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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 10, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 35.

3849 — Life in the Day of the Lord

By Editor

Question No. 3814, in your issue of July 30, seems to conflict with the statement in Jer. 4:25, which says, "All the birds of the heavens were fled." Also Zeph. 1:2, 3 says, "I will consume man and beast; I will consume the birds of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea." Please harmonize.

The whole subject will be easily understood if we will remember that the day of the Lord is more than one thousand years long, and that these judgments often refer to its very close, when the execution will culminate. Of course, the birds of the heaven would flee from the overwhelming glory of the Lord's coming, and would hide in the rocks and secluded places; but all men will perish in the presence of that glory. See the close of Rev. 19:21; and 2 Thess. 2:7, 8. All animal life is not destroyed at the beginning of the day of the Lord. See Isa. 34:8-15. This multiplied animal life will furnish food for the wicked as they come up at the end of the thousand years. Rev. 20:7, 8. But in the close of that day of wrath, the wicked will perish (Rev. 20:9), and the beasts of the earth will perish with the wicked (Zeph. 1:2, 3). Therefore while this destruction comes in the day of the Lord, it is not till its very close. See also 2 Peter 3:10.