Acts 1:9-12 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.… A minister says: "I once visited an invalid lady who for a long time had been confined to her bed, and she said to me, 'The Lord has forgotten me altogether.' I replied, 'Supposing a heavy mist should fall so that you could not see that lighthouse on the other side of the river, would you believe it was there?' 'Oh, yes,' she said, 'because I had seen it before, and I should all the time hear the whistle which warns mariners of danger.' 'Yes, and in the same way you may know that the Lord is near. Your bodily weakness is the cloud between you and your God. His Word still speaks to you, and the eye of faith can surely see through this cloud as clearly as through an earthly mist.' This led her to a life of faith and comfort." Parallel Verses KJV: And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. |
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