claninja
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I get a ton of sidestepping over Acts 1 when it can’t be sidestepped!
My specific question is Acts 1 and it’s clear verbiage.
The verbiage is very clear. Christ would come from heaven the same way he went INTO heaven. How did he go INTO heaven? Out of sight in a cloud.
Acts 1:9-11 And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”
This is consistent with Paul's teaching that the dead would rise and those left would be caught up together IN the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
1 thessalonians 4:16-18 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.
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