- Of Him David had sung in his Psalms, acclaiming Him as the “Lord of Hosts” and the “King of Glory.”
- To Him Haggai had referred as the “Desire of all nations,” and
- Zachariah as the “Branch” Who “shall grow up out of His place,” and “shall build the Temple of the Lord.”
- Zachariah had extolled Him as the “Lord” Who “shall be king over all the earth,”
- while to His day Joel and Zephaniah had both referred as the “day of Jehovah,” the latter describing it as “a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.”
- His Day Ezekiel and Daniel had, moreover, both acclaimed as the “day of the Lord,” and
- Malachi described as “the great and dreadful day of the Lord” when “the Sun of Righteousness” will “arise, with healing in His wings,” whilst
- Daniel had pronounced His advent as signalizing the end of the “abomination that maketh desolate.”
- Shoghi Effendi ('God Passes By', chapter 6)