I believe that John 16:13 refers to Baha'u'llah who was the Spirit if truth that Jesus promised to send.
John 16:12-14 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
I believe that lots of Christians say that.
I do count it, but I believe it refers to Baha'u'llah, who was the return of the Son of Man who came in the clouds.
I believe that....
The title ‘Son of man’ is symbolic of the perfect humanity that Jesus represented, but it does not apply exclusively to Jesus. It ultimately comes from the Book of Daniel, where it refers to the Messiah. It is a Baha’i teaching that the title applies to both Jesus and Baha’u’llah.
Baha'u'llah fulfills this prophecy because He came like lightening and
He came from the east and he shone as far as the west.
1. The king from the sunrise
Bahá’u’lláh came from Persia, which is to the East of Israel, but to the west of India. His ministry from the time of its beginning until his last days on earth was
forty years. The prophets of Syria and Palestine foretold the coming of the promised Messiah from the
East. The prophets and seers from India and the Far East, said that he would appear in the
West. Persia, the birthplace of Bahá’u’lláh lies in between these two, and fulfils the requirements of each.
In the book of Enoch, it is prophesied that the Messiah of the last days shall come from the East of Israel, and that He shall come from the land now known as Persia. Enoch foretells:“And in
those days the angels will assemble, and turn their heads
towards the East, toward the people of
Parthia and Medea, in order to excite the kings, and that a spirit of disturbance came over them, and disturbed them from off their thrones.” (Enoch 56:5). Parthia and Medea make up what is now the land of Persia, the birthplace of Bahá’u’lláh. The Jewish oracles, the Sibylline books, also mention the coming of the Messiah from the
East, saying:
“And then
from the sunrise God shall send a king who shall give every land relief from the bane of war … nor shall he do these things by his own counsel, but in obedience to the good ordinances of the Mighty God.” (cited in
The Messianic idea in Israel, p. 376).
Joseph Klausner, in
The Messianic idea in Israel, writes: “The ‘king from the sunrise’ is, without any doubt, the King-Messiah.”
The prophet Ezekiel also foretold that the Messiah would come to the Holy Land, Israel, from the East. He even gave the title by which He would be known in that day:
The Glory of God [or the Glory of the Lord]. Ezekiel recorded his vision of the
last days, saying:“And behold,
the Glory of the God of Israel came from the way of
the east…” (Ezekiel 43:2).
In another place, Ezekiel says:
“And the Glory of the Lord came into the house by way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.”(Ezekiel 43:4).
I had already learned that the name Bahá’u’lláh was Persian, and when translated into English means, The Glory of God or The Glory of the Lord. His herald was called the Báb. This is also Persian, and translated into English means, The Gate.
The Báb was the Gate by which Bahá’u’lláh, the Glory of God, entered into the hearts of men. Bahá’u’lláh had come to Israel in exile from Persia which is to the
East.
I was more than satisfied by my findings. I learned that Bahá’u’lláh had completed the prophesies of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Micah, Zoroaster, Buddha, Muhammad, and many secular prophesies as well—all of which pointed to the time and the place from which the Shepherd of the day of the ‘one fold’ would come.
I marked the first proof:
Fulfilled.
William Sears, Thief in the Night, pp. 109-111
