Ahmadiyya Movement — Page 9
9 “For all the Prophets and the law prophesied until John. And if ye will receive it, this is Elias which was for to come”. — Mat- thew xi. , 13, 14. In this way Jesus explained that, when the prophecies speak of the Second Coming of a Prophet from the Heavens, they really mean the advent of a Prophet “like unto him. ” So should the Second Coming of Jesus be interpreted. It is not a mere inference deducted from a particular instance, but there is direct evidence to prove that by his Second Coming, Jesus always meant the coming of a Prophet other than himself. He says:— “Ye shall not see me henceforth till ye shall say, ‘Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord’. ”—Matthew xxiii. , 38. This verse clearly shows that only those shall be able to see the Messiah again who believe that a man is to appear IN HIS NAME, but those who stick to the belief that the same Jesus must come again shall continue to wait and their waiting shall be in vain. Now we have to see whether all that which had been written concerning the time of the Second Advent of Christ was fulfilled in the time of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (peace be on him), and at his hands. It had been said, there would be wars, and wars there have been in abundance and on a scale which had never been witnessed before—especially the last Great War. It had been said that there would be pestilences, and in spite of the great advance which the world has made in hygiene, unparal- leled ravages have been caused by influenza and the plague. It had been said that there would be earthquakes, and we find that the frequency and intensity of earthquakes now being expe- rienced was never experienced before within twice the same period. It had been said that there would be famines, and, in spite of the development of means of transport, certain portions of the earth have suffered from the severest famines. Again, it was