untain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of
the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.... And it shall come to
pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the
second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be
left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from
Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from
the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the
nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather
together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the
earth.--Isa. xi, 1-12.

'Abdu'l-Baha remarks about this and other prophecies of the Branch:--

One of the great events which is to occur in the day of the
manifestation of that incomparable Branch, is the hoisting of the
Standard of God among all nations; meaning that all the nations
and tribes will come under the shadow of this Divine Banner, which
is no other than the Lordly Branch itself, and will become a
single nation. The antagonism of faiths and religions, the
hostility of races and peoples, and the national differences, will
be eradicated from amongst them. All will become one religion, one
faith, one race, and one single people, and will dwell in one
native land, which is the terrestrial globe. Universal peace and
concord will be realised between all the nations, and that
incomparable Branch will gather together all Israel: signifying
that in this cycle Israel will be gathered in the Holy Land, and
that the Jewish people who are scattered to the East and West,
South and North, will be assembled together.

Now see: these events did not take place in the Christian cycle,
for the nations did not come under the One Standard which is the
Divine Branch. But in this cycle of the Lord of Hosts all the
nations and people will enter under the shadow of this Flag. In
the same way, Israel, scattered all over the world, was not
reassembled in the Holy Land in the Christian cycle; but in the
beginning of the cycle of Baha'u'llah this divine promise, as is
clearly stated in all the Books of the Prophets, has begun to be
manifest. You can see that form all the parts of the world tribes
of Jews are coming to the Holy Land; they live in villages and
lands which they make their own, and day by day they are
increasing to such an exte