“Jesus ascension was an act of intercession. The scars in His hands, feet and side are visual prayers of intercession. Jesus took back to the Godhead something very significant about the experience of being a man. He ascended to the Father in order to communicate by intercession the reality about humans that He had taken into His very own nature. He entered into the Holy of holies in Heaven with not just a better offering but with that which alone our High Priest could bring to the Father about weak, ignorant and misguided men (Hebrews 5:2)”. (From “The Self-Talk of God”, by H. Lamar Smith).
