YOU ARE NO LITERALIST Roby... stop falsely claiming you are. Yet you believe that same language IS used in the OT spiritually, allegorically, with as you said "Artistic License". You claims of wooden literalsim have been thoroughly examined and found wanting.
The Language of Stars Falling, Sun and Moon Darkening, Sky/Heavens Receding, mountains melting, God being SEEN Riding clouds etc is ALWAYS used by the prophets allegorically, and you can't show otherwise.
Otherwise you would Show us your scriptural instruction to apply a POLAR OPPOSITE interpretation to THE SAME LANGUAGE when we find it in the NT.
You can't.
Oh Boy...
Roby, The cloud coming of Rev 1:7 is depicted fully in
Revelation 14:14-20 -- the passage shows us unquestionably an event that takes place in the heavenly realms. The Spirit World.
The cloud-coming of
Revelation 1:7 that "every eye would see" is shown in
Revelation 14:14-20 to be an event that occurs in the heavenly realms. As the passage reveals, Christ's actions and commands in the heavenlies result in various tribulation-period disasters that transpire on earth. Simply put,
Revelation 14:14-20 is the cloud-coming that "every eye would see." This is significant, for St. John is not describing the coming of Christ as some visual spectacular with cumulus clouds in the skies overhead, but as the coming of Yahweh himself, making Christ equal with the Father.
Next, As I have pointed out many many times to you but you flat out either ignore, or worse yet claim the Bible is wrong about, Yahweh came many, many times -- Jesus' coming is a mirror action, proving his equality and divinity with Yahweh.
Yahweh came down and shot his arrows at Saul and his armies, destroying the earth and the heavens at the time (2 Sam 22:8-16); Yahweh came down and shot his arrows over Greece (
Zechariah 9:13-14); Yahweh came down riding a cloud to beat up on Egypt (Isa 19:1-2); Yahweh made bare his Holy Arm in the eyes of all nations (Isa 52:10); Yahweh came to the Israelites at Sinai and Seir with Ten Thousand of His Saints and led a march on the fields of Edom (Deut 33:2;
Judges 5:4-5); Yahweh destroyed the universe when he judged Israel through Babylon (Jer 4:22-30) and did so again when he judged Egypt by Babylon (Ezekiel 32:2-8). So also did Christ do these things when "the Lord of the Vineyard came" in AD 66-70 and was to them the Stone that crushed them to powder and removed the Kingdom of God from them (see
Matthew 21:40-45).
Please note that
Revelation 1:7 is a quotation of a passage from Zechariah --
namely, Zechariah 12:10-14. The mourning of the tribes in that Zechariah passage is a mourning of
the tribes of Israel. Case closed. To try and make the "tribes of the land mourning" mean some OTHER tribes than the ones Zechariah meant (and, thus St. John who quotes him) is very bad hermeneutics. I highly recommend you read
Zechariah 12:10-14 and recognize that St. John is quoting him in
Revelation 1:7.
Furthermore, the
Zechariah 12:10-14 passage is centered geographically on the city of Jerusalem. So when St. John quotes Zechariah in Rev chapter 1 we can be sure that he has a focus similar to
Zechariah 12:10-14.
The bible is the best interpreter of the bible.
Toss out your newspapers and Fox News Roby... stick to scripture and you'll be just fine.