Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished MysteryRussell, C. T. (Charles Taze)
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Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished Mystery
Russell, C. T. (Charles Taze)
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Jehovah's witnesses -- Controversial literature
And serve Him day and night in His Temple.—“Although they can never be the
living Temple of which Christ is the Head (Rev. 3:12; 11:1), we are told
they shall be _servants_ in that Temple; and although they shall never sit
in the Throne, they are highly privileged to serve ‘before the Throne.’
Grand and glorious privileges will be theirs.”—Z. ’97‐162; Rev. 22:3.
And He that sitteth on the Throne.—Jehovah.
[Shall dwell among] KNOWETH them.—To be known of the Lord is to be the
sure recipient of blessings. Not to be known or recognized of Him is the
greatest of all calamities. God keeps a record of His friends (Mal. 3:16)
but no record of His enemies; and therein lies their ruin. “I never _knew_
you; depart from Me.”—Matt. 7:23.
7:16. They shall NOT hunger [no more].—Poor things, how hungry they have
been! How the light has shone in their poor, hunted, starved faces, as
they have listened to Pastor Russell, by the tens of thousands; and yet,
when the lecture was over, they have wearily gone back to the “husks,”
from a sense of duty to the memory of some man, dead for hundreds of
years, who would, if alive today, be a follower of _the_ Reformer, Charles
T. Russell, because he followed Christ.
Neither thirst any more.—“The waters of Truth shall no longer be brackish
with error, being healed at the very spring by a clearer understanding of
the Word of God.”—B. 266.
Neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.—During the Harvest time
the Lord’s people, illuminated with the light of Present Truth, have been
shining forth, not with any brilliancy of their own, but with much of the
coming splendor of the “Sun of Righteousness.” Coming in contact with
them, it has been inevitable that the Great Company class should
frequently be singed, unable to answer the Truth, and should feel
considerable heat. Their condition has been aptly described by the
Prophet, “It shall be a vexation only to understand the report.” (Isa.
28:19.) “As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went
into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit
him.”—Amos 5:19.
7:17. For the Lamb.—Jesus Christ, their eternal Friend—“The same
yesterday, today, and forever.”—Heb. 13:8.
Which is in the midst of the Throne.—Authority, rulership.—A. 92; Rev.
5:6.
Shall feed them.—Be their shepherd. (John 10:1‐28; 21:16.) They will not
have immortality. Their lives will always require to be sustained, as in
the case of the angels.
And shall lead them unto [living] fountains of waters OF LIFE.—They will
not have within them the “well of water springing up unto everlasting
life,” as will the Bride class, but may freely take of the “Water of life”
which flows forth from the united well‐springs of the Fountain and its
144,000 associates.—John 4:14; Rev. 22:1, 17; Ezekiel 47:1‐5.
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