The Lord taught that He would come in the glory of His Father with angels and reward every man according to their works (
Matthew 16:27).
See the thread I posted below and you will see that the Son of Man in the clouds was never slated to be Jesus. It was Baha’u’llah who came when men’s vision was clouded.
Who is the Son of man who will come in the clouds of heaven?
In Matthew 16:27, Jesus said that the Son of man shall come
in the glory of his Father. Jesus did not say “I will come in the glory of my Father.”
Matthew 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
When His disciples asked Him what the signs of His coming would be - and about the end of the world - the Lord told them that there would be much tribulation and false Christs but after all this the people of the Earth would see Him from Heaven with great power and glory (
Matthew 24:30).
Matthew 24:2-5 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
Please note that when Jesus answered the disciples He never said He was coming, all He said was to be careful because many would come
in His name, and many false Christs have, but Baha’u’llah came with a new name (Rev 2:17, Rev 3:12)
But then later, in the same chapter, Jesus told us what would be the signs of the coming of the Son of Man:
Matthew 24:29-30 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: 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.
That all happened in the 19th century and still no Jesus, because Jesus never planned or promised to return.
“As we look, we find the events recorded (in
Revelation), following on in the order predicted.”
(Our Day in the Light of Prophecy, Spicer, p. 77.) These events which he listed were as follows:
1. The Lisbon earthquake, 1755.
1755 Lisbon earthquake
2. The Dark Day, 1780.
New England's Dark Day
3. The Falling Stars, 1833.
The Falling of the Stars
It is interesting to note that the great star-fall came on the night of 12 November, which is the birthday of Bahá’u’lláh.
Excerpts from:
http://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sears_thief_night.pdf
Matthew 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.
Jesus did not say: And
I shall send my angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and
I shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other, because He was not referring to Himself. After all, Jesus finished His work so there was no reason to come down from heaven.
As His disciples watched the Lord ascend into Heaven two angels told them that He would return in like manner (Acts 1:11).
Acts 1:9-11 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
These verses say that the same spirit of Jesus that was taken up to heaven will return from heaven,
from the heaven of the Will of God.
The disciples were staring up into the sky as the spirit of Jesus was taken up to heaven out of their sight. The two men dressed in white (angels) came along and asked why they were staring up into the sky because they wondered why the disciples were staring up into the sky. Then the angels told the disciples that
the same spirit of Jesus that was taken up to heaven will return just as it went to heaven.
Descending from heaven upon the clouds means that the spirit of Jesus, the Christ Spirit, will be made manifest from the heaven of the will of God and will appear in the form of the human temple. Though delivered from the womb of Mary, Jesus in reality descended from the heaven of the will of God. Baha’u’llah descended
in like manner, from the heaven of the will of God.
The Lord Jesus Christ has not returned yet. When He does come everyone will know and no one will be able to deny it.
Christ already returned in the glory of the Father and His name was Baha’u’llah, but
all but a few denied it because they were waiting for the physical body of the same man Jesus to come barreling down from the physical clouds in the sky with actual trumpets and angels since they interpreted the scripture literally when it was never intended to be interpreted literally.
Matthew 7:13-14 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
No worries though because only
a few recognized Jesus during the first few centuries, so it was to be expected that only a few would recognize Christ when He returned with a new name. It is nothing to fret over though because eventually everyone on earth will know about Baha’u’llah just as everyone now knows about Jesus. The sheep are now being separated from the goats and they will be fully separated after God exalts His Cause and magnifies His testimony in the eyes of all who are in the heavens and all who are on the earth.
“Warn and acquaint the people, O Servant, with the things We have sent down unto Thee, and let the fear of no one dismay Thee, and be Thou not of them that waver. The day is approaching when God will have exalted His Cause and magnified His testimony in the eyes of all who are in the heavens and all who are on the earth.” Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 248