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flash throughout the world on or about April 27,1918, a year, five months and twenty-six daysafter the death of God's great watchman. As inEzekiel 24:27, this would be a sign, an indicationto Christendom of the truth of Pastor Russell'scommission from the Almighty.Ezekiel 33:22.Now the hand of the Lord was upon me in theevening, afore he that was escaped came; andhad opened my mouth, until he came to me inthe morning; and my mouth was opened, andI was no more dumb.— The Lord made goodHis promise while the news was approaching,and removed Ezekiel's dumbness half a daybefore, in the evening, before the morning whenthe tidings arrived. It was on the same day; for inthe Hebrew system of time, the evening beganthe day. This signifies that perhaps half a yearprior to the general realization of Christendom'sdownfall, Pastor Russell, though dead, shallagain speak through this, the seventh volume ofhis Studies in the Scriptures— for this is but thecompletion of his great work of admonition andwarning for the Church and for Christendom.Ezekiel 33:23, 24.Then the Word of the Lord came unto me,saying, Son of man, they that inhabit thosewaste of the land of Israel speak, saying,Abraham was one, and heFM531inherited the land: but we are many; the landis given us for inheritance.— After Jerusalemhad been sacked and King Zedekiah captured, asrelated in 2 Kings 25, "the captain of the guardleft of the poor of the land to be vine-dressersand husbandmen." These ("those inhabitingthose wastes of the land of Israel") imagined that"the land is given to us for an inheritance." Theythought they would be left in undisturbedpossession, but certain of them came into furtherconflict with the Assyrians. Then the land wasmade utterly desolate. This signfiles, in