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
Had each of them six wings about him.—“Above it stood the seraphims
(Justice, Power, Love and Wisdom): each one had six wings, and with twain
he did fly. And one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the
Lord of Hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory.” (Isa. 6:2, 3.) “The
vision of Isaiah is a prophecy of the future, when the ‘glory of the Lord
shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together’ in the
establishment of the Kingdom of God during the Millennium. (Isa. 40:5.)
Only from this prophetic standpoint would the words of the seraphim be
true; for the whole earth has never yet been filled with the Lord’s glory;
but on the contrary, the earth is full of sin and violence, and every evil
work.” (Z. ’98‐305.) Six is a symbol of imperfection, and in the light of
the foregoing seems to refer to the six thousand years of the permission
of evil, the theme of the entire Book of Revelation. For the first two
thousand years, from the fall to the covenant with Abraham, God’s face was
almost entirely hidden from man. For the next two thousand years, until
the death of Christ, it was not apparent how the place of God’s feet, His
footstool, should ever be made glorious. (Isa. 60:13; 66:1.) But since
then, for two thousand years, God’s Love has been manifest to all, and
“the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of
the sons of God” (Rom. 8:19), to set up the Kingdom, the Golden Age, for
which we all so long have prayed. (Matt. 6:10.) The wings operate in
pairs.
And they were full of eyes within.—Nothing has transpired, or will ever
transpire, without God’s knowledge. In the past six thousand years,
whether hidden or partially revealed, God’s Justice, Power, Love and
Wisdom, have been in touch with all of earth’s affairs.—Ezek. 10:12.
And they HAVE NO rest [not] day and night.—Not eternal idleness, but
eternal work in the interest of others will be our reward. “My Father
worketh until now, and I work.” (John 5:17.) “I must work the works of Him
that sent Me, while it is day: the night cometh when no man can work.”
(John 9:4.) “We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good
works.” (Eph. 2:10.) “It is God which worketh in you both to will and to
do.” (Phil. 2:13.) “We are laborers together with God.” (1 Cor. 3:9.)
“Workers together with Him.” (2 Cor. 6:1.) “Who shall change the Body of
our humiliation, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious Body,
according to the working whereby He is able to subdue all things unto
Himself.”—Phil. 3:21.
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