“Unleashing God’s Truth One Verse At A Time”
Teaching Scriptures: Mark 13:24-27
Partial Transcript: Let's open the Word of God to the thirteenth chapter of Mark and we have some great challenges to discuss the great event, the culminating event of history of the world, the return of our Lord Jesus Christ. Obviously this is an event that transcends this one text. We'll do our best to give you a good view of it if not an absolutely comprehensive view.
Now as I told you when we started the book of Mark, we're trying to move a little more rapidly through the book of Mark, and we're doing that. We're actually going to finish the book of Mark early in June and that will be about a two-year effort to get through Mark, that's pretty good, thinking that Luke took us ten years. So we're definitely taking it at a faster clip.
It is also true that in this particular section on the Second Coming of Christ, I preached fourteen messages when we went through Luke, and we're covering it in just a very few. So all of that to say that if you want the full story, you can go back and listen to the Luke passage in Luke 21, or you can go all the way back to Matthew 24 and 25, or you can get the books that John Rourke mentioned a little while ago. But the intent for us is not to exhaust every detail, but to give you a sense of the significance and the truth of the passages that are before us.
Now we come, this evening, to chapter 13 verses 24 to 27. It is a brief passage. It is a massive subject. Verse 24 of Mark 13, “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 that are in the heavens will be shaken. Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory, and then He will send forth the angels and will gather together His elect from the four winds, from the farthest end of the earth to the farthest end of heaven.”
Now as I told you when we started the book of Mark, we're trying to move a little more rapidly through the book of Mark, and we're doing that. We're actually going to finish the book of Mark early in June and that will be about a two-year effort to get through Mark, that's pretty good, thinking that Luke took us ten years. So we're definitely taking it at a faster clip.
It is also true that in this particular section on the Second Coming of Christ, I preached fourteen messages when we went through Luke, and we're covering it in just a very few. So all of that to say that if you want the full story, you can go back and listen to the Luke passage in Luke 21, or you can go all the way back to Matthew 24 and 25, or you can get the books that John Rourke mentioned a little while ago. But the intent for us is not to exhaust every detail, but to give you a sense of the significance and the truth of the passages that are before us.
Now we come, this evening, to chapter 13 verses 24 to 27. It is a brief passage. It is a massive subject. Verse 24 of Mark 13, “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 that are in the heavens will be shaken. Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory, and then He will send forth the angels and will gather together His elect from the four winds, from the farthest end of the earth to the farthest end of heaven.”
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