What is needed for confession, if it seems that Christ has risen. Wherever you rise and the stars, our Lord will come. Also, as for the Evangelist Luke the Ascension, it is closely related to the Resurrection, which Luke told about the forty-day period of the appearance of Jesus

“Having said this, Vin rose in their eyes, and the darkness took Yogo
at a glance. And if the stench marveled at the sky, it's an hour
similarity of yoga, raptom put two people in white
The old people said: Men of Galilee! Why are you standing there
marvel at the sky? Tsey Jesus, what came up in front of you
sky, come just like that, yak wi bachili Yogo
let us go up to heaven” (Dii 1:9-11).

Here, it seems, everything is said with extreme clarity, and the whole text, and explanation of yoga, viroblen by stretching two thousand years by the Church, we can say, we have learned: Christ ascended to heaven before God the Father and ascended the right hand of Yogo. The sky is called everything that is greater than our head, and most of all - the spiritual light, invisible to us. Ale, if you want to explain how, you become unreasonable, take care, that's all. Іnuvannya and the essence of the Old Man, so, like Sina, we take it on faith, not being able to know through the completion of the investigation. We take on faith those who are the Holy Trinity: God the Father, God Sin, and God the Holy Spirit are left untouched by all creatures forever. In such a time, understand the sense of the Ascension, repeatedly declared by Christ the Savior:

“I Jesus said to them: Thou shalt not be with me again, and I will go to Him Who sent Me” (IV. 7:33).

Likewise, Mary Magdalene once upon a time after the Sunday of His own saying:

“Do not rush to Me, for I have not yet risen to My Father; but go to my brothers and say to them: I will descend to my Father, that is your father, and to my God, that is your God” (IV.20,17).

Podіbne to tsoy Vіn having said to the Jews at the court of the high priest, like a shukav to blame Yoma:

“Sit down, Sin of Man, sit right hand of God’s power” (Luke 22:69).

However, as a reminder of the words of the Savior from the appointed tribute to the all-pervading God: “The One Who slaughters Me, slaughters Him Who sent Me” (John 12:45)? I potim Vin saying ap. Pilipu:

“For a while I am with you, and you do not know Me, Pilipe? Who is bachiv Me, bachiv the Father; How do you say: Show us the Father? Don't you believe that I am in Father and Father in Men? The words that I say to you, I say not to myself; Batko, who is changing in Meni, Vin can repair it right. Virte Meni, that I am in the Father and the Father is with Me” (Іv.14, 9-11).

In such a time, it is necessary to take it on faith, but not through knowledge. It is a dogma about the inseparability of the osіb of the Holy Trinity, on the confirmation of which the words of the Savior go. God Sin (God the Word) always changed and changed in the Father, and then the Divine Establishment in the Lord Jesus Christ, and not before the Sin of Man, as if calling Himself the Savior, rozumіyuchi in the Sobі єstvo human. To that one should be known that until the Resurrection from the dead at the full warehouse of His divine human essence, the Son of God from the adopted human nature, as if I were not “full-right” at the Holy Trinity. According to the Resurrection of His Vіn, how to overcome the forces of evil, to know more about the deification of His human nature, and to that I will stand to God the Father at the Holy Trinity, as I will complete the thoroughness of God the Word with His glorified body.

Ale the Lord Jesus Christ already immediately after Sunday from the dead to descend to the Old Man, and the Ascension of Yogo on the fortieth day after that, as if it were completed, but not to the same time, to the Old Man. Therefore, the act of the Ascension of Christ needs to be recognized as the manifestation of the King in His Kingdom in all the world and on all the squares of the heavenly Angelic world, so that the entire world of creation is no longer just the Creator, but the yak of the Almighty. To that the Savior to speak after His Resurrection teaches:

“All power has been given to me in heaven and on earth” (Matt. 28:18).

Before the goddamn feat, that resurrection Savior has already said:

“Everything has been given to Me by My Father” (Matthew 11:27). “Father love Sin, and all giving Yogo a hand” (Іv.3,35).

To that, it was left to God the Word to viconate the will of the Old Man, to win over the satanic kingdom, to help the people who fell into sin full of hellish feat, and then to take power over the Kingdom of God. We have to take the position on faith, to that we cannot know the essence of which with our mind. We are given that even without the success of the appointed manifestations, God the Creator will not be limited by power over the world created by Him. Ale brought more than the words of the Savior to speak about the taking away of him again by the power itself after the resurrection of that resurrection. Obviously, for whom the victory over the kingdom of evil is necessary, as it was necessary to order the Creator through the revolution of Satan. І tsya win zroblena. I was deprived of accepting my power, having appeared at all the creations of the world in the act of Ascension. It can be appreciated that Christ did not ascend to God the Father, but to sit on the throne of the right hand of the Father, already with the glory of human nature, with which Vin conquered the kingdom of evil. In such a rite, upholding the less than forty fates of human nature from the cursed for sin, the entrance to God was brought to Christ on the Throne of Glory. And the reign over the Usima worlds, from which the tretina became a fortune-teller through the Opir of the Creators, was necessary for the residual skinning of the devil and judgment over him. And God chooses for instillation and victory over the innocence of the greater Angels, who have already thrown off Satan, but for the shame of the proud revolutionary, who magnifies his thoroughness, robs him of the least and already zipped by him istotu - the people. At the same time, people were able to bask in God's Satan to appease Adam and Eve until their reproduction, to which these generations were spiritually venerated. The Creator robs the minds of the spiritual beings who have risen up, if they have finished the creatures, for judgment on them.

Can you say that I will renew the Judgment to God Jesus Christ the Son of God, and why is there a human being, even though it was consecrated in the act of being blessed by the Word of God? Therefore, even the Savior to the Apostles about the judgment of the world:

“Truly, I say to you, sho u, sho followed me, - in a butt, if the Sin of Man sits on the throne of His glory, sit and you will judge the twelve tribes of Israel on twelve thrones” (Matt. 19:28).

I app. Pavlo, obviously knowing the words of the Savior:

“Hiba do not know what the saints judge the world? Hiba don't you know by what we are judging the angels? (1 Cor. 6, 2.3).

Ale is still far from judgment, but for now our Lord has risen to heaven to take legal dominion over the world, which continues the war in the kingdom of evil. To that, Vin enters into dominion over the world not only as the Tsar and Judge, but as the head of the Warlord for the continuation of the struggle of the People with the devil. All goodness is briefly described in Psalm 109 of David and more reported in the Apocalypse.

“Having said the Lord to my Lord: sit right-handed to Me, I will lay the docks of Thy gates at the foot of Thy feet. The Lord has sent the rod of Your strength from Zion: Panish among Your enemies... The Lord is upright to You. Win the day of His wrath against the kings; destroy the judgment on the peoples, fill the earth with corpses, exploding the head in the great earth ”(Ps. 109:1-2.5-6).

These words can be called “little Apocalypse”, in which it was guessed and about the instillation of that horseradish I will win in Zion, and farther along the way to fight, that spirituality of the Father is the right hand of the Lord. Nareshti testimonies and the end of the fight - Armageddon, which filled the land with corpses and the judgment on the peoples. In the words “breaking the head in the great earth”, obviously there is a residual victory over the serpent - Satan. For the sake of fighting, Christ ascended to heaven with the method of controlling all the holy forces. Behind the words of John the Theologian for the fight against the forces of evil and the instillation of the Sin of God:

“For whom the Son of God appeared, to destroy the deeds of the devil” (Iv. 3:8).

I will defeat the poor over Satan and by the reign of our Lord Jesus Christ, having killed with His hellish feat, resurrection and convergence over all heaven. Ale, the judgment over the forces of dark deprivations by God looked at Yogo until the end of the world. The war between the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of Satan is not over, but it has gained some positional character, having switched to the remaining step - to the Earth. To continue the fight against the forces of evil, the Lord, having begun the Church, sent for help and support of the Holy Spirit of the image of God, the Father after His ascension. The devil immediately breaks down in a fight against her, vibratingly chasing the Jews at her side, who rose the yog, and the pagan world, the head of the yoma. Three hundred rokіv The Church was retraced by them. At that very hour, Satan began to think all the bullshit, and bring him to the Church like the heresies he had created. Opposite stood the Church. Ap. Pavlo to talk about this fight against the dark forces:

“Our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against the authorities, against the power, against the world rulers of darkness, against the evil spirits of the heavenly. For whom to accept the all-good God, so that you can stand in the evil day, and, having overcome everything, stand up ”(Eph. 6, 12-13).

It seems that the main method is the foundation of a person, for which she was called out when she was created, she is eternally perfected in the likeness to God. The other side of the sense of reason was the struggle, brought by Satan to the world as a necessity from the moment of the yogo rebellion until the holy forces overcame the yogo kingdom, and until the revelation. new heaven and new earth, among whom righteousness lives” (2 Pet. 3:13). Founded by Christ, the Church entered once on the path of perfection in all honesty, and then Satan imposed an immediate struggle, provadzhuyuchi be-like nonsense that pierces her rich limbs. Take care that the whole earthly path of the Church is in the struggle. Tsya struggle takes on a baked character until the end of the hour, passing into rest days I have a terrible battle, about how the Lord is ahead of us with words spoken to the Apostles on Mount Oleonsky (Matt. 24) and especially through the Annunciation of St. Ivan.

Confirmation of app. John the Theologian, called by him "Announcements of Jesus Christ", can be said to be dedicated to a terrible struggle for example in the history of mankind. Here it is figuratively shown that the Lord Jesus Christ, under the image of the Vershnik, who sits on a white horse, is shown by the holy forces in this struggle. By the dark forces, he leads the “great red dragon”, which is called the devil and Satan” for the help of his guardians, called “beasts” and “a team that sits on scarlet beasts”. Make it easy to understand, but through our nedbaylivost, more light is not explained. To whom is dedicated my robot "Cob and End", її tretina. Right there, just a little silent mission of the Apocalypse is touched, demonstrating the struggle with the devil under the ceremonial of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, who is called the “Lamb”. Tsі mіstsya and are induced.

“I am a bachiv, that the Lamb, having taken the pearl of seven seals, and having sensed one of the creatures, that nibi saying in a thunderous voice: go and marvel. I looked, and the axis, the throw was white, and at the new leader, who maє tsibule, and the crown was given to him; and viyshov vin as a surmount and schob overcome ”(Ob.6,1-2).

It is known to pershu from seven seals, which save the secrets of the terrible times of the rest of the hour of human life, placed at the secret prophetic images. This first friend has a secret of all the podias that develop, and the sense of letting them go. Kіn here, and the steps of other horses, symbolize to their zabarvleniy the essence of grafted under this rank of forces, the manifestations are evident until the present day: holy chi black. The first friend opens the holy - "became" the power of the holy straightening of the path under the gaze white horse. The leader її, cheryuchy їy, є Christ Himself. For example, the book of Vіn bolsh vodcrito visions pіd by them "sitting on a white horse". Vin maє tsibula - the word of God, which breaks in the heart and overcomes evil. Here, once again, the meta of Yogo’s appearance and diy was indicated: “to overcome”, and so on. Vіn "peremozhny", maє otrimati "vynets". The first signet reveals the beginning of the history of the coming days, and already it dawned on them - to fight to the end. For example, all the history of my new Bachim Vershnik on a white horse:

“When I waved, I opened the sky, and the axis was white, and the one who sits on it is called Virniy and Truth, Who righteously judges and fights. Vіn buv robes in robes, blood-stained. Im'ya Youmu: "Word of God". The first armies of heaven followed Him on white horses, dressed in linen white and clean” (Announcement 19:11.13).

They gave a figurative description of the end of the rest of the battle, which will be asked, like a benket, all the birds, so that they devoured the corpses of the warriors of the evil zusils and horses. Kerivniki zh їх: the beast and the false prophet, the shopleni and the throw to the lake of fire . From these prophecies it is clear that the whole history of mankind from the moment of the Ascension of the Lord is the struggle with the devil and his kingdom. The rest of the hour is the residual battle. Let's follow the coming of Christ. As it will be, we can only judge by the stingy tributes about the new one in the Gospel. The Deities of the Apostles, like Bachimo, say:

“Hey Jesus, that I have risen from you to heaven, come just like that, as you bachili Yogo, to descend to heaven” (Dії 1,11).

Ale is shown here as a mere, without showing the front and the offensive picture. The Savior Himself shows this moment to the teachings of the greater report forms, christening the back of the breath of the rest of the days:

“I raptom after the mourning of the days is quiet, the sun is darkened, and the moon does not give its light, and the stars fall from the sky, and the powers of heaven choke. Then the banner of Sin of Man will appear in heaven; And then let all the tribes of the earth weep and cheer Sin of Man, who will come to the darkness of heaven with power and great glory ”(Matt. 24:29-30).

Father, the apostles succumbed to the Ascension of Christ. The next generation fought the fight against the devil, enchanted invisibly by Christ Himself, and the rest of the people had a chance to fight Yoh friend, having come with the front zhakhs of the butt. The Lord calls us to pilnuvati.

+ Archbishop Viktor (Pivovariv)

Today, Cherry 5, 2008, to our holy great day - the Ascension of the Lord Jesus to heaven, as reportedly described in the first division of the book of the Die of the Apostles, which is found in the New Testament. At this article, I want to give an opinion on the sprat to ask, as if I allow it, put a skin person, if you feel it is holy and I want to know the advice from Pisan.

When did the Lord Jesus ascend to heaven?

The book of the Day of the Apostles begins with the tittle podії and reminds about the hour, if it happened. Evangelist Luke writes:

I wrote the first book before you, Theophile, about everything that Jesus robbed and started on the cob until the day when Vіn died, giving the Holy Spirit punishment to the Apostles, which Vіn having chosen, like and having revealed to Himself, we live, for His sufferings, with wealth with true proofs, having been him for forty days and talking about the Kingdom of God. (Dії Apostolіv 1:1-3)

The ascension of Jesus Christ to heaven was forty days after the rozp'yattya. To this we, all Christians, on the Great Day before the Ascension we say “Christ is Risen!” In ten days we celebrate the Trinity, or the sixth of the Holy Spirit on earth.

How did it happen that Jesus Christ was brought to heaven?

And having chosen them, Vin punishing them: Do not look for Rusalima, but look for the Father’s face, about you chuli in Me, for Ivan Christ with water, and you, in a few days after that, you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit. To that, the stench, having grown, fed Yogo, saying: Chi is not at this hour, Lord, do you restore the kingdom to Israel? Vіn having said to them: not your right to know the hours, but the terms, like the Father having laid at His dominion, but you will gain strength if the Holy Spirit comes upon you; And you will be my witness in Jerusalem, and throughout all of Judea and Samaria, and lead me to the ends of the earth. Having said this, Vin rose in their eyes, and the darkness took Yogo from the sight of them. And if the stench marveled at the sky, at the hour of Yogo's descent, two men in white robes stood up to them and said: Men of Galilee! why do you stand and marvel at the sky? Tsey Jesus, who has risen from you to heaven, come just like that, as you bachili Yogo, to descend to heaven. (Dії Apostolіv 1:4-11)

Who was the witness of the ascension of Jesus Christ to heaven?

Sob they believed in whether it was true, they could think of but certificates, like they were bacheling її. Tim is bigger, as it seems to be above nature, as it was when Jesus Christ was brought to heaven. The Word of God is called after the names of the witnesses tsієї podії i seem:

Then they turned to Jerusalem from the mountain, called Eleon, which is located near Jerusalem, on the path of the Sabbath. I, who came, went into the svitlitsa, and changed, Petro and Yakiv, Ivan and Andriy, Pylyp and Khoma, Bartholomew and Matvey, Yakiv Alfiev and Simon the Zealot, that Yuda, brother of Yakov. All the stinks were one-family in prayer, that prayer, with the working women, that Mary, the Mother of Jesus, and with the Yogo brothers. (Dії Apostolіv 1:12-14)

Why did Jesus Christ ascend to heaven?

A trick from the book of the Die of the Apostles is not to tell us about tse, but Jesus Christ, how much more was on earth, saying about His departure before the Old Man and why Vіn tse rob. If Vіn having prepared the teachings before his breaking up, what is coming, the Lord Jesus said:

Let not your heart be bent; believe in God and believe in Me. There are a lot of cloisters at the house of My Father. But yakby is not so, I told you bi: I'm going to prepare a meal for you. And if I come and prepare a meal for you, I will come again and take you to Myself, so that I will see you de Ya. (Gospel of John 14:1-3)

Another reason, about which Jesus Christ said, is that He went to the Old Man, to send the Holy Spirit to teach, and saying this:

Ale I show you the truth: Better for you, sob I pishov. for, if I do not go, the Comforter will not come before you; and if I go, I will send Yogo to you. (Gospel according to Ivan 16:7)

The Holy Spirit of the names of the Lord Jesus the Comforter, for him it is not enough to be, and for everyone who can have great breath for all the conditions of life.

What is the misfortune at the ascension of Jesus Christ?

Like having said Jesus Christ, Vіn pіshov prepare a place in heaven. Do you want to be there to spend the evening with Jesus Christ near God's paradise? Do you know how to eat in God's Kingdom?

If Jesus Christ, speaking to the teachings about his departure before the Old Man, the apostle Homa said:

Toma saying to Yoma: Lord! we don't know where you're going; and how can we know the way? Jesus said to you: I am dear, and truth, and life. no one comes to the Old Man, like only through Mene. (Gospel according to Ivan 14:5-6)

Accept the Lord Jesus in your heart, so that the mother of the fall of Yogo.

Translation: Moses Nataliya

The Holy Church reads the Diaries of the Holy Apostles. Chapter 1, Art. 1-12.

1. I wrote the first book before you, Theophile, about everything that Jesus tried and what I started on the cob

2. Until that day, when Vіn was born, having given the Holy Spirit to punish the Apostles, which Vіn having chosen,

3. Yakim and having revealed to Himself we live, for His sufferers, with a wealth of reliable proofs, being him for forty days and talking about the Kingdom of God.

4. I, having taken them, Vіn having punished them: Do not stray from Jerusalem, but check the Father’s official look, about how you looked at Mene,

5. For Ivan Christ with water, and you, in a few days after that, you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.

6. That stench, zіyshovshis, fed Yogo, saying: Chi not at this hour, Lord, do you restore the kingdom to Israel?

7. But having said to them: It is not your right to know the hours, but the terms, like the Father having laid down in His power,

8. Ale, you will receive power if the Holy Spirit comes upon you; And you will be my witness in Jerusalem, and throughout all of Judea and Samaria, and lead me to the ends of the earth.

9. Having said this, Vin rose in their eyes, and the darkness took Yogo from the sight of them.

10. When the stench marveled at the sky, at the hour of Yogo's descent, two men in white robes appeared raptom.

11. And the stench said: Men of Galilee! why do you stand and marvel at the sky? Tsey Jesus, who has risen from you to heaven, come just like that, as you bachili Yogo, to descend to heaven.

12. Then the stench turned to Jerusalem from the mountain, which is called Eleon, which is near Jerusalem, on the path of the Sabbath.

(Dії 1, 1-12)

Dear brothers and sisters, we read again the beginning of the Book of the Day of the Holy Apostles. Today we read from the 1st to the 12th verse of the 1st division, and on Holy Great Day they read verses 1–8. We read these rhymes today that the great holy time has come: on the 40th day after the Great Day, the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ is celebrated. With this miraculous holy saint, dear brothers and sisters, I breathe you all!

As you can see, today's rhymes are readable to those who in the new are told about the rise of the Ascension. We have already discussed the first century with you, they describe those that happened in the period from Sunday to the ascension of Christ. It is required to say that the gospel of the troch has begun to tell us about those who were born with Jesus that Yogi teachings after Yogo Sunday. Evangelism in Matviy to speak about tse zovsim little, in Mark - tezh not rich, in Luke - more and in John - even more. ale report inventory nі, in the gospels it is not said to navit, but the same hour Jesus perebuvav with teachings before His ascension. Let's say, in the Gospels of Mark and Luke the Ascension, it is described, but it is not said, through some term, after the Resurrection it happened. The period of forty days of indications is at the Book of Diy, at the 3rd verse of the 1st division: like and having shown Himself we live, for His sufferers, with a wealth of reliable evidence, being him for forty days and talking about the Kingdom of God.

For forty days Jesus was teaching, for Vin was already Jesus the Resurrected Lord, who was resurrected at a new body. As we say, Sunday admits that a person does not turn in the old physical body, but to know the new spiritually and then spiritual body the decline of the Kingdom of God, to him who, like the Apostle Paul in the Epistle to the Corinthians, "the body and shelter of the Kingdom of God will not decline." It is not possible for a physical body to reach the abodes of the Heavenly Kingdom of God (not in the sense of the physical sky, but in the spiritual sky itself). Therefore, our Sunday, like the Resurrection of Christ, will be with a new spiritual body.

Perebuvaya with teachings in tsomu camp, the Lord їh vіdluchatsya not in Єrusalim, so he already sent until the Holy Trinity, Pentecost, if the Holy Spirit zіyde on the apostles. Jesus calls here the baptism of the Holy Spirit, What a zіyde i zmіtsnit, guessing everything that Jesus said. About tse Vin and talk at your farewell conversation. It is necessary to say that Ivan's baptism was accepted from the apostles, but in the Gospels we do not bachim, so that the stench received baptism in the name of Jesus Christ. Therefore, the stench is baptized by the Holy Spirit through the convergence of fiery mours, I will follow, as we know at Holy Pentecost. For every time, there is One and the same Spirit: That, which people are given under the hour of the Sacrament of Christ in the name of Christ, and That, which we have a special rank with the apostles.

They gave a shout to the teachers: “When do you bring the Kingdom to Israel?”. That stench still does not understand that the baptism of the Holy Spirit will be renewed of their inner nature and as an inner stimulus, as a guide, to go to sermon and expand the Kingdom of God, like it is in the middle of the people. Before being baptized with the Holy Spirit, the apostles still accept the Kingdom of God as a real reality: as a triumph to Israel, as a power. But here Jesus still does not explain that the stink is wrong to think. Vin just seems: “It is not given to you to know the hour of that term, how to name Batko. Golovne, check for Spirit; The Spirit is upon you, and you will be witnesses of Me in Jerusalem, Samaria and navigate to the ends of the earth". The book Dіy yakraz i describes how everything seemed to be; And we and you already dosit far pushed her.

From the 9th verse, that part of the urivka begins, as it was not read on Holy Great Day. Vlasne tsі vіrshi є nabannyam the same day of the apostolic reading. Having said this, Vin rose in their eyes, and the darkness took Yogo from the sight of them. Khmara is a biblical symbol of the presence of God. Christ, resting after Sunday in a new spiritual body, rises from the earth and there, in the presence of God, hovering in the darkness, overflowing with His teachings. Learn, well, with embarrassment to marvel at those as the Lord enters into them.

And if the stench marveled at the sky, at the hour of Yogo's descent, two men in white robes stood up to them and said: Men of Galilee! why do you stand and marvel at the sky? Tsey Jesus, who has risen from you to heaven, come just like that, as you bachili Yogo, to descend to heaven.

Here we give a singing house of that, as seen by the Friend of the Coming of Christ. All Christian theologians should read about those who, like the First Coming of Christ, had a humble-looking human child (Christ was born like that on his own, like me, before that, in not more comfortable minds, having lived his life, having recognized the mustache of negativity and wrong-sht torment, death, pohovannya), then when Yogo's Friend comes, he calls himself Glorious and Terrible. The Lord will come at His glory, as I have risen at glory; at the troparion of which the saint sings: "Ascended in glory, Christ our God." Christians watch for this moment, we remember to recall from our comments to the book of the Apocalypse, from what the Apostle Paul wrote in his epistles. This year is not an unbearable one for a Christian, on the other hand, Christians pray її, even if it’s come to the end of the Kingdom of God - the full realization of God’s plan for the world. The old world is shattering and there will be “a new heaven and a new earth”, like a bachelor Ivan the Theologian. True, it is written about in another part of the book of the Apocalypse, and we caught up with you to read only half, but the one who, having read the book thoroughly, clearly, remembers these words. Also for Christians, this is a podia є radіsnoy.

I’ll guess about the need for us to read the word of God today, for the one who avenges in the new is a great wind, that’s when it’s set. Take care of you, Lord!

Priest Mikhailo Romadov

What is Ascension? What order can it be before the Gospel of Luke about the moving of Jesus from the earth into the open space? Why did the Ascension appear on the very day of the Resurrection after one Evangelical wedding, and after forty days after the others? And the smut, why should we bother?

De contagion Jesus?

Those that Jesus Christ after His Resurrection zіyshov at the secret place of God, until the Heavenly Father is an important point of the Christian faith, like a red thread to pass through the writings of the New Testament. Only the apostle Luke constructs a report that barista rozpovіd about tsyu podіyu, but other authors talk about tse more prihilno. Ale say.

Let us take into account the fact that the Old Testament text, which was most quoted in the New Testament, is the words of the 109th psalm: Having said the Lord before my Lord: Sit right hand(that is right-handed, which in the old Jewish tradition symbolizes closeness and trust. — Note. arch. K. Parkhomenko) Mene, I will lay the docks of Your enemies at the foot of Your feet(Ps 109:1).

Tsі words, yakі, before speech, squandered і to our Symbol of faith, are chanted in the New Testament maybe two dozen times. The idea of the glorification of Jesus by the order of God the Father is fixed by the old pre-Paulian tradition. The axis of the text, like the Apostle Paul, having adopted a folded look: Vin(Jesus) having disregarded Himself, having taken the form of a slave, having become similar to people, and having looked like a person; having subdued Himself, having been heard by the hearers to death, and hellish death. To that, God pidnіs Yogo and giving Yom іm'ya more for every im'ya, so that before the іm'yam of Jesus the skin of heaven, earth and sheol was shattered, and the skin tongue said that the Lord Jesus Christ to the glory of God the Father.(Flp 2 :7–11).

God appeared in the body, true to Himself in Soul, showing Himself to the Angels, preaching among the peoples, accepted by faith in the world, risen in glory(1 Tim 3 :16).

The first New Testament author, the Apostle Paul, does not write directly about the Ascension of Christ, but rather talks about the turning of Jesus into the light of God. For example, it seems to his early messenger Paul that the Thessalonians will clear from the Heavens of Sin Yogo, whom Vіn raised from the dead, Jesus...(1 Fes 1 :ten; since. 4 :16).

I in the evangelical tradition (among the evangelists Mark, Matthew and Luke) we speak in great numbers about the turning of Christ (Matt 16 :27; 24 :30; 26 :64; Mk 8 :38; 13 :26; OK 21 :27; 22 :69). Ale, it is possible to turn around only if someone is farther away.

Father, we can say with confidence that New Testament I affirm that the Resurrection One is now resting with the Heavenly Father, with another world, otherwise, as if corying with my old metaphors, Sin Nine is resting in Heaven.

Where did the Resurrection move?

Wanting the New Testament to speak unequivocally about the resurrection of the Resurrected Christ with the Father, at the glory of God, but on the Throne of God, the New Testament authors uniquely speak about those that Jesus, having spent there a lot of money, for the physical relocation to Heaven.

One group of texts speak simply about the coming camp of Christ. If we talk about the relocation of Christ to Heaven, but I don’t explain how it seems to be. Some texts have a word Ascension abo yoga equivalent (Rome 10 :6-8; Eph 4 :7–11), other special terms omitted (Heb 4 :14; 6 :19–20; 1 pet 3 :22).

Evangelist Ivan writes a lot about this. For the new Jesus is the One Who descends from Heaven and turns around with the year. Trich Ivan to speak about the convergence of Sin (Jn 3:13; 6:62; 20:17), but call the term “more expensive” ( Greek poreuomai), "sight" ( Greek hypago), or "submission" ( Greek hypsoo).

Rozpovid about the Ascension from the Evangelist Luke

Apostle Luke. Miniature from the "Ostromir Gospel"

Only the Evangelist Luke is not unique in direct images of love, convergence. Vіn rozpovidaє about tse dvіchі - in his gospel and in the Book of Diy of the Holy Apostles.

Text qi axis:

…I will send My Father's house on you; Well, stay away in the city of Rusalim, until you get burned by the force. І vivіv їх vin to Bethany, і, raising Your hands, blessing them. If you bless them, stand far away from them and ascend to heaven. The wolves bowed to Yomu and turned to Jerusalem with great joy.(OK 24 :49–52).

I, having saved them, Punishing them: Don’t look out for Jerusalem, but keep your eyes on the Father’s face, about what you see in Me... You will gain strength if the Holy Spirit comes upon you; And you will be my witness in Jerusalem, and throughout all of Judea and Samaria, and lead me to the ends of the earth. Having said this, Vin rose in their eyes, and the darkness took Yogo from the sight of them. And if the stench marveled at the sky, at the hour of Yogo's descent, two men in white robes stood up to them and said: Men of Galilee! why do you stand and marvel at the sky? Tsey Jesus, who has risen from you to heaven, come just like that, as you bachili Yogo, to descend to heaven. Then they turned to Jerusalem from the mountain, called Eleon, which is located near Jerusalem, on the path of the Sabbath. I, who came, went into the svitlitsa, and changed, Petro and Yakiv, Ivan and Andriy, Pylyp and Khoma, Bartholomew and Matvey, Yakiv Alfiev and Simon the Zealot, that Yuda, brother of Yakov. All the stench one-flock chanted in prayers and prayers(De 1:4-14).

These texts have been respectfully reviewed by biblical scholars, and as of today, consensus has been reached on the following points:

1. Notwithstanding the obvious fact, there are two rosy reports about the very same podia, it’s just that we have a larger short and long version. In both verses, eleven apostles are guessed, preaching to the world, the need to stay in Jerusalem until the convergence of the Holy Spirit, the role of the apostles is like a sign of the Ascension and the fact of turning eleven to Jerusalem. Tobto scheme opovіdan one and the same.

2. Undoubtedly, if Luke folded his rhyme about the Ascension of Christ, he won the Jewish and Greco-Roman images that describe the descent to heaven of ancient heroes.

The axis, for example, is what we read from Titus Livius in a text written not long before the New Year of Christ: she burned the king with a thick gloom, grabbing him with the eyes of a gathering, and from that hour Romulus was not on earth. If the impenetrable sky changed anew into a peaceful daylight and the wild sigh of the light, all the Romans sipped the king’s armchair empty; even if they believed the fathers, the closest eyewitnesses, that the king was guilty of a whirlwind, all the same, they were not afraid of orphanhood, they took care of mournful movchannya. Little by little, and behind them all at once shout out the praises of Romulus, God, the god of the people, the kings and fathers of Rome, bless Yogo about the world, about those who are kind and merciful, and take care of the wines of your offspring ”(History of Rome. 1.16 ) .

We know a lot of parallels from the revelation of Luke to us in the Jewish stories of that hour about the ascension of Enoch, Illi, Ezdri, Baruch and Moses. There is the whole set that Luke has: the mountain, the darkness, the worship of those present and otherwise. There was a lot of respect, which in Luke's description of the coming of Jesus, and a lot of terms, which are victorious in 2 Kings. 2 :9-13, in the description of the taking of Illy to heaven (in the Septuagint version - I will translate the Old Testament books into ancient Greek, written in Oleksandriya in the III-I centuries BC).

Prote, not respecting Lukoy's recollection of his images, guiding the ancient reader for other monuments, they did not reveal direct references from these dzherels. Luke does not retell other people's opinions, simply replacing the other's feelings with Jesus and the Apostles, but talking about an absolutely original story.

3. Why does Luke give two versions of the Ascension hour: on the day of Resurrection and forty days later?

It’s not surprising, but Luke, calling on everything, speaks sily about the Ascension, like about a podium, which goes without a hitch and in the wake of the Resurrection.

For example, according to the testimony of the Evangelist Mark, at the judgment of Christ, it seems: ... I greet Sin of Man, who sit on the right of power and come to the darkness of heaven.(Mk 14 :62). Luke holds the Gospel of Mark in front of him, but gives us another version: Vidteper Sin Human to sit on the right of the power of God(OK 22 :69). The entire text, and especially the word “vіdteper”, shows that Jesus' sitting in Heaven can go in time for Yogo's Death, and not in forty days.

And another butt: at the roses with mandrіniki on the way to Emmaus, the Savior seems to be: Why is it not so easy to suffer Christ and win for His glory?(OK 24 :26). Here, between the Sufferers, the Resurrections and the Assureds = There is no gap between the Days, the stench goes without a middle one after one.

Diyah reads: Whom Jesus God resurrected, why do I have all the evidence. Identity Vіn buv podneseny by the rule of God. (2 :32-33). And here the Resurrection and the Ascension are thought as undivided after an hour.

In Luke you can know a lot of other moments, in which they don’t transfer such a tribal period of the resurrection of the Resurrection with teachings, but go about the Ascension, which without delay comes after the Resurrection (div.: Dії 3 :15–16; 4 :10; 5 :30–32; 10 :40–43; 13 :31–37).

That story, as Luke describes in the Gospel, that Christ is brought on the day of His Resurrection, is truly typical of Luke; it seems to be illuminating, as it becomes obvious in similar to other citations of this author.

Ale then vinikaє zapitanya: about what else to talk about the history of the book Diy? History, what gave birth to the Holy Ascension, what is celebrated on the fortieth day after the Great Day?

4. So, as for the Evangelist Luke the Ascension, it is closely associated with the Resurrection, why did Luke tell about the forty-day period of the appearance of Jesus?

It is clear from the fact that the Persian Christian tradition never said that Jesus came on the day after the Resurrection. Tse became in one hour, then the period of rebuking with the students, without a break, buv. Like me, they sipped more, for Luka Voznesinnya, it is closely connected with the Resurrection of Jesus and Luke, ring out the last two podії do not repeat.

So why does Luke draw us such a trival, forty-day period of the appearances of the Resurrected?

In a first way, wine without any middle and virazno (as if it didn’t work before anything else) solidifies the singing period of the resurrection with the teachings of the resurrected Jesus.

In a different way, this thought is important to you in the prospect of a further development of the book Diy, as it is out of sight. I have Sensei Luke to work with the key to the entire book of Diy and to the history of the life of the early Church.

Zavdyaky to such a trivial hour of perebuba with the teachings of Luke, you can show that the Church is the intercessor of the Transmission, like it was the Resurrection: for forty days being him and talking about the Kingdom of God(Acts 1 :3).

Possibly, the number forty was cited by Lukoy as an antithesis of the forty-day period of Jesus' peace in the desert. There Jesus spent forty days in preparation for His service, here it is the hour for the Apostles to prepare for their service.

A greater emphasis on the transition of Jesus with teachings and on the Ascension in Diy allows Luci to grow more smooth and organic transition to those that will be the main ones for Diy: Christology, pneumatology, soteriology, eschatology and mіsіologiї.

Christology (church of the Church about Christ): the urochisty vіdkhіd Іsus to Heaven podkreslyuє Yogo tsaryuvannya there. Himself that Jesus reigns in Heaven, Yogo vouchat like the Lord that Christ (Dії 2 :33).

Pneumatology (church of the Church about the Holy Spirit): The Holy Spirit came only after the entrance of Jesus, and here the resurrection of the entrance, the Ascension to serve as a distant prologue until Pentecost - the coming of the Holy Spirit.

Soteriology (church of the Church about salvation): the urochist of the Ascension to serve Lucy afar off with an emphasis on one of his favorite topics: Jesus to enter Heavenly glory through Suffering and grant forgiveness and the Holy Spirit from the Heavenly Throne to everyone who repents and believes in New.

Eschatology (church of the Church about the end of the hour): about the Ascension of the Angels they say: Tsey Jesus, who has risen from you to heaven, come in the same order, as you bachili Yogo, who will go to heaven.. In this rank, the Ascension lays the foundation for faith at the turn of Jesus.

Mіsіologiya (church of the Church about the preaching of the Good News): on the day of the Ascension, the apostles take away the commandment to proclaim the Rosy, Who is now present and rebuy the Glory of God. Learners for forty days conjoined with the Resurrected Teacher, so now the stench is attacking the one who is preaching the light. Lost a little bit of budding on the Holy Spirit, which їhmіtsnіt and residually enlighten.

In such a rite, mi Bachimo, that the trivale of Jesus was rebuked with the teachings, and then Yogo's urochist descending to Heaven is for Luke an important theological prologue to the wondrous history of life that growth of the Christian Church.

What exactly forty days?

Ascension of the Lord. Miniature of the Gospel. Byzantium XI century.

What can you say about the forty days of Jesus' rebuking with the teachings? Luke guesses about forty days more than once, in other months of wine, or else he guesses the misunderstandings of the terms of the rebuking of Jesus, or to talk about many days(Acts 13 :31). Vіdoma love Evangelist Luke to the number (Vіn more, Nіzh be someone else from the authors of the New Testament to direct numbers), moreover, Vіn love symbolic numbers. It is possible that for an hour of testing Jesus with the teachings of Luke, take forty as a symbolic number: in the Bible, it meant the hour of testing or God's vision.

Possibly, Luke was seen on the holy day of the Jewish Pentecost (in Hebrew - Shavuot, the day of Tori's well-being, holy on the 50th day after the Jewish Great Day. Note. ed.), the day when it was more important for Luke's confession of the podia - the convergence of the Holy Spirit. In this mood, Lucy needed a boulder day, close to Pentecost, but before that. The number forty was symbolic for the successful cherries of this diet.

Possibly, as it was already planned more, Luke would like to parallel the forty-day period of research to tell about the forty-day fast of Jesus. There Christ prepares Himself for service;

Tsikavo, that the Old Church did not celebrate the Ascension on the fortieth day after the Great Day, so that it did not return respect for a specific term, Luke's orders. Until the end of the 4th century, the Ascension was celebrated at the same time with Pentecost. Close to 383 the Roman pilgrim Egeria, who visited Jerusalem, tells about the Holy Ascension in the following way: at the evening of Pentecost, all Christians of Jerusalem climb Mount Eleon - "in that mist (called Imvomon), because of which the Lord begins", service on Thurs the Gospel and Day of Day, which is about the Ascension of the Lord.

Ale, already on the cob of the 5th century, it is holyly recreated on Pentecost and timed until the fortieth day, as it will be celebrated and ponin. Here, without question, it is necessary to say that the wedding of the Evangelist Luke about forty days, that the Resurrection of the Ascension is celebrated, appeared to be the beginning for the giving of a new saint.

Theology of the Ascension

Starting from the first centuries, the apostles and holy fathers murmured about those who became the Ascension for Christ and for us people.

For Jesus Christ, it became the last point of convergence to God the Father and the greatest step of glorification.

To His Ascension, the Lord Jesus Christ is no less than heaven itself, to become ... for us before the face of God(Heb 9 :24), ale th pierce heaven(Heb 4 :14), rising over all the heavens(Eph 4 :10) and osiv the right-hander of God(Mk 16 :nineteen; since. Diyan 7 :55).

With whom should I remember that Christ z_yshov at Heavenly Glory in the body of a man. The one who suffered and rose again. In this rank, the human body, the people of Devi, took a lot from the Most Heavenly Life, and in the new Lord Jesus Christ was the right hand of God the Father. From the moment of the Ascension, human nature in Christ took away the fate of the Divine life and eternal bliss.

I respect the blessing. Theodoret of Kirsky, “Nine, on the day of the Ascension, everything and everyone was filled with joy ... Nine the devil mourns his defeat, marveling at our body, to go to heaven ... Nine the devil says, seeming: why work me, unfortunate? All whom I, like a shvidkokryly sokіl, having choked, take away from me, and from the sides of my efforts. Having outwitted me Sin Mary. I didn’t know what God is in the human body.”

The offering and rebuking of the right God the Father is a continuation of that Savior, as Christ grants to those who believe in New: “The Savior’s sermon, the right-hander of God the Father, means the continuation of the salvation of the world by the path of Yogo’s intercession, mediation before God the Father for the human race” (Reverend Justin Popovich). The author of the message to Hebrews seems to be: Christ is not in a sanctuary made with hands ... but in heaven itself, so that they may stand for us before the face of God(Heb 9 :24). What's the point? Shchob klopotat for us before God. “Those who the Savior wears a body, - like the blessed Theophylact, - and not having thrown off yoga from Himself, are intercession and murmurings before the Father. Bo, marveling at the body, Batko casts that love on people, for the sake of Yogo Sin, having adopted the body, and sings to the point of that mercy.

The meaning of the Ascension of the Lord was handed over to me in the holy kontakion, put together by the Monk Roman the Sladkopevts:

"What about us, having marveled at, and on the earth, having risen in heaven, You rise in glory, Christ our God, no matter how, but restless and inaccessible, and we will, whoever loves You: I am with you and there is nothing on You."

Russian translation: “Having conquered the salvation of our home for us and having found the earth in heaven, You rise in glory, Christ, our God, without any rank (apart from us), but resting unchangeably, and waving to the quiet, who love You: I am with you, and nothing is on you.

Vishche already pointed out that the most important The Ascension of Christ - at the Ascension to the Tajmnitsa of the Most Holy Trinity of the human body, and through it, glorify the body and bring it to the divine life. Tse is the main theme of the kontakion. Ale, krіm tsgogo, in the kontakion є th іnsha theme: the presence of Christ with the believers. The axis of the presence of Christ with us is even more important than the legacy of the Ascension. Through the Ascension, panuvshis over the world, Christ spared the power of being a kind of people in a spacious environment. In today's western theologians, it is possible to understand the Cosmic Christ, or the All-Cosmic Christ. It's all about the same thing - about the sub-adventure through the Day, whether it's an obmezhennosti and locality. Christ - Who zіyshov from Heaven, through Ascension and the one who crosses all the heavens, to remind all(Eph 4 :10).

The Apostle Pavlo richly murmured about this topic of the cosmic revival of the reign of Christ glorified:

god father, weeping in Christ, resurrecting Yogo from the dead and planting the right-hander Himself in heaven, more than any Leadership, and Vladi, and Sili, and Panuvannya, and every name, named not only in this century, but in the future, and all podkoriv under the feet of Yogo , and having put Yogo on the naivishche, the head of the Church, yak є Tіlo Yogo, the fullness of Him Who reminds everything in us(Eph 1 :20-23). You can put other quotations on this topic, vtim, enough.

Significantly one more important topic: the dawn of the Ascension before us to descend the Holy Spirit. Jesus to the apostles: Better for you, sob I pishov; for, if I do not go, the Comforter will not come before you; and if I go, then I will send Yogo to you(Ін 16 :7). In another section, the Evangelist explains: For the Holy Spirit did not come upon them, for Jesus was not yet glorified.(Ін 7 :39). Under the hour of Christ's rebuking on earth, Vіn was a kerіvnik and a mentor to a group of scholars. There were not enough of these students - a little bit in Israel. Ale, the hour has come, if the preaching is guilty, it will expand to the ends of the earth and is needed here The Second Comforter(Ін 14 :16), which is to inspire with power and grant the guidance of Truth to millions and billions of people.

Summary

Later, in our small drawing, we looked at different aspects, connected with the undertaking of the Ascension of Jesus Christ. Let's take a bag and guess what we were talking about.

On the Sunday of the Resurrection, Jesus Christ, for an hour now, is learning from the teachings in our world. The trivality of this hour is not fixed by any of the authors of the New Testament, the Crimea of the Apostle Luke.

Then the apparitions of the Resurrected are pinned, which allows us to speak about the blessings of Christ in the teachings. Kudi? To Heaven to God.

The Evangelist Luke explains the mystery of the resurrection of the Resurrection with teachings and at once balds on the greatness of the entrance to Heaven: it seems that Christ is resting with the Apostles symbolically forty days.

Those who became with the Resurrected Jesus after the period of Yogo appearances, New Testament authors explain with biblical figurative virazes. The key here is the Old Testament text Having said the Lord before my Lord: Sit right-handed to Me, until then I will lay Your enemies at the foot of Your feet.(Ps 109 :1).

New Testament authors unique naturalism in the description of Jesus' entry into Heaven. (It is necessary to remember that the sky is also a mental statement on the Lord’s mess. For the hours of Christ, no one cares that God is in heaven, like above our head. Biblical “heaven” ( in-evr. shamaym) were a symbolic place of rebuking God. To that, if Christ commands to pray "Our Father, who is in heaven ...", Vіn may be on the verge of a spiritual sky, lower, that our cosmos is worthy.

Evangelist Luke does not hesitate to write critically and straightforwardly about Christ's departure to God the Father, as if about watering, moving in space. It is possible, to break wine, looming on the minds of numerical texts (Greek-Roman and Jewish), that they told about similar stories. Possibly, Luka wants to show the readers that the Jesus of glorifications, like other great ancient heroes, perhaps, simply koristuetsya traditional viraz and images, zrozmilimi chitachi yoy hour and culture.

We don't know how much the Evangelist Luke's confession shows historical validity. The caution in the description of the price of the undertaking in other New Testament authors suggests that the undertaking of the Ascension was hidden, and not public. Ale chi all seemed to be the way Luke describes, chi ni, not so important. It is important that Luke, having presented us with that miraculous tale of the Ascension, having put there a day of theological wisdom, poured out like a scoop of spiritual treasures, the wealthy generations of Christians should still be rich.

On the back in the Gospel with a great penzle, and then, at the book of Diy, with a small penzle, Luke draws an icon of the entry of Jesus from our light to Heaven. Here and angels are signs of a match (there are two, to that behind the Jewish manifestations only the sign of two may mean); there is a gloom (the symbol of shekhіni - Glory to God); the joy of learning, to that їhnіy Teacher now - glorification by God the King of Heaven.

The commemoration of Christ, to the thought of the coming generations of Christians, is a unique podia: the glorification of the human body, like the Resurrection Jesus Christ, rethinking for the gift of the Holy Spirit to the believers, the dawn of the heavenly king, the expansion of the reign of Christ over the mustache of the All-Light.

De contagion Jesus?

Lord Almighty. Ascension of the Lord; Italy. Venice. Cathedral of Saint Mark; XII century

Those that Jesus Christ after His Resurrection zіyshov at the secret place of God, to the Heavenly Father - this is the principle point of the Christian faith, like a red thread to pass through the New Testament scriptures. Only the apostle Luke constructs a report that barista rozpovіd about tsyu podіyu, but other authors talk about tse more prihilno. Ale - I guess.

Let us take into account the fact that the Old Testament text, which was most quoted in the New Testament, is the words of the 109th psalm: Having said the Lord before my Lord: Sit right hand(that is right-handed, which in the old Jewish tradition symbolizes closeness and trust. - Note. arch. K. Parkhomenko) Mene, I will lay the docks of Your enemies at the foot of Your feet(Ps 109:1).

Tsі words, yakі, before speech, squandered і to ours, are heard in the New Testament maybe two dozen times. The idea of the glorification of Jesus by the order of God the Father is fixed by the old pre-Paulian tradition. The axis of the text, like the Apostle Paul, having adopted a folded look: Vin(Jesus) having disregarded Himself, having taken the form of a slave, having become similar to people, and having looked like a person; having subdued Himself, having been heard by the hearers to death, and hellish death. To that, God pidnіs Yogo and giving Yom іm'ya more for every im'ya, so that before the іm'yam of Jesus the skin of heaven, earth and sheol was shattered, and the skin tongue said that the Lord Jesus Christ to the glory of God the Father.(Flp 2 :7–11).

God appeared in the body, true to Himself in Soul, showing Himself to the Angels, preaching among the peoples, accepted by faith in the world, risen in glory(1 Tim 3 :16).

So, it can be said with confidence that the New Testament is solidifying, that the Resurrection One is now resurrecting from the Heavenly Father, in the world to another, or else, as if corystuvatisya with my old metaphors, Sinn resurfaces in Heaven.

Where did the Resurrection move?

Rozpovid about the Ascension from the Evangelist Luke

Apostle Luke. Miniature from the "Ostromir Gospel"

Only the Evangelist Luke is not unique in direct images of love, convergence. Vіn rozpovidaє about tse dvіchі - in his gospel and in the Book of Diy of the Holy Apostles.

Text qi axis:

...І I will send the house of My Father upon you; Well, stay away in the city of Rusalim, until you get burned by the force. І vivіv їх vin to Bethany, і, raising Your hands, blessing them. If you bless them, stand far away from them and ascend to heaven. The wolves bowed to Yomu and turned to Jerusalem with great joy.(OK 24 :49–52).

These texts have been respectfully reviewed by biblical scholars, and as of today, consensus has been reached on the following points:

Notwithstanding the obvious fact, there are two rozpovids mentioning the very same version, it’s just that we have a larger short and long version. In both verses, eleven apostles are guessed, preaching to the world, the need to stay in Jerusalem until the convergence of the Holy Spirit, the role of the apostles is like a sign of the Ascension and the fact of turning eleven to Jerusalem. Tobto scheme opovіdan one and the same.
There is no doubt that if Luke, having become his rhetoric about the Ascension of Christ, vindicated the Jewish and Greco-Roman images that describe the descent to heaven of ancient heroes.

The axis, for example, is what we read in Titus Livius in a text written not long ago: “According to the deathless deaths, they worked, if Romulus, calling the gathering on the field of the Goat Swamp, robbed of looking at the viysk, a storm arose with thunder and grumbling, which set the king on fire thick gloomy, prihovav її in the form of the eyes of the gathering, and from that hour Romulus was not on earth. If the impenetrable sky changed anew into a peaceful daylight and the wild sigh of the light, all the Romans sipped the king’s armchair empty; even if they believed the fathers, the closest eyewitnesses, that the king was guilty of a whirlwind, all the same, they were not afraid of orphanhood, they took care of mournful movchannya. Little by little, and behind them all at once shout out the praises of Romulus, God, the god of the people, the kings and fathers of Rome, bless Yogo about the world, about those who are kind and merciful, and take care of the wines of your offspring ”(History of Rome. 1.16 ) .

We know a lot of parallels from the revelation of Luke to us in the Jewish stories of that hour about the ascension of Enoch, Illi, Ezdri, Baruch and Moses. There is the whole set that Luke has: the mountain, the darkness, the worship of those present and otherwise. There was a lot of respect, which in Luke's description of the coming of Jesus, and a lot of terms, which are victorious in 2 Kings. 2 :9-13, in the description of the Ascension to Heaven (in the Septuagint version - the translation of Old Testament books into ancient Greek, written in Oleksandria in the III-I centuries BC).

Why does Luke give two versions of the Ascension hour: on the day of the Resurrection and in forty days?

It’s not surprising, but Luke, calling on everything, speaks sily about the Ascension, like about a podium, which goes without a hitch and in the wake of the Resurrection.

Ascension of the Lord. Claudius Vasilovich Lebedev. 1888 Church-Archaeological Cabinet of the MTA

For example, according to the testimony of the Evangelist Mark, at the judgment of Christ, it seems: ...I greet Sin of Man, who sit on the right of power and come to the darkness of heaven(Mk 14 :62). Luke holds the Gospel of Mark in front of him, but gives us another version: Vidteper Sin Human to sit on the right of the power of God(OK 22 :69). The entire text, and especially the word “vіdteper”, shows that Jesus' sitting in Heaven can go in time for Yogo's Death, and not in forty days.

Diyah reads: Whom Jesus God resurrected, why do I have all the evidence. Otozh Vіn buv podneseny by the rule of God. (2 :32-33). And here the Resurrection and the Ascension are thought as undivided after an hour.

Ale then vinikaє zapitanya: about what else to talk about the history of the book Diy? History, what gave birth to the Holy Ascension, what is celebrated on the fortieth day after the Great Day?

So, as for the Evangelist Luke the Ascension, it is closely associated with the Resurrection, why did Luke tell about the forty-day period of the appearance of Jesus?

So why does Luke draw us such a trival, forty-day period of the appearances of the Resurrected?

In a first way, wine without any middle and virazno (as if it didn’t work before anything else) solidifies the singing period of the resurrection with the teachings of the resurrected Jesus.

Apostles. Frescoes of the Church of the Holy Trinity of Sopochani Monastery (Serbia), around 1265

Possibly, the number forty was cited by Lukoy as an antithesis of the forty-day period of Jesus' peace in the desert. There Jesus spent forty days in preparation for His service, here - It's the hour of the preparation of the Apostles for their service.

What exactly forty days?

Ascension of the Lord. Miniature of the Gospel. Byzantium XI century.

Possibly, Luke was celebrated on the eve of the holy Jewish Pentecost (in Hebrew - Shavuot, the day of Tori's well-being, holy on the 50th day after the Jewish Great Day. - Note. ed.), the day when it was more important for Luke's confession of the podia - the convergence of the Holy Spirit. In this mood, Lucy needed a boulder day, close to Pentecost, but before that. The number forty was symbolic for the successful cherries of this diet.

Possibly, as it was meant to be, Luke wanted to parallel the forty-day period of labor to the rose. There Christ prepares Himself for service;

Tsikavo, that the Old Church did not celebrate the Ascension on the fortieth day after the Great Day, so that it did not return respect for a specific term, Luke's orders. Until the end of the 4th century, the Ascension was celebrated at the same time with Pentecost. Close to the year 383, the Roman pilgrim Egeria, who visited Rusalim, tells about the Holy Ascension Day like this: at the evening of Pentecost, all Christians of Jerusalem are going to the Mount of Olives - and the service begins with the Lord's remembrance of the gospels, they propagate the Dovіnіy

Theology of the Ascension

Starting from the first centuries, the apostles and holy fathers murmured about those who became the Ascension for Christ and for us people.

For Jesus Christ, it became the last point of convergence to God the Father and the greatest step of glorification.

To His Ascension, the Lord Jesus Christ is no less than heaven itself, to stand ... for us before the face of God(Heb 9 :24), ale th pierce heaven(Heb 4 :14), rising over all the heavens(Eph 4 :10) and osiv the right-hander of God(Mk 16 :nineteen; since. Diyan 7 :55).

The resurrection and rebuking of the right God the Father is a continuation of that Savior, as Christ grants to those who believe in New: “The Savior’s sermon, the right-hander of God the Father, means the continuation of the salvation of the world by the path of Yogo intercession, mediation before God the Father for the human race” (Reverend Iustin Popovich). The author of the message to Hebrews seems to be: Christ is not in a sanctuary made with hands ... but in heaven itself, so that they may stand for us before the face of God(Heb 9 :24). What's the point? Shchob klopotat for us before God. “Those who the Savior wears a body, - like the blessed Theophylact, - and not having thrown off yoga from Himself - are themselves and are intercession and fussing before the Father. Bo, marveling at the body, Batko casts that love on people, for the sake of Yogo Sin, having adopted the body, and sings to the point of that mercy.

The meaning of the Ascension of the Lord was transferred to me, to the Vigadan by the Reverend Roman the Melodist:

“What about us, having marveled at, and on the earth, having risen to heaven, risen to You in glory, Christ our God, no matter how, but restless and inaccessible, and we will, whoever loves You: I am with you and no one is on You.”

Zіshesta of the Holy Spirit. Today's icon

More already, it was pointed out that the most important significance of the Ascension of Christ is in the rise to the Mystery of the human body, and through it, the blessedness of the body, that lure of yoga to the divine life. Tse is the main theme of the kontakion. Ale, krіm tsgogo, in the kontakion є th іnsha theme: the presence of Christ with the believers. The axis of the presence of Christ with us is even more important than the legacy of the Ascension. Through the Ascension, panuvshis over the world, Christ spared the power of being a kind of people in a spacious environment. In today's western theologians, it is possible to understand the Cosmic Christ, or the All-Cosmic Christ. It's all about the same thing - about the sub-adventure through the Ascension, whether it's an obmezhennosti and locality. Christ - Who zіyshov from Heaven, through Ascension and the one who crosses all the heavens, to remind all(Eph 4 :10).

The Apostle Pavlo richly murmured about this topic of the cosmic revival of the reign of Christ glorified:

Significantly one more important topic: zavdyaki Ascension to go before us. Jesus to the apostles: Better for you, sob I pishov; for, if I do not go, the Comforter will not come before you; and if I go, then I will send Yogo to you(Ін 16 :7). In another section, the Evangelist explains: For the Holy Spirit did not come upon them, for Jesus was not yet glorified.(Ін 7 :39). Under the hour of Christ's rebuking on earth, Vіn was a kerіvnik and a mentor to a group of scholars. There were not enough of these students - a little bit in Israel. Ale, the hour has come, if the preaching is guilty, it will expand to the ends of the earth and is needed here The Second Comforter(Ін 14 :16), which is to inspire with power and grant the guidance of Truth to millions and billions of people.

Summary

Apostles. Fragment of the fresco of the Ascension of the Lord. XIV century

Later, in our small drawing, we looked at different aspects, connected with the undertaking of the Ascension of Jesus Christ. Let's take a bag and guess what we were talking about.

On the Sunday of the Resurrection, Jesus Christ, for an hour now, is learning from the teachings in our world. The trivality of this hour is not fixed by any of the authors of the New Testament.

Then the apparitions of the Resurrected are pinned, which allows us to speak about the blessings of Christ in the teachings. Kudi? To Heaven to God.

New Testament authors unique naturalism in the description of Jesus' entry into Heaven. (It is necessary to remember that the sky is also a mental statement on the Lord’s mess. For the hours of Christ, no one cares that God is resting in heaven, like above our head. Biblical “heaven”) in-evr. shamaym) were a symbolic place of rebuking God. To that, if Christ commands to pray "Our Father, who is in heaven ...", Vіn may be on the verge of a spiritual sky, lower, that our cosmos is worthy.

On the back in the Gospel with a great penzle, and then, at the book of Diy, with a small penzle, Luke draws an icon of the entry of Jesus from our light to Heaven. Here and angels are signs of a match (there are two, to that behind the Jewish manifestations there are only two signs); there is a gloom (the symbol of shekhіni - Glory to God); the joy of learning, to that їhnіy Teacher now - glorification by God the King of Heaven.

The commemoration of Christ, to the thought of the coming generations of Christians, is a unique podia: the glorification of the human body, like the Resurrection Jesus Christ, rethinking for the gift of the Holy Spirit to the believers and the heavenly king of the expansion of the power of Christ over the mustache of the All-Light.