Revelation Chapter 18 PART II (Verses 4 – 20) An Introduction to Part Two — Part II deals with how the “fall” of Babylon (Verse 2) will progress to its culmination in its destruction. Part II is entirely narrated by the “voice from heaven” (Verse 4) who is the Seventh angel who did, indeed, in the great detail of Volume 4 (“Studies in the Scriptures” series, “The Battle of Armageddon”), predict all of these trends leading to Babylon’s final, total…
Revelation Chapter 18 PART I (Verses 1 – 3) continued VERSE 3 “For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.” FOR: This little word, meaning BECAUSE, connects the second and third verses. The implication is that demons, unclean spirits, and hateful birds have made their homes in Babylon BECAUSE: ALL THE…
Revelation Chapter 18 As was stated at the beginning of Chapter 17: In this study as usual we will be consulting our two primary sources on the book of Revelation, viz., the “New Albany Notes on Revelation” along with excerpts from Brother Frank Shallieu’s work “The Keys to Revelation”, any other sources of information including the Reprints will be duly noted. Our first view entertained will generally be from the New Albany notes as that is our preference, followed…
Revelation Chapter 18 THE DECLINE AND FALL OF BABYLON (Rev 18:1-24) Introduction to This Chapter, continued Verse 20: A statement about how the saints rejoice because they know the good that is to follow. Chapter 13 in Volume Four covers this. Only here does the order of Volume Four differ from the order of Revelation 18. Whether Brother Russell was cognizant that his Volume Four was a detailed explanation of Revelation 18 is questionable. What does not seem questionable…
Revelation Chapter 18 THE DECLINE AND FALL OF BABYLON (Rev 18:1-24) Introduction to This Chapter It should be said from the outset that Chapter 18 of Revelation has an uncanny resemblance to Volume Four of Studies in the Scriptures. It seems most probable that the “voice from heaven” in Rev 18:4 is the Seventh Messenger to the Church, Charles T. Russell — the same as is symbolized in Rev 17:1 as “one of the seven angels who had the…
As stated in our previous study, nothing in the Scriptures positively assures us that Elisha was a type; but if his experiences from the time Elijah was taken away were typical, it would appear to us that they were in some sense double – that he represented two classes. (1) He would seem in the first part of his experience, accompanying Elijah and serving him and yet being separate from him, to represent what we designate as the second company, the…
2 KINGS 2:12-24 Golden Text: – “Let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.” – 2 Kings 2:9 That Elisha was the son of a wealthy Israelite is evidenced by the fact that his father’s farming was done on a large scale. At the time that Elijah, under divine direction, first approached him and indicated his call to special service by symbolically laying his mantle upon Elisha’s shoulders, the latter was plowing his father’s fields with twelve separate yokes…
The following is the most important aspect I found here in this discourse, as many, myself included have fallen prey to it, and more than once. But “let him that thinketh he stands take heed lest he fall;” for sudden and sharp will be many of the tests applied to prove our continued faithfulness. The world, the flesh and the devil all conspire to allure, ensnare and overcome us. The world will present its allurements through friends or wife or…
In the visions of the Apocalypse (Revelation) we read of a wonderful scroll in the right hand of the great King who sits upon the throne of universal dominion. This scroll is a forceful representation of the divine plan, originally existing only in the mind of God, and which could not be made known to men until someone was found worthy to open the seals and display it to view. But “no one in heaven nor in earth was able…
THE VOICE OF THE THIRD SIGN. (5) Another sign was to be given, the Lord clearly intimating that it would be necessary, and that all of his true people would not hear or heed the “voice” of the first two testimonies. To natural Israel the third sign was the taking of the water from the river, and pouring it upon the earth, where it became blood. They saw merely the sign, the miracle; they read not its meaning, as the spiritual…