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
15:4. Who shall not fear Thee, O Lord, and glorify Thy name.—“Here is
still another feature to this song, and it is glorious also. It looks
forward to the glorious Millennial Age, to the time when, under Divine
providence, the knowledge of the Lord, essential to faith, and to any
acceptance of His favor and mercy through Christ, shall be extended to
every creature. ‘Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess.’ (Rom.
14:11.) And while this bowing and confessing may at first be compulsory,
yet the Scriptures assure us that ultimately all who will not come into
heart harmony with the Lord and with all His gracious arrangements and
provisions, shall be cut off from amongst the people,—in the Second Death.
(Acts 3:23.) So that ultimately, instead of the Universe being filled with
hundreds of millions who to all eternity will wail and gnash their teeth
and blaspheme God’s holy name in agony—instead of this the time shall come
when every tongue in Heaven and in earth shall be heard praising God, and
giving honor to Him that sitteth on the Throne and to the Lamb, forever,
for by that time all evildoers shall be cut off. (Rev. 5:13.)”—Z. ’00‐311;
Jer. 10:7.
For Thou only art holy.—“This song continues, and has yet another strain.
It declares, ‘Thou only art holy’. All holiness, all perfection, wherever
it is found, must proceed from God, the great Fountain of holiness. How
strange, then, that any of God’s dear people (and we ourselves were once
amongst this number) should so misunderstand the Divine Character and Plan
as to misrepresent the same as being the very essence of unholiness,
injustice, unkindness, inequity, lovelessness, toward the great mass of
God’s creatures!”—Z. ’00‐311.
For all nations shall come and worship before Thee.—“There is still
another strain in this song; and it is a grand one also, like all the
others,—reaching down into the Millennial Age. It declares, ‘All nations
shall come and worship before Thee; for Thy judgments are made manifest.’
‘All nations’ will include, not only all the nations then living, but all
the nations of the dead, just as does the promise which God made to
Abraham, saying, ‘In thy Seed [The Christ, Head and Body] shall all the
nations of the earth be blessed.’ (Gen. 22:18.)”—Z. ’00‐311.
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