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
19:3. And again they said, Alleluia.—The more they think it over, the
happier they will become.
And her smoke.—The evidences of her destruction; the remembrance.—Isa.
34:10; Rev. 14:11; 18:9, 18.
Rose up for ever and ever.—Will be recorded in secular history, even as it
is recorded in “the Word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”—1
Pet. 1:23.
19:4. And the [four and] twenty FOUR elders.—The prophecies.—Rev. 4:4, 10.
And the four beasts.—Infinite Power, Justice, Wisdom and Love.—Rev. 4:7.
Fell down and worshipped God that sat on the Throne, saying Amen;
Alleluia.—The God, the mighty One, here referred to is the Lord
Jesus.—Rev. 5:3.
19:5. And [a voice] VOICES.—The Little Flock, beyond the veil.
Came out of the Throne.—They will be _in_ the Throne at that time.—Rev.
3:21.
Saying, Praise our God, all ye His servants.—Of the Great Company
class.—Rev. 7:15; Psa. 134:1‐3.
[And] ye that fear Him, [both] small and great.—Your deliverance was
wholly due to the Lord. We did what we could to help you, but it was as
nothing. To the Lord belongs all the glory for your deliverance and
ours.—Rev. 11:18.
19:6. And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude.—“In the Age
to come, when God shall ‘pour out His Spirit upon all flesh,’ as during
the present Age He pours it upon His ‘servants and handmaids,’ then indeed
all will understand and appreciate the promises now being grasped by the
‘little flock’; and they will rejoice in the obedience and exaltation of
the Church, saying, ‘Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to God,
for the Marriage of the Lamb is come, and His Wife hath made herself
ready.’ They will rejoice in the glorification of the Church, through
which blessings will then be flowing to them; and while they will realize
that the ‘exceeding great and precious promises’ inherited by the Anointed
(Head and Body) are not for them, but have been fulfilled upon us, they
will be blessed by the lesson illustrated in the Church; and while they
run for the blessings then held out to them, they will profit by the
example of the Church and glorify God on her behalf. But this knowledge
will not bring covetousness; for under the new order of things their
calling to perfect human nature will fully satisfy them, and will seem
more desirable to them than a change of nature.”—A. 86.
And as the voice of many waters.—All mankind.—Rev. 17:15.
And as the voice of mighty thunderings.—An overwhelming and complete
reaction in favor of the Truth. The “seven thunders” will then be
thundering as never before.—Rev. 10:4; 8:5.
Saying, Alleluia: for [the Lord] God OUR LORD THE Omnipotent
reigneth.—“Shows Himself to be king by subduing His enemies.” (Cook.)
Thoroughly convinced of the greatness of the Lord’s power, as all men will
be by the end of the Time of Trouble, they will be glad to entrust all
their interests to His care.
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