It is also the Day of Judgment. On the Day when the Messenger of God appears, all are judged by their acceptance or rejection of His Message. The sheep are separated from the goats by His appearance. The sheep recognize the voice of the Good Shepherd, and follow Him, "for they know his voice".34 (112:7)

Bahá'u'lláh writes:
Behold how the generality of mankind hath been endued with the capacity to hearken unto God’s most exalted Word - the Word upon which must depend the gathering together and spiritual resurrection of all men ...35 (112:8)

From the preceding explanations, we can be sure that the resurrection of Christ is to be understood symbolically. It is plainly an inward truth: the body of Christ’s Faith was dead. It arose again with its real life of the spirit. The outward symbol of this inward truth is the story of the resurrection. (112:9)

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