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That man is in rebellion against God cannot be denied. Baha'u'llah repeatedly gave warning of the impending judgment of God, which is "at once a visitation from God and a cleansing process for all mankind," and for which "the world's supreme leaders, both secular and religious, are to be regarded as primarily answerable." (Pdc) The catastrophe, however, will not be the end of our temporal world, but the total break-up and overthrow of the existing order and the beginning of a new age, in which "the folly and tumult of strife that has, since the dawn of history, muted into the wisdom and the tranquillity of an undisturbed, a universal, and lasting peace, in which the discord and separation of the children of men will have given way to the world-wide reconciliation, and the complete unification of the divers elements that constitute human society." (Shoghi Effendi)
(65:2)
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