When scribes & pharisees questioned, James, the brother of Jesus stated, "Why do you ask me about Jesus the Son of Man? He is now sitting in the heavens, on the right hand of great Power, and is about to come on the clouds of heaven." For this obvious allusion to Matt 26:64, the officials of the temple cast him down from the "wing of the temple" and later stoned him and beat out his brains with a club. Hegessipus, an early church historian writing A.D. 165 - 175 identifies the coming of Jesus on the clouds of heaven" with the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.
Matt 23:31 “Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ guilt. 33 Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell? 34 Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Assuredly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.
John 21:22 Jesus said to him, “If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you? You follow Me.”
Matthew 26:64 Jesus said to him, “It is as you said. Nevertheless, I say to you, hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.”
That's not YOU you, it's them "you."
Jesus came in judgment at the end of the Jewish age, the age of the stone temple, animal sacrifices and Levitical priesthood. It was like the sun moon and stars of Jacob's dream had fallen from the sky, the old Israel passed away as Jesus ushered in the Kingdom age.
Jesus said, "If I cast out demons with the finger of God, surely the Kingdom of God has come upon you." Luke 11:20
This is evidence that when Jesus talked about his coming in Matthew 24 Mark 13, and Luke 21, it has nothing to do with his second coming rather a judgment coming upon an apostate Israel with the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. Perverse, wicked, generation that has filled up the wrath of God to the uttermost. Jewish leaders were getting in the way of converting the gentiles.
Matt 23:31 “Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ guilt. 33 Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell? 34 Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Assuredly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.
John 21:22 Jesus said to him, “If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you? You follow Me.”
Matthew 26:64 Jesus said to him, “It is as you said. Nevertheless, I say to you, hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.”
That's not YOU you, it's them "you."
Jesus came in judgment at the end of the Jewish age, the age of the stone temple, animal sacrifices and Levitical priesthood. It was like the sun moon and stars of Jacob's dream had fallen from the sky, the old Israel passed away as Jesus ushered in the Kingdom age.
Jesus said, "If I cast out demons with the finger of God, surely the Kingdom of God has come upon you." Luke 11:20
This is evidence that when Jesus talked about his coming in Matthew 24 Mark 13, and Luke 21, it has nothing to do with his second coming rather a judgment coming upon an apostate Israel with the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. Perverse, wicked, generation that has filled up the wrath of God to the uttermost. Jewish leaders were getting in the way of converting the gentiles.
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