I would probably be classed as an a-mil, preteristic historicist. God's "coming" in judgement and "Returning" seem to not necessarily be the same. God came in the judgment, and other manifestations on numerous occassions. Jesus was talking to His generation living at that time, and I am afraid that too often, we like the Jews fail to appreciate the extent of evil that Israel had accomplished in refusing to see the fulfillment of the many prophesies regarding the coming of their Messiah. I believe the judgement Jesus was referring to was fulfilled in 70 AD. It all fits to me anyway. There will be a final judgement of course, which still lays in our future. The persecution that Christians have experienced and are now experiencing in some parts of the world is beyond the imagination of most of us living in what was once called Christendom, but is now so far removed from what our ancestors believed that it is a word that has totally lost its meaning;
Just one old guy's conclusion. Glad this is up & running again

gil