Christ Coming in Clouds
And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up;
and a cloud received him out of their sight.
And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in
white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
this
same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen
him go into heaven.
Acts 1:9f (Spoke 22, Cycle 2)
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also
which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
Revelation 1:7 (Spoke 22, Cycle 3)
The angels in the Book of Acts declare that just as Jesus ascended in the clouds, so will he return. Exactly the
same declaration is made in the opening passages of Revelation. This naturally integrates with the great
Spoke 22 theme
of the Consummation of the Ages:
| Thematic Link: Christ Coming with Clouds | Acts Revelation |
The fact that both references are found in the first chapters of each book means that this is
actually a two-dimensional link, which can be written using geometric notation as:
| Thematic Link: Christ Coming with Clouds | PBible( 222, 1 )  PBible( 223, 1 ) |
Here we use also used the modular notation 44 = 2 x 22 = 222 and 66 = 3 x 22 = 223 to make the Spoke 22 correlation
clear. Note that the correlation is between two two dimensional points.
This is not a KeyLink because very similar language is used in Matthew 24 to describe the end of the World:
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened,
and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers
of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:
and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man
coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels
with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four
winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
This is an important example of the distributed nature of the information in Scriture. God did not
mechanically follow the structure of the Wheel. Such a structure would be very
tedious, dead, and boring and would lack the characteristic artistry of God our Creator. His work
is living, and like the structures of living things, His Work follows
ever changing trajectories that
constantly play on variations of themes, rather than mere mechanical repetitions.
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