I go to prepare a
place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come
again and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be
also." (John 14:1-3) This is indisputable proof of his second coming.
[363]After his resurrection he had stated that he would ascend unto God
the Father in heaven. (John 20:17) Forty days after his resurrection he
was with his disciples on the Mount of Olives, instructing them to go to
Jerusalem and there wait until they should receive the power of the holy
spirit, that they might thereafter be witnesses for him. "And when he
had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud
received him out of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly toward
heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven shall so come in
like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven." (Acts 1:9-11) Without a
doubt these men who here stood by the disciples in white apparel were
angels or messengers sent of the Lord thus to witness to them, which
angels doubtless materialized in human form for that very purpose and
afterward dematerialized and disappeared. This additional testimony was
given, however, that the faith of the disciples might be complete that
the Lord would come again.
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