Jeffrey's posting reminded me about the Biblical story ofJeremiah. I am going to draw attention to some of those parallels here.
There are many such parallels between the time of Jeremiah and the disobedience of ancient Israelites to their Covenant with Almighty God and the current disobedience towards `Abdu'l-Bahá, the Center of the Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh, by the renegade UHJ currently on Mt. Carmel and their Heterodox Bahá'í adherents around the Earth. During a similar time span of years as Jeremiah's prophesying against the waywardness and unfaithfulness of the ancient Israelites (647-617 B.C.E.), Joel B. Marangella, the third Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith has been constantly exposing the false visions heralded by the
headless heterodox Bahá'í UHJ on Mt. Carmel, and its other many violations of the Covenant of our Lord Bahá'u'lláh. The third Guardian's message has also included warnings
with similarities to the warnings contained in Jeremiah's message to disobedient Israelites.
The false prophets in ancient Israel during Jeremiah's time were heralding false visions amongst the wayward Israelites and prophesying in falsehood in the same manner that the bogus UHJ on Mt. Carmel is heralding false visions of the Administration of the New world Order of Bahá'u'lláh and also scoffing at the warning provided by the third Guardian's interpretation of the Tablet of the Holy Mariner.
Notice the parallels:
Jeremiah was prophesying the destruction of Jerusalem and the captivity of its remaining inhabitants, while the false prophets were saying the opposite.
Jeremiah wrote, as recorded at Jeremiah 14: 13,14:
"At this I said: "alas, O Sovereign Lord Jehovah! Here the prophets are saying to them, 'You will see no sword, and there will be no famine to happen to you, but true peace is what I shall give you in this place." And Jehovah went on to say to me: "Falsehood is what the prophets are prophesying in My Name. I have not sent them, nor have I commanded
them or spoken to them. A false vision and divination and a valueless thing and the trickiness of their heart they are speaking prophetically to you people."
The true vision of the Administration of the New World Order of Bahá'u'lláh is unmistakeably and clearly presented by the Perfect Architect of that Administration, the One Who is the Center of the Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh, `Abdu'l-Bahá. He delineated that true vision in His sacred and immutable Will and Testament and that true vision pictures a New World Order with an infallible highest legislative Body, namely a legitimate Universal House of Justice complete with a "sacred head" which "sacred head", a living Guardian, is capable and authorized to interpret Bahá'í Holy Writ and Holy text and the writings of earlier Guardians of the Bahá'í Faith so that the promise"
"This is the day which will not be followed by night" will become fulfilled throughout this Holy Bahá'í Dispensation.
In sharp contrast, the Heterodox Bahá'í false prophets, currently and illegally residing on Mt. Carmel behind the marble columns, are heralding to the Bahá'í world a false vision of a future administration over all of the Earth which cannot fulfill the promise "This is the day which will not be followed by night", because the false vision heralded by those false Heterodox prophets currently on Mt. Carmel is a vision without an interpreter of the Holy Bahá'í Writings, it is a vision of a headless UHJ, impotent to discern whether or not any of its legislation conflicts "with the meaning" or departs "from the spirit" of Bahá'u'lláh's revealed utterances", because only a living Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith is able to perform that
duty, a duty which the first Guardian, Shoghi Effendi, infallibly, specifically and officially in his spiritual testament, The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh, identified to be a necessary obligation of each Guardian in the true Administration of the New World Order of Bahá'u'lláh.
In sharp contrast also to the true vision of the true Bahá'í Administration, the false heterodox Bahá'í prophets currently residing behind the giant marble pillars on Mt. Carmel are heralding forth a false vision of a New World Order devoid of another sacred Institution delineated by the Master in His Will and Testament, the "Charter of the New World Order", namely the sacred Institution of the Hands of the Bahá'í Faith. In place of that sacred Institution infallibly delineated by the Master and infallibly discussed officially by the first of our Bahá'í Guardians, Shoghi Effendi, the false heterodox Bahá'í visionaries falsely paint a picture of a substitute institution, the members of which body a living Guardian will never "urge", whose members will never serve a living Guardian nor be "under his shadow" nor "obey his command", nor "be nominated and appointed" by a living Guardian of the Cause of God, all characteristics infallibly delineated for the sacred Bahá'í Institution, The Hands of the Bahá'í Faith, by the Master Himself in His sacred Will and Testament.
The false visionaries on Mt. Carmel call the unguided and impotent institution which they falsely herald, The Board of Continental Counsellors, which sans-Guardian institution they claim to be the legitimate successor of the Institution of the Hands of the Cause of God, an Institution inseparable from the Guardianship of the Bahá'í Faith and constantly guided by a living Guardian in the true and infallibly delineated vision of the New World Order of Bahá'u'lláh.
Jeremiah records these Words of Jehovah:
"The prophets themselves actually prophesy in falsehood, and as for the priests, they go subduing according to their own powers. And My own people have loved [it] that way,..."
The parallel of that circumstance in Jeremiah's day with the spiritual circumstance in the Heterodox Bahá'í organization today is striking.
Jeremiah's prophesying exposed the "unjust gain" rampant in ancient Israel, just as the third Guardian has exposed the unjust gain by the bogus UHJ's usurping of the Huqúq'u'lláh, which has been infallibly assigned exclusively to the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith.
Orthodox Bahá'ís are saying that as Bahá'ís we must walk in the spiritual roadways of the decades since the early 1920's when the Bahá'í Faith was guided by the first of our Guardians as the Bahá'í Faith must always be guided by a living Guardian. But heterodox
believers refuse to walk in that roadway. They refuse to acknowledge the Instructions of the Master enshrined in His sacred Will and Testament as Bahá'í Law, which those Instructions truly are. On page 4 of WOB Shoghi Effendi identified the Master's Will and Testament to be, together with the Most Holy Book, "inseparable parts of one complete unit."
The ancient Israelites were warned by these Words:
Jeremiah 6:16-19:
This is what Jehovah has said: "Stand still in the ways, you people, and see, and ask for the roadways of long ago, where, now, the good way is; and walk in it, and find ease for your souls. But they kept saying: "We are not going to walk" And I raised up over you people watchmen, 'Pay attention to the sound of the horn!'" But they kept saying: "We are not going to pay attention." "Therefore hear, O you nations! And know, O you assembly, what will be among them. Listen O earth! Here I am bringing in calamity upon this people as the fruitage of their thoughts, for they paid no attention to My very own
words; and My Law--they also kept rejecting it."
The parallel is, again, striking.
Jeremiah 6: 22,23:
This is what Jehovah has said: "Look! A people is coming from the land of the north and there is a great nation that will be awakened from the remotest parts of the earth. The bow and the javelin they will grab hold of. It is a cruel one, and they will have no pity.
Their voice will resound just like the sea, and upon horses they will ride. It is drawn up in battle order like a man of war against you, O daughter of Zion."
And so it came to pass, exactly as Jeremiah prophesied.
It is time for all sincere Bahá'ís and true seekers to pay heed to the parallels of Jeremiah's ministry and the ministry of the third Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith whose rebukes against error and violations and whose warnings of Divine retribution are similar to those of Jeremiah, and whose ministry exposing the bogus UHJ has now continued during a similar approximately 40-year time frame.
The website of the living Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith:
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com
Hand of the Cause Ross Campbell
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