The Sign of the Son of Man Podcast by Pastor John MacArthur
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Matthew 24:29–31
This morning, we come in our study of God’s Word to a very marvelous and thrilling passage for Christians, and so I invite you to turn in your Bible to Matthew chapter 24 as we look at verses 29 through 31. A great text on the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Those of us who know and love the Lord, those of us who study His Word, are very much aware of the fact that the world will end, the world as man knows it, the world as man runs it, will end with the glorious coming of Jesus Christ to earth from heaven. It is His second coming. The first time, He came in humility. The first time, He came to die on a cross. Next time, He comes in glory and He comes to reign as King of kings and Lord of lords.
The Lord wanted to instruct His disciples on the matter of His second coming, and He specifically spoke of it in these three verses in Matthew 24. I want you to notice them as I read them. “Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give its light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken, and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven, and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”
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There, in very clear, concise, straightforward, understandable terms, the Lord Himself tells us about the greatest event in anticipation of any believer, and that is the second coming of Jesus Christ. He came once, He will come again. In fact, as He was ascending, it tells us in Acts chapter 1, leaving the earth after His first coming, He ascended up into heaven, physically, bodily, taken away in a cloud. And two angels came and said: “This same Jesus who is taken up from you shall so come in like manner as you have seen Him go into heaven.” In other words, as He went away, so will He return, physically, bodily, in clouds. Just the way He went away. The very same Jesus, in the very same way.
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