The Things They Just Know

Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.  Matthew 24:30

The sign of the Son of Man, what is it? What do we look for? Given that all the tribes of the Earth will mourn, it seems that it is something they just know. Why do they mourn though? We look with longing to the coming of our Lord Jesus. It may well be they mourn the loss of their status, their place, the closing of their plans and schemes, the sudden valuelessness of their wealth, and of course that the coming light has blasted away the darkness they loved. They may well mourn that their time is up and the time of choosing is past. We are with John: "Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!" There are those who mourn His coming, and that is now an alien concept to us, hard indeed to understand. 

Rejoice for the returning of our Lord Jesus Christ! 

Bucky