r is to be established on earth, as well as in heaven. He teaches us
to pray: "Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
In the parable of the Vineyard, when the Father, the Lord of the Vineyard,
comes to destroy the wicked husbandmen, He does not destroy the vineyard
(the world) also, but lets it out to other husbandmen, who will render Him
the fruits in their season. The earth is not to be destroyed, but to be
renewed and regenerated. Christ speaks of that day on another occasion as
"the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his
glory." St. Peter speaks of it as "the times of refreshing," "the times of
restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his
holy prophets since the world began." The Day of Judgment of which Christ
speaks is evidently identical with the coming of the Lord of Hosts, the
Father, which was prophesied by Isaiah and the other Old Testament
prophets; a time of terrible punishment for the wicked, but a time in
which justice shall be established and righteousness rule, on earth as in
heaven.

In the Baha'i interpretation, the coming of each Manifestation of God is a
Day of Judgment, but the coming of the supreme Manifestation of
Baha'u'llah is the great Day of Judgment for the world cycle in which we
are living. The trumpet blast of which Christ and Muhammad and many other
prophets speak is the call of the Manifestation, which is sounded for all
who are in heaven and on earth--the embodied and the disembodied. The
meeting with God, through His Manifestation, is, for those who desire to
meet Him, the gateway to the Paradise of knowing and loving Him, and
living in love with all His creatures. Those, on the other hand, who
prefer their own way to God's way, as revealed by the Manifestation,
thereby consign themselves to the hell of selfishness, error and enmity.

The Great Resurrection

The Day of Judgment is also the Day of Resurrection, of the raising of the
dead. St. Paul in his First Epistle to the Corinthians says:--

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall
all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the
last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be
raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this
corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on
immortality.--I Cor. xv, 51-53.

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