Studies in the Scriptures - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... It is the "Battle of that Great Day of God Almighty;' when he shall gather the nations and assemble the kingdoms to pour upon them his indignation, even all his fierce anger; for the Lord of hosts himself mustereth the hosts of the battle.--Rev. 16:14; Zeph. 3:8; Isa. 13:4. It is "a Great Earthquake such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake and so great," which shall "shake, not the earth only, but also heaven." --Rev. 16:18; Heb. 12:26. It is " The Fire of Jehovah's Jealousy, which shall devour all the earth.' Both the present heavens (the ecclesiastical powers of Christendom) and the earth (the social organization under both church and state influence) are reserved unto fire against this day of judgment. "The heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements [of present ecclesiasticism] shall melt with fervent heat; the earth [society] also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. . . . The heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved. ' All the proud and all that do wickedly shall be stubble, and this fire shall burn them up. It shall leave them neither root nor branch.--Zeph. 3:8; 2 Pet. 3:10, 12; Mai. 4:1. "His way is in the Whirlwind and in the Storm." "Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger?"--Nahum 1:3, 6, 7. "Behold, it cometh mighty and strong from the Lord, as a Tempest of Hail and a Destroying Storm, as a Flood of Mighty Waters overflowing, and shall cast down to the earth with power the crown of pride," "He rebuketh the sea and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers. . . . The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth [symbols of the entire present order of things] is burned at his presence; yea, the world and...