Those Taken to Heaven by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · May 13, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 19.

Those Taken to Heaven

By Editor

No. 559. Those Taken to Heaven.

WHERE is the authority for saying, as the SIGNS has said, that the twenty-four divisions around the throne of God are of the multitude of captives that Christ took with him? I would like to know where to find a Thus saith the Word that he took any with him.

“And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.” Matt. 27:52, 53. “When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive.” Eph. 4:8. That is, those who had been made Satan’s captives, Christ released, “a multitude of captives,” as the margin reads. Priests must be those who have compassion. So our Lord became flesh, and took with him as assistants those who likewise had been compassed about with infirmity; and these, it is reasonable to believe, constitute the elders around the throne.