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The whole reason that the Olivet Discourse is even in the Bible (See Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 17, 21) is because Jesus Christ wanted to mention the signs of his SECOND Advent to his 12 Jewish Disciples. We are going to focus on 13 verses in this passage, starting with his Second Advent and ending with descriptive details of the same event. -v. 29-31: "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...

The Last Crisis We are living in the time of the end. The fast-fulfilling signs of the times declare that the coming of Christ is near at hand. The days in which we live are solemn and important. The Spirit of God is gradually but surely being withdrawn from the earth. Plagues and judgments are already falling upon the despisers of the grace of God. The calamities by land and sea, the unsettled state of society, the alarms of war, are portentous. They forecast approaching events of the greatest magnitude. The agencies of evil are combining their forces and consolidating....