Symbolically, Almighty God spoke of Himself as the "husbandly Owner" of ancient Israel. (Isaiah 54:5) While Israel was a Kingdom, He was its Ruler. David was appointed by Him to be His representative King on Earth. By hereditary principle, successive Kings inherited the Kingship. They were not elected. It is recorded at 1 Samuel 16:12 that God specifically instructed Samuel His prophet to anoint David to be King.
To a certain degree, that Kingdom on Earth was a pattern for the future Kingdom of God on Earth prophesied by His Holiness the Christ and proclaimed by Him. The hereditary principle exists in both Kingdoms except that it didn't work well in the ancient Israelite Kingdom because many men who inherited the Kingship were wicked and beastly rulers. `Abdu'l-Bahá in the Charter of the New World Order, His sacred and immutable Will and Testament, delineated the same hereditary principle to be a feature of the Administration of God's Kingdom on Earth, the Administration of the New World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, except that the vital ingredient which was missing in the ancient Israelite Kingdom has been included by the Master for the Kingdom of God on Earth. That vital missing feature is the choosing and appointing of a successor as head of the Bahá'í Faith who inherits "...of the spiritual within him (the guardian of the Cause of God), a successor who has "a goodly character". (See the Will and Testament, paragraph 18)
Successors under King David inherited the Kingship genetically/biologically and thus many were unscrupulous, bad leaders. That cannot occur in God's prophesied Kingdom on Earth, the World Commonwealth of Bahá'u'lláh, because the choosing by an infallible
Guardian a successor who has "the spiritual within him", "a goodly character" ensures righteous rulership over God's Kingdom on Earth.
Each successor Guardian is simultaneously one of the "chosen ministers" of the Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh as defined by Shoghi Effendi. The Guardians are His "chosen ministers".
Elected individuals in the Bahá'í Faith are in no way directly connected to that hereditary principle of the Bahá'í Faith which principle ensures that an unscrupulous man will never become head of the Bahá'í Faith. Elected individuals do not and cannot carry forward
the hereditary principle of the Bahá'í Faith. For that very reason, we quickly perceive that something is very disastrously in error when we read these words recorded on page 397 of the Heterodox Bahá'í publication, The Bahá'í World 1954-1963:
"The members of all the National and Regional Spiritual Assemblies of the Bahá'í world, duly constituted in Ridván 1960, will take part in a postal ballot to elect nine members to the International Council. This International Bahá'í Council is to work under the direction and supervision of the Hands of the Cause residing in the Holy Land..."
True seekers and all sincere Bahá'ís will take careful note of that gross distortion of the Master's sacred Instructions which distortion eliminates the hereditary principle of the Bahá'í Faith, replacing the chosen and appointed head of the legitimate International Bahá'í Council, appointed by the first Guardian, with totally elected membership.
Furthermore, `Abdu'l-Bahá, the Center of the Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh,delineated immutably in His sacred Will and Testament that the "sacred head" of the Universal House of Justice, a Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith, must be the one who chooses, guides, urges and instructs Hands of the Cause, and here we see that in the Heterodox Bahá'í
administration the circumstance is the very opposite of the Master's sacred Instructions, namely a circumstance where Hands of the Cause are instructing and supervising all of the members of the supposed embryonic Universal House of Justice which they have established.
Having abandoned the prophetic pattern of the Kingdom of ancient Israel with its hereditary principle and its perfect fulfillment in the form of the Master's delineated additional feature related to that hereditary principle making that principle appropriate for the Divine Civilization which will fill the entire Earth under God's rulership, the Heterodox Bahá'í administrators have developed an apostate distorted system of completely elected individuals, fallible and impotent to interpret and apply the Laws of the Lord of this Age.
The website of the living Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith:
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com
By Hand of the Cause Ross Campbell
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