be
delivered, for to devour the child as soon as it was born."(75) As we have
before explained, this woman is the Law of God. The dragon was standing
near the woman to devour her child, and this child was the promised
Manifestation, the offspring of the Law of Muhammad. The Umayyads were
always waiting to get possession of the Promised One, Who was to come from
the line of Muhammad, to destroy and annihilate Him; for they much feared
the appearance of the promised Manifestation, and they sought to kill any
of Muhammad's descendants who might be highly esteemed.

Verse 5. "And she brought forth a man child, Who was to rule all nations
with a rod of iron." This great son is the promised Manifestation Who was
born of the Law of God and reared in the bosom of the divine teachings.
The iron rod is a symbol of power and might--it is not a sword--and means
that with divine power and might He will shepherd all the nations of the
earth. This son is the Bab.

Verse 5. "And her child was caught up unto God, and to His throne." This
is a prophecy of the Bab, Who ascended to the heavenly realm, to the
Throne of God, and to the center of His Kingdom. Consider how all this
corresponds to what happened.

Verse 6. "And the woman fled into the wilderness"--that is to say, the Law
of God fled to the wilderness, meaning the vast desert of Hijaz, and the
Arabian Peninsula.

Verse 6. "Where she had a place prepared of God."(76) The Arabian
Peninsula became the abode and dwelling place, and the center of the Law
of God.

Verse 6. "That they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and
threescore days." In the terminology of the Holy Book these twelve hundred
and sixty days mean the twelve hundred and sixty years that the Law of God
was set up in the wilderness of Arabia, the great desert: from it the
Promised One has come. After twelve hundred and sixty years that Law will
have no more influence, for the fruit of that tree will have appeared, and
the result will have been produced.

Consider how the prophecies correspond to one another. In the Apocalypse,
the appearance of the Promised One is appointed after forty-two months,
and Daniel expresses it as three times and a half, which is also forty-two
months, which are twelve hundred and sixty days. In another passage of
John's Revelation it is clearly spoken of as twelve hundred and sixty
days, and in the Holy Book it is said that each day signifies one year.
Nothing could be cleare