Only because bats live in caves does Isaiah say that at Christ's coming man's worthless idols will be thrown into the places where they live. God meant no implication against bats, only that men will use dark caves to hide the gold and silver idols they have worshiped.

These cave dwellers are very interesting, as Leonard Dubin discovered when he found a small cave, or grotto, under a tree in Chicago. It was occupied by more than 200 bats. Often he entered this unusual cave to observe them. One day he witnessed the birth of a baby bat, which to his surprise was a rare albino, completely white. When the baby was a day old she slept beside her mother during the day, hanging upside down from the leafy, sloping roof. With the tiny white bat to guide him, he noted that each bat hung in its own place. Hanging in the wrong spot brought a deluge of threatening squeaks and sharp teeth.

Until she was five days old the baby clung to her mother as she flew from the cave at night. Then, when the baby's eyes opened, she stayed in the cave at night, joining other young bats playfully biting, squeaking, and crawling over one another. When 23 days old she flew for the first time, zooming and diving with mature skill. Because of her grace and beauty as she flew in the twilight, he named her White Lady.

Always as he came to the grotto when the bats were flying, White Lady, unlike other bats, would dive toward him flashing t\her wings near his face. One evening as he held a grasshopper in his hand there was a sudden whir of white wings and the grasshopper disappeared. He found a beetle. Almost immediately White Lady swooped down from twenty feet and snatched four more insects without touching his hand.

When Jesus comes, wicked men and their idols will be in caves and darkness. The saints will soar to the clouds, with skills that exceed those of the graceful bat, to welcome their Creator.