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1:7-8 Announcement of the Coming King. coming with the clouds. See note on 1 Thess. 4:16-17. Jesus will come as the Son of Man with universal dominion (cf. Dan. 7:13-14), though his subjects pierced him (Zech. 12:10). wail. Most scholars think the wailing is a reaction to judgment instead of the kind of grief that leads to salvation. The coming one is the Lord God, Alpha and Omega (first and last letters of the Gk. alphabet) (see Rev. 1:17; 22:13). Jesus is the beginning of all history (the Creator) and also the goal for whom all things are made (all history is moving toward glorifying him).