Our Daily Bread: Divine Retribution
Today’s slice is from Bahá’u'lláh’s Persian Hidden Words: O YE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD! Know, verily, that an unforeseen calamity followeth you, and grievous retribution awaiteth you. Think not that which...
View ArticleOur Daily Bread: Six Steps To World Order
“… to be followed by its establishment and recognition as a State religion, which in turn must give way to its assumption of the rights and prerogatives associated with the Bahá’í state, functioning in...
View ArticleHappy Entry by Troops Day!
Today — the 9th day of the 9th month of the 9th year of the New Millennium — must be a very special day. Any world cataclysms on the agenda? Just curious. I don’t want to give anybody any ideas. One...
View ArticleOur Daily Bread: Candles in the Wind
“The Seven Candles of Unity,” found in `Abdu’l-Bahá’s authoritative writings, was one of his approaches to foretelling the future progress of the world toward unity. The most noteworthy—and...
View ArticleOur Daily Bread: Abhageddon
There is a wealth of doomsday prophecies and predictions in the Bahá’í scripture and literature. The following passage, for instance, clearly foresees the advent of Rock & Roll: Suicidal Stanford...
View ArticleThe Dread Jensens
Back around the close of the 1970s, my friend next door showed me a newspaper article that seemed to be about my father. It was about a Bahá’í chiropractor—a Dr. Jensen—who was making prophecies about...
View ArticleThe Lost Prophet of the Millennium
Remember the old Y2K scare? We generally look back at that anxious time as an anticlimax, understanding that nothing much happened at the turn of the millennium. I remember how the Bahá’ís expected...
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