8:5 boys and girls. At the end of the tribulation period, there will be “few men left” (Isaiah 24:6) who are allowed to remain on the earth after the judgment of those still living (Matthew 25:31-46). However, in view of the idyllic environmental and political conditions that will prevail during the following millennium, the population will multiply so rapidly that people will become “as the sand of the sea” (Revelation 20:8) by the end of that age.