They kept looking into the heavens to catch one more fading glimpse of the ascending Christ. Two angels reminded them that He who ascended would one day again descend. We have a blessed hope. Our Lord will return. We will have new bodies. Earth and Heaven will be made one. Evil and its consequences will be banished. We have a future hope that Christ will return. We have a present hope, Christ is with us. This is not “pie in the sky bye and bye”. Things will not always be as they are now.
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.” Acts 1:10-11 (ESV)
