3815 - The New Jerusalem by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 30, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 29.

3815 — The New Jerusalem

By Editor

Is it true that the New Jerusalem comes down before the wicked are raised, and that the righteous will go out of the city after the wicked are raised, and mingle with them, after which the wicked will try to take the city? F. W. D.

We do not see anything in Scripture which would indicate this last. The principal scriptures which we have upon this are Revelation 20 and 21 and Zechariah 14. From Zech. 14:4 we would learn that our Lord Himself shall descend from heaven, and that His feet shall stand at that day upon the Mount of Olives, and the Mount of Olives shall be cleft and become a great plain, made holy by the touch of the Master of life. Upon this plain will Christ and the saints descend, forming the camp of the saints, and a little later the city itself will come down in the same place. That seems to be the evident teaching of these and other scriptures. See "The Great Day of the Lord," B.S.L., No. 65, price 3c. There is no scripture, so far as we know, which would indicate that there is any commingling of the righteous and the wicked.