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
And He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of THE ANGER OF
Almighty God.—The Lord assumes an interest in and responsibility for the
complete series of _Studies In The Scriptures_, the last one of which
especially represents the winepress feature (Rev. 14:18‐20), but it would
be unreasonable to expect that the Lord would miraculously use imperfect
tools to do an absolutely perfect work and each must use his judgment as
to the value of the interpretations in this book. Additionally, it should
be remarked that the language here is more intense than in Rev. 14,
indicating the extension of the winepress feature to other than
ecclesiastical matters.
19:16. And He hath on His vesture and on His thigh a name written.—“The
thigh is introduced as the place where the sword (which is not mentioned
here, see ver. 15) is usually found, in accordance with Psa. 45:3: ‘Gird
Thee with Thy sword upon Thy thigh, O Most Mighty.’ ”—Cook.
King of kings and Lord of lords.—Before the controversy aroused by this
book is finished, every person in the world will be convinced that it
marks a distinct step by the Lord in His seizure of Satan’s Empire.—1 Tim.
6:15; Rev. 17:14; Dan. 8:25.
19:17. And I saw [an] ANOTHER angel.—The Elijah class after the
publication of Volume Seven, _Studies in the Scriptures_. See Rev. 8:3‐5;
14:18.
Standing in the sun.—Resplendent in the light of the Gospel.—Rev. 12:1;
Matt. 13:43.
And he cried with a loud voice.—Fearlessly and plainly declaring the
Truth.
Saying to all the fowls.—Birds, Greek.—Matt. 24:28.
That fly in the midst of heaven.—First to the “eagles,” the far‐sighted
ones, the Little Flock, and then, by extension, to all who live, mentally,
on any plane above the grossly material.
Come [and gather yourselves] BE GATHERED together unto the GREAT supper of
[the great] God.—We should look for applications appropriate to the
symbolical book we are studying, even though it develop later, as it will,
that these passages will have a literal and terrible fulfilment in a
deluge of actual bloodshed, of which the European War is but a
preliminary.
19:18. That ye may eat the flesh of kings.—Five of these kings or rulers
are enumerated in Rev. 6:4. Doubtless the reader has eaten them, in the
symbolical sense. They are there to be eaten.
And the flesh of captains.—Lesser commanders, enumerated in Rev. 8:7‐12.
No doubt the reader has eaten these also.
And the flesh of mighty men.—Warriors. These warriors are referred to in
Rev. 9:7, 9, although there mentioned under the name of locusts. If the
reader has not eaten (appropriated, absorbed, digested) the account, the
task should be undertaken at once, or something will be missed.
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