CHAPTER XXVI. TIME OF HIS COMING. Beha 'U'llah, the Manifestation of God, appeared and established His kingdom upon earth, at the exact time announced by Jesus Christ and the other prophets. Revelations 12-6: "And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared of God that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days." It is admitted by all biblical students, that a day, in prophetic utterance, signifies a year. Ezekiel 4-6: "Thou shalt bear the iniquity of the House of Judah, forty days; I have appointed thee each day for a year." The above mentioned prophecy by Christ, corresponds exactly (if each day is considered a lunar year), with Mohammed's revelation that Elijah should appear in this century, and in expectation of which, the Mohammedans in Turkey and Persia, made preparations to receive him, just as the Millerites of this country went forth to welcome the coming of the Kingdom of God in 1844. The year 1260 A. H. corresponds with 1844 A. D. The East Indians had similar prophecies announcing the appearance of a new religion from the West, and a study of all inspired revelation concerning the final incarnation of Deity, will show that every announcement of this great event indicated the present century as "the time." In "The Great Tribulation" page 16, the Rev. John Cumming says: "Several extracts so far seem to authenticate and vindicate this conclusion and you will take them, of course, for what they are worth: First, Lady Hester Stanhope, in a letter from Syria to her physician, in the year 1827, says: 'All those who come may go back in the Turkish year, 1245.' And the physician adds, in a note: 'It would appear from this, that Lady Hester Stanhope expected the accomplishment of some great event in the year of the Hegira, 1245.' The late Mr. Irving, deeply deceived in many things, extravagant in more, but a man of splendid genius, of unquestionable piety, the victim of a belief that everybody was good and great, and incapable of a suspicion that anybody could deceive, said: 'Not only amongst the Turks in Europe, but all over the East, the Mahometan power is wasting away; and like all doomed things begins to be conscious of its approaching end; insomuch that they say the Ottoman Porte is paralyzed with prophecies of its speedy ruin. Is it not so written, the Turks say, in your Christian Book, that our religion is to come to an end within forty years? And what is remarkable, a friend of mine, who traveled lately into central Africa, and stood on the Himalaya mountains in India, by the holy pool where never Christian had dwelt before, found there also an expectation of a religion from the West which in the space of forty years was to possess the earth, remarks which they made to me with their own lips.' also page 17: "Now the African traveler or friend |