Jesus returned in the year 66 AD and reigned on earth!

 

THE JEWISH-ROMAN WARS I - War History

I am not a preterist. What I’m about to write contradicts preterist views. Jesus returned in the year 66 AD and reigned on earth! It’s all in the Bible when we read it in context and understand that it wasn’t written to us.

In the letter John wrote to the seven churches in Asia, he tells them what he saw, what was happening at that moment, and what was about to happen soon.

Conditions for the end of the world (age)

And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
(Matthew 24:14, ESV)

Who are the nations?

Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven.
(Acts 2:5, ESV)

Was the gospel preached to all nations?

If indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.
(Colossians 1:23, ESV)

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have,
“Their voice has gone out to all the earth,
and their words to the ends of the world.”
(Romans 10:17–18, ESV)

Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith.
(Romans 16:25–26, ESV)

Because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.
(Colossians 1:5–6, ESV)

Yes, it was preached, according to the verses above, then He must have returned in the glory of His Father (in the clouds) and reigned. When Stephen saw Jesus before dying by stoning, the heavens opened, and he saw Jesus standing at the right hand of the Father—not seated on the throne.

But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”
(Acts 7:55–56, ESV)

In Revelation, when the sixth seal is opened, Jesus appears seated on the throne.

The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”
(Revelation 6:14–17, ESV)

The wrath of the Lamb is the judgment decreed by Jesus. To execute judgment, He must be seated on the throne—He must be reigning. This judgment was fulfilled in the generation of the apostles.

And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for him. But turning to them Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’”
(Luke 23:27–30, ESV)

The sixth seal describes the second coming and the beginning of the reign of Christ.

Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
(Matthew 24:29–30, ESV)

When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.
(Revelation 6:12–13, ESV)

He reigns over the nations (Jews) with a rod of iron (Rome).

The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father.
(Revelation 2:26–27, ESV)

Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
and the ends of the earth your possession.
You shall break them with a rod of iron
and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
Now therefore, O kings, be wise;
be warned, O rulers of the earth.
Serve the Lord with fear,
and rejoice with trembling.
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,
for his wrath is quickly kindled.
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
(Psalm 2:8–12, ESV)

This happens in the year 66 AD, when the First Jewish War against Rome begins. Rome is the rod of iron. The Jews were fighting against Rome—and against God—without realizing it.

“We have fought with the help of God, and it is God who has driven the Jews out of these strongholds.”
— General Titus (The Jewish War, Book VI, Josephus)