What is meant by the "SIGN OF THY COMING?"
Matthew 24:1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and His disciples came to Him for to shew Him the buildings of the temple.
Notice it is the "buildings" of the temple…not the temple alone. That would be the grounds…the courts, halls, towers and wings.
24:2 And Jesus said unto them, "See ye not all these things? Verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down."
Some believe that time came to fruition when the temple was destroyed in 70AD. But, they don't take into account that huge stones are still "one upon another"….the wailing wall where they proudly stand today….one stone upon another. However, we can put that aside and see a deeper, spiritual meaning.
Metaphorically speaking people are a variety of things in the Bible. One of those is stones….Christ is saying….all humans will be gone, thrown down at the end of days.
24:3 And as He sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto Him privately, saying, "Tell us, when shall these things be and what shall be the SIGN OF THY COMING, and of the end of the world?"
What He is about to say is for the disciples...not the multitudes. It is said for those that hear His voice. His elect….Us!
24:27 For as the lightning coming out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
</FONT>24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
This is speaking of the great tribulation of Satan. The "heavens are shaken and the stars fall" as Michael is kicking (shaking) Satan and his fallen angels (stars) out of heaven. The sun and moon are darkened as it is a copy of what will happen when the true Christ comes. The tribulation is great deception. It is Satan's time and that is not only how he works but is one of his many names..….
Revelation 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he DECEIVED them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
The "beast" is a political system and the "false prophet" is the role of "instead of christ" Satan plays.
Malachi 1:14 But cursed be the DECEIVER, which hath in his FLOCK a MALE, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the Lord of hosts, and My name is dreadful among the heathen.
I just really saw that verse. In the "flock" of Satan, the deceiver, (the fowler over the fallen angels, the fowls of heaven) is a male. The words.... "vowest and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing," reminds me of….
Daniel 9:27 And HE shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week HE shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease.
Same story….different book. The "male" in Satan's flock is the anti-christ, the false prophet, the one that will come pretending to be Christ (confirm the covenant) but in the midst of the week (the middle of his hour of temptation) he will stop the sacrifice and oblation to Christ….communion will then be given to him, the male, the pretender, deceiver, false prophet because the world will believe he is our Savior!
24:30 And then shall appear THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, for they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
So, the sign the disciples asked Him for, the sign telling when the end of time will be, the Sign of the Son of Man appearing, will be when we see Him in the clouds of heaven after the deception of Satan, after the vultures are spiritually feeding on the carcases of the spiritually dead.…..Not much longer now.
