hter,
sister and brother. This is one of the meanings of the companionship of
the wolf and the lamb, the leopard and the kid, and the lion and the calf.

One of the great events which is to occur in the Day of the manifestation
of that Incomparable Branch (Baha'u'llah) is the hoisting of the Standard
of God among all nations. By this is meant that all nations and kindreds
will be gathered together under the shadow of this Divine Banner, which is
no other than the Lordly Branch itself, and will become a single nation.
Religious and sectarian antagonism, the hostility of races and peoples,
and differences among nations, will be eliminated. All men will adhere to
one religion, will have one common faith, will be blended into one race,
and become a single people. All will dwell in one common fatherland, which
is the planet itself. Universal peace and concord will be realized 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 peoples 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 from 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 extent
that all Palestine will become their home.

13: COMMENTARY ON THE TWELFTH CHAPTER OF THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN

We have before explained that what is most frequently meant by the Holy
City, the Jerusalem of God, which is mentioned in the Holy Book, is the
Law of God. It is compared sometimes to a bride, and sometimes to
Jerusalem, and again to the new heaven and earth. So in chapter 21, verses
1, 2 and 3 of the Revelation of St. John, it is said: "And I saw a new
heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were
passed away; and there was no mo