<p>1:11 <i>W</i><i>ho also said: You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was received up from you into heaven</i>- Why address them in this way? What was significant about them all being Galileans? We note that the Jewish audience of Acts 2:7 remarked likewise- &quot;Look, are not all those who speak Galileans?&quot;, and Peter's Galilean accent could not be disguised in the courtyard. The records emphasize that the Lord was also considered a Galilean (Mt. 26:69; Lk. 23:6). Yet Galilee was despised. Perhaps the Angels were encouraging those men not to worry about their own inadequacy, lack of culture or erudition. Instead of just gaping at their vanishing Master, with thoughts of ethnic inadequacy arising in them, they were being encouraged to go out and make the witness which the Lord had asked of them. And the Angels were comforting them that their humble origins were full well known to God, and would not hinder them in their work for Him.</p><p><em>S</em><i>hall return in like manner as you saw him going into heaven</i>- The <em>same </em>Jesus who went into Heaven will <em>so</em> come again <em>in like manner</em>. The record three times says the same thing. The &ldquo;like manner&rdquo; in which the Lord will return doesn&rsquo;t necessarily refer to the way He gradually ascended up in to the sky, in full view of the gazing disciples. He was to return in the &ldquo;like manner&rdquo; to what they had seen. Yet neither those disciples nor the majority of the Lord&rsquo;s people will literally see Him descending through the clouds at His return- for they will be dead. But we will &lsquo;see&rsquo; Him at His return &ldquo;in like manner&rdquo; as He was when on earth. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. The Jesus who loved little children and wept over Jerusalem's self-righteous religious leaders, so desirous of their salvation, is the One who today mediates our prayers and tomorrow will confront us at judgment day.</p>