The anchor scripture brings us amazing and rich words said by the two angels that appeared when Jesus ascended into heaven. Two important things I want you to learn from this angelic communication. Firstly, they indicated that Jesus will come back. And that collaborated perfectly with the words of the prophets but also Jesus Himself (Daniel 7:13 & Matthew 24:30). Don't allow anyone deceive you that Jesus will not come again. He will surely come back just like the scriptures declared. The second notable thing is about the way or manner in which He will come. The Angels said, "This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven" (NASB). They said He will come back in the same style of His ascension. This deals with speed of His movement but also the physical location. It tells you that in His second advent, Jesus will descend from heaven slowly and people will gaze upon Him as it was when He ascended. Revelation 1:7 declares about the Lord's descent, "Behold, He (Jesus) cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him".

Furthermore, He ascended from the Mount of Olives (Acts 1:12) and He will descend on that same location in His return. Zechariah already prophesied, "On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west forming a very large valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and the other half toward the south" (Zechariah 14:4 NASB).

This is an amazing collaboration in the Holy Scriptures from different sources at distant times. God's Word is truth. Believe God's word with all your heart. Before this second coming of course, the rapture will take place where the Lord will catch away the Church. His second coming is judgment while the rapture is to take the believers away. More details on the rapture will be given in the next study article.