“For every action there’s an equal but opposite reaction” – Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Motion
It’s always bothered me that Jesus went up in to heaven.
Why did he go up?
We have been taught that Heaven is not any particular place (not yet anyway, not until there’s a new Heaven and new Earth at least). I grew up learning that Heaven was a spiritual realm as opposed to the heavens which meant the sky and the rest of the universe.
If Jesus were going to some spiritual realm then why would he need to go up to get there? Surely he could just disappear or fade out or something, but to fly upwards sounds like a very non-spiritual thing to do. Why up? What was up there that he was going to, was it Heaven? Is there some sort of exit door that he was trying to get to?
Maybe, he was ascending to his getaway chariot!!!
Jesus' Ascension - Miniature from Rabbula Gospels (Mesopotamia, 6th century)
Isn’t there something very mechanical about the 6th century illustration of the ascension above, there seems to be Wheels / Thrones or Ophanim under Jesus and with the Angels wings and circle you have the winged sun disc, not too dissimilar to Ahsur or Ahuramazda (see the winged sun disc blog entry for more information on Winged Sund Discs and Ophanim). Of course this is just an artists impression but it’s one which I am very impressed with, as they employed the use of Wheels / Thrones and the Sun Disc imagery also. This is exactly how I pictured it.
Mark 16:19: So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
Luke 24:51 While he blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven.
Acts 6:9 And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.
I find it very interesting that he was carried up to a cloud which took him out of their sight. This sounds like it’s straight out of a super hero movie or an episode of Monkey (remember that, he used the cloud to get around)! My Stargate hat tells me that he had a cloaked vehicle in the cloud which he used to travel back to the mothership waiting in orbit. Ok I know it sounds fanciful, but isn’t it just as plausible as a person travelling upwards to a spiritual realm that we have no real proof of? At least this theory simply takes what was written literally and attempts to explain it.
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