The Facts Reversed by F.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 7, 1916

FromSigns of the Times, November 7, 1916

The Facts Reversed

By F.

A GLARING reversal of fact is betrayed in the following sentences, which recently appeared in a widely read religious periodical: "When He [Jesus] comes, He will gather the church unto Himself in the clouds; then He and the church will come to earth to reign a thousand years. After the millennium, He will take the church with Him into heaven."

Such a statement is as far from the truth as heaven is from earth, for the millennium will open with the removal of every righteous person from the earth. The holy of all ages will be raised to life, and will ascend, together with the righteous living, to dwell in the mansions of the "Father's house" during that memorable thousand years. Furthermore, this earth — not heaven — after the renovating fires of the last day, will be the eternal abode of the saved.