Matt 26:64 "ye shall be seeing the Son of Man.....clouds of heaven"

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Jesus exclaims to the High Priest and those with him that they would see Jesus coming on the clouds of the heaven. How could that be?

Matt 26:
63 Yet Jesus was silent.
And the high priest answering said to Him, “I am putting under oath<1844> Thee according of the living God that to us Thou may be saying if Thou are being the Christ, the Son of the God.”
64 “Jesus is saying to him "Thou say”.
“Moreover I am saying to ye, from present ye shall be seeing the Son of the Man sitting out of the rights of the Power and coming upon the clouds of the heaven.
65 Then the High Priest rents his garments saying that, “He blasphemes!
What still need we are having of witnesses? Look! now ye hear the blasphemy of Him.
66 What to ye is seeming?”
Yet answering they said “He is deserving of death.

Mark 14:
61 But Jesus was silent and not answers nothing.
Again the high priest questioned Him and is saying to Him, “Thou are being the Christ, the Son of the God, the Blessed One?”
62 And Jesus said “I AM", and ye shall be seeing the Son of the Man sitting out of the rights of the Power and coming with the clouds of the heaven.”
63 The yet High Priest rent his clothes saying “What further need still we are having of witnesses?
64 Behold! now ye hear the blasphemy.
What to ye is appearing? the yet they all condemn Him liable to be of death
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Jeremiah 4
13 “Behold, as clouds he shall come up, And his chariots like a whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles.
Woe to us, for we are plundered!”
14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, That you may be saved.
How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Matthew 24:30

And then shall be appearing the sign of the Son of the Man in heaven
and then shall be grieving<2875> all the tribes of the land
and they shall be seeing the Son of the Man coming upon the clouds of the heaven with much power and glory.

Revelation 1:7

Behold! He doth come with the clouds, and see Him shall every eye, even those who did pierce Him,
and wail because of Him shall all the Tribes of the land. Yes! Amen!
 
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Will the second coming of Christ entail a 5'5"-7" Jewish man (common male height of the time) appearing in the skies above Jerusalem that every man, woman, and child will witness across the whole globe?

Or did Jesus mean something else? How long did the disciples stare stedfastly into the clouds and empty skies in Acts 1:10? 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, an hour or longer? The text only states stedfastly.

Please remember that Jesus ministered on earth during the Last Days - Hebrews 1:2; 1 Peter 1:20

And He shed His blood and died for us on earth at the End of the Age - Hebrews 9:26

Were these the Last Days of the material universe? Or the Last Days of the Mosaic Covenant? Was this at the end of the world? Or the end of the Jewish Age?

Have the Last Days run for nearly 2,000 years now? Has the End of the Age run for nearly 2,000 years now?

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

Seeing the Son of Man


Those who pierced Jesus lived in the first century. This helps explain Revelation 1:7 where the same wording is used. Those who "see" Him are "those who pierced Him" (cf John 19:7). John is telling us that those who pierced Jesus experienced His covenant wrath. Revelation 1:7 must refer to a pre-A.D. 70 fulfillment, before that generation passed away (Matthew 16:27-28; 24:34).

"Every eye, and those who pierced Him, shall see him" - The subject of the text is "the people of the land," viz. Judea; and it would be a direct misinterpretation, as well as false logic, to strain a term beyond its subject, by applying it to the final judgment of all. That all men shall see Him, we learn from other scriptures (2 Cor. V. 10); [the partial preterist writer of this piece has misinterpreted himself - see Hebrews 9:27] but we must deal faithfully with the text, and not force any word in order to make out a case. Truth never requires this. That the land of Judea, in the prophetic sense, is the subject, is evident from Zech. XII. 10; from which the words are taken, both here and in John XIX. 37.

"Those who pierced Him" are obviously those who had a hand in His death. The text declares that they shall see Him, employing for seeing the verb optomai, already noticed, as not limited to ocular seeing. Though those who pierced Him saw not His person after ascension, yet they saw His power bringing judgment on them, and making His cause prevail inspite of their persecution, and they speedily saw their kingdom terminated.

James Glasgow (1872)

Equating "seeing" with "understanding" is a common Biblical metaphor. In John 12:40 Jesus quotes Isaiah 6:10 to explain why some have not believed His message. Notice how "seeing" is equivalent to "understanding."

"Render the hearts of the people insensitive, their ears dull, and their eyes dim, lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and repent and be healed." Isaiah 6:10

In quoting Isaiah, Jesus states Yahweh "has blinded their eyes" (John 12:40). This is not a physical blinding. The blinding is spiritual. To be blind is not to understand; to see is to understand and believe. "To open their eyes" is an expression used by Biblical writers to describe recognition and understanding (Acts of the Apostles 26:18 cf 1 Kings 8:29, 1 Kings 8:52; 2 Kings 2:16; 2 Kings 6:20; 2 Kings 19:16; Isaiah 35:5; Isaiah 42:7; Isaiah 42:16). The eyes of the disciples "were opened" by Jesus and "they recognized Him." (Luke 24:31) is another example of equating "seeing" with "understanding." David Chilton summarizes the text for us: "The crucifiers would see Him coming in judgment - that is, they would understand that His coming would mean wrath on the land (cf the use of the word "see" in Mark 1:44; Luke 17:22; John 3:36; Romans 15:21)."

David Chilton, Days of Vengeance

"And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky, to the other." Matthew 24:31

Immediately after the destruction of Jerusalem, God began to shake down the world (Matthew 24:29). The nations began to recognize Christ as King (24:30). In context, in verse 31 does not refer to the end of the world. Rather, it speaks of the spread of the Gospel in the nations.
 
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Jesus exclaims to the High Priest and those with him that they would see Jesus coming on the clouds of the heaven. How could that be?

Matt 26:
63 Yet Jesus was silent.
And the high priest answering said to Him, “I am putting under oath<1844> Thee according of the living God that to us Thou may be saying if Thou are being the Christ, the Son of the God.”
64 “Jesus is saying to him "Thou say”.
“Moreover I am saying to ye, from present ye shall be seeing the Son of the Man sitting out of the rights of the Power and coming upon the clouds of the heaven.
65 Then the High Priest rents his garments saying that, “He blasphemes!
What still need we are having of witnesses? Look! now ye hear the blasphemy of Him.
66 What to ye is seeming?”
Yet answering they said “He is deserving of death.

Mark 14:
61 But Jesus was silent and not answers nothing.
Again the high priest questioned Him and is saying to Him, “Thou are being the Christ, the Son of the God, the Blessed One?”
62 And Jesus said “I AM", and ye shall be seeing the Son of the Man sitting out of the rights of the Power and coming with the clouds of the heaven.”
63 The yet High Priest rent his clothes saying “What further need still we are having of witnesses?
64 Behold! now ye hear the blasphemy.
What to ye is appearing? the yet they all condemn Him liable to be of death
=========================
Jeremiah 4
13 “Behold, as clouds he shall come up, And his chariots like a whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles.
Woe to us, for we are plundered!”
14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, That you may be saved.
How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Matthew 24:30

And then shall be appearing the sign of the Son of the Man in heaven
and then shall be grieving<2875> all the tribes of the land
and they shall be seeing the Son of the Man coming upon the clouds of the heaven with much power and glory.

Revelation 1:7

Behold! He doth come with the clouds, and see Him shall every eye, even those who did pierce Him,
and wail because of Him shall all the Tribes of the land. Yes! Amen!
“Jesus said to him, “You have said it yourself; nevertheless I tell you, hereafter [from now on] you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.”” Matthew 26:64 (NASB95)
I understand this in an Amillennial sense that the born again can see the Kingdom of God presently in the world and Christ ruling the nations with a rod of iron. Perhaps he told his persecutors they would recognize his hand in Jerusalem's destruction. And throughout history culminating in the end of the world.
 
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I understand this in an Amillennial sense that the born again can see the Kingdom of God presently in the world and Christ ruling the nations with a rod of iron. Perhaps he told his persecutors they would recognize his hand in Jerusalem's destruction. And throughout history culminating in the end of the world.
I take it much more literally. They will be resurrected at the final judgement and then they will see all of those things.
 
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“Jesus said to him, “You have said it yourself; nevertheless I tell you, hereafter [from now on] you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.”” Matthew 26:64 (NASB95)
I understand this in an Amillennial sense that the born again can see the Kingdom of God presently in the world and Christ ruling the nations with a rod of iron. Perhaps he told his persecutors they would recognize his hand in Jerusalem's destruction. And throughout history culminating in the end of the world.
Hello Dave and thanks for posting.
I wonder if this if Amills agree with that. Sounds very plausible to me, a partial preterist...........
 
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Hello Dave and thanks for posting.
I wonder if this if Amills agree with that. Sounds very plausible to me, a partial preterist...........
I think the Partial Preterist when combined with Amillenialism is the gate way to understanding the New Covenant era. That is the Great tribulation was Jewish and happened in 70 AD with the destruction of Jerusalem. Christian tribulation spanning the entire NC era. Etc. Where I differ from classic Amillennialism is in the nature of the church being purely spiritual and not physical. Thanks for your great posts....
 
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Jesus exclaims to the High Priest and those with him that they would see Jesus coming on the clouds of the heaven. How could that be?

Matt 26:
63 Yet Jesus was silent.
And the high priest answering said to Him, “I am putting under oath<1844> Thee according of the living God that to us Thou may be saying if Thou are being the Christ, the Son of the God.”
64 “Jesus is saying to him "Thou say”.
“Moreover I am saying to ye, from present ye shall be seeing the Son of the Man sitting out of the rights of the Power and coming upon the clouds of the heaven.
65 Then the High Priest rents his garments saying that, “He blasphemes!
What still need we are having of witnesses? Look! now ye hear the blasphemy of Him.
66 What to ye is seeming?”
Yet answering they said “He is deserving of death.

Mark 14:
61 But Jesus was silent and not answers nothing.
Again the high priest questioned Him and is saying to Him, “Thou are being the Christ, the Son of the God, the Blessed One?”
62 And Jesus said “I AM", and ye shall be seeing the Son of the Man sitting out of the rights of the Power and coming with the clouds of the heaven.”
63 The yet High Priest rent his clothes saying “What further need still we are having of witnesses?
64 Behold! now ye hear the blasphemy.
What to ye is appearing? the yet they all condemn Him liable to be of death
=========================
Jeremiah 4
13 “Behold, as clouds he shall come up, And his chariots like a whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles.
Woe to us, for we are plundered!”
14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, That you may be saved.
How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Matthew 24:30

And then shall be appearing the sign of the Son of the Man in heaven
and then shall be grieving<2875> all the tribes of the land
and they shall be seeing the Son of the Man coming upon the clouds of the heaven with much power and glory.

Revelation 1:7

Behold! He doth come with the clouds, and see Him shall every eye, even those who did pierce Him,
and wail because of Him shall all the Tribes of the land. Yes! Amen!

One other possibility here is that Jesus ascended to heaven and returned to earth at least one other time before they see him ascend in Acts 1:10.

In John 20:17 Jesus tells Mary not to touch him because he had not ascended to the father yet. In John 20:27 Thomas is told to thrust his hand into Jesus’s side. So sometime between these 2 events Jesus must have ascended and also descended back to earth.

Ephesians 4:8 Wherefore he saith, when he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

The NIV makes this passage a little clearer as it says “when he ascended on high, he led captives in his train and gave gifts to men”. It doesn’t appear that this happened in Act 1:10, although a case could be made for spiritualizing the meaning of captives. I think the train of captives that were with Jesus when he ascended were the people that came out of the graves in Matthew 27:52-53 and I think this occurred the first time he ascended after John 20:17.

It does appear that when he comes in Revelation 1:7 it is an event that was future to the writing of Revelation.
 
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there is the fact that when Jesus does return, all people will raise from there graves.

no ... not all people .... the 1st resurrection is of the saved .... the unsaved are resurrected later
 
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