By Demetrios Panagopoulos,
Preacher (1916-1982)
Preacher (1916-1982)
Someone will say:
"On the day of the Ascension, the season for swimming begins..."
This is what man sees... Beyond his flesh, beyond his pleasures, etc. He DOES NOT see.
What is the Ascension? Why is it celebrated? Why is it remembered? These people do not know these things. And the fact that they do not know gives them a little credit, but the fact that they do not want to know nullifies them.
The Ascension of the Lord is the penultimate event of the Second Coming. Because one more event is missing from this whole event in which God came into the world for man. What event?
The "He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead." With this the whole event of the Incarnate Economy ends.
The Ascension of the Lord took place forty days after the Resurrection of Christ. On the fortieth day, therefore, He took His disciples to Bethany, and there, as He was blessing them, a cloud began to lift Him up into Heaven, and He departed from before them, and went and sat at the right hand of God the Father, as the Protomartyr Stephen revealed to us when he was being stoned.
Christ will come again one day, and woe to those who will not be in order and will not endure His Justice. Of course, some will not be around for the Second Coming, because they will have gone faster to meet Christ.
The place where our Christ stepped and ascended is owned by Muslims, who forbid us from entering. It is a space of 20 square meters, and there is the sole of the left foot of our Christ. You will bow your head to kiss the spot, and it will have the fragrance of the All-Holy Sepulchre.
Source: Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
