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[Alexandr Korol]

And finally, the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

“I believe in the One Lord Jesus Christ... who shall come again with glory to judge the living and the dead, whose kingdom shall have no end.”

And in the Old Testament: “Before them, the earth will tremble, the heavens will shake; the sun and the moon will be darkened, and the stars will lose their light. And the Lord will give His voice before His army, for His host is exceedingly great, and mighty is the one who executes His word; for great is the day of the Lord and very terrible, and who can endure it?”
Events of the Second Coming. “In the texts of the Bible, Jesus Christ and the apostles not only do not specify the exact day and hour of the Second Coming, but they also explicitly state that it is impossible for humans to know this. Jesus tells His disciples about the Second Coming: ‘Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.’”

Signs of its approach: “The apostles also indicated some signs of this time, such as the appearance of many false Christs (Matt. 24:5; 1 John 2:18), the spread of the Gospel throughout the whole world to all nations (Matt. 24:14), the diminishing of faith and love in people (Matt. 24:12; Luke 18:8), fear of disasters that will befall the Earth (Luke 21:26), and the appearance of the lawless one (Greek: ὁ ἄνομος) (2 Thess. 2:8), meaning the Antichrist. ‘And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to act for forty-two months.’”
In the parable of the fig tree (Matt. 24:32, 33; Luke 21:29-31), Jesus Christ pointed out a way to recognize the approach of the Day of the Lord: when trees put forth leaves, summer is near. When “the coming of the Son of Man” is “near, at the doors,” the disciples will be able to recognize it (Matt. 24:33). Christ urges His disciples to recognize the coming of the Kingdom of God and lift their heads (Luke 21:28, 31).
As in the prophecies of the Old Testament, the prophecies of the New Testament state that the Second Coming will be preceded by many cataclysms (earthquakes) and signs in the sky (the darkening of the sun and moon, the falling of stars from the sky). “Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky,