"Every eye shall see Him" in the Bible

Every eye shall see Him (upon His Return)

“Behold, He is coming with clouds and every eye shall see Him.”

(Revelation 1:7)

All people will see God's salvation

“As it is written in the book of Isaiah the prophet, ‘The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make His paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’”

(Luke 3:4-6)

Note

• Luke here says that the prophecy of Isaiah was fulfilled by the coming of Jesus the Christ and that “And all flesh shall see the salvation of God” when clearly not all humans alive literally saw Christ living in a physical body. The interpretation must be spiritual as literally “all flesh” did not see Jesus and “every valley” was not “filled” and “every mountain” was not “brought low.” Hence, “Every eye shall see him” could be interpreted as it applies to Bahá’u’lláh as Luke interpreted Isaiah spiritually to claim Christ fulfilled “and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.”

(Spiritual eyes will see Jesus returned)

“Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, everyone who pierced Him.”

(Revelation 1:7)

Note

• Since the Roman soldier’s eyes (who pierced Jesus at His Crucifixion) are long ago returned to dust, it must be spiritual eyes that will “see him” or at least eyes unlike the ones we see with today.

Jesus will Return like a thief in the night (which suggests many won't see Him literally)

"for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night."

(1 Thessalonians 5:2-4

"But the day of the Lord will come like a thief."

(2 Peter 3:10

"I will come like a thief"

(Revelation 3:3

"“Look, I come like a thief!"

(Revelation 16:15

Notes

• This suggests many literal eyes won’t see Him at His coming
• The quote is “every eye shall see Him” but not that every eye shall recognize Him. Just as (Luke 3:4-6) thought “all flesh” saw the salvation of God, yet few people became Christians at first just as few became Bahá’ís at first.

Coming of Jesus will be like during Noah when people did not know the Message was from God until afterward

“As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For in those days, before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark; and they did not know until the flood came and swept them all away; so will be the coming of the Son of Man...therefore, you must be ready for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”

(Matthew 24:36-44)

Stars to fall from heaven and sun and moon to darken (so not possible to see and would destroy the earth anyways)

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven and the powers of heaven will be shaken; then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth...will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven.”

(Matthew 24:29-31)

Notes

• How could every eye see Him when the earth is round and people on opposite sides of the earth could not visualize Him at the same time?
• How could the sun be literally darkened and the moon cease to shine (Matthew 24:29) and still there by light for “every eye (to)see him?”
• How could the stars fall upon the earth at the same time “every eye shall see Him” when stars are many times the size of the earth and just one would destroy the earth?

See also

• Literal vs. figurative in the Bible
• All things perceiving God (Spiritually, every eye hath seen and felt the power of the Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh, the Spirit of the Age)