FUELING THE FIRE of PENTECOST ! Pentecost 2024 ~ May 19

Repost from Year of Our LORD,  5. 30. 2020 ~~

COMING to Our DAY of PENTECOST

And when the Day of Pentecost was fully come,

they were all with one accord

in one place.

Acts 2:1

Oh, how we love this familiar verse ! 

The GLORIOUS ASCENSION of Our LORD JESUS CHRIST ~ The Triumph of HOPE ~ Ascension Day 2024

 

How gladly we think upon the Glorious Ascension of the Glorified Body of Our LORD JESUS CHRIST ! 

This witness of our Resurrected LORD JESUS should fill us with a triumphant HOPE . 

When our Loved One dies in the LORD, he / she too will gain a glorified body LIKE UNTO HIS+ GLORIFIED BODY . . . at the appointed time .

WHO+ shall change our vile body,

that it may be fashioned 

like unto HIS+ Glorious Body,

according to the working whereby

HE+ is able even to subdue

all things unto HIMSELF+. 

^{Philippians 3:21}

In HIS+ glorified body, HE+ ate physical food, yet HE+ could enter into a locked room .

HE+ walked with His+ Followers along a dusty road and talked with them ( seemingly ) in His+  physical body ...  yet HE+ could vanish out of sight instantly, energizing His+ Followers to walk ANOTHER 7 miles back to Jerusalem that night !

Knowing that CHRIST 

being raised from the dead

dieth no more;

death hath no more dominion over HIM+!

^{Romans 6:9}

DEATH hath no more dominion over HIM+ . . . and it shall have no more dominion over us . . . if we stay attached to the True VINE+.

That is the Glorious HOPE we have. That is  WHY we celebrate Ascension Day, be in May 9 ,2024 , Western Christian calendar, or June 6, Eastern Christian calendar.

The date may change; the FACT does NOT !

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^{ACTS 1:1}  The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that JESUS began both to do and teach, 

^{ACTS 1:2}  Until the day in which HE+ was taken up, after that HE+ through the HOLY SPIRIT had given commandments unto the apostles whom HE+ had chosen: 

^{ACTS 1:3}  To whom also HE+ shewed himself alive after HIS+ Passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of GOD: 

^{ACTS 1:4}  And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for The Promise of THE FATHER, which, saith HE+, ye have heard of me. 

^{ACTS 1:5}  For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the HOLY SPIRIT not many days hence. 

^{ACTS 1:6}  When they therefore were come together, they asked of HIM+, saying, LORD, wilt THOU+  at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?

^{ACTS 1:7}  And HE+ said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which THE FATHER hath put in HIS own Power.

^{ACTS 1:8}  But ye shall receive power, after that the HOLY SPIRIT is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto ME+ both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

And when HE+ had spoken these things,

while they beheld, HE+ was taken up;

and a cloud received HIM+ out of their sight. ^{ACTS 1:9} 

 

^{ACTS 1:10}  And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as HE+ went up, behold, TWO MEN stood by them in white apparel; 

^{ACTS 1:11}  Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into Heaven? this same JESUS, which is taken up from you into Heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. 

Worthy is The LAMB+ !

Worthy is The LAMB+ !

Worthy is The LAMB+ that was slain

to receive Power, and Riches, and Wisdom

and Strength, and Honor, and Glory, and Blessing !

Blessing and Honor, Glory and Power

Be unto HIM that sitteth upon The Throne

and unto THE LAMB+ !