In Acts Chapter one it states that the Disciples saw Jesus taken up into heaven and two men dressed in white asked them why they were staring up into heaven. They said that Jesus would return in the same way as he went. To me that is a quite plain statement. Do you think God deliberately inspires these statements so that his church can be confused and misled about these matters and only a chosen few can be let in to the secret? It sounds more Gnostic than Christian to me.
I"m not a "chosen few". I'm not special at all. The knowledge I have on this topic any Christian can have. It's right there written in the Scripture but Christians have refused to believe it for 2,000 years because they want a physical fulfillment the Bible does not teach. When you call the Full Preterist view "Gnostic" what you are attempting to do is discredit it in your own mind so you don't have to address what the text I presented say.
When you read Acts 1: 9-11 in the Greek it says that the cloud hid Jesus from the disciples eyes and they watched the cloud ascend. Jesus had already disappeared inside it. He did not ride it like a surfboard or something like many Christians seem to believe. The angels said He would return in like manner.
Jesus said He would return in the glory of His Father with the holy angels. How did the Father come in the Old Testament? He came on clouds and not visibly.
Isaiah 19: 1, "Behold, the Lord rides on a
swift cloud, And will come into Egypt; The idols of Egypt will totter at His presence, And the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst." This was judgment against Egypt. They did not physically see God. It was spiritual.
Psalm 104: 3-4, "He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters, Who makes the
clouds His chariot, Who walks on the wings of the wind, Who makes His angels spirits, His ministers a flame of fire." Chariots are war vehicles. Judgment.
Matt 24: 30 mentions Jesus coming on the clouds of heaven. What was that in reference too? Judgment on Jerusalem. Not visible physically but VERY visible spiritually.
I will simply. The bottom line is this: The Scriptures do not support a physical fulfillment of the kingdom of God. They are clear on this. Your own view is contradicting what the Scripture says. You refuse to believe what the Scripture says because it does not fit your physical understanding. You should change your understanding to fit the Scripture and not the other way around like Christians have been doing for 2,000 years. I apologize if I sound harsh in any way. That is not my intention. It is just that humans are not very rational sometimes.