as has been said here, Luke and acts are both books written By Luke. the gospel accoerding to Luke and the acts of the apostles written By Luke. so if you put both together, you have your answer. yet if you consider the gopel of john and matthew and mark it appears He ascended after speaking to mary, and then returned and appeared more than once after this
He tells mary " touch me not for I have yet ascended to my Father" and then He invites thomas to touch Him when He appears to the apostles after marys encounter. Which suggests He ascended between the two events.
heaven is above its Just not visible with the eyes of our flesh. Stepehn Looked up and saw Jesus at the right hand of God, Jesus looked up when He prayed ect. Heavens are above, though we dont see the spiritual things with our natural eyes. and the prophets always stated Him ascending in the clouds, or " you will see Him clothed with the clouds of Heaven"
Two resurrections, two parables used to understand.
In the same way as smoke ascends from a fire virtue ascends from Christ.
I think it is how we look a the words in that parable “touch me not” in respect to Christ’s reasoning “for I am yet not ascended to the father” It would be in the same way he said” to the woman who had a blood disease who was moved by the faith that comes from hearing God. Christ said…“Who touched my clothes” with clothes in that parable representing the righteousness of God, the virtue that went out of Christ.
That touch would be in regard to the up coming consummation of the wedding on the last day. This is when all the saints receive their new bodies as the eternal bride of Christ, no longer Jew or Gentile, no longer male or female but a new creation, the bride of Christ. Therefore then having then given us the promised new incorruptible body we then can touch Him and that way but never in respect to the flesh . He resisted all attempts of being known in a intimate way according to the flesh.
1Co 7:1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not
to touch a woman.
It was not the same as with Thomas…. no virtue came out. Put your finger in the wound, .was lesson to walk by faith and not by sight. Christ was discouraging we walk by sight. As the Son of man( that seen) Christ resisted all attempt of making him Messiah according to that seen . Eternal God who has no beginning of days is not a man as us.
In regard to the first resurrection having finished the demonstration the Son of man of his own volition gave up the Holy Spirit returning to the father as the temporal flesh returned to where it was formed, dust.
