3255.—On the Mount of Olives
It is stated in "Desire of Ages," page 830, that when Jesus "shall come again," His feet will rest upon Mount Olivet. Is that in harmony with Zech. 14:4? The passage in "Desire of Ages" evidently includes, in its reference to Christ's coming, the whole great day of the Lord. When He comes the second time in the clouds of heaven, that is, when His redeemed saints arise from the dead, He does not come to this earth. His people are caught up to meet Him in the air. This is at the beginning of the thousand years. At the end of the thousand years He will come to the earth. Events of the thousand years are very often closely united, because they all pertain to the one thing of rewarding every one according as his work shall be, with all that is involved in that. Consequently they are referred to as one event, and are evidently so referred to in "Desire of Ages." But by a study of all the scriptures pertaining to Christ's work we would place that definite event at the close of the day of the Lord. When Christ's feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives, the mount shall divide and make a plain for the city which shall come down out of God from heaven. Revelation 21.