GOD GOES UP WITH SHOUTS OF JOY - THE ASCENSION OF JESUS CHRIST
THURSDAY WEEK SIX OF EASTER: WHEN THE SON OF MAN IS LIFTED UP THEN YOU WILL KNOW THAT I AM HE First Read Acts 1:1-11 Jesus was lifted up while they looked on In my earlier work, Theophilus, I dealt with everything Jesus had done and taught from the beginning until the day he gave his instructions to the apostles he had chosen through the Holy Spirit, and was taken up to heaven. He had shown himself alive to them after his Passion by many demonstrations: for forty days he had continued to appear to them and tell them about the kingdom of God. When he had been at table with them, he had told them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for what the Father had promised. ‘It is’ he had said ‘what you have heard me speak about: John baptised with water but you, not many days from now, will be baptised with the Holy Spirit.’ Readings Lectures Reflections Now having met together, they asked him, ‘Lord, has the time come? Are you going to restore the kingdom to Israel?’ He replied, ‘It