Today is Ascension Day, commemorating Jesus return to heaven 40 days after the resurrection (David Pawson, a well known international Bible teacher, went home 1 year ago today, aged 90; God’s Timing in the life of His faithful son).
9 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
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.” Acts 1