Acts 1:1-10 -- I make known the End from the Beginning
There is a verse in which God says He makes known the end from the beginning. There is another verse that says that which was is that which shall be. So, we can look at the first ascension to see what the second ascension will be like and what the third, etc. Think about it, the Lord said we must take up our cross and follow Him. Suppose there is a believer and this one balked at taking the cross, they "backslid". But then they see the rapture, the saints are taken, and this one repents. What do they need to do? They need to take up their cross and follow the Lord. It doesn't matter if you are Peter, or Paul or James or saints living today or saints during the rapture, everyone of us has to take up our cross and follow Him. Seeing the Lord ascend to heaven was a major motivation to them and you see them spend days in prayer and then they are on fire. I suspect we'll see the same thing repeated at the end of the age.
1 In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach 2 until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.
This is very specific. Everything Jesus began to do and to teach until the day He was taken up to heaven. He was taken up “after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles”. Once again, what are those who are raptured, the firstfruits, going to be doing prior to that? They will be writing about all that Jesus did and taught and will be giving instructions to all those who will be left behind.
3 After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. 4 On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. 5 For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”
The timing is fascinating. Jesus is raised from the dead after His suffering, He is with the apostles and disciples for 40 times and then is taken up. They remain until Pentecost when they are baptized with the Holy Spirit. Paul talks about "unto all the riches of the full assurance of faith". We all have faith, but with every "rich" we get from the word our faith grows and grows until we arrive at the full assurance.
6 Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7 He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” 9 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
It is not for you to know times and dates. However, we are the Lord’s witnesses. No one would call a witness if they didn’t know anything, so what is given to us to know is Jesus Christ, the resurrected King. What are witnesses? They are the evidence in a trial. Mike Lindell released "Absolute 9-0". It is a movie where he presents the evidence that he says is undeniable and will result in the Supreme court ruling 9-0 concerning the election fraud. What he has is like having a video tape of the bank being robbed. As the data was flying back and forth between the US and China and votes were being switched someone was recording the entire thing. Surely they had this evidence the first week of November, so why wait seven months to release this? If they recorded all the evidence of election fraud and knew about it in November don't you think the NSA is also listening into phones, texts, emails, etc? They aren't simply going to say "the election was stolen" they also needed to know each and every person involved. Imagine the last seven months as lawsuit after lawsuit has been put forward. State legislators, Judges, people working with the Tech giants, the Biden administration, there must be many, many phone calls, texts, emails that will unravel the entire twisted web of deceit. This is why we could not know, because if we had we would have given it away and then they would have completely shut down all communication. Allow them to be overconfident, they let down the guard, and then you will hear and learn so much. Besides, the NSA has everything on tape, so the minute you identify someone like Dominion, or Kemp or Zuckerberg you can then go back in time to 2020 and 2019. The same is true of the movie Rigged and the Movie 2,000 Mules. Each one raises the awareness and motivates lawmakers to do something. Each one sends a notice the criminals that they are caught. Rigged "followed the money", can't hide it, they know it all. 2,000 Mules used geo-tracking, evidence on the phones, video tape and whistleblowers.
10 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11 “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”
“He will come back in the same way”. Does this mean that God is making known to us the end from the beginning as He said in Isaiah 46? Imagine the age of grace began with the Lord’s ascension and ends in the same way. This is why the resurrection day is not called "the first day of the week" rather it is called #1 of the week. It is day 1 of the counting of the Omer. You are supposed to count 7 complete Sabbaths just like church history has been 7 complete churches. You are supposed to count 50 days which is a number that indicates the completion of grace. And, it says Jesus walked with them 40 times (the word is better translated times rather than days). 2,000 years is also 40 Jubilees. We started counting on the day of Resurrection and after 50 jubilees we will arrive at the end of the age of grace. The church is the wheat harvest and the first fruits will be offered to God on Shavuot.
Here we see they need to see the ascension, it is a great motivation to them. They dive into the word and prayer. "You will see him come back in the same way you have seen Him go".