I'll Be Back

We’ve been studying the passage of Jesus’ Ascension this week in the book of Luke but Luke, the author, also writes about the Ascension in the opening chapter of his book, Acts, with more detail.

Quick background on Luke, he was a physician and his books (The Gospel According to Luke and Acts) were written as a narrative to report what he had learned about Jesus and the early church to someone named Theophilus. When I was learning the books of the Bible as a kid, I would remember Acts as “Acts is the book of facts” because it reads like a history book of how the church began in the first century.

Back to the main point, in the account of Jesus’ Ascension in Acts we learn that while the disciples, now called apostles, are looking up at the sky, two men in white clothing appear beside them.

 11. They also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven.”

 Jesus will be back?!?! The ascension foretells of Jesus’ return to earth from heaven!

So, when we look at the Ascension, we see that He’s setting everything up. He is going away so the Holy Spirit can come down, and He is coming back one day. This gives us the power to live where we are right now doing Kingdom work for the Lord, guided by the Holy Spirit, and the hope for even greater things to come when He returns. This is the foundation of our faith and our main purpose for living.