Behold He Cometh With The Clouds!!!!!!

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Firstfruits,
I guess we have to figure out how Rev 1:7 intends for us to understand how every eye shall "see" Him. The coming in the clouds of judgment is certainly a figurative form of speech that the OT uses often, so it may be that a figurative understanding is meant for both phrases. The fact that every eye shall see AND also those that pierced Him, puts this in the 1st century. "Kindreds of the earth" can also be translated "tribes of the land", which implies it is those in Israel who will be wailing because of what they understand that Jesus is doing.

Certainly to see with eyes of spiritual understanding is not an uncommn concept either:

(Job 42:5 KJV) I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

(Isa 52:8-12 KJV) Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion. {9} Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. {10} The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. {11} Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD. {12} For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.

(Mat 7:5 KJV) Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

(1 Cor 2:9-10 KJV) But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. {10} But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

(Isa 64:4 KJV) For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

If we look at it from the point that when he returns, no matter who we are saved or unsaved we shall all see Christ, at judgement.

Rom 14:10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

[Firstfruits]

Jesus said;

Mt 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

Mt 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Mt 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Truly, every eye shall see him.