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
Fill to her double.—Greek, “the double.” (Isa. 61:7.) Give her enough
light on Ezekiel and Revelation to show her the exit.—Isa. 21:7‐10.
18:7. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously.—And to
what lengths has not Papacy gone in this direction, with the Protestant
sects doing their best to keep the pace!
So much torment and sorrow.—Mourning for the dead, Greek.—Amos. 8:10.
Give her.—“I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O
Babylon, and thou wast not aware; thou art found, and also caught, because
thou hast striven against the Lord. The Lord hath opened His armoury
[Ezekiel and Revelation] and hath brought forth the weapons of His
indignation: for this is the work of the Lord God of Hosts in the land of
the Chaldeans ... the vengeance of the Lord our God, the vengeance of His
Temple.... Recompense her according to her work; according to all that she
hath done, do unto her.”—Jer. 50:24‐29.
For she saith in her heart.—Babylon really believes her prosperity will
continue forever. They “shall _believe_ the lie.”—2 Thes. 2:11.
I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.—See Isa. 47:8, 9;
D. 43; Zeph. 2:15.
18:8. Therefore.—“Because she will violently struggle for life and
power.”—D. 39.
Shall her plagues.—Death, mourning, famine and fire.
Come in one day.—The year of 1918. See Rev. 3:14; 11:11.
Death.—“By the hand of her enemies.”
And mourning.—For the loss of her people.—Rev. 18:7.
And famine.—Literal and symbolic. (Amos. 8:11). “As we call to mind the
long train of evils by which Babylon has oppressed and worn out the saints
of the most High (the true Zion), and how it is written that God will
avenge His own Elect, and that speedily; that, according to their deeds,
He will repay recompense to His enemies; that He will render unto Babylon
a recompense (Luke 18:7, 8; Isa. 59:18; Jer. 51:6), we begin to realize
that some fearful calamity awaits her. The horrible decrees of Papacy,—the
reproach and reward of which Protestantism also is incurring by her
present compromising association with her,—for the burning, butchering,
banishing, imprisoning and torturing of the saints in every conceivable
way, executed with such fiendish cruelty in the days of her power by the
arm of the State, whose power she demanded and received, await full
measure of just retribution.”—D. 39.
And she shall be utterly burned with fire.—Completely destroyed in the
anarchy to follow.—Rev. 17:16; Gen. 38:24; Ezek. 16:41; Lev. 20:14; 21:9.
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