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(Acts 1:1-11)
1 The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that
Jesus began both to do and teach,
2 until the day in which He was taken up, after He
through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the
apostles whom He had chosen,
3 to whom He also presented Himself alive after His
suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them
during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining
to the kingdom of God.
4 And being assembled together with them, He commanded
them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the
Promise of the Father, "which," He said,
"you have heard from Me;
5 "for John truly baptized with water, but you shall
be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from
now."
6 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him,
saying, "Lord, will You at this time restore the
kingdom to Israel?"
7 And He said to them, "It is not for you to know
times or seasons which the Father has put in His own
authority.
8 "But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit
has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in
Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end
of the earth."
9 Now when He had spoken these things, while they
watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of
their sight.
10 And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He
went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel,
11 who also said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand
gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up
from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you
saw Him go into heaven."
(Zechariah 14:1-4)
1 Behold, the day of the LORD is coming, and your spoil
will be divided in your midst.
2 For I will gather all the nations to battle against
Jerusalem; the city shall be taken, the houses rifled,
and the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into
captivity, but the remnant of the people shall not be cut
off from the city.
3 Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those
nations, as He fights in the day of battle.
4 And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of
Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount
of Olives shall be split in two, from east to west,
making a very large valley; half of the mountain shall
move toward the north and half of it toward the south.
(NKJV)
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