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
A great hail out of heaven.—Truth, compacted, coming with crushing force.
A concluding statement of how the seventh volume of _Scripture Studies_
appears to the worshipers of the beast and his image.—Rev. 11:19; Isa.
28:17; 30:30; Ezek. 13:11; Joshua 10:11.
Every stone about the weight of a talent.—113 lbs. (Mal. 3:10.) Another
view of the seventh volume of _Scripture Studies_, as it appears to the
worshipers of the beast and his image, is found in the last of the
Egyptian plagues, the death of the first‐born, Exodus 11th. and 12th.
chapters. As soon as this plague came the Egyptians, from Pharaoh down,
were anxious to speed the parting guest, and willing to give up all the
jewels of silver (the Great Company) and the jewels of gold (the Little
Flock). In connection with the statement that “there was not a house where
there was not one dead,” it is admitted that if any sects were overlooked
in the lists cited in comments on Rev. 8th and 9th chapters the omission
was unintentional and will be corrected in later editions. The three days
in which Pharaoh’s host pursued the Israelites into the wilderness
represent the three years from 1917 to 1920 at which time all of Pharaoh’s
messengers will be swallowed up in the sea of anarchy. The wheels will
come off their chariots—organizations.
And men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail.—Apparently, the
book will be unpopular for a time. “As soon as Divine restraints upon
Satan were released, he moved the Sabeans to steal Job’s cattle and to
kill his servants; he caused fire to come down from heaven, which not only
killed but burned up Job’s flocks of sheep; he sent the Chaldeans who
stole Job’s camels, and finally produced a cyclone which smote the house
in which Job’s children were feasting together, and destroyed the house
and killed its occupants; and he attacked Job’s person with disease as
soon as granted permission. (Job. 1:9‐2:7.)”—S. 80.
For the plague thereof was exceeding great.—Quite a shower.
Revelation 17—The Papacy’s Last Stand
17:1. And there came one of the seven angels.—Volume VII, _Studies in the
Scriptures_.
Which had the seven vials.—An explanation of the plagues upon symbolic
Babylon.
And talked with me.—The John class, the Church in the flesh.
Saying [unto me] Come hither; I will shew unto thee.—In the 8th, 9th, 16th
and 18th chapters of Revelation, and throughout the Book of Ezekiel.—Nahum
3:3, 4.
The judgment of the great whore.—Papacy, the “beast.”—Rev. 19:2.
That sitteth upon many waters.—The peoples of the earth.—Jer. 51:13; Rev.
17:15.
17:2. With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication.—“The
kingdoms of Europe today claim to be Christian kingdoms, and announce that
their sovereigns reign ‘by the grace of God,’ i. e., through appointment
of either Papacy or some of the Protestant sects.”—A. 268; Rev. 18:3; Isa.
1:21; Jer. 2:20‐24; 3:6; Ezek. 16:15.
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