On 1/3/2014 1:01 PM, Mike Dixon wrote: > However she never said anything about seeing him > floating away, > Mary told the other apostles exactly what Jesus instructed her to tell them. The only thing that was important at that moment was for Mary to tell the other guys that Jesus had risen from the dead and that he would meet them in Galilee. The other guys probably would not have believed Mary if she told them Jesus had disappeared up in the clouds.
That's the way Jesus goes up to heaven, just like when he was talking to Mary at the tomb garden when he vanished int the clouds up in the sky. > why would he have to fly up to heaven, couldn't he just > disappear and reappear in Heaven? > Jesus didn't actually "fly" up to heaven on his own - he was "taken up"there by his Father. But, Jesus could have flown up there - angles fly around all the time - it brings a bubbling-bliss. Acts 1:3: "And when he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight."
