The Camp of the Saints on Earth by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 16, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 23.

The Camp of the Saints on Earth

By Editor

E. C. G., having read the articles on the millennium lately printed in the SIGNS, asks the following questions on Rev. 20:9:—

"How can the wicked compass the camp of the saints about unless it is upon the earth? Does the beloved city come down from Heaven before the wicked are destroyed?"

The wicked cannot at all compass the camp of the saints about unless it is on the earth. And the text itself shows that it will be on the earth when they do compass it about. "They went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city." And as they compass "the beloved city" before they are destroyed, that of itself proves that the beloved city must have come down from Heaven before they are destroyed. This is at the close of the thousand years.