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
For in them is filled up the wrath of God.—Their united testimony is that
the Times of the Gentiles have expired, the Reign of Christ has begun, all
earthly potentates—Civil, Social, Ecclesiastical and Financial—must give
way to the New Order of things, and will not give way peaceably, but must
be ejected.
15:2. And I saw as it were a sea of glass.—The Time of Trouble made
transparent. We can see why the Lord permits it, and see the Golden Age of
glory, peace and Divine blessing that lies just beyond.
Mingled with fire.—The coming anarchy. “They are the waves of the Red Sea,
which appears on fire as the Sun of righteousness arises upon them, on the
margin of which the true Israelites sing the song of Moses and the saving
Lamb. Standing on its shore are seen those who are delivered from the
beasts’ sway as the Israelites were in their exodus from the land of
Pharaoh. The song of Moses is sung by delivered Israel after the Egyptian
plagues: here the hymn of praise is sung by the redeemed before the
plagues are renewed and the Church gains its last victory over the
antichristian world.”—Cook.
And them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and [over] his
image.—Who understand and live in harmony with the knowledge that both
Papacy and Protestantism, and the governments under their influence, are
of Satanic spirit.—Rev. 13:11, 13, 14, 15; 14:11; 16:2, 13; 19:20; 20:10;
Matt. 24:24.
[And over his mark,] And over the number of his name.—Who refuse to let
any stand for them in the place of Christ.—Rev. 13:14‐18.
Stand on the sea of glass.—Not in among the restless and discontented, but
on a higher plane.—Heb. 13:5.
Having the harps of THE LORD God.—See Rev. 5:8; 14:2.
“God’s Word is that harp, which has long been unstrung,
And men heard but discordant its notes;
Now as tuned are its chords from Moses to John,
How grandly sweet melody floats.”
15:3. And [they sing] SINGING the song of Moses.—“Hebrew scholars have
remarked on the evidence of the antiquity of the song of Moses, recorded
in Exodus 15:1‐20, some even noting the fact that a few of the words
showed an intermingling of the Egyptian language. It is further
authenticated by the reference made to it in the book of Psalms, where the
entire matter of the deliverance of the people and the overthrow of their
enemies in the sea is graphically described by the sweet singer of Israel.
(Psa. 106:7‐12.) If it was appropriate, as we all admit that it was, that
the Israelites should give glory to God for their deliverance from the
bondage of Egypt, much more is it appropriate that spiritual Israel should
recognize the still greater deliverance from the power of Satan and the
thralldom of sin, accomplished for us through the blood of the Lamb of God
who died for our sins.”—Z. ’07‐158; Rev. 14:3.
The Servant of God.—See Ex. 14:31.
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