Today, we're pleased to share with you an audio essay written and read by Doug O'Donnell,

entitled Five Things We Know About Christ's Second Coming.

Doug is the author of The Exposatory Reflections on the Gospels series from Crossway.

Five Things We Know About Christ's Second Coming. Written and read by Douglas Sean O'Donnell.

What is Known.

But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light,

and the stars will be falling from heaven,

and the powers of the heaven will be shaken. And then they will see the son of man, coming in the

clouds with great power and glory. And then he will send out the angels and gather his elect

from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.

Mark 13, verses 24 through 27.

But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows not even the angels in heaven, nor the sun, but only the father.

Be on guard, keep awake, for you do not know when the time will come mark thirteen verses 32 through

33 what is known about that day can be summarized under five headings first jesus second coming

will be obvious when christ returns all the powers of heaven will be shaken.

The sun, the sun will be darkened, and the moon, the moon will not give its light, will turn off,

followed by the stars falling from heaven.

These are all obvious indications that something important is afoot.

So too is the new and spectacular light

show that will fill the universal dark void. And then they will see the Son of Man coming

on the clouds. The darkness is set in contrast to the heavenly sign of the Son of Man. We are told

that Jesus will descend from heaven coming in the clouds, and that his coming will be with great power and glory.

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