Another Great Prophecy Fulfilled — Page 30
··oo was fo happen·~sotne tirr. e in Spring. In this-regard the. followitig· prophecy, which. has already been quoted before, should be noted: " Again, with the coming of the Spring, God's Word will be_ fulfilled~!'. Explaining this prophecy, the Promised Messiah writes : "Since the last earthquake which occurred oQ April 4, 1905, came in -the-spring season, God's revelation informs me that this second earthquake will also take place in the sa'me season. Spring, properly speaking, begins towards the end · of Jan. , when new leaves begin to appear on trees, and lasts up to the end of May. Therefore, the period of danger begins with the month of January. r cannot, however, say with any degree. of definiteness whether· the earthquake spoken of ·in the revelation will occur during the spring that follows this pre~ent oold weather or in the course of some future spring sea. son. But whenever it takes place one thing is absolut. ely certain, namely, that it must happen within the period specified. in:the· revelation. " (Alwasiy~at page 14 ). Now mark in what clear terms the Promised Messiah. has explained that the earthquake foretold by the revelation would take place in the spring season. He has further cleared the poirit as to the particular year in whose spring the earth· quake would fall. He says that the earthquake might occur m the spring season of any year. l3ut yet, as I have explained before, the prophecy did, in a way, contain a clear specification oC the particular spring that was meant : the earthquake pro- phecied in God's revelation was to happen in the spring season immediately following the assassination of Nadir Shah. Now ev~ryunprejudiced person will admit that the recent Bih~r e_arth· qqake, which occurred on the 15th of January last exactly in the 'beginning of the spring season, has in the most wonderf:ul ma~ner fulfilled the prophecy of the Promised Messiah. There is another point ·that deserves to be noted. The tragedy of the Bihar earthquake was enacted in mid-January, while the Promised Messiah, in the passage reproduced above places the commencement of the _spring season towards the end of January. In this connection it must be borne in mind that the Promised Messiah speaks from the point of view of the Punjab seasons, where the winter is lon~er and i!;J mai-ked b}' a.