Just curious, but would you describe the popular dispensational, premil version of the "thousand years" as "paradise"?
Just trying to get our definitions straight.
"And Jesus said to him, 'Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.' " (Luke 23:43)
I would describe it as the millenial reign. Paradise was a holding place for the Old Testament Saints prior to the crucifixion.
Did Jesus return with clouds and did every eye see him in 70 AD? I can't seem to find any eyewitness accounts of that event in any scriptural or historical documents. Perhaps I missed something.