Mark 13 is one of the most misread chapters in the whole gospel. Wars, earthquakes, famines, false messiahs — every generation looks at the disasters of their own time and says surely this must be the sign. And every generation so far has been wrong. Not because the second coming isn't real, but because they're using the passage to do the exact opposite of what Jesus intended.

We look at what Jesus actually says about the signs, why they're not a checklist, and why the instruction he gives in response to all of it is not to predict but to be faithful. Then we move into the opening of Mark 14 — the plot, the anointing, and a woman who gave everything she had at exactly the right moment without knowing it was the right moment. Part one of two.