nt, that all Palestine will become their
home.--Some Answered Questions, p. 75-76.

The Day of God

The word "Day" in such phrases as "Day of God" and "Last Day" is
interpreted as meaning "Dispensation." Each of the great religion-founders
has His "Day." Each is like a sun. His teachings have their dawn, their
truth gradually illumines more and more the minds and hearts of the people
until they attain the zenith of their influence. Then they gradually
become obscured, misrepresented and corrupted, and darkness overshadows
the earth until the sun of a new day arises. The day of the Supreme
Manifestation of God is the Last Day, because it is a day that shall never
end, and shall not be overtaken by night. His sun shall never set, but
shall illumine the souls of men both in this world and in the world to
come. In reality none of the spiritual suns ever set. The suns of Moses,
of Christ, of Muhammad, and all the other Prophets are still shining in
heaven with undiminished luster. But earthborn clouds have concealed their
radiance from the people of earth. The Supreme Sun of Baha'u'llah will
finally disperse these dark clouds, so that the people of all religions
will rejoice in the light of all the Prophets, and with one accord worship
the one God Whose light all the Prophets have mirrored forth.

The Day of Judgment

Christ spoke much in parables about a great Day of Judgment when "the Son
of man shall come in the glory of his Father ... and ... shall reward
every man according to his works" (Matt. xvi, 27). He compares this Day to
the time of harvest, when the tares are burned and the wheat gathered into
barns:--

... so shall it be in the end of this world [consummation of the
age]. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall
gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which
do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there
shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous
shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.--Matt. xiii,
40-43.

The phrase "end of the world" used in the Authorized Version of the Bible
in this and similar passages has led many to suppose that when the Day of
Judgment comes, the earth will suddenly be destroyed, but this is
evidently a mistake. The true translation of the phrase appears to be "the
consummation or end of the age." Christ teaches that the Kingdom of the
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