Lectionary passage: Acts 1:10-11 - While he was going and they were gazing up toward heaven, suddenly two men in white robes stood by them. 11 They said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven."
The problem that some have with Christ’s ascensionisn’t helped at all by what Luke tells us next.
As they were staring up into the heavens,
they were suddenly, according to the text,
confronted by two men in white, who asked them,
“Men of Galilee, why are you standing here
and looking up into the sky intently?
This same Jesus who was with you will appear
again in the same way you saw him leave you.”
Just who were these messengers? Luke doesn’t say.
He merely states that Jesus’ Second Coming
will take place in the same cloud-enshrouded way.
Again our task is not to solve a myst’ry,
which until that day comes no one can explain.
Our task is to prepare for Jesus’ coming
in great power as the King of kings to reign.
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