What are the signs of the second coming of Christ?

Answer 1

A:There is a gospel source that tells just what these signs are, in Mark chapter 13. It says that Jesus talked about the destruction of the great buildings in Jerusalem and that there will be wars and earthquakes, famines and troubles. Brothers will betray brothers, children will rise up against their parents and there will be an abomination of desolation. The sun and moon will be darkened and the stars will fall out of the sky. Then Jesus will come in the clouds with great glory. Jesus said that these things would happen within the lifetimes of some of those to whom he was speaking, and he commanded them to be ready, for no one would know the day.

Indeed, the desolation of which this passage speaks was the end of the first Roman-Jewish War, with the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple and many great buildings. even as the Romans besieged Jerusalem without, a great civil war took place within the city, with brothers betraying brothers and children slaughtering their parents. But the sun and moon never darkened, and we now know the stars could not fall to earth. The generation passed without the return of Jesus.