I am not a scholar - opening the Bible Jan 2006 for the first time...
but wasn't the Resurrection when Jesus came back to life?
While the Ascension was when He separated His atoms, making them simply become
farther and farther apart? Dematerializing in other words in front of so many - thus, (off topic) - He is indeed, then,
always, always present ---there,
here, everywhere,
and very real; dispersed into the "ethers", the non physical Spriit Realms?
(off topic) And to appear again physically - He "simply" has to "pull / draw" them all back together -an "implosion" of sorts -
the reverse of the slow explosion of His dispersement of His atoms?
My take.
:)
I think the same — when He returns as a singular male individual.
He is the way...
Joh 14:
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him,
and will manifest myself to him.
I know you know Him...
Christ resurrected 3 days and 3 nights after His crucifixion. He then appeared to His disciples for 40 days afterwards in His resurrection body, and then ascended to Heaven per the end of Mark 16; Luke 24; Acts 1:9>.
Thanks veteran...