Signs of the coming of “The Human One”
But in those days, after that suffering, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.
Mark 13:24-25 NRSV
2020 Telling with Commentary
This story begins the calendar of the church year in Year B as the Gospel for the first Sunday in the season of Advent. It is sometimes called “The Little Apocalypse” (in contrast to the Book of Revelation) because Jesus reveals to a small group of his disciples “the last things.” He talks about the coming of the “Son of Man” also translated more literally as “The Human One.” Jesus describes a vision of the end of the age. Advent means “coming” and originally referred to the culmination of all things at Christ’s second coming.
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