OUR FATHER WHOSE SON ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN AND SAT AT HIS RIGHT HAND AND FROM THENSE HE SHALL COME TO JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD

The book of acts chapter 1 verse 9 says this;

After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

This verse, speaking of the ascension of the Lord Jesus from the Mount of Olives, describes the Lord's departure as a 'lifting up" in plain sight of everyone  into the sky until He was obscured from view by a cloud.

It is this same scene in the clouds that act as the staging area at the Lord's final return as described in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 verses 16 - 17;

For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 

After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 

Amen.

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