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
That no man take thy crown.—“Unfaithfulness may lead to the blotting out
of some names and the giving of their crowns to others.” (F. 165.) “It is
our expectation that this work of going out and coming in will continue
until the last member of the New Creation shall have been found worthy,
and all the crowns everlastingly apportioned.”—F. 95; 1 Sam. 16:1; Rev.
2:10.
3:12. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar [in] TO the Temple of my
God.—“During the Philadelphia period the faithful have either been obliged
to come out of the nominal temple or have been cast out. The reward
promised such is that each will be a pillar in the eternal Temple—a part
which cannot be removed while the structure exists.”—Z. ’16‐347; Gal. 2:9;
1 Kings 7:21, 22; Jer. 1:18; 1 Cor. 3:17; Eph. 2:19‐22.
And he shall [go no more] NOT GO out.—“During their trial state their
names were cast out as evil; they were not recognized as Christians. All
this is to be reversed. ‘The Lord knoweth them that are His.’ ”—Z.
’16‐347.
And I will write upon him the name of My God.—“And I looked, and, lo, a
Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with Him an hundred and forty and four
thousand, having His Father’s name written on their foreheads
[intellects].”—Rev. 14:1; 22:4.
And the name of the city of My God.—“And they shall call them, The holy
people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A
city not forsaken.”—Isa. 62:12; Ezek. 48:35; Jer. 23:6; 33:16.
Which is New Jerusalem.—“Glorious City of Peace! whose foundations, laid
in justice, can never be moved, and whose builder and designer is God! It
is in the light which will shine from this glorious City (Kingdom) of God
that the nations (people) will walk on the Highway of Holiness, up to
perfection and to full harmony with God.”—Rev. 21:2, 10, 24; A 295.
Which cometh down out of Heaven from My God.—“A city is a symbol of a
kingdom or dominion, and so God’s Kingdom is symbolized by the New
Jerusalem, the new dominion coming from Heaven to earth. At first it will
consist of only the Bride of Christ.”—A. 295; Heb. 12:18‐22.
And I will write upon him My new name.—“ ‘Our Righteousness of Jehovah.’
How appropriate is this name to the work and office of our Lord Jesus! Did
He not stand as the Representative of God’s righteousness and suffer the
penalty of Justice as man’s Ransom—that God might be just, and yet be the
Justifier of him that believeth in Jesus? Surely no name could be more
appropriate. (Jer. 33:16; 23:6; T. 102.) And that this name will be
appropriate to the glorified Church all can readily see: she not only
shares her Lord’s sufferings for righteousness, ‘filling up that which is
behind of the afflictions of Christ’ (Col. 1:24; 1 Pet. 5:9), but is also
promised a share in all the glories of her Lord, as a wife shares her
husband’s honors and _name_.”—E. 45, 42; Isa. 9:6; Rev. 2:17; 19:12.
3:13. He that hath an ear.—“Having eyes, see ye not? And having ears, hear
ye not?”—Mark 8:18.
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