Luke renders as below..
Luke 9: KJV
27 "But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God."
But i still have no problem with the rendering in Matthew..
Matthew 16: KJV
28 "Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom."
I believe Jesus and the Holy Spirit are One and so when the Apostles saw the tongues of fire coming upon them as they prayed in the room on the day of Pentecost they saw Jesus coming down and establishing His Spiritual Kingdom..
Yes Jesus will come with His Angels and He will carry out judgement.. That will happen on his second coming.. But this is a different return then when he returned in the form of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost..
Why do we think that judgement didn't already come? Judgement did fall on the covenant breakers, that generation did fall under judgement and not one stone was left on another. Judgement fell on that generation in that generation. Everything, the temple, the priesthood genealogies, that was the end of the "Aion", the
age of sacrifice was over. All came to pass just as He said it would, and if it wasn't then that makes Jesus wrong. Was Jesus wrong? Or did EVERYTHING He say come to pass just as He said?
We all seem to agree what Jesus foretold was the Kingdom is established, then Judgement. I just think it's so clear that judgement fell on those Jews. The very ones Pilate asked the crowd, "shall I crucify your King?", and was answered with, "we have no King but Caesar, crucify Him!".
Yea, I believe judgement fell on them in that time. Have you read about this event? Whew it was eating your own baby, streets flowing with blood, everybody dies now, bad. It makes the time when Jesus was on His way to the cross and tells the lady not to weep for Him, but to weep for her children, because He knew what was coming for them.
This is the way I have come to see it so far, and it is so awesome knowing Jesus is seated now on His throne with ALL authority in heaven.....and on earth, and is reigning until ALL enemies have been made a footstool for His feet!!! Holla-boo-ya, He is King of EVERYTHING!!! And what blows my mind more than that is He takes completely broken, rejected, haters of God like me and shows His strength through our weakness, man we have an awesome God!!