…in the sight of God the past, the present and the future
are all one and the same—whereas, relative to man, the past is gone and
forgotten, the present is fleeting, and the future is within the realm of hope.
And it is a basic principle of the Law of God that in every Prophetic Mission,
He entereth into a Covenant with all believers—a Covenant that endureth until
the end of that Mission, until the promised day when the Personage stipulated
at the outset of the Mission is made manifest. Consider Moses, He Who conversed
with God. Verily, upon Mount Sinai, Moses entered into a Covenant regarding the
Messiah, with all those souls who would live in the day of the Messiah. And
those souls, although they appeared many centuries after Moses, were
nevertheless—so far as the Covenant, which is outside time, was
concerned—present there with Moses.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from the
Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
