Those who break the Laws pay the penalty. In secular society, those who ignore or break the established laws suffer the consequences of their own neglect. These outer laws are a mirror of the realm of the moral, ethical and spiritual Laws of God which are the foundation and basis of all life on earth. Therefore the punishment is more severe, and is world wide, as the offenders are both the leaders and the people of the earth. When the sun rises, all life on the planet must adjust itself to the new day.
Flowers open their blossoms to the gradually warming sunlight.
Should the blossoms neglect to open until the noon-day sun beats down upon them, they would be destroyed. In like manner, kingdoms and peoples that have refused for over a century to open their hearts to the Sun of truth for this Day, Baha'u'llah promised throughout their own Holy Books, now find themselves endangered through their refusal to adjust to the light and heat of a new Day. The new Springtime came with the birth of the Baha'i Faith in 1844, over a century and a half ago. The Spring has come and passed. Helpless before the blazing rays, it melts and floods, and sweeps away all before it.