Eileen Maddocks

Eileen Maddocks has spent many years studying biblical prophecies and their importance to us today. Her first book, 1844: Convergence in Prophecy for Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Bahá'í Faith, was published in 2018. This book explores the Millerite expectations in the West of the return of Jesus Christ, and in the East expectations of the return of the Twelfth Imam, the Promised One of Shia Islam. Out of this Islamic milieu emerged the Twin Prophets of the Bahá'í Faith, the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh, as promised in the sacred scriptures of the Hebrew Bible. This followed the pattern of Christianity emerging from a Jewish milieu and its expectations. Were William Miller and the Millerite movement wrong? Not at all. They had the correct year (1844). And their efforts turned out to be part of the plan of God. . Her current project, The Coming of the Glory: How the Hebrew Scriptures Reveal the Plan of God, presents in three volumes a Bahá'í perspective of the Hebrew Bible, its prophecies, allegories, and symbolism. The Hebrew prophets are presented in a chronological, systematic manner within the context of Israelite history. Volume 1 was published in April 2020. Volume 2 will be released April 2022, and volume 3 will follow. Eileen served at the Baha'i World Centre in Haifa, Israel, for many years in a position that required much research and writing. Upon retirement, she returned to her New England heritage and is now a researcher, editor, and writer living in the bucolic state of Vermont, a haven for writers and artists. Her videos can be accessed by clicking on YouTube on her website, eileenmaddocks.com. She has also posted many articles there about the Hebrew prophets. She balances her cerebral, writer’s lifestyle with a serious study of classical ballet. She performed for four seasons (2015-2018) in Ballet Vermont’s “Farm to Ballet,” a production that brings classical ballet to Vermont farm venues. Eileen shares her home with two cats who edit her work by walking across the keyboard and trying to nudge her from writing to playing (or serving dinner).