is used where the Replacementarians Rubber Bibles don't quite stretch far enough to cover their deceptions and they have to bring out the big brass bands, dancing monkeys, fireworks shows and platoons of used car salesmen to hide the fact that their papal magicsterical encyclicals not only have no clothes . . . they have no reliable dictionaries; no reliable histories and no reliable consistent logic, phrasing or thought processes.
It takes apocalyptic hyperbole to cover that pile of compost.
Amen.
At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn . They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. (NIV)
Even the NIV has all of the nation of the earth (not land) seeing Christ, so if the preterists can't slip 'land' in for 'earth', they have to assert that it is only 'apocalytic hyperbole'