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 all liars.—“All who do not love the Truth and seek it, and at any cost
defend and hold it.” (H. 63.) “If something is six inches long, let it be
just six inches for six inches.”—Z. ’12‐147.
Shall have their part in the Lake which burneth with fire and
brimstone.—“The severest punishment inflicted by the Jews upon any
criminal. The corpse (after the man had been stoned to death) was thrown
out into the Valley of Hinnom (Gay‐Hinnom) and was devoured by the worm or
the flame.”—Weym.
Which is the Second Death.—“Such company would be repulsive to any honest,
upright being. It is hard to tolerate them now, but in the close of the
Millennial Judgment, when the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall have given
every advantage and opportunity of knowledge and ability, the righteous
will be glad when the corrupters of the earth, and all their work and
influence, shall be destroyed.”—H. 63.
21:9. And there came [unto me].—To the John class, the Church, on this
side of the veil.
One of the seven angels.—The Seventh.
Which had the seven vials full.—They are still full after they are poured
out on ecclesiasticism!
Of the seven last plagues.—The Seven volumes of _Studies in the
Scriptures_.
And talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee.—See Lu. 4:21.
The Bride, the Lamb’s Wife.—“As a grand lesson of the Divine sovereignty,
and as a sublime contradiction to all evolution theories, God elected to
call to this place of honor (as ‘the Bride, the Lamb’s Wife and Joint‐
heir’—Rom. 8:17), not angels and cherubs, but some from among the sinners
redeemed by the precious blood of the Lamb. The continued permission of
evil is for the purpose of developing these ‘members of the Body of
Christ’ and to furnish them the opportunity of sacrificing their little
and redeemed all, in the service of Him who bought them with His precious
blood; and thus of developing in their hearts His spiritual likeness, that
when, at the end of the Age, they are presented by their Lord and Redeemer
before the Father, God may see in them ‘the image of His Son.’ ”—Col.
1:22; Rom. 8:29; E. _412_, 395; Rev. 19:7; 21:2.
21:10. And he carried me away in the Spirit.—“God hath revealed them unto
us by His Spirit.”—1 Cor. 2:10; Rev. 1:10; 17:3.
To a great and high mountain.—How similar is the language, recording the
experience of the first and greatest Member of the Church, at the
beginning of His ministry. Concerning the Lord’s third temptation we read:
“In this temptation the Lord is taken, not physically, but in the spirit
of His mind, up into a high mountain—a very exalted kingdom. Physically He
was all this time in the desert near Jerusalem; and as a matter of fact
there is neither in that desert nor anywhere in the world a mountain from
which all the kingdoms of the world could be viewed except with the mind’s
eye.”—Z. ’06‐43.
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St. John’s Vision of the Descending Kingdom
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