Perhaps it is 1967, the year the Israelis capture the old city of Jerusalem and the city was unified.
“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. And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other."
Matt. 24:29-31
I've never seen any record of these events taking place in AD70.
His enemies will be made his footstool after he returns. Here is the description of his return found in Revelation 19:11-21.
Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses. From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.
Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to all the birds that fly directly overhead, “Come, gather for the great supper of God, to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great.” And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to make war against him who was sitting on the horse and against his army. And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. And the rest were slain by the sword that came from the mouth of him who was sitting on the horse, and all the birds were gorged with their flesh.
The “tribulation of those days” started when the Teacher of Righteousness (ToR) was cutoff and Pompeo invaded Jerusalem around 63 BC. Not soon after Mark Antony installed a puppet king. Therefore, the tribulation began in the first century BC when nation Israel lost its sovereignty and more importantly when the Essenes, “the Way”, were driven out of Israel. The tribulation would last throughout the “Last Days”, aka, three unique moral leaders on earth, per the Dead Sea Scrolls. Two of which were the Teacher of Righteousness and Paul, presumably the “two anointed ones”.
One of the signs that the Last Days were over would be the return of nation Israel and the restoration of the Gospel after darkness had ruled the earth, aka, the great apostasy. Then the son of man returns in the clouds, ie., the moral intelligence or truth clothed in flesh. At which time all the pious, virtuous souls that ever lived will be saved. It is a promise of delivery after much trial and suffering at the hands of Gentiles, to include, Pharisees, but it is not a political delivery but a moral one for pious, virtuous souls. A delivery from depravity, suffering, and sin only found in the material world or flesh! That is what it meant to the Essenes. They believed that this material world was coming to an end but only after God’s anointed ones had presented themselves to the world.
It is understood esoterically because that was how it was written based on the Essene’s interpretation of Hebrew scripture. Moreover, it is all natural.
Nation Israel—natural.
Dead sea scrolls discovered—natural.
Moral intelligence—natural.
Darkness, aka, catholicism and the “Dark Ages”—natural.
Wars, tribulation—natural,
“last days”, aka, unique sages—natural,
clouds, aka, flesh—natural,
son of Man, moral leader hidden by flesh (clouds)—natural.
It is all natural written esoterically because they were being hunted, in large part due to Roman oppression and Pharisee corroborators.
IMO, when Jews receive the Teacher of Righteousness as one of three anointed moral leaders during their tribulation and times of darkness then PRAY! and hug those you love. For their salvation will raise the dead. It will mean the end of this material world in order to make way for the perfect one that follows as God promised for the saints.
For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead? (Romans 11:15)
Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. (2 Peter 3:11)
