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
“The croaking of the frog spirits, or doctrines, will gather the kings and
princes, financial, political, religious and industrial, into one great
army. The spirit of fear, inspired by the croaking, will scourge the
passions of otherwise good and reasonable men to fury—desperation. In
their blind following of these evil spirits, evil doctrines, they will be
ready to sacrifice life and everything on what they mistakenly suppose is
the altar of Justice, Truth and Righteousness under a Divine arrangement.
“Many noble people in this great army will assume an attitude quite
contrary to their preference. For a time the wheels of liberty and
progress will be turned backward, and mediæval restraints will be
considered necessary for self‐preservation—for the maintenance of the
present order of things and for the prevention of the new order which God
has decreed, the due time for which is at hand. Even those who may be
God’s people do not stop to consider whether it is His will that things
should continue as they have been for the past six thousand years. The
Bible says that such is not God’s will, but that there is to be a great
overturning, that a new order is coming in.
“For a brief time, as we understand the Scriptures, these combined forces
of Armageddon will triumph. Free speech, free mails, and other liberties
which have come to be the very breath of the masses in our day, will be
ruthlessly shut off on the plea of _necessity_, the glory of God, the
commands of the Church, etc. The safety‐valve will be sat upon, and thus
will cease to annoy earth’s kings with the sound of escaping steam; and
all will seem to be serene—until the great social explosion described in
the Revelation as an _earthquake_ will take place. In symbolic language an
earthquake signifies social revolution, and the Scriptural declaration is
that none like it ever before occurred. (Rev. 16:18, 19.) Our Lord refers
to it in Matt. 24:21.
“At this juncture, the Scriptures show, Divine Power will step forward,
and God will gather the marshaled hosts to Armageddon—to the Mount of
Destruction. (Rev. 16:16.) The very thing which they sought to avert by
their union, federation, etc., will be the very thing that they will
hasten. Other Scriptures tell us that God will be represented by Messiah,
and that He will be on the side of the masses. ‘At that time shall Michael
[the Godlike One—Messiah] stand up.’ (Dan. 12:1.) He will assume
authority. He will take possession of His Kingdom in a manner little
looked for by many of those who erroneously have been claiming to be His
Kingdom, and authorized by Him to reign in His name and in His stead.
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