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Finally, with such violent disagreements raging in the Church, the absence of Christian practices and the spread of erroneous beliefs, it is only inevitable that the institutions of the Church would begin to crack and tumble down. This shaking down of Church leadership and Church institutions can be very effectively represented by 'earthquakes'. Earthquakes could thus be a symbol for any period when the Church is racked by controversies and disagreements. Baha'u'llah indicates that the earthquakes mentioned in the Scriptures are symbolic (Certitude 44-8) and have come to pass in this day:
(48:5)
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