Persian Dreams

(from Wine of Astonishment by Bill Sears)

Ezekiel prophesied of this new day in which the Word of God would be spoken to a people who would be "impudent and hardhearted". He made it plain that men in that day would have to have inner vision in order
to understand the Word of God. Ezekiel records:

I will open thy mouth, and thou shall say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; ...

Then he adds:

He that heareth, let him hear ...

In this same chapter, Ezekiel speaks of the wonder of this vision, and of beholding the glory of the Lord. He says:

... and, behold, the glory of the Lord stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.

The river Chebar, known of old as the river Khabar, has its source west of Baghdad and empties into the Euphrates in ancient Babylon. It was in this very region, near the Chebar, that Bahá'u'lláh, Whose name means the Glory of the Lord, announced His Mission. In this same region Bahá'u'lláh revealed His Kitab-i-Iqan (Book of Certitude) which has been quoted so frequently in this volume. It has been written of this Book of Bahá'u'lláh's

... it proffered to mankind the "Choice Sealed Wine", whose seal is of "musk", and broke the "seals" of the "Book" referred to by Daniel, and disclosed the meaning of the "words" destined to remain "closed up" till the "time of the end".

It was in this book, the Book of Certitude, that Bahá'u'lláh clearly and beautifully explained the meaning of all those things which have puzzled and divided men in the past. In this book, Bahá'u'lláh unsealed the secrets of both the Old and the New Testament, and laid bare the "gems of Truth" which were concealed there.