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Baha'u'llah explains that the Return of Christ and the coming of the Comforter are the same: (6:43) To them that are endowed with understanding, it is clear and manifest that, when the fire of the love of Jesus consumed the veils of Jewish limitations, and His authority was made apparent and partially enforced, He, the Revealer of the unseen Beauty, addressing one day His disciples, referred unto His passing, and, kindling in their hearts the fire of bereavement, said unto them: 'I go away and come again unto you.' And in another place He said: 'I go and another will come, Who will tell you all that I have not told you, and will fulfil all that I have said.' Both these sayings have but one meaning, were ye to ponder upon the Manifestations of the Unity of God with Divine insight. (kiq 20) (6:44) Christ speaks of what the Comforter would do when He came: (6:45) Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. (6:46) And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. (joh 16:7-8) (6:47) see Baha'u'llah, in His Writings, does reprove the world of sin, as Jesus promised: (6:48) Gracious God! So great is the folly and perversity of the people, that they have turned their face toward their own thoughts and desires, and have turned their back upon the knowledge and will of God-hallowed and glorified be His name! (kiq 171) (6:49) Though immersed in the ocean of misbelief, yet with your lips ye profess the one true faith of God. (hwd, Persian No. 200) (6:50) see Baha'u'llah glorifies Jesus, as Jesus said that He would: (6:51) Reflect how Jesus, the Spirit of God, was, notwithstanding His extreme meekness and perfect tender-heartedness, treated by His enemies. So fierce was the opposition which He, the Essence of Being and Lord of the visible and invisible, had to face, that He had nowhere to lay His head. He wandered continually from place to place, deprived of a permanent abode. (gwb XXIII) (6:52) It was also prophesied by Jesus: Jesus did not say that these other sheep would know Him as Jesus (His flesh) but that they would recognize His Voice (the Eternal Word). (6:54) Of course, these statements of Jesus are subject to widely differing interpretation. Some Christians say that the "Spirit of truth" came at Pentecost. Now consider: if the Spirit of Truth was to guide the Church into all truth, and the Spirit of Truth had come some two thousand years ago, why then, has Christ's Faith been split into so many sects? Isn't "truth" one? (6:55) Paul himself states, long after Pentecost, that all truth had not been revealed during his time: (6:56) For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. (1co 13:9) (6:57) see Baha'u'llah has said that He is the Spirit of Truth, and that He has come to guide us into all truth. He has unsealed the Scriptures, as prophesied by Christ, explaining their meaning, revealing their inner significance. Like Jesus, He came with a new Name, one that no one was expecting. (6:58) Baha'u'llah means the "Glory of God," the "Glory of the Lord," the "Glory of the Father." This name is mentioned many times in the Bible. Below are a few instances: (6:59) For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. (mat 16:27) (6:60) see The prophet Ezekiel was exiled to Babylon near the ancient river of Chebar which was located near the present-day city of Baghdad where Baha'u'llah spent ten years of His exile. There Ezekiel wrote this reference to Baha'u'llah's name: (6:61) Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face. (eze 3:23) (6:62) see Again, Ezekiel writes: Baha'u'llah arrived in what is now Israel from the way of the east. He was exiled there from Adrianople by the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
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