Spiritual Interactions (7) Ascension

• At the Transfiguration, Jesus took Peter and John into the spiritual realms.
  

  Moses and Elijah appeared before them, talking with Jesus (Matt 17:3).

  It appeared to them that Moses and Elijah had come down to earth. The reality was that Jesus parted the curtain between physical and the spiritual realms, so could see were these men were living with God.

• Jesus had come from the spiritual realms, so he was familiar with their operation. He knew he could call for a spiritual intention into events whenever he chose.
  

  Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels (Matt 26:53).

  Jesus knew the spiritual powers could overwhelm the greatest power political empire on earth.

• When Jesus was on the cross carrying the weight of human sin, he was totally separated from good side of the spiritual realms. They evil forces in the spiritual realms were able to torment him. This was the source of his desolation.
  

  My God, my God, why have you forsaken me (Matt 27:46).

  Jesus’ pain demonstrates the importance of understanding the spiritual realms.

• At the ascension, Jesus appeared to go up into the air and behind a cloud, but he was really moving back into the spiritual realms from which he had come.
  

  
  Because the eyes of the disciples were calibrated to seeing the physical world, he seemed to go into the sky and disappear. If they could have seen with spiritual eyes, they would have realised that he had simply moved across the divide into the spiritual realms.