Sequential excerpts from the book ‘God Passes By’, written in 1944 by Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Baha’i Faith

9/8/24

References to Bahá’u’lláh from Isaiah, “the greatest of Jewish prophets”

To Him Isaiah, the greatest of the Jewish prophets, had alluded as 

  • the “Glory of the Lord,” 
  • the “Everlasting Father,” 
  • the “Prince of Peace,” 
  • the “Wonderful,” 
  • the “Counsellor,” 
  • the “Rod come forth out of the stem of Jesse” and 
  • the “Branch grown out of His roots,” 
  • Who “shall be established upon the throne of David,” 
  • Who “will come with strong hand,” 
  • Who “shall judge among the nations,” 
  • Who “shall smite the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips slay the wicked,” and 
  • Who “shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.” 

- Shoghi Effendi  ('God Passes By', chapter 6)