Scripture
“So you too must keep watch! For you don’t know what day your Lord is coming.”
Observation
Jesus now addresses the questions about His return.
Jesus will come on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. There will be a trumpet blast and then the angels will gather the chosen ones from all over the world.
A fig tree tells the approach of summer by growing buds and leaves. In the same way, we need to watch out for the signs of the return of Christ.
We can be sure that nobody knows the time it will happen, but it will happen suddenly. People in Noah’s day carried on living and partying right up until the flood came and swept them away.
We must keep watch. We must work at serving the Lord so that we are ready for the Master’s return.
Application
Nobody knows when Jesus will return. We don’t even know for sure how this all will happen.
We do know that it will be unexpected and sudden.
It will be unexpected because no one knows the time. There are signs that the Kingdom is near, but they may not be obvious even to all christians.
It will be sudden in the sense that one minute life is carrying on as normal, but the next minute there is a trumpet blast, Jesus is visible to everyone, and everything in the world changes.
Jesus tells us to keep watch. We do not do this by studying political and social developments or by scouring the news media for signs.
We keep watch by being faithful to Jesus day by day. We don’t know when He will come back. We don’t know when we will die and stand before God’s throne.
We must not delay in doing what it is that God has told us to do today.
Prayer
Lord, may I be found faithful and obedient to you when you return. Amen.c
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