You might or might not be aware that today is the fortieth day after Easter; Christ’s resurrection. It was on the fortieth day that Christ ascended into Heaven to set at the right hand of the Father, our Lord God.

This event is recorded in Mark 16:19, Luke 24:50-53, and Acts 1:6-12. A summary of the test goes something like this…

So when they last met together, he led them out to the vicinity of Bethany. They asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”

He said to them: “it is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

After the Lord Jesus had said this to them, he lifted up his hands and blessed them. While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. He sat at the right had of God.

They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.’


There are many amazing and awesome things about this event, but the two that is the most astonishing to me are;

Christ was flesh and blood, still, when this happened. He ascended into Heaven after walking around in a resurrected human body; He even ate fish when His apostles did not believe He was real and not a ghost or spirit.
He will come back the same way.


What a day that must have been!