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To: Berry Picker who wrote (35985)	12/6/2003 12:35:01 AM
From: alan w	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Agreed. We all fight against our humaness. We carnally reason and think it's spiritually discerned. I think that is true of both of us, as well as the rest of the carnal world. Acts 1:9-11 9 And saying these things, while they are looking, He was lifted up, and a cloud took Him up from their eyes. 10 And as they were looking intently into heaven at His going, lo ! two men stand beside them in white attire, 11 who say also, "Men! Galileans! Why do you stand, looking into heaven? This Jesus Who is being taken up from you into heaven shall come thus, in the manner in which you gaze at Him going into heaven." Clouds have historically been used by God to shield man from His glory. We can't look upon Him in our rags. The clouds obscure His righteous brilliance. When Christ was taken up in clouds I believe His countenance became so great that the men there couldn't have beheld Him without the clouds. He will/did return the same way. "For the Lord Himself will be descending from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the chief messenger, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be rising first. Thereupon we, the living who are surviving, shall at the same time be snatched away together with them in clouds to meet the Lord in the air After we have our celestial bodies and ascend into the air to meet our Lord, mortal eyes will not be able to see us. As we will be like the One Who met Saul on the way to Damascus, they would only be blinded if they did gaze upon us. When our Lord left the disciples, after His forty day sojourn with them, He was lifted up and a cloud took Him up from their eyes. And though they continued to look intently into heaven, the cloud obscured their vision so that they could see Him no longer,. The function of the cloud is very evident in this passage. It "took Him up from their eyes". And had He not clouded His glory during His brief stay with them after His resurrection, they would not have been able to look on Him at all. Enough for now. Have a good one Brian. alan