Type/antitype 1937

Tyre

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Also known as Tyrus · modern Tyre · king of Tyre

The king of Tyre is a name for Satan from 1906 through the 1920s. From 1932 the city is sea-going commerce, still cited in 1935. From 1937 it is commercialized religion and the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. In 1940 Tyre is the commercial-religious part of Christendom, and Sidon the older religions it absorbed. That Hierarchy reading is restated in 1942 and is not replaced through 1980.

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Rutherford

Joseph F. Rutherford · 1917–1942

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    In the Isaiah 23 series, ancient Tyre is the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. Modern Tyre is that organization, not sea-going Big Business in general.

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    Seeing that ancient Tyre pictured the Roman Catholic Hierarchy organization, which is therefore modern Tyre, it will be of aid in the examination of the prophecy if we keep in mind the objective or chief purpose of the Hierarchy, which purpose is, to wit: To rule over the nations of the earth as the claimed representative of Christ, with the false slogan, “Chris-tus Rex,” that is, “Christ the King,” meaning, in fact, the pope, the head of the Roman Catholic “Hierarchy of Jurisdiction” on the earth.
    The Watchtower, May 1, 1937
    It shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre [modern Tyre, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy organization] shall be forgotten.
    The Watchtower, May 1, 1937

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