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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 18, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 24.

3782 — The Carcass and the Eagles

By Editor

Please explain Matt. 24:28. Can this be taken together with Rev. 19:17, 18?

To answer the last question first, we would say, Hardly; and yet perhaps in part. We understand that what is suggested in Matt. 24:28 is the plagues,—"Wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles [or vultures] be gathered together." This comes in direct connection with the coming of Christ,—"As the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be." When probation closes, the plagues will fall. They will fall upon those who have rejected Christ, those who are condemned to death. The wicked are therefore likened to dead bodies, or carcasses, and the plagues to vultures that prey upon them. See Luke 17: 34-37. The thought in Revelation 19, we gather, is a literal occurrence. It is, so to speak, a call to all the birds of prey to come and feast upon the carcasses of the armies of those who are slain in the great battle of Armageddon, when the slain of the Lord, according to Jer. 25:33, shall be from one end of the earth to the other.