Saturday, May 21, 2011

Where is the promised parousia?

Scoffers in their scoffing have come in these last days
- worldly people,
driven by deep distorted desire, divisive, devoid of the Spirit.

Jesus said
“You are not permitted to know the times or periods
that the Father has set by his own authority.
But you will receive power
when the Holy Spirit has come upon you,
and you will be my witnesses ...
to the farthest parts of the earth.”

After this,
he was lifted up while they were watching,
and a cloud hid him from their sight.
They were still staring into the sky while he was going,
when suddenly two men in white clothing stood near them
and said,
"Men of Galilee,
why do you stand here looking up into the sky?
This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven
will come back …"