Abdul'baha has explained this question.
Search Beast at this link -
Bahá'í Reference Library - Some Answered Questions, Pages 45-61
The whole chapter is worth the read.
The Number of thebeast, in this case we are informed, is the year 666.
Regards Tony
I stopped reading that right away, - as it has Tanakh information backward.
Your Baha'i site says, -- "In the beginning of the seventh century after Christ, when Jerusalem was conquered, the Holy of Holies was outwardly preserved—that is to say, the house which Solomon built; but outside the Holy of Holies the outer court was taken and given to the Gentiles. “And the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months”—
that is to say, the Gentiles shall govern and control Jerusalem forty and two months, signifying twelve hundred and sixty days; and as each day signifies a year, by this reckoning it becomes twelve hundred and sixty years, which is the duration of the cycle of the Qur’án.
For in the texts of the Holy Book, each day is a year; as it is said in the fourth chapter of Ezekiel, verse 6: “Thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.”
They are not saying in Ezekiel that one day in the holy book equals a year.
In reality - they are paying for the past years of error, - with one day of penance per error year.
Eze 2:3 And he said unto me, Son of man,
I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.
Eze 4:4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it:
according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
Eze 4:5 For
I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days,
three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear
the iniquity of the house of Israel.
Eze 4:6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side,
and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days:
I have appointed thee each day for a year.
In other words he is doing penance for 390 YEARS of inequity of the House of Israel by lying for 390 DAYS, then flipping over and doing penance for the 40 YEARS of inequity of Judah by lying for 40 DAYS.
It is not saying as the site suggests - that every mentioned day in the holy book means a year.
But they run with that error and claim thus -
"This prophesies the duration of the Dispensation of Islám when Jerusalem was trodden under foot, which means that it lost its glory—but the Holy of Holies was preserved, guarded and respected—until the year 1260.
This twelve hundred and sixty years is a prophecy of the manifestation of the Báb, the “Gate” of Bahá’u’lláh,...
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Matthew Henry's Commentary On the Whole Bible - "...when the prophet lies so many days on his side, he bears the guilt of that iniquity which
the house of Israel, the ten tribes, had borne 390 years, reckoning from their first apostasy under Jeroboam to the destruction of Jerusalem, which completed the ruin of those small remains of them that had incorporated with Judah. He is then to lie forty days
upon his right side, and so long to bear
the iniquity of the house of Judah, the kingdom of the two tribes, because the measure-filling sins of that people were those which they were guilty of during the last forty years before their captivity, since the thirteenth year of Josiah, when Jeremiah began to prophesy (
Jer_1:1,
Jer_1:2), or, as some reckon it, since the eighteenth, when the book of the law was found and the people renewed their covenant with God...."
So - no prophecy to Bab and Bahá’u’lláh.
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