What does sincere authentic love for Jesus look like?  This is an important question to see if our claim to love God is real or not.  The woman in Mark 14, who is Mary the sister of Martha and Lazarus,  is a great example in the Bible of someone who loved Jesus and demonstrated it through an outrageous act of great generosity, even though it didn’t make much sense to those around her.    .

Looking at Mark 13:24-25 we read this, “But in those days, after that tribulation, 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.”    Jesus is now talking about the days immediately preceding His return.  This prophesy is also repeated in Isaiah and also parallels what would happen when the 6th seal is broken in Revelation 6.