3867-Where Will We Meet the Lord? by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 1, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 38.

3867—Where Will We Meet the Lord?

By Editor

Please give me Bible proof as to where the saints—body and soul—meet the Lord. J. F.

The question is answered very clearly in 1 Thess. 4:16, 17: "For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord." Our Lord does not at this time descend upon the earth. He takes the saints to heaven, to the mansions prepared, in the New Jerusalem. John 14:1-3; Rev. 21:2. At the end of the millennium, the city descends to the earth, the earth is renewed, and becomes the eternal home of the people of God.