2144.-When Will It Be? by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 3, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 27.

2144.—When Will It Be?

By Editor

Referring to the article in the SIGNS of May 20, on the second coming of Christ, will the ungodly be burned up and the earth melt with fervent heat when Christ comes, or will that be after the Millennium when these take place?

Many of the wicked will be swept off by the pestilences and wars of the last days before Christ comes. Many will perish under the severer pestilences and calamities of the plagues; and those which are left will not be able to endure the glory of Christ's presence when He shall appear, and will die. See Jeremiah 25; Revelation 16; and 19:21. During the thousand years the earth will lie desolate. Isaiah 24. At the end of that thousand years the earth will be visited. Men will come out of their graves, and then the mighty presence and power of God will appear and set on fire the very foundations of the earth. Before that glory the wicked will be consumed and "the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also." Out of those purifying fires there will come a new heaven and new earth. Revelation 20, 21. See tracts "The Great Day of the Lord," and "Tormented Forever and Ever." The price of these two tracts is five cents, at this office.