Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished MysteryRussell, C. T. (Charles Taze)
Religion
Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished Mystery
Russell, C. T. (Charles Taze)
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Jehovah's witnesses -- Controversial literature
That they should not worship devils.—Joining, if they choose, the Masons,
Odd Fellows and other secret organisations teaching a debased form of
religion.—Lev. 17:7; Deut. 32:17; 1 Cor. 10:20.
And idols of gold, and silver and [brass] COPPER.—Having their affection
set upon currency in hand and in the bank.—Psa. 115:1‐4; Dan. 5:22, 23.
And stone, and of wood.—Giving their attention to earthly affairs,
improvements in real estate, etc.
Which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk.—But are more or less permanent,
tangible and fixed.
9:21. Neither repented they of their murders.—Teaching hell‐fire keeps
nobody from being a murderer or a slanderer.—Rev. 21:8.
Nor their sorceries.—Use of drugs, Greek. Teaching hell‐fire keeps nobody
from being a drug fiend or pseudo‐philosopher.—Rev. 21:8.
Nor of their [fornication] WICKEDNESS.—Teaching hell‐fire keeps nobody
from being a wicked man.
Nor of their thefts.—Teaching hell‐fire keeps nobody from engaging in
“high finance.”
Revelation 10—The True Reformation Woe
10:1. And I saw another angel.—“The Messenger of the Covenant,” the Lord
Jesus.—Mal. 3:1.
Come down from Heaven.—At the time of the Second Advent, Oct. 1874.—Rev.
3:20.
Clothed with a cloud.—“ ‘He cometh with clouds;’ and while the clouds of
trouble are heavy and dark, when the mountains (kingdoms of this world)
are trembling and falling, and the earth (organized society) is being
shaken, disintegrated, melted, some will begin to realize what we now
proclaim as already at hand—that Jehovah’s Anointed is taking to Himself
His great power and beginning His work of laying justice to the line and
righteousness to the plummet. (Isa. 28:17.)”—B. 138.
And [a rainbow was] THE HAIR upon His head, and His face was as it were
the sun, and His feet as pillars of fire.—See Rev. 1:14‐16; 7:2; 18:1.
10:2. And [He had] HAVING in His hand.—In His power, given to Him by the
Father.—Rev. 5:7, 5.
A little book open.—The Present Truth message.—C. 89.
And He set His right foot.—Exerted the strongest power of restraint.
Upon the sea.—The masses not under religious control, who, without the
Lord’s control of the situation, would have long since swallowed up the
present order of things.—Rev. 7:1‐3; Luke 21:25; Psa. 46:2, 3.
And His left foot on the earth.—“Throughout the Scriptures, earth, when
used symbolically, represents society; seas, the restless, turbulent,
dissatisfied masses of the world.”—A. 318.
10:3. And cried with a loud voice.—Pastor Russell was the voice used.—Rev.
7:2.
As when a lion roareth.—Symbolical of Justice.—Rev. 4:7; Amos 3:8.
And when.—In 1881 A. D.
He had cried.—With the first great cry, “_Food for Thinking Christians_,”
1,400,000 copies given away, _free_.
Seven thunders.—Seven volumes of “STUDIES IN THE SCRIPTURES.”—Rev. 8:5.
Uttered their voices.—Were foreseen as necessary to the complete statement
of the Plan, and the fulfillment of this and other Scriptures.
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