“The Lord is come! Christ has returned in the glory of the Father!” This is the most startling claim and paramount tenet of the Bahá’í Faith. What proofs are given? Why did not every eye see the Lord of Hosts? The popular mind mistakes the symbol for the reality and confuses poetic truth with practical truth. The Israelites refused to recognise Christ because He did not literally fulfill their expectations that the Messiah would have come from an unknown place, sword in hand, become King of the Jews, and deliver Israel from the Roman yoke. The traditional attitude toward the prediction that “every eye shall see him” is based on the assumption that the earth is flat.

The proofs of Bahá’u’lláh are that His teachings were not learned from men, that His prophecies did come to pass, and that His teaching have created the international Bahá’í Community within which the old hatreds have been replaced by abiding love. The world order of Bahá’u’lláh is the kingdom for which Christians pray, the new Jerusalem. Not the literal-minded but the “waiting servants” who “hunger and thirst after righteousness” are