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May 5, 2013
Scripture records defining moments of God’s work in the world after which things would never be the same. The ascension, Alistair Begg notes, is one of those moments, anticipated by Jesus as He prepared His disciples and experienced by them as He was taken up into heaven. Prior to this, He commissioned them to proclaim the good news, for His ascension assures us that His work on the cross has been completed and accepted on our behalf.
1In the first book, O aTheophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began bto do and teach, 2until the day when che was taken up, after he dhad given commands ethrough the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. 3fHe presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.
4And while staying1 with them ghe ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me; 5for hJohn baptized with water, hbut you will be baptized iwith2 the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
6So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, jwill you at this time krestore the kingdom to Israel?” 7He said to them, l“It is not for you to know mtimes or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. 8But you will receive npower owhen the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and pyou will be qmy witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and rSamaria, and sto the end of the earth.” 9And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, the was lifted up, and ua cloud took him out of their sight. 10And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, vtwo wmen stood by them in xwhite robes, 11and said, y“Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, zwill acome in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”
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