aiming Him as the "Lord of Hosts" and the "King of Glory." To
Him Haggai had referred as the "Desire of all nations," and Zachariah as
the "Branch" Who "shall grow up out of His place," and "shall build the
Temple of the Lord." Ezekiel had extolled Him as the "Lord" Who "shall be
king over all the earth," while to His day Joel and Zephaniah had both
referred as the "day of Jehovah," the latter describing it as "a day of
wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a
day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day
of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high
towers." His Day Ezekiel and Daniel had, moreover, both acclaimed as the
"day of the Lord," and Malachi described as "the great and dreadful day of
the Lord" when "the Sun of Righteousness" will "arise, with healing in His
wings," whilst Daniel had pronounced His advent as signalizing the end of
the "abomination that maketh desolate."

To His Dispensation the sacred books of the followers of Zoroaster had
referred as that in which the sun must needs be brought to a standstill
for no less than one whole month. To Him Zoroaster must have alluded when,
according to tradition, He foretold that a period of three thousand years
of conflict and contention must needs precede the advent of the
World-Savior _Sh_ah-Bahram, Who would triumph over Ahriman and usher in an
era of blessedness and peace.

He alone is meant by the prophecy attributed to Gautama Buddha Himself,
that "a Buddha named Maitreye, the Buddha of universal fellowship" should,
in the fullness of time, arise and reveal "His boundless glory." To Him
the Bhagavad-Gita of the Hindus had referred as the "Most Great Spirit,"
the "Tenth Avatar," the "Immaculate Manifestation of Krishna."

To Him Jesus Christ had referred as the "Prince of this world," as the
"Comforter" Who will "reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and
of judgment," as the "Spirit of Truth" Who "will guide you into all
truth," Who "shall not speak of Himself, but whatsoever He shall hear,
that shall He speak," as the "Lord of the Vineyard," and as the "Son of
Man" Who "shall come in the glory of His Father" "in the clouds of heaven
with power and great glory," with "all the holy angels" about Him, and
"all nations" gathered before His throne. To Him the Author of the
Apocalypse had alluded as the "Glory of God," as "Alpha and Omega," "the
Beginning and the E