The man clothed with linen (Ezekiel 9)
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And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.
3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;
Ezekiel 9:2-3 - King James Version (KJV) |
⚪ This man symbolizes Charles Russell
⚫ This man symbolizes the anointed ones
⚫ This man symbolizes Jehovah's Witnesses
⚫ This man symbolizes the anointed remnant
➕ Dishonesty of the Jehovah's Witnesses organization
⚪ This man symbolizes Charles Russell
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I deem it a privilege and an honor on this occasion to offer a tribute of love and esteem in memory of our departed Brother and Pastor… Eminently chosen of the Lord to serve the “Household of Faith with meat in due season,” and elsewhere (Ezekiel 9:2,11) described as the “man in linen with the writer’s ink horn at his side,” HE HAS DONE AS HE WAS COMMANDED, finished the work given him to do.
Source : 🇺🇸 The Watchtower, December 1 1916, page 372 |
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EZEKIEL 9 THE MAN WITH THE INKHORN
9:2. [..] Practically all Bible translators and commentators agree that the one with a writer's inkhorn by his side was not one of the six, but a seventh, garbed as a priest, or as a clerk or officer In an army of the East. The linen signifies the Imputed righteousness of Christ, (Rev. 19:8.) The writer's inkhorn symbolizes that the seventh man's function was to write. God Identified Win thus: When THE WATCH TOWER BIBLE: AND TRACT SOCiETY was at Allegheny, Pa., an open Bible was to be painted on one of the large front windows of the office, A sign painter, not in the Truth, painted the open Bible; and without instruction from any one, of his own volition, he painted the Bible as open at Ezekiel, Chapter 9. The man in linen was the Laodicean servant, the Lord's faithful and wise steward, Pastor Russell. When Pastor Russell saw this, he turned pale. Ezekiel seeing the man in linen, types Pastor Russell thereafter seeing himself to be the antitype of that man—one of the most prolific writers of the Age, and the only one to write and publish widely the glad tidings of the actual Second Presence of Christ. Source : 🇺🇸 The Finished Mystery, page 417 + Cover |
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9:11. And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the Inkhorn by His side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as Thou hast commanded me. — Pastor Russell was faithful to his great task of writing and publishing the Truth and imprinting the "tav" of Present Truth in the minds of the spirit-begotten. In October, 1916, he died, and beyond the veil has, ere this, undoubtedly, reported la the presence of Christ that he has dona the work be was given to do.
Source : 🇺🇸 The Finished Mystery, page 420 + Cover |
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There is no one in present thruth today who can honestly say that he receive a knowledge of the divine plan from any source other than by the ministry of Brother Russell, either directly or indirectly. Through his prophet Ezechiel Jehovah foreshadowed the office of a servant, designating him as one clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side, who was delegated to go throughout the city (Christendom) and comfort those that sighed by enlightening their minds relative to God's great plan. be it noted that this was a favor bestowed not by man, but by the Lord himself. But in keeping with the Lord's arrangement he used a man. The man who filled that office, by Lord's grace, was Brother Russell.
Source : 🇺🇸 The Watch Tower, May 1 1922, page 132 |
⚫ This man symbolizes the anointed ones
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MAN WITH INKHORN
The one man clothed with linen and with a writer’s inkhorn by his side, who is he? [...] ‘The man with the writer’s inkhorn by his side,’ therefore, clearly represented the anointed “servant” class of the Lord on earth, which class is a part of God’s organization. [...] This further identifies the man with the writer’s inkhorn as the “faithful servant” class. Source : 🇺🇸 1931 - Vindication (vol 1), page 99, page 100, page 103 + Cover |
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Not just the name, but the work carried out by them since then proves that this anointed remnant of Christian witnesses of the Most High God are unmistakably the twentieth-century fulfillment of the man ‘clothed with linen, with a secretary’s inkhorn.'
Source : 🇺🇸 The Watchtower, January 15 1972, page 47, page 48 + Cover |
⚫ This man symbolizes Jehovah's Witnesses
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Jehovah’s witnesses, foreshadowed by the ‘man in linen’, and in obedience to Jehovah’s commandment, must go out with their hands full of coals of the fiery message and “scatter them over the city”, and thus sound the fire signals, that the people of good will may heed and flee to the only place of safety. - Ezek. 9:3; 10:2-7.
Source : 🇺🇸 The Watchtower June 1 1935, page 164 + Cover |
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But before Jehlovah eexecutes his judgment against “Christendom” he calls out a “people for his name” and sends that people as his witnesses amongst the nations to declare his name and to give a warning to “Christendom”. His witnesses collectively are pictured under the symbol of the “man . . . clothed with linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side”. (Ezek. 9:2-11)
Source : 🇺🇸 The Watchtower September 1 1937 page 268 + Cover |
⚫ This man symbolizes the anointed remnant
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Thus these dedicated, anointed followers of Jesus recognized themselves as the Christian witnesses of Jehovah, whereas the prophet Ezekiel was a preChristian witness of Jehovah. They were very grateful that their God, Jehovah, had definitely revealed to them the work for them to do as indicated in the vision to Ezekiel concerning the man "clothed with linen, with a secretary's inkhorn at his hips." They were highly elated at the prospect of engaging in the work of marking the foreheads of those who were to be spared on the day when Jehovah executes his judicial decision against antitypical unfaithful Jerusalem, namely, Christendom. By doing so they, as an anointed class, were fulfilling the role of the envisioned man with the inkhorn. In fact, this visionary man with the inkhorn found his modern counterpart in this united class of Jehovah's anointed, dedicated, baptized servants. It was as if Jehovah, from atop his chariotlike heavenly organization were saying thenceforth to this modern-day 'man with the inkhorn' the words of command: "Pass through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem [as typical of Christendom], and you must put a mark on the foreheads of the men that are sighing and groaning over all the detestable things that are being done in the midst of it."-Ezekiel 9:4.
Source : 🇺🇸 1971 - « The nations shall know that I am Jehovah » How ? page 172 + page 173 + Cover |
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It is that small body of dedicated, baptized Christians who, in the year 1931, recognized the impending destruction of Christendom and therefore the need for the work of the “man clothed with the linen” to be done in its modem application. On July 30, 1931, at the general convention of these anointed Christians in Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A., a t 3:00 p.m., the lecture “The Man with the Writer’s Inkhorn” began to be delivered and immediately after the close of this lecture the book Vindication explaining Ezekiel, chapters 1 through 24, was released to the thousands there gathered in convention. Just four days prior to this, or on Sunday, July 26, 1931, this convention of spirit-anointed Christians embraced as a distinguishing name for themselves as Christians the designation “Jehovah’s witnesses.” Not just the name, but the work carried out by them since then proves that this anointed remnant of Christian witnesses of the Most High God are unmistakably the twentieth-century fulfillment of the man “clothed with linen, with a secretary’s inkhom.” So this is the modern “King’s secretary.” Has he called on you recently?
That the work of this anointed remnant is not some man’s scheme but originates with Jehovah God span class="ombre">is well pictured in the vision seen by Ezekiel. Showing from where the “man clothed with the linen” received his instructions, Ezekiel tells what he saw and heard, saying: “And as regards the glory of the God of Israel, it was taken up from over the cherubs over which it happened to be to the threshold of the house [the temple sanctuary], and he began calling out to the man that was clothed with the linen, at whose hips there was the secretary’s inkhorn.”—Ezek. 9:3; 10:2. Source : 🇺🇸 The Watchtower, January 15, 1972 page 47 + page 48 + Cover |
➕ Dishonesty of the Jehovah's Witnesses organization
In the following quote from 1971, the Jehovah's Witnesses organization attempted to make its followers believe that it never taught that a single man, such as Charles Russell, would have been the man in linen. To convince its audience, the organization brandishes an “out of print” book dating from 1931. However, as we saw previously, the first quotes at the top of the page, prove that it is a nasty lie.
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Not too long ago, in the year 1931, a Biblical book was published entitled "Vindication."· This book, which had a wide distribution throughout Christendom, was published by the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society. It was a commentary on the first twenty-four chapters of the prophecy of Ezekiel. It made clear that the prophecy of the man "clothed with linen" had not been fulfilled in anyone man in contact with Christendom, say, for instance, in Charles Taze Russell, the first president of the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society, who died October 31, 1916, thereby finishing his earthly work as a Christian, in the midst of World War I.
• Now out of print and out of stock. Source : 🇺🇸 1971 - « The nations shall know that I am Jehovah » How ? page 171 + page 172 + Cover |