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It is refreshing to actually see someone deal with the text in detail rather than just spouting as bunch of nonsense.

The modernist dispensational are much like the modernist evolutionist and other scoffers. They are poorly schooled in hermeneutics and Bible language. They come along and demand that you interpret the Bible as they understand it rather than as the Bible intended to be understood by God and His human authors. And when you can’t meet their unreasonable demands all they can say is, “Well, see”.

As Kik has plainly demonstrated the word “clouds” in the Bible often does not mean the natural, atmospheric phenomenon we see everyday. So in the modern scoffer’s mind they hear the question as, “when did Jesus come with atmospheric phenomenon?” They think they are making sense (they do but only to themselves), and are all self-congratulatory, but they are left with an empty vessel.

Ask them a simple question like what does Matt. 16:28 mean and they go all to pieces.

“Assuredly, I say to you, there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.”

It destroys their system. Using their logic, either Jesus was confused about terms, “His kingdom”, “coming”, etc. or He was being purposely deceptive to His listeners (His coming was really thousands of years in the future and He was playing word games).

And then they dig a deeper hole by forcefully redefining a phrase like “this generation”, ignoring the way Jesus and the disciples used it (“It could mean ‘this race’.” “Problem is it never does.”), just to make the word “clouds” mean “atmospheric phenomenon”.