judgment
5 stories on this theme.
The Day of Judgment
Christ spoke much in parables about a great Day of Judgment when “the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father ... and ... shall reward every man according to his works” (Matt. xvi, 27).
Hidden Word, Persian 63: Tablets of Chrysolite
The sixty-third Hidden Word in Persian — Bahá'u'lláh's warning to the peoples of the world that their deeds have not been effaced in His sight, but are graven upon tablets of chrysolite.
The Crumbling of Religious Orthodoxy
In The Promised Day Is Come, Shoghi Effendi traces the loss of power of the religious hierarchies of Islám and Christendom, which he sees as paralleling the fall of the kings whom Bahá'u'lláh had also addressed.
The Fall of the Monarchies
In The Promised Day Is Come, Shoghi Effendi surveys the fall of the great monarchies of Europe and the Middle East between 1870 and 1925, reading the collapses in the light of the warnings Bahá'u'lláh had sent to those same sovereigns from Adrianople and 'Akká.
A Tempest Sweeping the Earth
In The Promised Day Is Come, written in 1941 during the Second World War, Shoghi Effendi described the upheaval of his time as a judgment of God, at once a punishment and a cleansing, and as the birth pangs of a new Order.