2 Kings 2:5

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”

When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.

The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from your head today?” He said, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.”

Be silent at the presence of the Lord Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.

it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;

whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.

After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.”

Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear!”

Saul sent messengers to seize David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, God’s Spirit came on Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.

As they continued on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

But now bring me a musician.” When the musician played, Yahweh’s hand came on him.

Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”

Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.

“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Yahweh says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.

The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Behold, aren’t all these who speak Galileans?

They answered them, and said, “He is. Behold, he is before you. Hurry now, for he has come today into the city; for the people have a sacrifice today in the high place.

The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See now, the place where we live and meet with you is too small for us.

David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was in Bethlehem at that time.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. Let the earth and all it contains hear, the world, and everything that comes from it.

He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.

Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

but he will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondservant from my youth.’

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”

beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection.”

and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.

“Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings.

we accept it in all ways and in all places, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

Majesty belongs to the firstborn of his herd. His horns are the horns of the wild ox. With them he will push all the peoples to the ends of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim. They are the thousands of Manasseh.”

The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me just one lot and one part for an inheritance, since we are a numerous people, because Yahweh has blessed us so far?”

“After that you will come to the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philistines is; and it will happen, when you have come there to the city, that you will meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a lute, a tambourine, a pipe, and a harp before them; and they will be prophesying.

When they came there to the hill, behold, a band of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came mightily on him, and he prophesied among them.

Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, “Put your belt on your waist, take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.

Moreover, David and the captains of the army set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with harps, with stringed instruments, and with cymbals. The number of those who did the work according to their service was:

Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.

with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody of the lyre.

In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?

A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Yahweh that repays his enemies what they deserve.

I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.

Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness

Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a multitude of nations.”

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”

They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.

a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

“Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let’s meet together for judgment.

But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”

While he blessed them, he withdrew from them, and was carried up into heaven.

until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.

who also said, “You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky, will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky.”

But he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.

The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,

I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them.