Clearly, the Father did not come physically in the clouds. He spiritually rode on the clouds in judgement. Any time God used a nation to destroy and judge another nation in the Old Testament, it is described as God coming down and riding on clouds. Jesus did the same at His coming through Rome’s siege and destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. Cindye Coates

When Jesus said He was “coming in the clouds,” the apostate Jewish priesthood accused Him of blasphemy. Why? They knew He was claiming deity! His Parousia (coming) was going to be in the same way God had always come before in the Old Testament. He was making Himself equal to Yahweh. It was Yahweh Who was the great cloud rider in judgement. Cindye Coates

In AD 66, the Roman Army entered Judea on the east side and carried on their conquest westward, being compared to the “lightning flashing from the east to the west,” as Jesus clearly stated. Cindye Coates

In the Antiquities of the Jews by Josephus, he wrote how false prophets led followers to believe they would be delivered by entering the inner rooms of the Temple. Josephus writes: “A multitude of men, women, and children, went up; accordingly, but instead of deliverance, the place was set on fire by the Romans and 6,000 perished miserably in the flames.” Cindye Coates

The Great Tribulation is not in our future – it is in our past! There will never be another Herod’s Temple. There will never be another Emperor Vespasian. There will never be another Great Tribulation. Cindye Coates

Because Matthew 24 has been incorrectly taught to be relevant to a modern-day church as opposed to its true first-century audience, Christian teens have had abortions based on this scripture. I was horrified to discover this years ago when speaking at a local high school and a cheerleader told me she wanted to have an abortion because Jesus said, “woe to those who are pregnant in those days.” This young lady was told by her ministers that we were in “those (last) days.” No telling how many children were aborted because of Dispensational Futuristic Eschatology. Cindye Coates

When the Romans worshipped the image of Vespasian in Herod’s Temple, General Titus ordered the army to slaughter all the people left in Jerusalem. The Roman Army was the abomination that brought desolation. Cindye Coates

In AD 70, the “abomination of desolation” was when the apostate Jewish priesthood stood in the Holy Place with the Roman (Gentile) Army. Cindye Coates

By the time of the Jewish Revolt in AD 66, the Gospel had spread from Britain to the Black Sea, from Gaul (France) to Galatia (Greece), and from Egypt to the banks of the Euphrates River, covering the Roman Empire into India where the apostle Thomas was martyred. We also see the expressions “all nations” and “every nation” mean those that make up the Roman Empire at that time in history. Cindye Coates