that Nimrod was allowing himself to be worshiped as a god, thus going against the religion of the One True God as taught by Noah. The judges decided Nimrod was going against God, they decided he should be executed for heresy and his body cut up into chunks. A chunk was sent to each nation of his empire.
 

When his wife Semiramis received a chunk of her husband’s body, she became furious and vowed to get even. She became pregnant and claimed that her womb was the habitation of the Holy Spirit, and that the fetus inside her womb was the reincarnation of Nimrod.
 

When the child was born into the world, Semiramis called her son Bar Nin, meaning “the son of Nimrod.” She claimed he was the incarnation of his father Nimrod.
 

In this way, Semiramis created the Trinitarian god lie which consisted of the father, the son and the holy spirit. This Trinity doctrine crept into other religions including Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity.
 

Cyrus the Great, a Zoroastrian believing in the One, True, Invisible God, conquered the Babylonians. Because the Jews also worshiped the One, True, Invisible God, Cyrus not only allowed the Jews go back to rebuild their temple that had been destroyed in the city of Jerusalem by King Nebuchadnezzar, he also expelled the pagan religion of the Trinity out of his empire to Pergamum.
 

From Per’gamum this religion crept into Christianity, and at the Council of Nicea, this Pagan religion was voted in as the official religion of the Roman Empire. In 325 AD, Constantine made an edict that this Trinitarian religion was the official religion of the Roman Empire and that everyone must accept this or be put to death. However, most of
the true Christians left Rome and went to the northern part of Europe and multiplied. Later, in the eighth century, Charlemagne went up to the Saxons in the northern part of Europe with an extremely large army and forced all these people, after he lopped off a million of their heads, to accept this Pagan Trinitarian doctrine.
 

Because so many religions now accept this Trinitarian paganism as being a religion from God, you can’t expect much from the majority of the people. That’s why there will be the great calamity in the world before the people awake and accept the Revelation of God for this age.
 

Having seen the date prophecy for The Bab, let’s turn to the twelfth chapter of Daniel which gives us some more important dates. A lot of Christians read this next chapter but the poor Christians are under the delusion of Satan, so how can they understand it?
 

“At that time, shall arise Michael the great prince. who has charge of your people” (Daniel 12:1).
 

The word Michael means “one like God.” Each of the Manifestations are mirrors which reflect God ­­ they are ‘like God” because they reflect God. Thus this “Michael” refers to a Manifestation. He is the “great prince” because He’s a direct descendant of King David and is seated on the throne of David.
 

“And there will be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation, till that time” (Daniel 12:1).
 

Jesus said something similar: “For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be, and if those days had not been shortened, no human being would be saved” (Matthew 24:21­22).
 

Has there ever been so much trouble in the world? We’ve made instruments of war by which within an hour, a third of mankind will be dead. How terrible this age is, with all of its problems. The people have been coalesced together by rapid transit and rapid communication. You can go around the world in no time; while before most people never got more than thirty miles from their home and they did this mostly on foot.
 

Whereas today, we’re all thrown together, and this has caused all the different ideologies, religions, and concepts to clash together, giving us a very dangerous situation, especially considering the trouble in the Middle East. The great trouble in the Middle East is the starting of Armageddon.
 

“But at that time your people shall be delivered, every one whose name shall be found written in the book” (Daniel 12:1).
 

Everyone that turns to Baha’u’llah’s Covenant will be delivered ­­ God’s people. And all those who are in paganism and the various Covenant-breaking sects and denominations are going to get their medicine too, whatever that may be.
 

“And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt” (Daniel 12:2).
 

Those who “sleep in the dust of the earth” are the materialists. Practically everyone is a materialist, abiding by the “get mine while I can get it” way of life. Some of these people will get away from the paganism, and awake to become believers in the Second Messiah Baha’u’llah, and will win everlasting life; while some will not awake until the bombs drop and the destruction is about to fall upon them. But they’ll awake to shame and everlasting contempt.
 

“And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever” (Daniel 12:3).
 

The wise are they who use their intellect to know the truth. They don’t just believe on faith. They don’t just follow some false leader. The wise decide for themselves whether something is true. Most of the Christians say you should believe on faith, and you don’t need any proof. But the wise judge justly, by proof.
 

“But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, until the time of the end” (Daniel 12:3).
 

The book of Daniel was sealed, meaning no one would understand what it means until the time of the end.
 

“Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase” (Daniel 12:4).
 

There has never been a time in history with so much intercontinental travel and communication, and with such great expansion of knowledge as is going on today.
 

“Then I Daniel looked, and behold, two others stood, one on this bank of the stream and one on that bank of the stream. And I said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream, ‘How long shall it be till the end of these wonders?’ The man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven; and I heard him swear by him who lives for ever that it would be for a time, two times, and half a time” (Daniel 12:5­7).
 

Daniel is receiving a date here. He gives the date as “a time, two times, and a half a time.” This gives us three and a half times. A time is a circle, and a circle is the length of time it takes to get back to the beginning. It doesn’t matter how large or small the circle is it always consists of 360 degrees.
 

We have three and a half times; so 360 multiplied by 3 ½ is 1260. The Bab and Baha’u’llah came in Iran, where they use the Arabian lunar calendar. This calendar begins with Muhammad’s flight from Mecca to Medina, which is called the Hegira. The year 1260 on the Muslim calendar is the same as year 1844 on the Christian calendar, which is when The Bab made His proclamation. The year 1844 AD is the same as 1260 AH (After the Hegira). On May 23, 1844 AD, which is 1260 AH, The Bab made His proclamation. So here we have the date for The Bab, but this time the date given in the vision to Daniel was given for the Arabic calendar as 1260 AH. We’re approaching the date for Baha’u’llah, so let’s continue on:
 

“…and that when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end, all these things would be accomplished” (Daniel 12:7).
 

The shattering of the power of the holy people who follow the Manifestation of God continues today, but it will be over soon.
 

“I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, ‘O my lord, what shall be the issue of these things?’ He said, ‘Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end'” (Daniel 12:8­9).
 

Here Daniel says: God, I don’t understand all this! God means by His reply: Those words are sealed until the time of the end when they will be fulfilled, and those who fulfill it will explain what it means.
 

In fact, numerous Christian writers figured out that this time, two times and a half a time would be fulfilled in 1844 AD, but they expected Jesus to come out of the sky at this time. This 1844 date was also discovered in the chronological timeline in the Great Pyramid of Giza. But they didn’t understand that it referred to the coming of The Bab.
 

In 1844 The Bab closed the door to the prophetic age or the age of prophecy, and opened the door to the age of fulfillment. The word “Bab” means “door” or “gate.” On the very day of The Bab’s proclamation, the inventor Samuel Morse sent the world’s first telegraph message from Baltimore to Washington. Morse’s message read, “See what God hath wrought.”
 

Since the date of The Bab, all the countries of the world have become connected through communication and transportation. Since the date of The Bab, a whole new world has unfolded with the railroad, the steamship, the airplane, and the forms of rapid communication. The ear of the horse and buggy is gone. The Promised One, The Door, came in 1844. He opened the door to this age.
 

They asked Jesus when would be the close of the age, and He refers us to Daniel, who says the close of the age of prophecy will be in 1844 AD or 1260 AH.
 

Are we going to call Jesus a liar? Are we going to call Daniel a liar? Are we going to call God a liar?
 

Now we’re going to get the date for Baha’u’llah:
 

“Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves pure and be refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand” (Daniel 12:10).
 

Here we see none of the wicked will understand. Who are the wicked? The ones that refuse to use their intellect to understand. God gave you your intellect to understand ­­ but if you don’t use your intellect and you just follow a clergyman that is corrupted with the religion of Saturn or Satan, you’ll end up in the den of Satan. You have to use your intellect. None of the wicked will understand, but the wise will understand ­­ the wise are those that use their intellect.
 

The clergy says, “You don’t want to use your intellect, you have to go by the heart.” But the intellect must lead the heart. The heart is not intelligent. It’s liable to love anything. We have to be guided by the intellect. God tells us the wise shall understand.
 

“And from the time that the continual burnt offering is taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days” (Daniel 12:11).
 

When Muhammad came, He did away with all types of burnt offerings or sacrifices, including the Eucharist which existed in Christianity. The Eucharist is the ritual where Christians drink wine, which symbolizes the blood of Jesus, and the bread, which symbolizes the body of Jesus. This ritual replaced the ritual of sacrificing animals at the altar of the temple. Paul explained in the New Testament that the martyrdom of Jesus made him the eternal sacrificial lamb, and that His sacrifice cleansed the sanctuary in heaven once and for all time.
 

The ritual of drinking wine and eating bread was explained by John in John 6. The drinking of the wine symbolizes belief in the covenant brought by Jesus, and the eating of the bread symbolizes digesting the teachings of Jesus. The covenant of Jesus is His promise that He would return to establish the Kingdom of God on earth.
 

The ritual of the Eucharist was the continuation of the burnt offering. Thus, it is the “continual burnt offering” that Daniel refers to when he says: “…from the time that the continual burnt offering is taken away, …there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.”
 

Muhammad took away the continual burnt offering because He did not require Muslims to perform the ritual involving wine and bread. Rather, He taught the Muslims to pray five times a day toward the point of adoration. The point of adoration was the temple of Moses or the Jewish temple that housed the Presence of God. Although the Jewish temple was desolate of the Presence of God during the time of Muhammad, nevertheless Muhammad had the Jews turn to Jerusalem as the point of adoration.
 

However, a number of Jews became believers in Muhammad, and at one point when Muhammad was fighting a battle alongside these Jews, they decided to abandon Him during mid-battle. After that, Muhammad changed the point of adoration to be Mecca on the Arabian Peninsula, where a huge meteorite had once fallen, and it was turned into a place of worship. This was the place were Abraham originally had his son Ishmael and Ishmael’s mother Hagar worship. Later, it was taken over by paganism, and after the coming of Muhammad it was designated as the place that Muslims turn toward when they pray, and it is called the Kaaba.
 

Thus the beginning of this prophecy from Daniel for the date of the coming of the Return of Christ refers to the time of the proclamation of Muhammad, which is when “the continual burnt offering is taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate is set up….” Muhammad proclaimed Himself to His wife and a few others ten years before the start of the Arabic calendar.
 

The “abomination that makes desolate” refers to treachery committed against Muhammad by Jewish tribes during a battle, after which Muhammad changed the direction of prayer from Jerusalem to Mecca, thus making the holy city of the Jews desolate. From the proclamation of Muhammad to the proclamation of Baha’u’llah was exactly 1290 years. In prophecy a day equals a year, so 1290 days equal 1290 years. The proclamation of Baha’u’llah was on April 21, 1863. This proclamation was 1290 years on the Muslim lunar calendar from the proclamation of Muhammad 10 years before the Hegira. The date in 1863 AD when Baha’u’llah proclaimed Himself was near the beginning or the Muslim year 1280 AH. Twelve hundred and eighty years (1280), plus the ten years further back in time to when Muhammad proclaimed Himself, which took place years prior to the start of the Muslim calendar, gives us 1290 years. Thus Daniel gives us the date for Baha’u’llah.
 

So here we have just seen the dates for the close of the age and the coming of the Second Christ which Jesus said we should refer to Daniel for. Now we have Baha’u’llah’s name, His address, and His date, but we still need to see what mission is prophesied for the Second Christ.   ​We find this in the second chapter of the book of Isaiah: “It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills and all the nations shall flow to it…” (Isaiah 2:2) This prophecy is for the latter days, which we are in today. This mountain is Mt. Carmel, the seat of the International Baha’i Center where the Universal House of Justice will be established. The King James version says that the mountain of the Lord’s house will be “established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills;” this exaltation is a spiritual height rather than a physical height. All the nations shall flow to it, meaning that all the people will come into the Kingdom and will flow to this International Center on top of Mt. Carmel. “… and many peoples shall come, and say: ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.'” (Isaiah 2:3).
 

In contrast to the triune god concept in Christian doctrine, the God of Jacob is the One, Invisible God that created everything. The peoples of the world will flow to the One True Invisible God of Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham — not to the pagan trinity.
 

“For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem” (Isaiah 2:3).
 

“Zion” is the city of David. King David conquered a fort on Mount Zion. Then he lived in the fort and named it the City of David. Later, King David started building the temple on a nearby hill, and that also became known as Mount Zion. As the surrounding area was settled, it was called Jerusalem.
 

Baha’u’llah is the Prince of Peace that Isaiah foretold. He revealed God’s plan for a Universal House of Justice with the Davidic Kingship as the president, head, or executive of it. God promised King David in Psalm 89, that this kingship would exist as long as there is life on this planet.
 

Baha’u’llah revealed God’s plan for the establishment of the Universal House of Justice. In the Bible this is foretold as the “House of the Lord” because it is an internationally elected congress or house of representatives. The plan revealed by Baha’u’llah is for all the nations to recognize this as being God’s plan, and then participate in its election. Because the plan is for a descendant of King David, through Baha’u’llah, to be at its head, therefore the prophecy in Isaiah says the law will go forth form Zion.
 

Isaiah says the word of the Lord will come from Jerusalem. The word Jerusalem means “City of Peace.” Isaiah is not referring to the physical city named Jerusalem in Israel. Rather, he is referring to the “New Jerusalem” which comes from God out of heaven. This is referring to the Laws of God that are revealed by Baha’u’llah, and which will help establish a spiritual civilization on earth.
 

The “New Jerusalem” was seen in John’s vision that is talked about in the Book of Revelation.
 

“And in the Spirit he carried me away to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God’ (Revelation 21:10).
 

The meaning of this was also explained by Baha’u’llah’s son Abdu’l-Baha in his book Some Answered Questions in chapter 13: “Commentary on the Twelfth Chapter of the Revelation of St. John:”
 

“Likewise, the religion of God is described as the Holy City or the New Jerusalem. Clearly, the New Jerusalem which descends from heaven is not a city of stone and lime, of brick and mortar, but is rather the religion of God which descends from heaven and is described as new. For it is obvious that the Jerusalem which is built of stone and mortar does not descend from heaven and is not renewed, but that what is renewed is the religion of God” (http://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/#r=saq_en-13).
 

This heavenly Jerusalem is the new Revelation for a civilization of peace based on the laws that Baha’u’llah brought.
 

“He shall judge between the nations and shall decide for many peoples.” (Isaiah 2:4).
 

Baha’u’llah prescribes the formation of an International Tribunal in which all the nations will simultaneously disarm and settle their differences and their boundaries over a council table. After settling their boundaries, they will make covenant of peace among themselves. The people will then elect secondary Houses of Justice in every nation, and these Houses of Justice will elect a Universal House of Justice.
 

The Davidic King descended from Baha’u’llah will be the Executive or President of the Universal House of Justice.
 

“And they shall beat their swords in to ploughshares and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.” (Isaiah 2:4).
 

Baha’u’llah came to put an end to war, and to set up the Universal House of Justice on top of Mt. Carmel and have all the nations flow to it or become members of it. This House of Justice will not be set up until after the catastrophes which are imminent. Following this catastrophes, the United States, England, France and Russia will become the first Baha’i states. They will set up an International Tribunal or World Court which will be an interim body until the establishment of the Universal House of Justice. The other nations will join this body as they become Baha’i, and by the end of this century, everybody in the world will be Baha’i. All the nations will belong to the Universal House of Justice on the top of Mt. Carmel, and we’ll have a thousand years of peace.
 

Now let’s turn to the ninth chapter of Isaiah, the sixth verse:
 

“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called, ‘Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.’”
 

During Christmas, Christians often place a sign over the nativity scene reading, “Unto us a child is born….” They are referring to this prophecy. They attribute this prophecy to Jesus Christ. Well, we have to agree that Jesus did not come out of the sky, and that He was a child, a son, that was born from his mother. This is the only part of the prophecy, however, that could possibly refer to Jesus.
 

The prophecy also says: “…the government will be upon his shoulder.”
 

Jesus was a carpenter’s son. Certainly the government was not upon His shoulder. In fact, the only thing Jesus said about government was:
 

“Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s” (Luke 20:25).
 

Also, the prophecy in Isaiah 9:6 says this person will be the Prince of Peace. Jesus addressed this in Matthew 10:34:
 

“Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword” (http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/r/rsv/rsv-idx?type=DIV2&byte=4599213).
 

If Jesus would have claimed to be the Prince of Peace, He would have been the biggest failure in history. There has been nothing but war from the time of Jesus until today. Jesus never claimed to be the One with the title of the Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father. Rather, He said He was the Son. He also said He would return in “the Glory of the Father” in Mark 8:38:
 

“For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of man also be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels” (http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/r/rsv/rsv-idx?type=simple&format=Long&q1=ashamed&restrict=New+Testament&size=First+100).
 

Jesus is foretelling the coming of Baha’u’llah, Whose name means “the glory of his Father.” Baha’u’llah is the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Isaiah uses the words “Mighty God” to refer to Baha’u’llah because each of the Manifestations reflect God as a mirror reflects the sun. Baha’u’llah reflects God in the Glory of the Father, and therefore, we have a greater concept of God through Baha’u’llah than through any of the previous Manifestations. This is because the mental capacity of the people of this age is much greater than ever before in history. Jesus alluded to this when He said:
 

“I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth” (John 16:12-13; http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/r/rsv/rsv-idx?type=DIV1&byte=4926419).
 

Baha’u’llah has come to bring us into this greatest Revelation of God. Isaiah continues:
 

“Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David, and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and for evermore” (Isaiah 9:7).
 

Isaiah says “of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end.” Certainly there was no peace during Jesus’ age, but once Baha’u’llah’s peace is established there will be no end to it. There will also be no end to the increase of Baha’u’llah’s government, as all the peoples of the world will belong to it.
 

But the main thing Isaiah mentions is that this government will be “upon the throne of David and over his kingdom.” That is, God will rule from the throne of David. God doesn’t talk to us from a great voice in the sky. He doesn’t shout down at us with a megaphone. He always talks to us through a person. And God has chosen a kingship that He set up long ago at the time of King David, to look over His kingdom. God told David in His Covenant that His kingship would last forever. The Holy Spirit also told this to David’s sons Nathan and Solomon. This appears in Psalm 89 and many other places throughout the Bible. This throne has existed all the way down to the present time, and now the plan is for it be seated at the head of the Universal House of Justice, elected by all nations after the catastrophes. Isaiah says this kingdom will be established with righteousness and with justice for evermore, meaning the Universal House of Justice will be established and will maintain peace as long as there is life on this planet.
 

Now let’s turn to the eleventh chapter of Isaiah in the King James Version of the Bible:
 

“And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots” (Isaiah 11:1).
 

Jesse is the father of David. The “stem of Jesse” is his penis. Out of the father of David [Jesse] is going to come David. David will have a “rod” of authority, which is the scepter a king holds in his hand. This son of Jesse is King David, and the kingship is the everlasting Kingship of David. The root of Jesse from which the “Branch shall grow out,” appears in the latter days.
 

The tenth verse of this chapter explains: “And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse…” meaning today, in the latter days.
 

The root of Jesse is Baha’u’llah, Who is the Manifestation of God seated on David’s throne. The Branch is Baha’u’llah’s son ‘Abdu’l-Baha. These next verses in Isaiah about the Branch refer to ‘Abdu’l-Baha:
 

“And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out his roots: And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord, and shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears…” (Isaiah 11:2-3).
 

In other words, ‘Abdu’l-Baha is not going to establish justice in the world personally, but in his Will and Testament he delineates the institution of the Universal House of Justice with the president or executive at its head, which will bring justice to the world.
 

“But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them” (Isaiah 11: 4-6;http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/r/rsv/rsv-idx?type=DIV2&byte=2646917).
 

Here Isaiah speaks of the justice which will come into the world. For the first time in the world, we’re going to have justice. Each Manifestation emphasizes a particular quality of God. For instance, Moses emphasized the law, Buddha–enlightenment, Zoroaster–purity, Krishna–detachment, Muhammad was a Comforter, and Jesus emphasized love, but we’ve never had justice in the world. The Universal House of Justice prescribed by Baha’u’llah and delineated by ‘Abdu’l-Baha will establish justice.
 

In this prophecy Isaiah mentions all sorts of animals living together in harmony. But if a lion were to literally lay down with a lamb, the lamb would probably wake up in the lion’s stomach. Some Christian sects, such as the Jehovah’s witnesses, actually think the animals will change. They try to interpret these prophecies but they don’t understand a thing in the Bible.
 

These animals are symbols of nations. The lion is the symbol of Great Britain. The eagle is the symbol of America. This prophecy is saying that the nations of the world, which have been at war since the time of Nimrod, are going to lie down together in peace and harmony. This will be due to the establishment of the Universal House of Justice which ‘Abdu’l-Baha delineates in His Will and Testament. Isaiah says “a little child shall lead them.”
 

This little child is the United States. The United States brought a whole new concept of government. The original founders of the United States came from oppressive religious conditions in Europe where they were forced to believe whatever the clergy taught, often at the threat of death. They escaped this and set up a government with separation of church and state, with the different areas of the country joined only by political union. This was so diverse sects and denominations could live in harmony together without religious conflagration. This concept caused a unity in the United States which allowed the country to reach great heights of development. Now every country in the world has some form of separation of church and state, following after the United-States. The United States is “the little child that leads” because although it is one of the last of the great nations to have formed, it leads the world in religious freedom.
 

“And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand–on thee cockatrice’s den. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.” (Isaiah 11: 7-9; http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/r/rsv/rsv-idx?type=DIV1&byte=2608974)
 

In other words, all of the conflict in the world today is going to be done away with. This will follow the great catastrophes that are upon us. The people of the world will turn to the Revelation of Baha’u’llah and to ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s Universal House of Justice with the Executive, or Davidic King, at its head. With all the world at peace, we can turn our gaze to greater things than what we’ re occupied with now. We can focus on the arts and sciences, the betterment of the mind, the development of spirituality, and the education of the children. This earth will become a paradise, a rose garden. Everyone will be able to fully engage in the craft, art or science in which he or she is interested. The people won’t have to work long hours at small pay because computers and machines will produce most of the goods. People will have time to spend on becoming spiritual.
 

Today it’s dog-eat-dog, and we’re supporting a trillion-dollar military budget each year, with the funds for this budget coming out of the pockets of the poor. The poor of the world don’t have enough to eat and they don’t have enough to clothe themselves with because they’re paying for this tremendous military arsenal of nuclear armaments. So the Revelation of Baha’u’llah brings a whole new world, which has been promised by God in His book.
 

“And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious” (Isaiah 11:10).
 

The Gentiles will seek the ensign of the nations, Baha’u’llah, because Baha’u’llah’s son ‘Abdu’l-Baha adopted a Gentile, Mason Remey, as his son. This son was appointed by the first Guardian Shoghi Effendi to be the next Guardian, and the successor to the Davidic Kingship. Thus, through adoption, the Davidic Kingship switches from the genealogy of the tribe of Judah, to the Gentiles. This fulfills the prophecy of Genesis 49:10, which says that the scepter will not depart from the physical descendants of Judah until the coming of Shiloh, and to Shiloh will be the gathering of the people. That is, when the scepter passes from the tribe of Judah to the Gentiles, all the people will be gathered:
 

“And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathyro, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.” (Isaiah 11:11).
 

That is, the Lord will take His hand a second time to gather together all of Israel. The first gathering of Israel took place by the Hand of Baha’u’llah. The twelve tribes of Israel divided after the death of Solomon, and they were never united back together again. Two hundred years after Solomon’s time, in 721 BC, the northern ten tribes were taken captive into Assyria and Media, and they became known as the ten lost tribes of Israel. The other two tribes, Judah and Benjamin, were taken captive to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar in 606 BC and 586 BC. They remained in Babylon for seventy years.
 

Some of them returned to Jerusalem after seventy years. Jesus Christ was descended from these Jews. But the great mass of Jews remained in Babylon with the Exilarch, the exiled Davidic King, who was the direct male ancestor of Baha’u’llah.
 

Nebuchadnezzar’s son Evil-Merodach had set up the exiled throne of David in Babylon. Baha’u’llah’s father sat on the throne of David, and so did his father, and his father before him, back to the Kings of Israel through the Exilarchs, and all the way back to David himself.
 

After Baha’u’llah made His proclamation in 1863, He was taken as a prisoner to Israel. As He was taken, along with about seventy family members and close adherents, to Israel through the lands where the ten tribes of Israel had been scattered in ancient times, thousands of people became believers. Many of these believers were descended from the ten lost tribes who had been lost in identity by being converted to Zoroastrianism and Islam over the ages. Thus these ten lost tribes were regathered under the Covenant based on their belief in Baha’u’llah’s teachings.
 

Baha’u’llah and His family were of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. As a descendant of King David, Baha’u’llah Himself was of the tribe of Judah. Thus when a remnant of these lost ten tribes accepted Baha’u’llah and went with Him to Israel, joining Baha’u’llah and His other followers, this was the regathering of the twelve tribes. This was the first regathering of Israel.
 

Baha’u’llah extends this gathering to anyone who accepts His Covenant. When they do, they are grafted into the twelve tribes of Israel under its new name Baha’i. The Baha’i Faith has spread to every nation, language and people of the world.
 

Baha’u’llah says in His Book of Certitude, also called the Kitab-i-Iqan, pp. 29-32:
 

“As to the words—‘Immediately after the oppression of those days’—they refer to the time when men shall become oppressed and afflicted, the time when the lingering traces of the Sun of Truth and the fruit of the Tree of knowledge and wisdom will have vanished from the midst of men, when the reins of mankind will have fallen into the grasp of the foolish and ignorant, when the portals of divine unity and understanding—the essential and highest purpose in creation—will have been closed, when certain knowledge will have given way to idle fancy, and corruption will have usurped the station of righteousness. …’oppression’ is the essential feature of every Revelation. Unless it cometh to pass, the Sun of Truth will not be made manifest…. by ‘oppression’ is meant the want of capacity to acquire spiritual knowledge and apprehend the Word of God. By it is meant that when the Day-star of Truth hath set, and the mirrors that reflect His light have departed, mankind will become afflicted with “oppression” and hardship, knowing not whither to turn for guidance” (http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/KI/ki-1.html.utf8?query=oppression&action=highlight#fr19).
 

With the passing of the Guardian Shoghi Effendi, the Hands of the Cause, who were administrative assistants to Shoghi Effendi, broke the Covenant and tried to do away with God’s kingdom. These Hands set up a Republic of God, Incorporated, to replace the Kingdom of God revealed by Baha’u’llah. The Hands hoodwinked the people into following the republic they created. Only the Guardian can declare someone a Covenant-breaker, and the Guardian declared these people Covenant-breakers. At that moment, the people all over the world who accepted the Hands’ creation were expelled from the Baha’i Faith. Thus the Hands violation resulted in the scattering of the people. That is why Isaiah says they will be gathered a second time. This going on now, and this is the purpose of this paper: to bring those Baha’is who were scattered, and also the whole world into the Baha’i Faith, which is the Kingdom of God on earth. First, we will have 144,000 people. This is the number given in the Book of’ Revelation for the number of the elect who are sealed with the sign of God upon their foreheads–meaning they will comprehend this message with their intellect. The minute there are 144,000 believers, there will be a thermonuclear war. The Book of Revelation says the four winds of destruction will be held back until we have the 144,000 from the twelve tribes of Israel–this number representing twelve thousand people for each tribe (Revelation 7: 3-8).
 

The Baha’i Faith is Israel under its new name, as Baha’u’llah gathered the twelve tribes; thus everyone who accepts the Baha’i Faith becomes part of the twelve tribes. Before the bombs drop, the whole world will hear via the news media this message of the Kingdom. When this message of the Kingdom reaches the air waves, those pure enough in heart to accept it will arise, and will come into the Kingdom very rapidly. The mission of Baha’u’llah is to bring the Kingdom of God on earth that Jesus Christ told us to pray for. This kingdom will be upon the Davidic throne, Baha’u’llah being a direct descendant of King David through the Exilarchs, His father having sat on the throne of David in Mazinderan, Iran.
 

Baha’u’llah fulfills the same prophecies. He came in the name that was prophesied by Jesus, Ezekiel and Isaiah–in fact, Baha’u’llah’s name appears throughout the Bible as “the Glory of God,” “the Glory of the Lord,” or “the Glory of the Father.” Ezekiel and Jesus didn’t speak English, but rather Aramaic, so they literally said “Baha’u’llah.” The name Baha’u’llah” has been prophesied, and this was fulfilled in Baha’u’llah’s coming Baha’u’llah fulfilled the prophecy of the address. He was exiled from the East to Israel, to Sharon and Mt. Carmel, and Carmel was to blossom as a flower, which was all fulfilled.  Three dates were given pertaining to the coming of Baha’u’llah. The eighth chapter of Daniel gives the 2300-year prophecy which brings us to 1844, as it was 2300 years from the order to restore and rebuild Jerusalem to the coming of the Bab. They asked Jesus when the close of the age was and when He would return, and Jesus said refer to Daniel, we turn to the eighth chapter of Daniel and he gives us 1844. The Bab came in 1844, closing the door to the prophetic age and opening the door to the age of fulfillment. The 12th chapter of Daniel gives the date of 1260 on the Muslim calendar, which is 1844 on the Christian calendar–when the Bab made His proclamation. Then Daniel gives us another date–the 1290 years, which is the amount of time between the proclamation of Muhammad ten years before the Hegira to the proclamation of Baha’u’llah 1290 years later on the Muslim calendar, on April 21, 1863. And now for the second gathering of Israel, Daniel gives us a third date, which is the 1335 days (Daniel 12: 12). ‘Abdu’l-Baha says this should be figured from the victory of Muhammad, which was in 628 A. D. 1335 years from 628 A. D. brings us to 1963 A. D. Abdu’l-Baha also said this prophecy would be fulfilled exactly 100 years from Baha’u’llah’s proclamation. Exactly 100 years from Baha’u’llah’s a proclamation, on April 21, 1963, there was a man who fulfilled this prophecy, which is also the prophecy for the man of the 3rd chapter of Zechariah.
 

This man, is the 7th Angel of the Book of Revelation, and he is alive today. The 7th Angel is sounding his trumpet, as prophesied in Revelation, meaning he is broadcasting this message of the kingdom to the world to gather the 144,000. Before looking at the role of and the proofs for the 7th Angel, we will need to look at the Covenant of Baha’u’llah. This absolutely essential, all-important subject of the Covenant will be treated in a forthcoming writing.
 

So in conclusion, there might have been other people named Baha’u’llah, and they might have come from the East to Israel, but Baha’u’llah did it in chains. If Baha’u’llah did this as a free person, people might say this was the work of an impostor to fulfill prophecy. But Baha’u’llah had no control over this–He was brought in chains from the East to Israel, first under the Persian Government then under the Turkish Government. Baha’u’llah came in the prophesied name, the address, the date, and Baha’u’llah did one more thing–He fulfilled the mission of the Reigning Messiah seated upon David’s throne. There’s the calling card. This calling card is the method God gives us in order that we may know for sure if a person is from God or is an impostor.
 

There are a whole lot of people saying they are the Christ. There are a whole lot of people claiming to be the Promised One. The Christians are waiting for Him to come out of the sky–the pathetic Christians, that is. We, on the other hand, use our intellect and we look at these prophecies. We see that He’s going to come from the East to Israel–He’s not going to come out of the sky. Baha’u’llah fulfills the prophecies for the Prince of Peace, and all the people will become followers of Baha’u’llah. And the 144,000 people who accept Baha’u’llah’s Revelation before the catastrophes will be essential in establishing the Kingdom of God on Earth.   SATAN   ​In the book of Genesis, we are given the story about Adam, Eve, and a serpent.
 

Because of science, we know that Adam and Eve were not the first man and woman. In the fifth chapter of Genesis, verse 2, we are told that God created male and female and called their name Adam. If male and female are both Adam, then who is Eve? The word ‘Adam’ comes from Adamah, which means red-earth. Both male and female are created from the “dust of the earth” and are the highest form of creation upon this earth.
 

Within the realm of physical creation, there are four planes of existence. This is referred to as the arc of ascent and descent.
 

The first plane of existence is the mineral kingdom, which are a combination of particles and elements, the building blocks, so to speak. They are without the power for any growth or reproduction and can never become part of a higher kingdom of their own volition. For example, carbon, only under the influence of heat and pressure or forces of nature, becomes a diamond. It still remains a mineral. It could never become a flower.
 

We then have the vegetable kingdom, which has the power of growth and reproduction. Within the seed is the invisible life force that allows it to become a rose, or an ear of corn. It contains the mineral, which shows that even the lowliest of creation has a purpose.
 

When the flower dies, it returns to the earth once more. No matter how it may evolve, it can never become a part of a higher creation of its own volition. [pic of why life]
 

We then have the animal kingdom. Now the animal has minerals and vegetables, composed of elements and the power of reproduction. So, what does it have that minerals and vegetables do not? It has the power of the five senses: hearing, sight, taste, touch, and smell. In this manner, the animal is able to meet its needs. However, when it dies it too goes back to the earth.
 

Now the highest form of creation upon this planet is the human kingdom. Within its creation are the mineral, vegetable, and animal. We have the ability to reproduce and the five senses. How then are humans different from the animal? We have the ability to think in the abstract; to calculate, reason and combine. You can talk to a cow and explain that the earth is round but the cow will never understand the concept. Now the quality to comprehend the intangible is called the soul, which is connected to the body but not in the body. We can envision it this way. Light may be reflected in a mirror, thus a part of it, but not connected to it.
 

So, what then is the purpose of our existence? We see that the mineral kingdom is to support all of the higher kingdoms. The vegetable exists to support the animal. The animal supports the human kingdom. Therefore, the human kingdom also has a purpose.
 

The Creator, God, is unknowable as He pervades all space and time. God is infinite in His essence. If we went into space and continued on we would just continue to traverse more space. The purpose of our intellect is so God could be known. In order for God to exist, there must be some form of creation to comprehend His existence. A radio wave exists but it cannot be heard unless there is a radio tuned in to receive it. Thus, we have to be “tuned in.” So why didn’t God just create us all to know Him? We were created with an imperfection, the freedom of choice. Without it, we would be like robots. All humans have the capacity to either turn towards God or away from God. Why this imperfection? God wanted to be loved. Now if you were to go to your girlfriend and say to her, “Love me or else”, would she love you in return? Of course she would, but it would be out of fear and not of her own choosing. So why should we love God? Look around us. All the beauty of this world, the mountains, lakes, and rivers. Flowers, trees, prairies and so much more. Say you were in the desert and had run out of water, hot and nearly on the verge of collapse. Suddenly your friend appears and gives you some water. You would be extremely thankful and every time you saw your friend you would say how kind they were to give you water so you could continue to live. God is asking us to return His love for all the wonderful things He has given us. So God has given us two very wonderful things: life and our intellect. He did not ask us if we wanted these things. He gave them to us out of His love for us. Therefore, with our intellect we come to know God, His Infinite Being, through the Manifestations. By Their teachings, all people can come to know and love God.
 

So where does Satan fit into all of this? The story of the creation of man within Genesis is not a literal or physical story, it is a parable. Adam is male and female and is placed in the garden of Eden. This means that the physical body is in the garden of Eden, which is representative of the womb. In the womb of our mother, we are provided all the things necessary for life on this earth. Also, within the womb, opposites do not exist. The “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” represents being born into this world, a world of opposites; hot, cold; light, dark; good, bad, etc. We die when we eat of this tree, meaning, we leave the womb and are born. Now Genesis records that God wanted a helper for Adam (male and female) and thus created Eve, which is the soul or spirit of man. The serpent is representative of our intellect. ‘Abdu’l-Baha says the serpent is attachment to this world. It is our intellect that guides us in the choices we make in our lives, sometimes not always that great, but this is how we grow spiritually. Now the mind or intellect is the window to the soul. It influences the soul and thus if we are bound to our materialism, greed, hate, prejudice, etc. then it crawls on its belly like a serpent. It is our intellect that tempts us. The seed of the intellect can bear bad fruit, but the seed of the soul is always pure. Thus throughout life there is a tension between the woman and serpent or soul and intellect.
 

We can see then that there is not a created force opposing God. God did not create Satan. What He did create was the intellect and soul within man and the freedom to choose between the two. When we turn our intellect towards God we grow spiritually closer to God and thus when we pass from this plane of existence we continue to grow towards God in the next realm. (Depicted above in the image)  When man turns away from God, seeking only that which is of the physical, then our souls do not develop and the further an individual goes away from God, the more “Satanic” they become. If I were to walk into a store and steal something, is Satan telling me to do that, or is it my own mind that says, “What the heck. I know it is wrong, but I really want that tool. I can get away with it.” I know right from wrong but I choose to do wrong and take the tool. Satan is our twisted intellect that darkens our soul.   ​Up until the time of Adam, humankind could not think in the abstract; that is, they could not calculate and combine as we do. We have a reasoning capacity. Humankind did not know of the existence of God, therefore they worshipped only what they could see or feel: the sun, moon, stars, etc.
 

Today we call this paganism because with the appearance of Adam, the first Manifestation, humankind was taught that there was an Omnipotent, Invisible Creator giving direction to our lives. Through the teachings of Adam, the people came to know and love God. Man is slow to learn and not all the people had come to accept Adam and His teachings. Thus we read in Genesis that God “saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” (Genesis 6:5)
 

It was then that Noah appeared and there was the flood. Noah had three sons; Shem, Ham and Japheth and Ham was the father of Canaan. We find a story in Genesis 9:20-27 that shows Noah having become drunk from the wine and Ham witnessed this and told his two brothers. Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and covered Noah.
 

The meaning of this is that Ham was looking at the defect (nakedness) of Noah, that is the physical, while Shem and Japheth did not look at their father’s nakedness, only his spirit. It was then that God cursed the descendants of Ham. Ham was also the father of Cush who was the father of Nimrod. Scripture identifies Nimrod to be the first “mighty man” on earth and that he was a mighty hunter before the Lord. “The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar.” (Genesis 10:10)
 

After the flood the animals were multiplying at a faster pace than humans. Nimrod was able to tame the horse and thus would hunt the wild beasts and protect the people. This also enabled him to form the world’s first cavalry. He went out with this cavalry, which no one had ever seen before and was able to conquer other areas and create his kingdom. The people began to look at him as a great savior. Nimrod than became proud and allowed the people to worship him rather than the One True God. He led the people away from the true teachings of Adam.
 

Shem, who was the blessed son of Noah, who was still alive, heard of Nimrod’s apostasy and convinced the judges in Egypt of this. It was decided that Nimrod should be cut into pieces and sent to the different nations he conquered as a lesson. Now Nimrod had a very beautiful wife named Semiramis and upon hearing of her husband’s death became enraged. What was she to do? She was the Queen of Babylon. She swore that as Nimrod had been worshiped in life as a god, so too would he be worshiped in death. Semiramis became pregnant and the people wondered how her pregnancy came about, which was after Nimrod’s death. She explained that the child had been miraculously conceived by the Holy Spirit.
 

Upon the child’s birth she claimed that he was the divine incarnation of the father Nimrod, naming the child, Bar-Nin or the son of Nimrod. Now Nimrod had become known as the “Father of the Gods” and Semiramis claimed that he was now reincarnated in the son. This is the beginning of the worship of a trinity: Nimrod, the father; Bar-Nin, the reincarnation of the father, and the womb of Semiramis, the Holy Spirit. Later, Semiramis would come to be known as Alma Mater, or the Virgin Mother.
 

Lucifer
 

For awhile, Nimrod had taught the teachings of Adam. As time went on, he began to lead the people away from the strict laws of Adam, allowing him to be worshipped as a god. What we see then, is Nimrod initially being an angel from heaven, that is a pure soul who taught the teachings of Adam. Due to his pride and corruption of Adams’ teachings, paganism was reestablished in the world. Thus we read in Isaiah: “How art thou fallen from heaven [the turning away from the true teachings of Adam], O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations.”     i

The Mission of the Establisher is to Establish all the Provisions of the Covenant which is referred to as a Scroll

  So I got this letter that Rex had gone to see the guardian in 1969, and presented him with the idea that he was to be the regent guardian, and here he appoints him as Satan. I said, “It’s about time that the guardian took action on this man.” But it wasn’t until Rex had destroyed the Baha’i Faith underneath the guardian.
 

I received this letter at about 11 o’clock. I read it, and I meditated on it, and I wondered just what was going to happen. Practically the whole Baha’i Faith was destroyed. So I was somewhat disenchanted, but I knew there was an answer to these things.
 

So I went to lunch. It was just about noontime, and went over to the chow hall. It took about forty-five minutes for lunch, and I came back. When I came back from chow, I found a Bible had been tossed in between the bars of my cell and had landed on my table. It was open, and a stiff page with a color picture was standing straight up in the Book of Zechariah, it was the kind of Bible with pictures.
 

When I came back in, I picked it up. I knew it didn’t come down out of the sky and out of heaven, and I held my hand at this place, and I looked at the front, and I found that this was Myron Gardipee’s Bible. His parents had given it to him–they thought he might become religious. He was going out on parole. He told me a day or two before that he was going out on parole, and one of the things that they usually do is that they leave something of themselves to their friends as a memento of friendship. I had befriended Myron, and he knew I was religious. He didn’t care about the Bible or religion anyhow, so he just threw it in my cell. He didn’t know what to do with it; he didn’t want to take it out with him.
 

And here it was open to this page. And I read what it said, because I’m always a stickler that these things just don’t happen by accident. I always feel that there is possibly a bigger reason or cause for things to happen. Many times I’ll just take a book and open it up and then start reading, and it usually has a message. Sometimes there’s a question I’ve been mulling over in my mind, and there’s the answer.
 

So I go to the next page, the one on the other side of the picture, and I get over to chapter three, and I started reading there. And it said: “And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him” (Zechariah 3:1).
 

I said, “My, this is a coincidence. Here’s a fellow by the name of Joshua that was opposed by, Satan, the same as I was.”
 

I was a Knight of Baha’u’llah, one of the most effective teachers in the United States, bringing thousands of people into the Cause, and here Rex King had taken over the Baha’i Faith and destroyed it. He had to get rid of me, and he did, by the tactics that he used. He got this far, and he figured he’d be able to wrench the Faith out of the hands of the guardian, which he wasn’t able to do. So here Rex King had resisted me the same as happened to this Joshua fellow.
 

“And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan” (Zechariah 3:2).
 

I said, “Oh my gosh, this Satan got rebuked in the time of Joshua like Rex King is being rebuked by the guardian here.” I was seeing the parallel between the two here. I was listening to one of the ministers from the Armstrong group the other night, and he says there’s always a parallel in the Bible. For instance, something happens in the Bible and then this is sort of a prophecy of things that will take place, or it happens twice. For instance, there’s been two Christ’s; Jesus was the first Christ and Baha’u’llah was the second, and the conditions that surrounded one also took place with the other. But I wasn’t thinking along these lines, I was just thinking along the lines that here was a coincidence of something happening to Joshua that was happening to me. It says:
 

“…even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?” (Zechariah 3:2).
 

When Rex King came under the guardian Mason Remey, Mrs. Norton was the one who was in correspondence with him, and she said, “I plucked him out of the fire.” So that happened to come to my mind, that here this man was plucked out of the fire by Brenda Norton. So then it says: “Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel” (Zechariah 3:3).
 

“Oh my gosh,” I said. When I got to prison, the first time I went to chow hall I was going through the yard, and the other inmates sitting out in the yard were saying, “Dirty jacket, dirty jacket, dirty jacket!” The type of beef that I was sent there on, a lewd and lascivious act, was called a “dirty jacket.” Now if I’d have committed murder, or robbed some old woman of her money or something like that, they would think I was a great guy. But this type of beef they don’t associate with in prison; it’s a dirty jacket. So here I’m wearing a dirty jacket, and this Joshua’s wearing a dirty jacket, he’s wearing a dirty garment– here’s some more of the parallel.
 

“And he answered and spake 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 the with change of raiment.” (Zechariah 3: 4).
 

Later on I looked this up in Halley’s Bible handbook, which is for Christians, and it said that this Joshua here pertains to the coming of Jesus (later on I looked this up).
 

And I said, “Well this happened to this Joshua here, is this going to happen to me?” Then it says: “And I said, let them set a fair miter upon his head. So they set a fair miter upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the Lord stood by” (Zechariah 3:5).
 

And I said, “What’s a fair miter?” So I looked it up in the dictionary, and it was the turban of the High Priest. And “the fair miter” means he gets the turban when he reaches a certain state of spiritual knowledge and spiritual character. It also refers to the miter board the college graduate that the plasterers use to hold plaster; it’s flat on top. They call that a miter board. “Well,” I said, “he had a miter board, and his iniquity passed from him, is this going to happen to me?”
 

“And the angel protested unto Joshua saying, 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” (Zechariah 3:6-7).
 

Shoghi Effendi was in the process of establishing National Baha’i Courts in the East when he died. That’s why he was going to have an International Baha’i Court on Mt. Carmel in 1963, in order for those local courts to appeal to. And I said, “Is this applying to the Baha’i Faith?” I started thinking maybe this applies to the Baha’i Faith, too, because there was such a correlation.
 

“…and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by. 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” (Zechariah 3:7-8).
 

The word “BRANCH” is in all capital letters, and I’m reading from the King James version because this is the Bible that was shoved into my cell, and this is the version I should take it from. This is the very one that was given to me way back in 1969. This has been in my possession in meetings and when I teach the Faith all that time.
 

So it says “the BRANCH.” I said, “Oh my God, the Branch is ‘Abdu’l-Baha!” We studied that in Baha’u’llah’s Covenant, where Baha’u’llah appoints ‘Abdu’l-Baha to be the Most Great Branch: to be His Successor. And all the guardians are called branches. It says if Shoghi Effendi’s son doesn’t have the spiritual qualities he must choose another branch. So this is the Davidic Kingship.
 

I said, “My gosh, this isn’t history, this is a prophecy!” But then I started thinking, “What am I thinking, what am I saying? Am I this person? Far be it from me to have thoughts of such a nature. I never dreamed of being anything.” I was becoming befuddled, and I didn’t feel very comfortable with myself or what was happening there. It was very disturbing to say the least.
 

And then it says: “For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the Lord of Hosts” (Zechariah 3: 9).
 

And I said, “Stone with seven eyes. How can a stone have seven eyes?” I looked around to see if there were any stones around the room. No stones. I said, “A potato can have eyes, but how can a stone have seven eyes?” I counted the bars on my cell and on the windows, and there was no stone before me, so I didn’t have to worry about this pertaining to me. And I was very much relieved; I was very, very much relieved that it didn’t pertain to me.
 

And at that moment I had a visitation. And it says, “Dr. Jensen, you are the Joshua of the third chapter of Zechariah.” And it says, “You will establish the branch in the world.”
 

And the first time he told me, it sounded like he said, “You are the branch.”
 

I said, “Get away, I don’t want to have anything.” Then it came that I would be establishing the branch.
 

I didn’t see anything, but I felt something, and I knew that there was a strong presence there telling me that I was this. And I told him to leave.
 

I said, “I don’t want to be perverted or corrupted with such a thing.” I’m a very practical person, and if I had practical evidence of this nature accept it, but not just because an angel tells me that I’m this or that.
 

The spirit of God descended upon Jesus as a dove, and the angel Gabriel came to Muhammad in the cave of Hira. I was like Muhammad. Muhammad ran home to His wife Khadija, and he was very frightened. He said an angel told Him that He was the Prophet of God. And she said, “What angel was it?”
 

And He said, “The angel Gabriel.”
 

She said, “Oh, Gabriel’s a good angel, and if he tells you this, you are a Prophet,” and she became His first believer. But I didn’t have a Khadija to go home to, I was in a cell! And I was very much disturbed, and I told the angel to beat it, just like Muhammad did. He ran out of the cave and the angel followed Him out, he was very disturbed on this.
 

So I said, “Well, there’s no stone with seven eyes, I don’t have to worry about it.”
 

At this particular time, they were trying to get me to go to work. The doctor said I didn’t have to work; I had trouble breathing, a little bronchitis. To do physical work riles it up. If it was something without physical parts to it, it would be all right, but he said I didn’t have to work.
I’d been busy writing. The guardian Mason Remey told me that I was going to write a book and that he was going to publish it. And I never had a chance to write a book, I was always too busy.
 

When I opened my practice in Missoula, I was going to school in the daytime and practicing in the daytime. From early morning to midnight I was busy doing things. All the time I was in Joplin, or anyplace else I had no time to write a book. But now I had plenty of time, so I started writing a book. I didn’t know what exactly to write. I said, “I’m supposed to write a book, what in the world am I going to write?”
 

The deputy warden called me up to the office quite often and asked me, “Dr. Jensen, don’t you think it would be a good idea for you to take a job here in the prison?”
 

I said, “I don’t need ten cents a day.” That’s all they paid.
 

He said, “Well, but you might go stir crazy in that cell.”
 

“Oh,” I said, “I’ve got good company.”
 

He said, “Who’s in there with you?”
 

I said, “Oh, I’ve got a very good companion.”
 

He said, “Who’s that?”
 

I said, “Myself. I’m good company to me. You don’t need to worry about me I’m writing a book, I have a typewriter in there, I’m getting the manuscript written.”
 

He said, “OK.” But he kept calling me.
 

One day he called me up there, and he said, “Dr. Jensen, would you like to go to work?”
 

And I said, “No.”
 

But the day before that, there was a man in not the next cell, but the cell down from that, he heard me typing in my cell and he said, “Dr. Jensen, is that you typing?”
 

I said, “Yeah.”
 

He said, “Oh thank God I found somebody who knows how to type. I’m working in the fingerprint department up there. I passed parole and I’m ready to go out on parole, but I don’t have a trade, and they told me that if I went out to Rathey Hall (which is about seven miles from the prison) they have a meat-packing plant out there. If I went out there they would teach me meat cutting. And they have several jobs in meat-cutting available. But they won’t let me go out there because they have nobody to fulfill my position in the fingerprint department because they haven’t got anybody that knows how to type in the prison. Will you take this job?”
 

I said, “No, I don’t have to work.”
 

So later on the deputy called me up there again and he said, “What would you do if you were going to go to work?”
 

I said, “This fella in the next cell to me, or the next cell down from there, is fingerprinting, and he made parole, and he needs somebody to take his job so he can go out to Rathey Hall and learn meat-cutting.”
 

“Aha!” he said. “That’s your job! You’re gonna work at that.”
 

I said, “I get tired all of a sudden quickly. When I get tired, I have to lay down. And this is one of the reasons the doctor told me I don’t have to work, because when I get tired, I’m tired. I just have to lay right down right then.”
 

He said, “Alright, we’ll make this part of your worksheet that any time you feel tired, just tell them you’re tired and you can go up to your cell and go to sleep, or lay down, anything you want to do.”
I said, “Fine.” Under those conditions I took it.
 

After I was on that job for several weeks, I heard one of the guards saying, “They’re bringing another one in.” I was up in the Administration Department. And they said, “They’re bringing another one in through Tower Seven.” That means they were bringing another convict in, a new convict.
 

I looked out the window and there was a two-story tower. Upstairs was a man with a gun and there were windows all the way around. Below there was a door to the street and a door to the prison yard. They opened the door to the street and he went into a room. They electrically closed the door, locked it, and then they opened the door to the prison yard. A sheriff was bringing him in, handcuffed, out of that room into the prison yard, and then they came up the steps to the Administration.
 

I looked out there and saw all this happening, and I asked the guard, “That is a stone wall out there, isn’t it?”
 

He said, “Every bit of it is stone wall.”
 

I said, “You said this is Tower Seven. How many towers does this prison have?”
 

He said there were seven!
 

He said, “And that’s Tower Seven.”
 

I said, “Where are the other towers?”
 

He said, “Well over there in that corner is Tower One, in the other corner is Tower Two, in the other corner is Tower Three, in the middle there is Tower Four, in the other corner Tower Five and in the other corner Tower Six.” And he said, “You come in through Tower Seven and you go out through tower seven.”
 

So I stood up, and I turned around, and every way that I turned, I had a stone with seven eyes before me. This is a picture of this stone with seven eyes.
 

So no matter which way I turned, I had the stone with seven eyes before me. You can see the Administration building that I was looking out of. After this happened I became very, very disturbed, I just became very emotional, and I told the guard, “I’m tired. I have to go and lay down.”
He said, “Go ahead, you can go back to your bailiwick.”
 

So I went back up there, and I looked in the mirror, and I was white as a ghost. I said, “My gosh.” The only reason I had objected to being this person was that all the conditions weren’t fulfilled; I didn’t have the stone with seven eyes before me. Now I find that I have it before me.
 

I was opposed by Satan on April 21st of 1963. This fulfills the 1335 days prophecy of Daniel 12:12. Start with 628 AD, the Victory of Muhammad, add 1335 to it and you get 1963. ‘Abdu’l-Baha said that this was to take place exactly 100 years from Baha’u’llah’s proclamation. And exactly one hundred years from Baha’u’llah’s proclamation, Rex King attended that of Feast of Ridvan and started talking against me, which caused me to be elected in ninth place; otherwise I probably would have had the highest number of votes. But his object was to do away with me, just like the Covenant-breakers we’re trying to do away with the guardian. He was trying to do away with me because he knew I would be defending the Faith.
 

So I was opposed by Satan on that date given by Daniel, and I had the stone with seven eyes before me, and mission is to establish the BRANCH, which the Covenant-breakers have done away with. They’ve done away with the kingship, the BRANCH, and the succession from Baha’u’llah. My job is the establisher of the Baha’i Faith. I fulfill the prophecies for the seventh angel that ‘Abdu’l-Baha said is going to establish the Baha’i Faith. I fulfill the prophecies, the name, date, address and mission.
 

But what is the name? We have to find the name, otherwise it doesn’t work. So let’s go back to the scripture again, and it says here, in the ninth verse of the third chapter of Zechariah:
 

“For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes:”
 

There’s another stone. I was born in a stone house. And the one I was in here had 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.”
 

Wow! I looked in other Bibles and it says “the land.” Well that’s my name, the land, Leland. “Le” is French for “the.” When I was over in the French Islands and I told them my name was Leland, they said, “Oh, you’re the land, you’re the land!” That’s how I happened to know that this is my name. And the iniquities of the land are going to be removed in one day, and it says in the fourth verse the iniquity of Joshua is going to be removed. The iniquity of the land and the iniquity of Joshua is what? The dirty garment. My iniquity was the dirty garment, that’s what I was in prison for, and Joshua’s iniquity was the dirty garment. So the Joshua and the land is the same person. It’s the name in which the establisher, the seventh angel, is going to establish the branch.
 

And the reason that I’ve been able to be successful in doing this is that I fulfill the name: the land–Leland. The address is the stone with seven eyes. And the mission is to bring forth the branch that is the Davidic kingship, the continuation of the Davidic kingship.
 

Now where is the stone with seven eyes? We need to know to make sure that this is the proper stone with seven eyes. I’m reading from the sixth chapter of Zechariah: “And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains and the mountains were two mountains of brass.” (Zechariah 6:1).
 

And in other versions it says “copper.” The Hebrew word for copper, brass and bronze is the same word. The Montana state prison, the stone with seven eyes, is between the two biggest mountains of brass in the world. Butte is the richest hill in the world. They got more copper out of there than any other place in the world. And there are bigger deposits of copper in Lincoln, Montana. Deer Lodge, where the prison is located, is halfway between these two mountains of brass. He says he saw four chariots coming from between two mountains of brass.
 

“In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses; and in the third chariot were white horses; and in the fourth chariot grizzled and bay horses. Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord? And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth” (Zechariah 6:2- 5).
 

And out of this prison has come the core of the Baha’i Faith under the guardianship. The stone with seven eyes is in the Bible. Joshua the High Priest comes out of there, and if you read it in the Catholic Bible it says “Jesus the High Priest.” Baha’u’llah fulfilled the prophecies for the Second Christ, or the return of Christ, which means a descendant of David that is anointed. But the High Priest is not a descendant of David. The High Priest is a descendant of Aaron, of the Aaronic priesthood.
 

But Jesus was a High Priest, not after the order of Aaron, but after the order of Melchizedek. And I’m after that order of Melchizedek. As the paganism that was being established by Nimrod Jesus was a High Priest after the order of Melchizedek establishing the One True God. But this paganism came into Christianity and took over Christianity. So I’m the return of Jesus the High Priest whose mission is to fight against this Babylonian whore religion, the trinity, which I am doing.
 

On page 66 of Some Answered Questions, ‘Abdu’l-Baha explains that the seventh angel will come to establish the kingdom of God in the world. If you read starting at page 55, you will find that ‘Abdu’l-Baha explains that Joshua, in the time of Moses, established Moses’ religion in Palestine. He took the twelve tribes across the River Jordan and established the religion. ‘Abdu’l-Baha says ‘Ali was the establisher of Islam. ‘Ali was like Joshua in the time of Moses. He then goes on to say that Quddus, the establisher of the Babi Faith, was like ‘Ali. These are the establishers of the Revelations of the Divine Manifestations. Ali was the fifth angel, Quddus was the sixth angel, and the seventh angel is the establisher of Baha’u’llah’s Revelation.
 

Then, on page 66 of Some Answered Questions, ‘Abdu’l-Baha says the seventh angel is going to come, meaning that he was not the seventh angel, that Baha’u’llah was not the seventh angel, that the Bab was not the seventh angel, that the seventh angel hadn’t come yet. He said he’s going to come and establish the kingdom.
 

On page 66, ‘Abdu’l-Baha explains verses from the 11th chapter of the Book of Revelation, and He comes to the part about the seventh angel:
 

“And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven saying, the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever” (Revelation 11: 15).
 

“The seventh angel is a man qualified with heavenly attributes, who will arise with heavenly qualities and character. Voices will be raised, so that the appearance of the Divine Manifestation will be proclaimed and diffused.”
 

That is, this seventh angel will proclaim and diffuse this Divine Manifestation of Baha’u’llah because the Covenant-breakers have taken over the Baha’i World Faith and corrupted it and perverted it. So the seventh angel sounds his trumpet:
 

“In the day of the manifestation of the Lord of Hosts, and at the epoch of the divine cycle of the Omnipotent which is promised and mentioned in all the books and writings of the Prophets–in that day of God, the Spiritual and Divine Kingdom will be established.”
 

No way can these Covenant-breakers establish the kingdom because they have done away with the king. They are presenting a republic in its stead. It is up to the seventh angel to establish this. And this is why God kept this seventh angel up His sleeve to do this.
 

“… and the world will be renewed; a new spirit will be breathed into the body of creation, the season of the divine spring will come, the clouds of mercy will rain, the sun of reality will shine, the life-giving breeze will blow, the world of humanity will wear a new garment, the surface of the earth will be a sublime paradise; mankind will be educated, wars, disputes, quarrels, and malignity will disappear, and truthfulness, righteousness, honesty, and the worship of God will appear; union, love, and brotherhood will surround the world, and God will rule for evermore: meaning that the Spiritual and Everlasting Kingdom will be established.”
 

Meaning that this seventh angel is going to establish the kingdom, not the Covenant-breakers’ republic.
“Such is the day of God. For all the days which have come and gone were the days of Abraham. Moses and Christ, or of the other Prophets; but this day is the day of God, for the Sun of Reality will arise in it with the utmost warmth and splendor.”
 

There are different editions of the book Baha’u’llah and the New Era by Dr. Esslemont, so I won’t give you the page of the following passage, which comes from that book, but I’ll tell you which section it’s from. It’s under the title “Prophecies of Baha’u’llah,” under the subheading, “Coming of the Kingdom of God.” This is what the seventh angel is establishing, the coming of the Kingdom. This is the writing of Dr. Esslemont, who wrote this book in the 1920s. He quotes Baha’u’llah and ‘Abdu’l-Baha here and there throughout this section. Esslemont begins:
 

“Amid these troublous times, however, the Cause of God will prosper. The calamities caused by the selfish struggle for individual existence, or for party or sectarian or national gain, will induce the people to turn in despair to the remedy offered by the Word of God. The more calamities abound the more will the people turn to the only true remedy. Baha’u’llah says in His Epistle to the Shah:
“God hath made afflictions as a morning shower to this green pasture, and as a wick for His Lamp, whereby earth and heaven are illumined…Through affliction hath His Light shone and His Praise been bright unceasingly; this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.’”
 

“Both Baha’u’llah and ‘Abdu’l-Baha predict in the most confident terms the speedy triumph of spirituality over materiality and the consequent establishment of the Most Great Peace. ‘Abdu’l-Baha wrote in 1904: ‘Know this, that hardships and misfortunes shall increase day by day, and the people shall be distressed. The doors of joy and happiness shall be closed on all sides. Terrible wars shall happen. Disappointment and the frustration of hopes shall surround the people from every direction until they are obliged to turn to God. Then the lights of great happiness shall enlighten the horizons, so that the cry of ‘Ya Baha’u’l-Abha’ may arise on all sides’ (Tablet to Isabella D. Brittingham).”
When asked, in February 1914, whether any of the Great Powers would become believers, He replied: “All the people of the world will become believers. Should you compare the beginning of the Cause with its position today, you would see what a quick 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 declares that this consummation is near at hand and will come about during the present century. In an address to 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.
 

Here it’s the kingdom of God again, and you can’t have the kingdom without the king. The Covenant- breakers don’t come in on this because they don’t have the kingdom, they have a republic.
 

Esslemont writes about the one who is prophesied to fulfill the 1335 days prophecy in the 12th chapter of the Book of Daniel, the 12th verse:
 

“In the last two verses of the Book of Daniel occur the cryptic words: ‘Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the thousand, three hundred and thirty-five days. But go thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.’
 

“Many have been the attempts of learned students to solve the 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 in 628 AD, and 628 AD. plus 1335 years brings us to 1963. The date for the coming of the Bab was from the start of the calendar to 1260 ASH. For the coming of Baha’u’llah, it was from the proclamation of Muhammad to the proclamation of Baha’u’llah. But this date is from the victory of Muhammad to the victory of the Cause of God–from victory to victory.
Esslemont gives this date: “Abdu’l-Baha’s Tablets make it clear that this prophecy refers to the one-hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of Baha’u’llah in Baghdad, or the year 1963. Asked what will be manifest after the 1,335 “days,” He replied: Universal peace will be firmly established, a Universal language promoted. Misunderstandings will pass away. The Baha’i Cause will be promulgated in all parts and the oneness of mankind established. It will be most glorious!“
 

Back in Some Answered Questions, ‘Abdu’l-Baha said that all of these things would be established by the seventh angel, and the seventh angel comes in 1963, and this is the start of my ministry.
Something more that is very important is that this seventh angel, this establisher, is also prophesied in the Great Pyramid of Giza. Back in Zechariah it says: “And her showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing on his right hand to resist him.” (Zechariah 3:1).
 

This took place on April 21, 1963. ‘Abdu’l-Baha said that this seventh angel would come exactly one hundred years after Baha’u’llah’s proclamation on April 21, 1863. So at that date I was opposed by Satan, and I have the statement there by the guardian to that effect, and we already have that on record.
 

“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” (Zechariah 3:2).
 

And the guardian rebuked this Satan that attacked me on that date. And it says, “Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel” (Zechariah 3:3).
 

That is, this Joshua was in the Montana state prison, and the type of beef that he had, I’ve already got that on record as that of a dirty garment.
 

“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.” (Zechariah 3: 4).
 

Today I have a white aura, and I think that someone here said that they saw it, as other people have seen it. And the beef that I had was conjured up by my enemies to get me out of the way; I’ve already gone into that in detail.
 

“And I said, Let them set a fair miter upon his head. So they set a fair miter upon his head, and clothed him with garments and the angel of the Lord stood by” (Zechariah 3:5).
 

From that date on, I knew what everything was in the scriptures, and I was able to break the code to the Pyramid. I had an angel that visited me at that time in the prison, and from that time on I had the fair miter on my head that I was able to know and understand what I’m telling you here today. Without this I wouldn’t be able to do it, because what I’m telling you is not in the Baha’i religion. It’s in no religion. Nobody else has this. Only I have this. Nobody knows what the Pyramid was or is, even today, except for those that I have taught. These drawings were done by Jerome Hellman, who was with me in prison. I showed him these things and we broke the code of the Pyramid. He’s the one that put the Pyramid on paper for me, but I gave him all the dates and everything else for him to do that. And then it says, “And the angel of the Lord protested unto Joshua, saying, Thus saith judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by. Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and they fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH” (Zechariah 3: 6-8).
 

And of course, Baha’u’llah appoints His Son ‘Abdu’l-Baha to be His Successor, and He called Him the Most Great Branch. Then ‘Abdu’l-Baha in His Will and Testament made his successors the guardians which he referred to as branches. And the Covenant-breakers threw these branches out, violating the Covenant. Therefore God had this Joshua here, and Joshua establishes this branch, and this is my mission, to re-establish the branch in the world. In the Catholic Bible it doesn’t say Joshua, it says Jesus. “Jesus” and “Joshua” is the same word. We could read this from a Catholic Bible, it says, “And he showed me Jesus the high priest.” Now Jesus in the Bible, besides being the Christ, he was also a High Priest after the Order of Melchizedek, not after the Order of Aaron. (See Hebrews 5-10.)
 

And it says, “For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the Lord of hosts” (Zechariah 3:9).
 

And the prison that I was in had a stone wall around it with seven watchtowers on it. And no matter which way I turned, I had that stone with seven eyes before me.
 

In the nineteenth chapter of Revelation it talks about the man on the white horse. Well, the man on the white horse is a Knight, and I was knighted by Shoghi Effendi. In Revelation it also says that this Joshua, the Knight on the white horse, has many diadems and many titles, and he has a title that no one knows but himself (Revelation 19:12). Now this is the most important thing coming up here:
 

“…and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day” (Zechariah 3:9).
 

My name is the land, Leland. The iniquity of Joshua and the iniquity of the land is the same iniquity. And nobody knew that this land meant a person. But it says in the nineteenth chapter of Revelation that he has a name that nobody knows but him, and nobody else would know it unless he has that name and he fulfilled these prophecies. I had the stone with seven eyes before me, I wore the dirty garment, I was opposed by Satan at the date given by Daniel, and I have a fair miter on my head; otherwise you wouldn’t know of all this.
 

Now somebody can’t just pick this out of the air. Nobody’s been able to put this together! And neither I nor anybody else would be able to put this together if they weren’t the promised one. Only the promised one can do this, the seventh angel.
 

They’re looking for the return of Jesus, and the date for this is in the Great Pyramid. The date for Baha’u’llah’s proclamation, April 21, 1863, is at the start of the King’s Chamber, the Holy of Holies, and in the four walls of the Holy of Holies there are one hundred red granite blocks. You add this one hundred to the date of Baha’u’llah’s proclamation and you get April, 21,1893, when I was opposed by Satan, when I began my ministry.
 

When I had the visitation in the prison and I found out that I was the promised one, 1 didn’t want it, and I refused to tell anybody. Well finally my wife says, “You’ve got to tell me.” That was several months after I knew it. So I made her promise not to tell anybody, and she kept the secret.
 

But in 1971, on April the 29th, one of the inmates in the prison, a man by the name of Harry Stroup who had been reading the Bible, he came up to me and said, “Dr. Jensen, you are the Joshua of the third chapter of Zechariah,” and he said, “the prison wall surrounding us is the stone with seven eyes.”
 

I said, “Harry, I didn’t tell you that.”
 

He said, “No, I had a visitation.”
 

Just like Jesus, he asked the people, “Who do they say I am?” They said, “You’re a great man, you’re a teacher.” Then He asked the apostles and Peter says, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.” He said, “Peter, I didn’t tell you that, but the Father revealed this to you.”
 

The same thing happened here, and the day was April 29, 1971, 108 years after Baha’u’llah’s proclamation on April 21, 1863. In the floor of the King’s Chamber are 108 red granite blocks. You add 108 to April 21, 1863, and you get April 21, 1971. But I made my proclamation on April 29th. Baha’u’llah had already made it a holy day, it’s one of the nine holy days of the Baha’i year, and it so happens that there are nine granite beams in the ceiling of the King’s Chamber. April 21 is the first day of Ridvan and April 29 is the ninth day of Ridvan, and that gives us April 29, 1971, when I told Harry Stroup, “Yes, I am the Joshua or the Jesus to come to establish my Father’s kingdom–Baha’u’llah’s. I’m a Knight, and I’m revealing the things that the people need to know so that everybody can become Baha’i.”
 

Without these proofs, never would they all become Baha’i! There are too many loopholes, and I have closed up all of the loopholes; every last thing is fulfilled in what I’m telling in my part of it. ‘Abdu’l-Baha didn’t go into the Pyramid–He only told us about the 1963 date. But He didn’t say whether it was going to be Leland Jensen or that Leland Jensen was going to be in a prison. That was up to me to have to be in there.
 

Now I didn’t go into that prison and knock on the door and say, “Let me in, I’m Joshua, or Jesus.” You bet your boots I didn’t. I didn’t want to go in there. I knew that I was hoaxed–it was a big hoax that put me in there, and I didn’t know why I was in there. And then I find out I was fulfilling prophecy.
 

Now I wasn’t the only one that was in prison. Jesus was in prison before He went on the cross. Peter was in prison. Paul was in prison for two years. Go way back to time of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and twelfth son of Jacob, Joseph, was in prison for two years. Baha’u’llah forty years. ‘Abdu’l-Baha forty years. The Bab was in prison. God has a habit of putting His Promised Ones in prison–I don’t know why.
 

Now I would have had anybody else go into that prison and be Joshua, there was no pleasant trip in there. But if it were anything else, ten thousand people or a hundred thousand people would have tried to fulfill it. If they knew that the land was the name of the one, everybody would have called their sons Leland to try to fulfill prophecy. It’s the calling card. I came in the name, at the address–at the stone with seven eyes; and this is between two mountains of brass, which is also prophesied in Zechariah. At the date in 1963 I was opposed by Satan, and at the other date in 1971 I made my proclamation.
 

Now why all this red granite block in the King’s Chamber of the Pyramid? All the red granite blocks in that Holy of Holies prophesy me. As Baha’u’llah gave this Revelation and gave the Covenant and all the Baha’is in the world went against the Covenant, with the passing of Mason Remey there were no Baha’is left in the world except the Knight and his wife. I’ve risen up a whole new contingent of Baha’is. And shortly, I’ll have 144,000, and when I have them, then the bombs will drop.
 

This message of the coming of Jesus is going to picked be up by the Associated Press, the United Press International, and by the radio and television stations. This trumpet sound will be heard all over the world. So my job is to establish the Branch and the Covenant in the world that the covenant-breakers broke. At the same time we explain that Baha’u’llah is a descendant of King David, that He is that great Manifestation of God that is to establish the oneness of mankind. His first principle is the oneness of mankind. With the Covenant-breakers, there’s no way for this, and therefore God had an ace up His sleeve–the establisher.
 

I started right in on that date prophesied by Daniel, defending the Faith. I was opposed by Satan on April 21, 1963–on that day my ministry started. I wasn’t elected to that Assembly because I was in opposition to Satan. I was defending the Faith against Satan, Rex King. Today, I’m not liked by the Christians because I’m in opposition to Satan, as the pope wears the fish hat of Satan. He has the crosier of Satan. He has the keys of Satan–of Janus and Cybele. And he has the red robe of Satan, the red devil. And the pope is defending what? Of all things, a pagan triune god!
 

Now we’re not going to get rid of their religion, per se. But it says in the 24th chapter of Matthew, after this message of the kingdom is brought to the world, and then the end will come. The radio and television stations all over the world will broadcast this about the return of Jesus. And then the oppression will come to an end. In that same chapter of Matthew, it says after the oppression of those days, “And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. heaven to the other” (Matthew 24: 31).
 

You people hearing this are the angels; you’re being educated from the horse’s mouth, so-to-speak. You’ll go out and gather the elect from the four corners of the earth. And in the Book of Revelation it states the four winds of destruction are being held back until there are 144,000 out of the tribes of Israel, and the Baha’i Faith is Israel under its new name Baha’i, Baha’u’llah being a Jew. He brought a remnant of the twelve tribes of Israel out of exile to the country of Israel when He went there as a prisoner. And then He made a Covenant that whoever accepts this Covenant, his sins are forgiven, and therefore he becomes grafted into Israel, as I was grafted in.
 

I’m not of the tribe of Aaron; I’m not of the Aaronic priesthood. I’m not of the tribe of Judah; I’m not a Christ. But I’m a High Priest after the Order of Melchizedek, defending this world against the satanic Rex King, the satanic pope, the satanic Christian religion, the satanic Covenant-breaking Baha’is. I’m establishing God’s kingdom in this world.
 

I come in the name for Joshua–the land, I come at the stone with seven eyes, and it’s between two mountains of brass. I’m establishing the branch in the world. I come in the name, the address, the mission, and I come at the date has passed. There might be other people called Leland or the land in the world, there must be, I know of some. But there’s only been one person that’s called the land that had the stone with seven eyes before him, that brings forth and is establishing the branch that was opposed by Satan in 1963. Therefore, I am this.
 

Now I don’t come up and say, “Look at me, I’m Jesus.” Jesus didn’t say, “Hey, look at Me, I’m the Christ.” Jesus says, “Look, I fulfill prophecy, look at the book! It’s there in the book!” And the book of Matthew shows how Jesus fulfilled prophecy. Get Halley’s Handbook where it talks about the book of Matthew, and he will show you point by point by point where the prophecy in the Old Testament was made, and how Jesus fulfilled it in the New Testament.
 

Now not only do I come in the name, address, date and mission, but there are many more prophecies in the book besides that which I fulfill. But the reason I mention these four is because it’s the calling card, and only one person in the world fulfills this.  

  God sends Moses to free the Israelites
 

A man and a woman from the tribe of Levi had a son. For three months they managed to hide him from the Egyptians who were sent to cast the Hebrews’ sons into the Nile. When they could no longer hide him, they made a basket and put the child in the basket and hid the basket in the reeds at the river’s bank:
 

“Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, and her maidens walked beside the river; she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to fetch it. When she opened it she saw the child; and 1o, the babe was crying. She took pity on him and said, ‘This is one of the Hebrew’s children.’ Then his [Moses’] sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, ‘Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?’ And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, ‘Go.’ So the girl went and called the child’s mother. And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, ‘Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.’ So the woman took the child and nursed him. And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son; and she named him Moses, for she said, ‘Because I drew him out of the water’” (Exodus 2:5).
 

As Moses grew up he saw the oppressed condition of his people the Israelites. One day he saw an Egyptian beating one of his people. He struck the Egyptian and accidentally killed him. Moses became afraid that it would be discovered that he was an Israelite who had just killed an Egyptian, so he hid the body in the sand. When the Pharaoh heard of this, he sought to kill Moses.
 

Moses fled to the land of the Midian. When he arrived, he helped some women at a well, and their father invited him to stay. Moses then married one of that man’s daughters and she and Moses had children. Eventually, the oppressive Pharaoh in Egypt died:
 

“And the people of Israel groaned under their bondage, and cried out for help, and their cry under bondage came up to God. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God saw the people of Israel, and God knew their condition” (Exodus 2:23-25).
 

Meanwhile, in Midian, Moses kept flocks for his father-in-law and he led the flock to Horeb, the “mountain of God:”
 

“And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of the bush; and he looked, and lo, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. And Moses said, ‘I will turn aside and not see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.’ When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, ‘Moses, Moses!’ And he said, ‘Here am I.’ Then he said, ‘Do not come near; put off your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.’ And he said, ‘I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’” (Exodus 3:2-6).
 

God then told Moses that he had heard the cry of the Israelites, and that he had come to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians. God told Moses He wanted to bring the Israelites to a land flowing with milk and honey, a good and broad land: the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. God told Moses to go and deliver the Israelites from the hands of the Egyptian Pharaoh. Then God said:
 

“I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand. So I will stretch out my hand and smite Egypt with all the wonders I will do in it; after that he will let you go” (Exodus 3:19-20).
 

Moses stuttered, so God allowed Moses’ brother, Aaron, to be Moses’ spokesman. Through Aaron, Moses repeatedly asked the Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go. The Pharaoh’s heart was hardened again and again and he refused, so God sent many plagues to the land of Egypt. During the first of these plagues the Nile turned red, the fish died, and the water became foul. Then God sent a plague of frogs, a plague of gnats, and a plague on the Egyptians’ cattle, horses, asses, camels, herds, and flocks. Then He caused a fine dust to come over the land which caused boils to break out upon man and beast, and then He caused a heavy hail with “fire flashing continuously in the midst of the hail, very heavy hail, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation” (Exodus 9:24).
 

Finally there came a plague of locusts and a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days (Exodus 8-10).
 

God then sent one last plague. This plague destroyed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of the Pharaoh, to the firstborn of the maidservant, to the firstborn cows. But the Israelites were instructed how to avoid suffering under this plague. They were instructed to kill their lambs and spread the blood from the lambs on their doorposts and above their doors. Thus when the plague on the firstborn came to Egypt it passed over the houses of the people of Israel (Exodus 12). This was later referred to as the night of the Passover.
 

After the night of the Passover there was not one Egyptian household where someone was not dead. A great cry rose from among the Egyptians. The Pharaoh thus arose in the night and woke Moses and Aaron and instructed them to leave with their people and their flocks and herds. God had not only promised that the Egyptians would let the Israelites go, but he had also promised that they would go with the jewelry, clothing, and respect of the Egyptians. So Moses instructed the Israelites to ask the Egyptians for their jewelry and clothing:
 

“…And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked despoiled the Egyptians” (Exodus 12:36).
 

Later, however, the Pharaoh changed his mind about what he had done, and he and servants said:
 

“’What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?’ So he made ready his chariots and took his army with him, and took six hundred picked chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them” (Exodus 14:5-7).
 

When the Israelites saw the Pharaoh and his army and chariots pursuing them they became afraid, and Moses cried out to the Lord for the people. God answered:
 

“Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward. Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go on dry ground through the sea. And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen” (Exodus 14:15-18).
 

“Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore. And Israel saw the great work which the Lord did against the Egyptians, and the people feared the Lord; and they believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses” (Exodus 14:30-31).
 

Moses then led the people of Israel through the wilderness for forty years. God provided for them in many ways. Following are some examples of what was provided.
 

When the Israelites first set out they could find no water in the wilderness. They asked Moses what they should drink and Moses cried to the Lord:
 

“…And the Lord showed him a tree, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet.
 

“There the Lord made for them a statute and an ordinance and there he proved them, saying, ‘If you will diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give heed to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon you which I put upon the Egyptians; for I am the Lord, your healer.’
 

“Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there by the water” (Exodus 15:25-27).
 

After being in Elim for a time they set out toward Mount Sinai. They came to Sin, and they were starving:
 

“Then the Lord said, to Moses, ‘Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law or not. On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.’ So Moses and Aaron said to all the people of Israel, ‘At evening you shall know that it was the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord….’ (Exodus 16:4-7).
 

In the morning Aaron gathered the people into an assembly. As he spoke, the glory of the Lord appeared to the Israelites in a cloud, and the Lord promised them bread.
 

On the following morning, after the dew had evaporated, the wilderness lay covered with a fine, flake-like thing. The people asked Moses what it was. He told them it was their bread, and they should gather it. Any of it that they didn’t gather became foul and bred worms.
 

So every morning thereafter the Israelites gathered the flake-like dust that lay in the wilderness, and any that wasn’t gathered by the time the sun grew hot, melted.
 

Every sixth day there was twice as much to gather, and on the seventh day there was none. Therefore the Israelites could rest and celebrate a Sabbath on the seventh day.
 

“Now the house of Israel called its name manna; it was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. …And the people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land; they ate the manna till they came to the border of the land of Canaan” (Exodus 16:31 & 35).
 

The people moved on from the wilderness of Sin in stages as the Lord commanded them, and once again they ran out of water. Moses was then commanded to strike a rock at Horëb, and water came out for the Israelites to drink.
 

After a time Moses’ father-in-law heard about Moses and his success in bringing the Israelites out of Egypt. He therefore brought Moses’ wife and children from Midian and they believed in the One True God. Moses’ father-in-law then counseled Moses to set up leaders among the people, so Moses could teach them the laws and the decisions, so they would “know the way in which they must walk and what they must do” (Exodus 18:20). Moses did as his father-in-law said and these leaders led the twelve tribes of Israel and judged the people at all times.
 

Finally all of Israel was at Mount Sinai, and the Lord told Moses that in three days he would come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people:
 

“On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightning, and a thick cloud upon the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. Then Moses brought all the people out of the camp to meet God; and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain. And Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire; and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in thunder. And the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai” (Exodus 19:16-20).
 

Then Moses took Aaron up on the mount with him, and the Lord spoke the Ten Commandments and numerous ordinances by which the Israelites were to be governed. The Ten Commandments were basically as follows (Exodus 20:2-8 & 12-17):
 

“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me.
 

“You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God….
 

“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
 

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
 

“Honor your father and your mother.
 

“You shall not kill.
 

“You shall not commit adultery.
 

“You shall not steal.
 

“You shall not bear false witness against you neighbor.
 

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house…, or anything that is your neighbor’s.
 

“When all the people saw the thunderings and lightnings and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, they were afraid, and they said to Moses:
 

“You speak to us, and we will hear; but let not God speak to us, lest we die (Exodus 20:19).
 

Then God commanded Moses to come up on the mountain so he could give Moses the tablets of stone that he had used to write down the Ten Commandments and all the statutes. So Moses took his servant Joshua and went up on Mount Sinai for forty days and forty nights.
 

While Moses was on Mount Sinai the Israelites became restless and doubtful of the Lord:
 

“When the people saw that Moses was delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, ‘Up, make us gods, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him’ (Exodus 32:1).
 

So Aaron and the people took off their jewelry and melted it and built a golden calf to worship as a god, and they offered it burnt offerings and peace offerings.
 

When God saw this He said to Moses on the mount:
 

“I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people; now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; but of you I will make a great nation’ (Exodus 32:9-10).
 

Moses then asked God to remember the promise he had given to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the promise that their descendants would multiply and inherit the Promised Land:
 

”And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do to his people” (Exodus 32:14).
 

God makes a Three-Part Covenant with the People of Israel
 

While Moses was on Mount Sinai he received the stone tablets. God also gave Moses a three-part covenant. The three parts were: 1. the blessing; 2. the curse; and 3. the regathering.
 

The first part of the covenant was the blessing.
 

If the Israelites would be true to God’s commandments and statutes, and if they refused to go after other gods to serve them (Deut. 28:1-15), God would make them a great nation.
 

The second part of the covenant was the curse. If the Israelites refused to obey the commandments and statutes, if they went after other gods and served them, they would be cursed (Deut. 28:15-68).
 

This curse would include a nation coming from afar whose people spoke a difficult language, and then a scattering of the Israelites in lands where the people worshipping foreign gods (Deut. 28:49 & 64).
 

The third part of the covenant was the regathering. After the curse, He said, the people of Israel should once again remember the Lord their God, and once again obey His voice and His commandments. Then He would regather the people of Israel:
 

“Then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes, and have compassion upon you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you. If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will fetch you; and the Lord your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, that you may possess it; and he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your father. And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live” (Deut. 30:3-6).
 

Ever since the time of Abraham, God had required his chosen people to be circumcised of the flesh as a sign of the covenant between God and his people (Gen. 17:11 & 22-27). But here God says that after the regathering the people would be circumcised of heart, which symbolizes spiritual purity.
 

God Instructs the People of Israel to Construct a Temple
 

The final set of instructions that Moses received on Mount Sinai were regarding the setting up of a temple for the worship of the One True God.
 

This temple would be constructed so the Presence of God could continue to remain with the Israelite people after Moses had died. The temple was to have an outer room and an inner room. The inner room would be called the Holy of Holies and the outer room would be called the sanctuary. Outside the rooms there would be a place to sacrifice the people’s best goats and lambs. The blood of these animals would atone for the sins of the people.
 

The sins of the people of Israel could then be forgiven through a ritual done at the temple. The men from the tribe of Levi were the priests, and they were scattered among the people throughout all the land. Once a year, there would be a day of atonement. The people would tell the Levite priests what their sins were, and on the Day of Atonement the priests would take the best animals of the people and go to the tabernacle of God.
 

God told Moses to have his brother Aaron be the high priest over all the other priests. All the priests would then make Aaron aware of the sins of the people and the animals would be slaughtered. Then the blood from these animals would be spread on the sanctuary walls to atone for the sins of the people. Then Aaron would go into the Holy of Holies, whisper the name of God, and the sins of the people would be forgiven.
 

Thus an order of high priests was set up. Only the descendants of Aaron could be high priests, and they were called High Priests after the Order of Aaron. Aaron became the sole interpreter of Moses’ covenant, and he was the only Israelite who knew the name of God. All followers of Moses knew that the consonants in the name of God were YHWH, only the High Priests after the Order of Aaron knew the vowels that go in between the consonants. Thus only the High Priests after the Order of Aaron knew the name of God and were allowed to enter the Holy of Holies in the tabernacle.
 

God Promised to Put His Words in a Prophet’s Mouth Next Time He wanted to send a Revelation, Rather than Thundering from a Mountain like He did to Moses
 

God also promised one other thing when Moses was on the mount.
 

He promised to fulfill the people’s request when they said, “let not God speak to us, lest we die” (Exodus 20:19).
 

Moses told the people what God had said:
 

“The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me (like Moses) from among you, from your brethren — him you shall heed — just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’ And the Lord said to me, ‘They have rightly said all that they have spoken. I will raise up for them a prophet like you (like Moses) from among their brethren; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. And whoever will not give heed to my words which he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him’” (Deut. 18:15-19).
 

Thus the Lord promised to send another Prophet to the people, a Prophet like Moses, who would speak the words of God to the people, just as Moses did. God made this promise so the people would not have to tremble in fright before the Lord when He appeared in a fire, or in a great dark cloud, or in lightnings, thunderings, loud trumpet blasts, and smoke. This Prophet would be named Immanuel, as was foretold by the prophet Isaiah, and he would be a descendant of Jacob’s son Judah.
 

Review of Moses’ Covenant
 

Altogether Moses lived 120 years. He spent forty years growing up in Egypt as the adoptive son of the Pharaoh’s daughter. He spent the next forty years in the Midian desert, where he learned how to survive in the desert. Finally, Moses spent the last forty years of his life taking the Israelites out of Egypt toward the promised land of Canaan. God spoke to Moses from a cloud on Mount Sinai. Through Moses, God made a three-part covenant with the people of Israel, saying they would be blessed and enter the promised land if they obeyed God, cursed and scattered if they didn’t, and eventually they would be regathered. The people refused to obey God’s commandments so they spent forty years wandering in the wilderness until everyone from the previous generation had died. This is because they had become corrupted with paganism by living among the idolatrous Egyptians. God was angry with the people on account of their willingness to doubt God and therefore God did not allow Moses to enter the Promised Land. Rather than punish the people, God sanctioned Moses, who suffered on their behalf (Deut. 3:26). Finally after 40 years, Joshua led the Israelites over the River Jordan and into the land of Canaan.
 

Brief Synopsis of the Remaining History of the Old Testament
 

Following is a short synopsis of some of the remaining historical books of the Old Testament, which cover the history of the Israelites from the time they entered the Promised Land. During that time two of the three parts of Moses’ covenant were fulfilled. The Israelites were blessed and rose to become the most revered nation on the planet. Then they broke the covenant and they were cursed and scattered. They were taken into captivity in Assyria and Babylon and scattered.
 

In the books of Joshua and Judges, the Israelites successfully conquered the land of Canaan, but they disobeyed God by worshipping idols and deities. Neighboring nations invaded and oppressed them. God saved them by designating judges or rulers to lead them and help ward off their enemies.
 

The books of First Samuel and Second Samuel cover the rise of the nation of Israel and of King David’s reign over Israel. The people asked their high priest Samuel to appoint a king over them because Samuel’s sons, who would have succeeded him, were corrupt.
 

“And the LORD said to Samuel, ‘Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them. According to all the deeds which they have done to me, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are also doing to you. Now then, hearken to their voice; only, you shall solemnly warn them, and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them.’ …So Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking a king from him. ‘…And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves; but the LORD will not answer you in that day.’
 

“But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, ‘No! But we will have a king over us that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles’ (Samuel 8:7-20).
 

Samuel appointed Saul to be their king, but Saul disobeyed God, so God chose David to be king. Saul then attempted to kill David, but failed.
 

The Covenant to Abraham that “Kings will come forth from your descendants” started to be fulfilled with the coming of King David. The first part of Moses’ three-part covenant, the blessing, was fulfilled during David’s reign.
 

After Saul died, David arose to become a great king over a great kingdom. He conquered Israel’s surrounding enemies and established Jerusalem as the religious and political center of Israel. The rituals of the temple worship that had been established by Moses, including the high priests after the order of Aaron, the sacrifice of animals, and the tent of worship, were continued. David began erecting a temple for the worship of the One, True Invisible God, which would replace the tent. This temple would be made of bricks, stones and mortar. God made great promises to David:
 

“Thou hast said, ‘I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your descendants for ever, and build your throne for all generations’” (Psalm 89:3-4).
 

“And as for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my ordinances, then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, `There shall not fail you a man to rule Israel’” (2 Chr. 7:17-18).
 

“Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will fulfil the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah. In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring forth for David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will dwell securely. And this is the name by which it will be called: `The LORD is our righteousness.’ For thus says the LORD: David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel…. As the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David my servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to me”  (Jeremiah 33:14-17 & 22).
 

In spite of the fact that Israel rose to great heights under David, after David died, trouble started brewing. The first part of Moses’ Covenant had been fulfilled. Israel had become a great nation.
 

Under David’s son Solomon, however, Israel entered into the second part of Moses’ Covenant: the curse. The Old Testament books First Kings and Second Kings record the events of Israel’s demise.
 

God blessed David’s son Solomon with immense wisdom, and Solomon expanded Israel into a great empire. He also finished the great temple to God that David had started to build in Jerusalem. Solomon became great and revered among all the nations, and many kings from other nations sent their daughters as gifts to Solomon. He had 700 wives and 300 concubines. God had not limited the number of wives that Solomon was allowed to have, but He had instructed Solomon not to marry any foreign wives. Solomon disobeyed and married many foreign wives.
 

“Now King Solomon loved many foreign women: the daughter of Pharaoh, and Moabite, Ammonite, E’domite, Sido’nian, and Hittite women, from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the people of Israel, ‘You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods;’ Solomon clung to these in love. He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart” (1 Kings 11:1-3).
 

Not only that, Solomon built temples to other gods, and the clincher was when Solomon bowed down before other gods. This was the turning point. The Israelites then passed out from under the covenant and began following other gods, just as Solomon had done. The Israelites were now under the second part of Moses’ covenant, the curse. They would soon be captured by other nations, taken into captivity in foreign lands, and scattered.
 

“For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. For Solomon went after Ash’toreth the goddess of the Sido’nians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and did not wholly follow the LORD, as David his father had done. Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem. And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
 

“And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice, and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he did not keep what the LORD commanded. Therefore the LORD said to Solomon, ‘Since this has been your mind and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant. Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son. However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen’” (I Kings 11:4-13).
 

Solomon disobeyed God by worshiping other deities. After his death the kingdom split into a northern kingdom, Israel, and a southern kingdom, Judah. A host of evil kings led the two kingdoms away from worshipping God. Despite the attempts of the prophets Elijah and Elisha to halt Israel’s wrongdoing, the two kingdoms fell to the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires. Jerusalem was destroyed and the people were sent into exile.
 

The Writings
 

“The Writings” is a way of referring to the Old Testament chapters that are placed after the historical chapters. Some of these are narratives that cover the time of Israel’s exile in other nations and the Jews’ eventual return to their homeland. The Book of Esther, for example, tells the story of an unassuming Jewish girl who becomes the queen of Persia and boldly saves the Jewish people from genocide.
 

Many of “The Writings” are books of poetry and wisdom. They are among the most important literature in the Old Testament. The Book of Job is a lengthy dialogue investigating God’s justice and the problem of human suffering. The Psalms are lyrical poems and hymns. Many are attributed to King David. They express humankind’s longing for God. The books of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, often attributed to the wise King Solomon, offer sayings and instructions about the meaning of life and ethical behavior.   ​A two-part covenant was given to Abraham, and it was passed down to his descendants. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob all inherited both parts of the covenant that God made with Abraham. These two parts are: (1.) God’s kings on earth would come from his descendants; and (2.) a multitude of nations of God’s people on earth would come from his descendants.
 

Jacob was the heir to both parts of the covenant, but when he was about to pass away, he gave the two parts of the covenant to more than one person. Altogether, he blessed his two sons Judah and Joseph, and Joseph’s son Ephraim. Jacob gave Judah the promise that God’s kings on earth would come from his descendants (Gen. 49:8-10; Psalm 89; Isaiah 9:6). Then he gave his son Joseph, and Joseph’s son Ephraim, the promise that a multitude of nations of God’s people on earth would come from their descendants.
 

Later, a three-part covenant was made with the twelve tribes of Israel through Moses. This three-part covenant stated that: (1.) If the people kept the covenant and obeyed God, they would be blessed; (2.) If they went against God and broke the covenant, they would be cursed; and (3.) Eventually God would re-gather them under the covenant. Establishing them under the covenant again meant their temple would be rebuilt, the Presence of God would return to the temple, and the Israelites would come out from the provisions of the curse. In short, God would “save” them from the curse.
 

Moses and the Israelites fled from Egypt around 1456 B.C.
 

By 1000 B.C., David was crowned king of the Israelites. King David was a descendant of Judah. Judah was the one that had been given the promise that kings would come forth from his descendants. David ruled as king of God’s people on earth. God made an everlasting covenant with David and his descendants. This is recorded in David’s Psalms or songs, particularly in Psalm 89 where God promises that David’s throne with last forever and there will always be a man to rule on the throne of David.
 

The prophet Isaiah also foretold the coming of a man on the throne of David. This was a prophecy for the coming of the Return of Christ. Isaiah foretold that the kings seated on the throne of David would reign over the everlasting Kingdom of God on earth (Isaiah 9:6-7).
 

The kings on the throne of David fulfilled the promise to Abraham that God’s kings on earth would come forth from his descendants. Unfortunately, the heirs to the throne of David did not reign over the Israelites for long. After David passed the throne to his son Solomon, Solomon broke the covenant. As a result, the Israelites entered into the second phase of Moses’ three-part covenant: the curse.
 

Solomon broke the covenant by bowing down before the fertility goddess Ashtoreth or Ashtor. The “Easter” bunny is named after this goddess. Because the depictions of Ashtor usually have many breasts, a rabbit was chosen to symbolize fertility instead. It was named the Easter bunny.
 

After Solomon broke the covenant, God said the punishment was that Solomon’s son would lose control of the kingdom. The reason God didn’t punish Solomon directly is because Solomon had built a great temple to the One True God. Solomon’s mistake was that he built numerous temples to pagan gods and goddesses, right around the temple for the worship of the One True God.
 

It is more precise to say that Solomon completed building the temple to the One True God that King David had started building. Solomon disobeyed God by marrying many foreign wives. Then he built those foreign wives many temples for their gods and goddesses. Solomon broke the covenant by bowing down before the goddess Ashtoreth in one of these temples.
 

Solomon’s son Rheaboam soon became king, but he was a ruthless king. Therefore, the ten northern tribes started a revolt against him. Soon they succeeded from the kingdom and elected their own king named Jeraboam.
 

Rheaboam then only ruled over two-and-a-half tribes: the tribe of Judah, the tribe of Benjamin, and half the tribe of Dan.
 

Around 721 B.C. Assyria came in and conquered the ten northern tribes under Jeraboam and took them into captivity in Assyria.
 

Around 606 B.C., the Babylonians came in and conquered the two southern tribes under Rheaboam, and took them into captivity in Babylon.
 

From here, the Bible loses track of the story of the Davidic lineage. The promises about the regathering of the tribes, the rebuilding of the temple, and so on, were fulfilled symbolically with the coming of Jesus. But Jesus did not fulfill all the promises of the covenants of the Old Testament, nor did he fulfill all the prophecies for the coming of Christ.
 

However, these prophecies are now in the process of being fulfilled. Baha’u’llah, the prophet of the Baha’i faith, fulfilled a lot of prophecies, and many other prophecies are yet to be fulfilled by the followers of Baha’u’llah.   Below are references from the Bible with the word "Covenant" in them.   ​Daniel 9:27: And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week; and for half of the week he shall cause sacrifice and offering to cease; and upon the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”
 

Ezra 3:15: Thou didst make with him an everlasting covenant, and promise him that thou wouldst never forsake his descendants; and thou gavest to him Isaac, and to Isaac thou gavest Jacob and Esau.
 

Ezra 3:32: Or has another nation known thee besides Israel? Or what tribes have so believed thy covenants as these tribes of Jacob?
 

Matthew 26:28: for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
 

Mark 14:24: And he said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.
 

Luke.1:72: ...to perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant.
 

Luke.22:20: And likewise the cup after supper, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.
 

Romans 11:27: ...and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins.
 

1 Corinthians 11:25: In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
 

2 Corinthians 3:6: who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not in a written code but in the Spirit; for the written code kills, but the Spirit gives life.
 

2 Corinthians 3:14: But their minds were hardened; for to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away.
 

Galatians 3:17: This is what I mean: the law, which came four hundred and thirty years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.
 

Galatians 4:24: Now this is an allegory: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.
 

Ephesians 2:12: remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
 

Hebrews 7:22: This makes Jesus the surety of a better covenant.
 

Hebrews 8:6-10 & 13: But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry which is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for a second. For he finds fault with them when he says: “The days will come, says the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they did not continue in my covenant, and so I paid no heed to them," says the Lord. This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord:
I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. ...In speaking of a new covenant he treats the first as obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
 

Heb.9:1, 4, 15, 18, 20: Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary. ...having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, which contained a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; ...Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred which redeems them from the transgressions under the first covenant. ...Hence even the first covenant was not ratified without blood... saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded you.”
 

Heb.10:16: “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws on their hearts,
and write them on their minds,”
 

Hebrews 10:29: How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by the man who has spurned the Son of God, and profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and outraged the Spirit of grace?
 

Heb.12:24: and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks more graciously than the blood of Abel.
 

Heb.13:20: Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,
 

Rev.11:19: Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple; and there were flashes of lightning, voices, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.