This is What Christ Looks like After The Cross, in His resurrected form, which is also who He was before “He became flesh and dwelt among us.” For it was He who de-transfigured to be like us so that in turn we could transform to follow Him saying “follow Me that where I am you may be also”.

It was after Christ’s passion for us displayed at the cross, and after the empty tomb, and after the testimonies of those who saw Him there (incert), then on to Jerusalem and behind closed doors in the upper room where Christ appeared again to the Disciples and gave them specific informations to wait for The Holy Spirit. Then on to the opening chapter of the book of “The Acts of the Apostles” that Christ met with them (by many Infallible Proofs) and gave them these words.

Acts 1.1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

² Until the day in which he was taken (back) up. That He through the Holy Spirit  had given commandments to the apostles whom He had elected: (appointed and commissioned)

³  By whom He also shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them for forty days, and speaking to them the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: “at hand”.

⁴ And, being assembled together with them (as the Head of His body of believers), He commanded them NOT to depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, ye have heard of me. (About the Holy Spirit)

⁵ For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.

⁶ When they therefore were assembled together (as one body of believers with Christ as their head and chief cornerstone with them as living stones), they asked of Him, Master, will you at this time restore the kingdom of Israel?

⁷ And He told them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.

⁸ But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Spirit has come upon you: and then you shall (begin your Apostleship to) be witnesses of Me starting in Jerusalem (to finish business), and then to Judaea, and in Samaria, and then on to the uttermost part of the earth. 9 And when Christ had spoken these things, while the Apostles watched, He was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. 10 And while they looked steadfast toward heaven as He was taken up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; 11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee (NOT Judeah), why stand ye gazing up to heaven? This same Jesus, which was (just) taken up from you to heaven, shall also come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” 

To mean like who He was as written at the END of the book of The Revelation that “7 Behold, He comes with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him (To mean this very event we are re-presenting to you). And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so,

And this “every eye shall see Him” would easily mean anyone and anywhere because clouds are unrestricted. As also of those with Moses, YHVH spoke to them from the clouds saying “10 And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door.

And as of those on the road to Emmaus,  saying “13 Now behold, two of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem. 14 And they talked together of all these things which had happened. 15 So it was, while they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus Himself drew near and went with them. 16 But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know Him. (know is to perceive and perceive and see are the same Greek word but separated by the English translators) 17 And He said to them, “What kind of conversation is this that you have with one another as you walk and are sad?” 18 Then the one whose name was Cleopas answered and said to Him, “Are You the only stranger in Jerusalem, and have You not known the things which happened there in these days?” 19 And He said to them, “What things?” So they said to Him, “The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, 20 and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to be condemned to death, and (they) crucified Him. 21 But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened. 22 Yes, and certain women of our company, who arrived at the tomb early, astonished us. 23 When they did not find His body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said He was alive. 24 And certain of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said; but Him they did not see.” 25 Then He (the stranger) said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?” 27 And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. The Disciples’ Eyes Opened 28 Then they drew near to the village where they were going, and He indicated that He would have gone farther. 29 But they constrained Him, saying, “Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent.” And He went in to stay with them. 30 Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they (saw) knew Him; and He vanished from their sight. 32 And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?” 33 So they rose up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together, 34 saying, “The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon (Peter)!” 35 And they told about the things that had happened on the road, and how He was made known to them in the breaking of bread.  Yes for He is the bread of life too and our bread of life is WORD!

And lastly He was by Saul who would become Paul The Apostle, who was to become the 12th Apostle who was last “born in his own time”. It was there where Paul described Christ as the “bright light, many times brighter than the Sun)” (bright light from the word “epiphany” that means to see too) that brought him to his knees, of whom Paul said he “saw no form.”

That each one of these accounts were unmistakably from the One who came down from Heaven to be like us, and went to the Cross for us, so that we in turn could go up to the Father, through the prescribed method from when He said “follow Me that where I am, ye may be also.” And “where I go you know, and how I go you know.”

That in order to be called an Apostle, they had to have seen Christ for who He was AFTER He became flesh and dwelt among us, and after the cross, as who He was before He became flesh to dwell among us, as did Paul was to be “the twelfth Apostle born in his own time”  as we read the account here.

“12 “While thus occupied, as I journeyed to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, 13 at midday, O king, along the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me. 14 And when we all had fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? (Meaning His Assembly of His body of believers saying; Isn’t it hard for you to kick against the goads.’ 15 So Saul said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. (Remember here Paul was persecuting Christs ‘body of assembled believers (of living stones as being His body) 16 But rise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things which I will YET reveal to you. (as He does to us too, to mean that we see Him through REVELATION. 17 I will deliver you from the Jewish people, to go to the Gentiles, to whom  NOW I send you, 18 to open their eyes (to the things of the Spirit), in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the distractions of Satan to the power of God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an (claim their) inheritance (from) among those who are sanctified by faith in Me (to be with Me today.’

And this is “The Kingdom of God at hand”, to mean “with Me today in Paradise.” Which was the same promise that Christ had spoken to the thief  on a cross too.

So that those who have seen Christ in this way we present to you here, know Him better than who He was before “He became flesh and dwelt among us”, and after He put it off saying that “ of righteousness, because I return to My Father and you see Me again no more;

At least NOT in a carnal fashion because He did say “Father I have finished the work you have given Me to do.”

So that for us this is true that “He who has seen Me has seen the Father so why do you ask Me to show you the Father? From now on you have known Him and you have seen Him” too. And what we see? We become! This is us 17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unvailed face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed into His self same image from the glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

So that “when we see Him as He is, we become like Him.” This is it!!! This is The Kingdom of God at hand, as first said with John the Baptist and why he was greatest of those born among woman, because these things can only be seen with your new features. Because “flesh and blood does not inherit the Kingdom” but the re-spirited mind of faith does. Amen!!