1000 years

johnb@uafphpl.uark.edu
Fri, Mar 3 1995 21:51:36 GMT

Note 62 (pp. 195-196) of the _Kitab-i-Aqdas_:

The Dispensation of Baha'u'llah will last until the coming of the next
Manifestation of God, Whose advent will not take place before at least "a
full thousand years" will have elapsed. Baha'u'llah cautions against
ascribing to "this verse" anything other than its "obvious meaning", and
in one of His Tablets, He specifies that "each year" of this thousand
year period consists of "twelve months according to the Qur'an, and of
nineteen months of nineteen days each, according to the Bayan".
The intimation of His Revelation to Baha'u'llah in the Siyah-Chal of
Tihran, October 1852, marks the birth of His Prophetic Mission and hence
the commencement of the one thousand years or more that must elapse
before the appearance of the next Manifestation of God.


Thanks,
John B.