Acts 1:11 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
In Acts 1:9-11 we see the story of Jesus’ Ascension into heaven after 40 days ministering on Earth after His Resurrection. Jesus and His disciples had gone to The Mount of Olives, where they spent one last time together, talking and teaching. Here, the disciples had asked Jesus if this was the time when He would restore the Kingdom to Israel. His answer was interesting.
He simply replied that it was really not something they needed to worry about. It was not for them to “know the times or the seasons.” Then in Verse 8 of the passage, He made the promise of the power of the Holy Spirit to them and that they would later be His witnesses to the world.
Then they observed Jesus ascending physically, bodily into the skies until He was finally obscured by some clouds. As the disciples stood there staring(likely with their mouths hanging open), two angels appeared and issued the statement we see in Verse 11 of the text.
The question the angels asked seems important; they asked the disciples why they were just standing there gazing. Jesus had already told them what was coming. They were to return to and stay in Jerusalem. They were to await the empowering of the Holy Spirit. Finally, they were to go into the world and be His witnesses throughout their community and the world itself. They disciples had their marching orders, and those orders were not to stand there doing nothing and debating about His return.
The angels informed them that Jesus would return someday just as He left. Jesus himself had told them already the when of His return was of no importance to them.
There are takeaways for us here as well. Are we standing there staring up into heaven, so to speak? Are we so preoccupied with that and when it will be that we have forgotten we still have a mission to carry out here? We, too are to be His witnesses in “Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”
So, let’s quit staring into heaven and get busy!
October 17, 2018 at 09:03
They were probably saying to each other, “Did you just see what I just saw?” lol
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October 17, 2018 at 09:13
LOL. yep I suspect the conversation went jsut about that way.
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October 17, 2018 at 09:18
Reblogged this on Talmidimblogging.
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October 17, 2018 at 09:24
Thanks brother Vincent
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October 17, 2018 at 20:28
You’re very welcome Brother Wally
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October 17, 2018 at 10:09
Great points as always Brother. I have found here lately that God is putting me into lots of either staring up to heaven, or being a witness here and now. I am staring up at heaven for me but I am also witnessing every chance He has given me. If that makes sense 🙂
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October 17, 2018 at 10:12
Actually, Margaret, that makes perfect sense, and I probably how we ought to all be. It is the hope of our future glory that should give us the strenth to do the Lord’s work whle here. We don’t need to worry about now, because in the end all will be well. So, we look to that and rest in it. Yet, clearly we aren’t just to sit aroung thinking of the future, when here and now there are so many who won’t share the future unless they hear of it. So, yep, perfect sense!
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October 17, 2018 at 11:12
Thank you Wally. I never know when typing things how it will read. I know while speaking to people they understand. 🙂
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October 17, 2018 at 13:25
May we go forth and do the work!
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October 17, 2018 at 13:48
Amen brother
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October 17, 2018 at 13:55
=) Also praying for the church to respond to what was preached in the revival meeting
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October 17, 2018 at 15:36
The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few…
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October 17, 2018 at 15:38
Sadly, sadly. Be blessed.
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