Posted by Rec [Rec] on November 27, 1999 at 18:35:00 {nwG7wj0NI.xAGYaGiDi20HIUjCaik2}:
In Reply to: Michael=Pope? posted by Rec on November 27, 1999 at 12:57:57:
Further research that I'm wading through. I feel embarressed, even though evidently in March of 1925 it was corrected.
*** w95 5/15 21 Flashes of Light-Great and Small (Part 2) ***
Flashes of Light—Great and Small (Part 2)
“By light from you we can see light.”—PSALM 36:9.
THE Bible book of Revelation has intrigued Christians from early times. It provides a fine
example of how the light of truth grows ever brighter. In 1917, Jehovah’s people published an
explanation of Revelation in the book The Finished Mystery. It fearlessly exposed Christendom’s
religious and political leaders, but many of its explanations were borrowed from various sources.
Still, The Finished Mystery served to test the Bible Students’ loyalty to the visible channel
Jehovah was using.
2 A striking flash of light shone on the book of Revelation with the publication of the article “Birth
of the Nation” in The Watch Tower of March 1, 1925. It had been thought that Revelation chapter
12 described a war between pagan Rome and papal Rome, with the male child representing the
papacy. But that article showed that Revelation 11:15-18 had a bearing on the meaning of
chapter 12, indicating that it relates to the birth of God’s Kingdom."
Somewhere in all the stuff I went through it said that people were having trouble accepting the 1925 article. I wonder if that's the test spoken of above: "The Finished Mystery served to test the Bible Students’ loyalty to the visible channel
Jehovah was using."
Any further thoughts on this, anyone?