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| 1 And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach. |
In that day – An expression usually referring to the closing period of the Gospel age with its time of trouble and general church and world confusion. CR409:1
Seven women – The complete nominal church, Babylon the great and all her daughters. R295:2; Q851:2; CR413:2
None of them has his approval. CR408:3
Take hold of one man – Christ Jesus. Q851:2; R295:2; CR413:3
Eat our own bread – Which the world supplies. R295:2
Made with the leaven of false doctrine. R5111:4
For the doctrines of Christ they care nothing. CR413:3
Our own apparel – The filthy rags of their own righteousness. R295:2
For any thought of redemption and covering of sins through Christ they care nothing. CR413:3
Called by thy name – They assume the name Christ, and call their organizations, Christian churches. R295:2; Q851:2; R413:3
Away our reproach – That we are not the true Church, because of worldliness. R295:3; Q851:2
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| 2 In that day shall the branch of Jehovah be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. |
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| 3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem; |
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| 4 when Jehovah shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning. |
Daughters of Zion – Spiritual Israel. R1648:3; D23
Judgment ... burning – The double cleansing process. R3568:5*
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| 5 And Jehovah will create over the whole habitation of mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory shall be spread a covering. |
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| 6 And there shall be a booth for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a covert from storm and from rain. |
A tabernacle – Wherever there are one or more consecrated hearts there is a dwelling place of God. R2080:3
From the heat – Where the heart may rest its burdens and find refreshment. R2080:3
From storm – From the storms of life. R2080:3
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