Through that solemn act[1] the “delay,” of no less than a
decade, divinely interposed between the birth of Bahá’u’lláh’s Revelation in
the Síyáh-Chál and its announcement to the Báb’s disciples, was at long
last terminated. The “set time of concealment,” during which as He Himself has
borne witness, the “signs and tokens of a divinely-appointed Revelation” were
being showered upon Him, was fulfilled. The “myriad veils of light,” within
which His glory had been wrapped, were, at that historic hour, partially
lifted, vouchsafing to mankind “an infinitesimal glimmer” of the effulgence of
His “peerless, His most sacred and exalted Countenance.” The “thousand two
hundred and ninety days,” fixed by Daniel in the last chapter of His Book, as
the duration of the “abomination that maketh desolate” had now elapsed. The
“hundred lunar years,” destined to immediately precede that blissful
consummation (1335 days), announced by Daniel in that same chapter, had
commenced. The nineteen years, constituting the first “Vahíd,” preordained in
the Persian Bayán by the pen of the Báb, had been completed. The Lord of the
Kingdom, Jesus Christ returned in the glory of the Father, was about to ascend
His throne, and assume the sceptre of a world-embracing, indestructible
sovereignty.
(Shoghi Effendi, ‘God Passes By’)
[1] Baha’u’llah’s Declaration in the Garden of Ridván
