Once again let’s note for the record it says "the sign of the son of man in heaven shall appear". It quite plainly does not say that that Jesus will physically appear anywhere.
I take it you have never read Josephus. The account of all that happened surrounding the sack of Jerusalem and destruciton of the temple in AD70.
Chipper, if you are satisfied with not being able to exegete a single passage of Scripture and not being able to compare Scripture with Scripture, that’s fine by me. You can get your eschatology from modern pop futurists if you wish.
But please do not pooh-pooh the preterist view when you are incapable of such exegetical work.
Your emperor still is not wearing any clothes.
Baloney -- read it again for the first time:
"Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." [Mt 24:29-31]
It says clearly: "they shall see the Son of man coming". If that is not a physical coming, then just what kind of coming is it???
you are incapable of such exegetical work.
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1. Sounds like a personal slam, to me.
2. I hope that doesn’t = not willing to mangle Scripture in the Replacementarian Rubber Bible fashion.