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
Could there ever come a time when men, the world over, could be more
heathenish at heart than now; and does not, therefore, even Papal comment
show that this Scripture is ready to be fulfilled?
“Whene’er the storms come down on thee,
And days of peace all seem to flee;
This thought thy peace again shall bring,
Why should I fear?—the Lord is King.
E’en when the tempest rages high,
And darkest clouds are drawing nigh,
With hands of faith to this, O! cling,—
Why should I fear?—the Lord is King;
Amid the stormy waves of life,
Above the tumult and the strife,
The chimes of hope still sweetly ring,—
Be not afraid—the Lord is King.”
Revelation 18—The Fall Of Ecclesiasticism
18:1. [And] after these things.—As another view of the Harvest epoch.
I saw another angel.—Messenger, the Messenger of the Covenant, the Lord
Jesus.—Mal. 3:1; Rev. 10:1; 14:1.
Come down from Heaven.—In 1874. See Rev. 3:14.
Having great power.—“All power in Heaven and in earth.”—Matt. 28:18.
And the earth was lightened.—See Mal. 4:2; Rev. 7:2.
With His glory.—Some of the glories of the New Day, all discovered since
1874, are adding machines, aeroplanes, aluminum, antiseptic surgery,
artificial dyes, automatic couplers, automobiles, barbed wire, bicycles,
carborundum, cash registers, celluloid, correspondence schools, cream
separators, Darkest Africa, disk ploughs, Divine Plan of the Ages,
dynamite, electric railways, electric welding, escalators, fireless
cookers, gas engines, harvesting machines, illuminating gas, induction
motors, linotypes, match machines, monotypes, motion pictures, North Pole,
Panama Canal, Pasteurization, railway signals, Roentgen rays, shoe sewing
machines, smokeless powder, South Pole, submarines, radium, sky scrapers,
subways, talking machines, telephones, typewriters, vacuum cleaners and
wireless telegraphy.—Ezek. 43:2; John 1:9; Matt. 25:31; Titus 2:13.
18:2. And he cried [mightily] with a [strong] MIGHTY voice.—How apt are
these Scriptures that refer to Pastor Russell as a “voice”! (Rev. 7:2;
10:3; 16:1.) So modestly are his works written that the author is nowhere
manifest, but attention is always and everywhere drawn to the _Lord_.
Saying, [Babylon the great is] fallen, is BABYLON THE GREAT [fallen].—“The
expression, ‘Babylon is fallen,’ indicates that at some time a sudden and
utter rejection is to come upon Babylon, when all favor will forever
cease, and when judgments will follow—just such a rejection as we have
shown was due in 1878.”—C. 155; Isa. 13:19‐22; 21:9; Jer. 51:8‐13; Rev.
14:8; 16:19.
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