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
Cast it into the sea.—Overwhelmed it in a flood of anarchy. When this
occurs there will be a “great hissing noise” (2 Pet. 3:10, Diaglott),
indicating that the millstone will be warm, wrathy, at the moment of
disappearance. The effect of throwing a hot stone into water is to
disintegrate it completely.—Jer. 51:61‐64; Ex. 15:5; Neh. 9:11.
Saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down,
[And shall be found no more at all.]—“The masses of the people, no longer
ignorantly stupid as during the Dark Ages, will awaken to the true
situation, and will execute upon Babylon the Great—already repudiated by
the Lord—the judgment foretold. She shall be cast like a great millstone
into the sea, never to rise again. The sea represents the masses of the
people, especially a restless opposition class.” (Z. ’13‐343.) “The fact
is the world has outgrown the redhot and peppery dishes that suited the
last generation, and it is quite beyond the power of a very few solemn
gentlemen to produce a reaction.”—D. 110; Jer. 51:64.
18:22. And there shall be no more found in her the voice of harpers, and
musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters.—Those able to make melody and
harmony out of the Scriptures.—Isa. 24:8; Ezek. 26:13.
IT shall be heard no more at all in thee.—Even now Ecclesiasticism is
entirely unable to supply any explanation of either Ezekiel or Revelation,
or to understand the one that is supplied.
And no craftsman, [of whatsoever craft he be,] shall be found any more in
thee; [And the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in
thee].—God is the great craftsman. “We are laborers together with God: ye
are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building. According to the grace of God
which is given unto me, as a wise master‐builder, I have laid the
foundation and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how
he buildeth thereupon.”—1 Cor. 3:9, 10.
18:23. [And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee;] And
the voice of the Bridegroom and of the Bride.—Christ and His true
Church.—Jer. 7:34; 16:9; 25:10; 33:11.
Shall be heard no more at all in thee.—Neither Christ nor His saintly ones
have had anything to say in the affairs of the nominal church since 1878;
nor have they wished to have. “The rejection of Babylon (‘Christendom’),
in 1878, was the rejection of the mass of professors—the ‘host,’ as it is
termed by Daniel, to distinguish it from the Sanctuary or Temple
class.”—C. 180.
For thy merchants were the great men of the earth.—They said so,
themselves. They have attempted to direct everything from prize fights up.
Rev. Rainsford even tried to run a beer saloon, but was not able to make
it a coin‐producer for the church and gave it up.—Isa. 23:8; 47:15; Rev.
18:3, 11, 15; Ezek. 27:21, 36.
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