By God! He Who hath been named YHWH "Jehovah" in the Torah hath come

He (Baha'u'llah) it is Who, in the Old Testament (Torah) hath been named YHWH "Jehovah” …

Text in AQA, Vol. 2, p. 28; trans. Shoghi Effendi, cited in The Dispensation of Baha'u'llah, p. 13 (adapted).

He (Baha'u'llah) it is Who, in the Old Testament (Torah) hath been named YHWH "Jehovah”

In a number of his epistles of the late ‘Akka period, Bahá'u'lláh clearly claimed to be YHWH, the Divinity Who conversed with Moses from the burning bush and whose eschatological advent as “YHWH of hosts” (“the Lord of hosts”) was predicted by the Israelite prophets. In, for example, the following lines addressed to a Jewish convert to the Baha'i Faith named Aqa Jan, Baha'u'llah writes:

The Face of the Ancient One [Baha'u'llah] hath turned towards the sages (hukama) in the Land of al-ha' and al-mim [Hamadan, in Iran] and announceth unto them the glad-tidings of the Ridvan (Paradise) of God, the Lord of all the worlds: “By God! He Who hath been named YHWH "Jehovah" in the Torah hath come.

Translated from an unpublished and uncatalogued manuscript of epistles of Baha'u'llah

No God is there except Me, the Mighty, the Knowing

This is the Day in which He Who cried out on the Mount (munad at-tur) hath held converse and the Lord of Hosts proclaimed before all the world: “No God is there except Me, the Mighty, the Knowing.” ¹ ‘Abdu’l-Baha specifically identified the Biblical “Lord of Hosts” with his father and spoke of the “hosts" as the stalwart members of the Baha’i community. ²

^1. Text in AQA, Vol. 2, p. 28; trans. Shoghi Effendi, cited in The Dispensation of Baha'u'llah, p. 7.
^2. See ‘Abdu’l-Baha, Tablets of the Divine Plan, pp. 17-23 (Let¬ter of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, dated April 19, 20, and 22. 1916).