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Sermon Concerning the Coming of our Savior

Name: Sermon Concerning the Coming of our Savior
Author: Martin Luther

A stirring Reformation-era exposition of Christ's second coming and the apocalyptic signs that herald it. Drawing on Luke 21 — the gospel for the Second Sunday in Advent — this sermon urges believers to lift their heads in joyful expectation rather than tremble before the world's tumult. Far from a bleak forecast, the message reframes earthquakes, eclipses, and political upheaval as tokens of imminent redemption. Two appended catalogs of historical signs — wonders preceding Jerusalem's fall and the rise and decline of nations — anchor the doctrine in the witness of history.

Chapters: 8
Word count: 13,655
Type: Sermon

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A very comfortable, and necessary sermon in these our days, made by the right reverend father, and faithful servant of Jesus Christ Martin Luther, concerning the coming of our Savior Christ to judgment, and the signs that go before the last day, which sermon is an exposition of the Gospel appointed to be read in the church on the second Sunday in Advent, and is now newly translated out of Latin into English, and something augmented and enlarged by the translator, with certain notes in the margin.

(Acts 17:30) Now God admonishes all men everywhere to repent, because he has appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousness, by that man whom he has appointed: of which he has given an assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.

Sermon Concerning the Coming of our Savior

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