p. 2 | 3117.-Angels and Saints by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 3, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 17.

3117.—Angels and Saints

By Editor

Will you please explain Jude 14 and Zech. 14:4, 5? Does this refer to Christ's second coming? And does Zech. 14:4, 5 refer to the same event? We understand that at His second coming He is not to touch the earth.

Jude 14 evidently refers to the second advent of our Lord as recorded in Matt. 25:31, when the Son of Man shall come in His glory and all the holy angels with Him. The expression "saints" simply means holy ones, nothing more. A literal translation would be, "Behold, the Lord came amidst His holy myriads." See also Dan. 8:13, where we have the word "saint" referring to angel. Zech. 14:4, 5, without doubt refers to His coming at the end of the thousand years. At the first coming He does not come to the earth, but His people are caught up to meet Him in the air; but at the end of the thousand years He does come to the earth. His feet touch the Mount of Olives, the mount divides, and there is a very great plain; and then the city descends from God out of heaven, with all the saints who have been in heaven, and that great plain and the New Jerusalem constitute the camp of the saints and the beloved city spoken of in Revelation 20.