Did Jesus really ascend on a cloud? How? Will he come down on another cloud?

Answer 1

No.. he did not ascend ON a cloud, - he ascended to the clouds.

He's gonna return from the clouds, and his attitude is gonna be pretty ticked. He's gonna be doing some violence to unbelievers attacking Jews.

I'll bet on the one Jesus, and not the "armies of the world".

Answer 2

"Clouds," like all geological phenomena found in the Bible, are metaphors.

Clouds are vapors that rise from the Earth into the atmosphere. It's IMPOSSIBLE for anything to descend on a cloud, because clouds move upward, not downward.

Clouds are metaphors, meaning that He will come and we won't know it. He says He'll come "like a thief in the night." How does a thief in the night come? Stealthily. This is why we're commanded to watch, be on guard, look for Him.

All **UPPER CASE** emphasis within asterisks is mine.

Luke 17:20,21 (New American Standard Bible)

20 Now having been questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God was coming, He answered them and said, "**THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT COMING WITH SIGNS TO BE OBSERVED**;

21 nor will they say, 'Look, here it is!' or, 'There it is!' For behold, the kingdom of God **IS IN YOUR MIDST**."


1 Thessalonians 5:2-6 (New American Standard Bible)

2 For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come **JUST LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT**.

3 While they are saying, "Peace and safety!" then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.

4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you **LIKE A THIEF**;

5 for you are all sons of light and sons of day We are not of night nor of darkness;

6 so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be **ALERT AND SOBER**.

Answer 3

Here's the Bible passage. Your welcome to interprete it as you please.

Act 1:9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
Act 1:10 And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
Act 1:11 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.
Act 1:12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.

Answer 4

This idea is a misunderstanding of scripture.

Jesus has no intention of returning as a living human. He already did that.

This time Jesus is returning in the hearts of those who have accepted his message and try to live their lives to emulate his teachings. Few actually do this. It requires a radically different interpretation of love from the one understood by most so-called believers. Most people see love as something that you keep in reserve only for those you have judged worthy of it.

This is not love at all. This is only judgment. Judgment is the exact opposite of what Jesus was teaching. Remember judge not lest yee be judged. Jesus asks us to love our neighbor. Notice that there is no (accept for) in this statement. Every one is intended to be included in this love Jesus ask us to have for our fellow man. This type of universal application of love requires no judgment on our part because Jesus’' intent was that no one be left out of it.

This is a difficult pill to swallow for any religion that thinks of it's self as being the one true and only correct way to God. This idea of exclusivity is the exact opposite of the message of inclusively that Jesus gave us.

Attaining the goals that Jesus set for us may be difficult within the constraints most religions impose. This is why many who seriously try to emulate the true teachings of Jesus in their lives do not ascribe to any particular religious following. They follow the truth in their hearts where Jesus has taken up residence.

Love and blessings.

Answer 5

yes he did and this is how he will return

rev.1:
7: Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, every one who pierced him; and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.
8: "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.
9: I John, your brother, who share with you in Jesus the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
10: I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet
11: saying, "Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Per'gamum and to Thyati'ra and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to La-odice'a."
12: Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands,
13: and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden girdle round his breast;
14: his head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow; his eyes were like a flame of fire,
15: his feet were like burnished bronze, refined as in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of many waters;
16: in his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth issued a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.
17: When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand upon me, saying, "Fear not, I am the first and the last,
18: and the living one; I died, and behold I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
19: Now write what you see, what is and what is to take place hereafter.
20: As for the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

Answer 6

It's anyone's guess. No human can know the mind, or the will of God.

Answer 7

he teleported i guess