The Sign of the Son of Man

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #29

The Sign of the Son of Man

When Jesus, in speaking of the Time of the End, said;

“Then shall appear the Sign of the Son of Man in Heaven” (Matt, xxiv. 30),

it is evident, from the context, he did not refer to any particular or isolated sign. For instance, while Matthew speaks of it as a “sign”, Luke writes of “signs”, in the same speech (Luke xxi. 11, 25); and Mark (xiii. 24-27) gives a further variation. The sign, or signs, include all that the Lord referred to, and which are detailed not only by Matthew, Mark, and Luke, but by Paul and Peter; and also, and especially, by Jesus himself in his last message (Rev. xvi.12-15)

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“ And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the kindred’s of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man come in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” (Mt 24:30 GenevaBible)

“ And great earthquakes shall be in diverse places, and hunger, and pestilence, and fearful things, and great signs shall there be from heaven.” (Lu 21:11 GenevaBible)

“ Then there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars, and upon the earth trouble among the nations with perplexity: the sea and the waters shall roar.” (Lu 21:25 GenevaBible)

“24  Moreover in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall wax dark, and ye moon shall not give her light, 25 And the stars of heaven shall fall: and the powers which are in heaven, shall shake. 26 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in ye clouds, with great power and glory. 27 And he shall then send his Angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, and from the utmost part of the earth to the utmost part of heaven.” (Mr 13:24-27 GenevaBible)

“12  And the sixth Angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates, and the water thereof dried up, that the way of the Kings of the East should be prepared. 13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of that dragon, and out of the mouth of that beast, and out of the mouth of that false prophet. 14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, to go unto the Kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. 15 (Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and men see his filthiness)” (Re 16:12-15 GenevaBible)

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Preceding

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #1 Introduction: What is Prophecy? – Prophets, fortune-tellers and Prophecy

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #2 Shiloh

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #3 Job’s Redeemer

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #4 Judah — Gods Battle Axe

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #5 Evening Morning Period

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #6 Daniel’s Seventy Weeks

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #7 Toes of the Image

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #8 The Fourth Beast

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #9 Michael the Great Prince

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #10 Gog

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #11 King of the North

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #12 The Little Horn of the Goat

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #13 Antiochus Epiphanes

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #14 Tarshish

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #15 More about Tarshish

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #16 Weapons of War as Fuel

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #17 Temple of Ezekiel’s Prophecy

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #18 Shape of Ezekiel’s Temple

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #19 Annual Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #20 King of the South

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #21 Messiah the Prince

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #22 Micah’s Forty Years

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #22 Wounded in the House of My Friends

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #23 Elijah Before Christ

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #23 Riches of Egypt

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #24 One of a City, Two of a Family

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #25 Called My Son Out of Egypt

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #26 That it might be Fulfilled

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #27 Mount Olivet Prophecy

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #28 The Number of the Beast

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Additional reading

1. Signs of the last days when difficult times will come
2. Matthew 24 about temples or Houses of God and the end of the age
3. Matthew 24:3 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: Desolation, Oppression and the Parousia – The Apostles’ Question
4. Matthew 24:15-28 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: The Answer: Sign 1: Encamped Armies. The Sign Great Oppression Is Near
5. Matthew 24:29-35 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: The Answer Part Two – Sign 2: The Parousia. A Sign after the Great Oppression
6. Matthew 24:36-41 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: About That Day and Hour
7. Times of the Gentiles
8. Left in the dark or being in the dark seeing light
9. Coming together in dark days
10. When you believe Jesus is God: who do you think is the mediator? #2 Firstborn from the dead our advocate
11. Only once and with consequences
12. Making the time ready for Jesus to return
13. Making sure to be ready and to belong to the escaped ones
14. Signs of the times – As the Day approaches
15. The Rapture Wars
16. Jesus … will come in the same way as you saw him go

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Related

1. The end times – In the words of Jesus / De eindtijden – De woorden van Jezus
2. Enoch about the end times / Enoch over de eindtijden
3. The Mark of the Beast Part I
4. Signs of His Coming
5. Daniel 7 – The Son of Man
6. The Son of Man and the Hope of the Nations
7. Seeing the Son of Man: How Reading Daniel and Revelation Together Illumines Both
8. Where We Are Prophetically (not politically)