Of Him David had sung in his Psalms, acclaiming Him as the
“Lord of Hosts” and the “King of Glory.” To Him Haggai had referred as the
“Desire of all nations,” and Zachariah as the “Branch” Who “shall grow up out
of His place,” and “shall build the Temple of the Lord.” Ezekiel had extolled
Him as the “Lord” Who “shall be king over all the earth,” while to His day Joel
and Zephaniah had both referred as the “day of Jehovah,” the latter describing
it as “a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and
desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick
darkness, a day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against
the high towers.” His Day Ezekiel and Daniel had, moreover, both acclaimed as
the “day of the Lord,” and Malachi described as “the great and dreadful day of
the Lord” when “the Sun of Righteousness” will “arise, with healing in His
wings,” whilst Daniel had pronounced His advent as signalizing the end of the
“abomination that maketh desolate.”
- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’)
