“You will see the Son of Man . . . coming in the Clouds of Heaven”: The Fact that this Army in the Clouds is recorded by First Century Historians makes this Event more Historically Reliable. Tacitus wrote The Histories approximately thirty years after the event recorded therein. Josephus wrote The Wars of the Jews around A.D. 75–just nine to ten years after this event is said to have occurred. These accounts of the Son of Man coming on the clouds were published within the lifetimes of many potential eyewitnesses who could either confirm or deny it. If an angelic army really did appear in the skies over Israel at the start of the Jewish War, most Jews from Israel who survived the war would have either seen or heard about it. Because this army in the sky would have been so publically observable, I do not believe that Tacitus or Josephus would have risked straining their credibility by writing about such a publically observable event within the lifetimes of eyewitnesses in the absence of a sufficient number of people to corroborate their accounts.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 22:54:44 +0000
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