Forty days after Jesus’ resurrection he was walking and talking with his disciples on the Mt. of Olives when he was taken up into the clouds and disappeared. Where did he go and what is he doing?

    This event was prophesied by David one thousand years before Christ when he said in Ps. 110:1, “The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.” This prophecy is quoted in Peter’s sermon in Acts 2:34-36, where it is identified as a prophecy of Christ. Jesus himself said in John 20:17 that he must ascend to God and Mark says in Mark 16:19 that when he ascended he sat at the right hand of God.

    Now we know where he is, but what is he doing? In Rom. 8:34 Paul said this about Christ. “Who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.” And even more succinctly, he states in I Tim. 2:5, “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” We can understand, then, that Jesus sits at his Father’s right hand taking our petitions (prayers) to his father and pleading our cause. This is why Jesus tells us in John 15:16 that whatever we ask of God we must ask in Jesus name so that God will give us what we ask.

    Will Jesus always be at his Father’s right hand? When he was taken up into heaven in front of his disciples, two angels came and told them that he would “so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” (Acts 1:11). Matt. 24:30,31 says that Jesus will come in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory and that he will gather his elect from one end of heaven to the other. This is not a happy event for everyone as stated by John in Rev. 1:7, “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.” Jesus will not always stay in heaven at his Father’s right hand but is coming back to the earth some day.