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Tablet Fourteen
The next Prophet did not come from the children of
Abram
(Arabs) or Abraham
(Hebrews)
...God
will bring a people whom He loves and they would love Him,...
(Koran, The Table Spread, 54)
<1>This verse is the prediction of the coming
of another Prophet. He would not come from Arabs, but from another
nation. That is why the next Prophet came from Persia. He brought
the truth of the fifth seal described in
The Revelation. He was Bab (Baha'u'llah),
and the religion was Baha'i (the teachings of Bab).
<2>Prophet
Muhammad is the "Khatem
"
("the last") of the
Prophets in the sense of spiritual understanding. That is why
Prophets or Messengers
after
Islam did not bring any
higher spiritual truths than what had already been revealed to
humanity. But new understandings were necessary to complete
The Greatest Sign.
<3>Also, with the coming of
Christ and
Prophet Muhammad,
the promises given to Abram
or
Abraham about his seed
Ishmael and Isaac (that the nations of the earth would be blessed
through them) were fulfilled. That is why the next Prophet did not
come from the Children of
Abram
or Abraham but from people who closely associated with them, Persians [Abram
(Abraham) was Persian
[Median] Himself!]
God is no longer obligated to
any special people
<4>With fulfillment of all the promises
God had given to
Abram's and
Abraham's seed, which
were explained, He is no longer obligated to any special people. Now
humans once more are equal. These historical events have happened
according to the Scriptures, to make humans again understand that
they are not left alone in this world with no one looking after
them, or that they can do whatever they want to, or that they can
choose their ways as they please.
<5>Once more
God
is trying to awaken man to understand that He exists. He expects man
to understand this, give up his little
false ego, and follow Him and His Laws. Only those who do so
will be regarded as greater than the rest. Those who keep their
limited egos and do not
come to the path of righteousness will suffer the consequences of
their actions and will go far astray. Those who go to Him will reach
salvation through His
Grace.
All earthly powers will
be humbled
<6>Through all of history, when we study the
progress of great nations, those which became conquerors and
prosperous went through several stages: a period of great struggle
before emerging as great people, then a time of progress toward
greatness, then a long period of laxity or steadiness, and then the
period of decline.
<7>Also when we study the life cycle of these
great nations, we realize that in the beginning of the time of their
struggle, they possessed a great deal of religious beliefs and
disciplines. Especially we find out that the family structure was
important, and was very close and strong.
<8>However, as they progressed toward
prosperity, their discipline broke down, their beliefs became
forgotten, the family closeness was destroyed, and many other
symptoms were created, such as egotism, excessive preoccupation with
sports (like the Romans and their gladiators), looseness of sexual
relationships, emphasis on body gratification, over-prosperity and
laziness, dullness of the mind, high expectation of others to
respect their excesses, and so on.
<9>In short, when a nation or people are
oppressed and are struggling toward the release of that situation,
they trust in
God and follow His Laws
more or less. But when they become prosperous, they trust in
themselves and go against His Laws. This brings their doom.
<10>We can trace this trend almost in any
situation about any nation or people. The very loud examples are the
Hebrews, who through a great struggle and with the help of
God became a great nation and then declined to disgrace, or the
Roman Empire, which through their great philosophy and endeavors
reached a very great position and then declined.
<11>This trend has been shown throughout
history to man so that he might become awakened that there is no
other way but
God's Way, as He has
declared to the
Children of
Israel thousands of years ago (Leviticus chapter 26):
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image,
neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up
any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for
I am the Lord your
God.
(Leviticus 26:1)
<12>Only the invisible
God unifies. Any other
images (any image) will separate man from man. That is why
God is so opposed to images and says, "for
I am the Lord your
God,"
the invisible
God and the One for whom no
one can make any image. At the same time every image is He. However,
only worshipping Him in the invisible form can unify all men.
If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my
commandments, and do them;
Then I will give you rain in due season, and
the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field
their fruit.
(Leviticus 26:3-4)
<13>As it is described in the books The
Base,
The Essence, etc., everything is made from consciousness and
the
three gunas, even
our minds and actions. So our thoughts and actions affect the whole
universe and its levels of being. That is why when man becomes
corrupt, the earth, climate, and everything else becomes corrupt
also. Then the climate will change and man will suffer because of
his actions.
<14>So
God goes on and reveals
what will happen if men follow His Laws and Commandments: how
prosperous they will become, how they will gain the power over their
enemies, and so on, by His
Grace, until verse 14.
<15>Then He describes what will happen if
they do not follow Him:
But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will
not do all these commandments;
And if you shall despise my statutes, or if
your
soul abhor my
judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that
ye break my covenant:
I also will do this unto you; I will even
appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that
shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall
sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
(Leviticus 26:14-16)
<16>Then is when the
tribulation starts. That is why the world
tribulation is
affecting men all over the earth, because all of them have fallen
short of following His Laws.
And I will set my face against you, and ye
shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall
reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
And if ye will not yet for all this hearken
unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your
sins.
And I will break the pride of your power; and
I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
(Leviticus 26:17-19)
<17>That is exactly what
happens to those who break His Laws. <18>In fact, no man can break His Laws but he
can only break himself against them. He "will break the pride" of
the power of those nations that lose their trust in Him, and they
will fall.
<19>To walk with
God
is not just to praise Him, have many ceremonies, or talk about Him,
but to establish justice, to help the oppressed, and to stand for
truth. <20>Those who lose these qualities lose the pride of
their powers also. When His
Grace is withdrawn, they
are doomed as history has shown us.
<21>That is exactly what is happening in the
world today. All the earthly leaders are trying to bring peace but
because they have forgotten the basic Laws of the Lord, they are
going more and more toward self-destruction. This can be prevented
when the truth prevails and destroys all the wrong
concepts of the
humans. <22>As in the dream of King Nebuchadnezzar in the book
Daniel (chapter 2), the stone which is the symbol of the truth,
hit the clay-like base of the image, destroyed it to ashes, and then
filled the world.
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