Lecture Sialkot — Page 10
10 L ECTURE S IALKOT sister. Such a birth points to the consummation of Wil a yat [Sainthood]. It is the unanimous teaching of all Prophets as that the Promised Messiah would appear at the turn of the sev- enth millennium. This is why the Christian world has recently been so agitated about this subject, and a number of tracts were published in America asking why the Promised Messiah, who was to have appeared in this age, had not yet done so. Some had replied de- spairingly that since it is already too late, people should consider the Church to be his substitute. The fact that I have appeared in the millennium specified by the Prophets as is a testimony to my truth. Had there been no other proof, this alone would have sufficed for a true seeker after truth, and its rejection would imply the rejection of all Divine scriptures. This argument is as clear as day for those who know the Divine Books and ponder over them. Rejecting this argument amounts to rejecting all Prophethood, confounding all calculations, and disturbing the Divine scheme of things. It is not correct to say, as some people do, that since no one knows of the Day of Resurrection, it is therefore not possible to specify the age of the world from Adam to the end to be seven thousand years. Such are the people who have never properly deliberated upon Divine scriptures. These are