01/11/2015 AM: An Understanding Father
Acts 1:1-11
                    New King James Version (NKJV)
                    Prologue
                    1 The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all
                            that Jesus began both to do and teach, 2 until
                            the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to
                            the apostles whom He had chosen, 3 to
                            whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being
                            seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of
                            God.
                    The Holy Spirit Promised
                    4 And
                        being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from
                        Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from
                            Me; 5 for John truly baptized with
                            water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from
                            now.” 6 Therefore, when they had come
                        together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to
                        Israel?” 7 And He said to them, “It is
                            not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own
                            authority. 8 But you shall
                            receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to
                            Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end
                            of the earth.”
                    Jesus Ascends to Heaven
                    9 Now when
                        He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of
                        their sight. 10 And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as
                        He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, 11 who also
                        said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus,
                        who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into
                        heaven.”
