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When he had said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. While he was going and they were gazing up toward heaven, suddenly two men in white robes stood by them. They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”  Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day’s journey away. When they had entered the city, they went to the room upstairs where they were staying, Peter, and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. All these were constantly devoting themselves to prayer, together with certain women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, as well as his brothers. (Acts 1:9-14, NRSV)

I always find the question of vers 11 a little humorous, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven?”

Well Jesus was just taken from us that way. We kind of watched Him leave…

I mean after everything else that happened, I would really be wondering. Jesus was recently killed on the cross, and then He rose from the dead, and now here He goes again doing something, He told us would happen yet, unexpected.

But after this, rather than being locked in a room, they are together, devoted to prayer and mutual consolation. They are doing mutual care and consolation of the saints!

So know that even though Jesus was taken from us, He is always with us, where ever 2 or more are gathered…