Clearly, we see that the returning Christ will be known as
the One who was pierced. From Jerusalem, and around the
earth, there will be great mourning because they will finally
understand the mystery they have denied, that Jesus Christ al-
ways was the Savior, the God, and the Messiah of Israel!
On that great and terrible day, there will also be mourning
because vengeance will be taken by the One who had come
earlier to His people,
“To proclaim the year of the LORD’s fa-
vor”
(Isa. 61:2). With the priceless gift of the Son of Man, God
had fulfilled that prophecy before their very eyes and ears when
Christ told them who He was (Luke 4:17-21). If only they had
believed!
END OF NOAH-TYPE DAYS
God will pour out His wrath on mankind because of their
wickedness, corruption, and unbelief—a wrath that will grow
to the extent it was in the days of Noah. The disciples had
asked about the end in Matt. 24:3, and Christ told them then
that it would be like it was during the days of Noah.
There will be terrible times in the last days, as amplified
and illustrated in 2 Timothy 3:1-4:
“People will be lovers of
themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobe-
dient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unfor-
giving, slanderous, without self control, brutal, not lovers of the
good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather
than lovers of God.”
It sounds as if the days of Noah are already here! When
Christ was asked,
“…what will be the sign of your coming and
of the end of the age”
(Matt. 24:3)? He described in detail what
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