They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come in the same way that you have seen Him going into heaven.”

For it was not David who ascended into the heavens, but he himself says:

The Lord declared to my Lord,
‘Sit at My right hand

Heaven must welcome Him until the times of the restoration of all things, which God spoke about by the mouth of His holy prophets from the beginning.

Jesus has entered there on our behalf as a forerunner, because He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

Now the main point of what is being said is this: We have this kind of high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

For the Messiah did not enter a sanctuary made with hands (only a model of the true one) but into heaven itself, so that He might now appear in the presence of God for us.

Is on

A Davidic psalm.This is the declaration of the Lord
to my Lord:
“Sit at My right hand
until I make Your enemies Your footstool.”

The Lord declared to my Lord,
‘Sit at My right hand
until I put Your enemies under Your feet’?

David himself says by the Holy Spirit:

The Lord

declared to my Lord,

‘Sit at My right hand

until I put Your enemies under Your feet.’

For David himself says in the Book of Psalms:

The Lord declared to my Lord,
‘Sit at My right hand

Who is the one who condemns?
Christ Jesus is the One who died,
but even more, has been raised;
He also is at the right hand of God
and intercedes for us.

He demonstrated this power in the Messiah by raising Him from the dead and seating Him at His right hand in the heavens—

So if you have been raised with the Messiah, seek what is above, where the Messiah is, seated at the right hand of God.

The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact expression of His nature, sustaining all things by His powerful word. After making purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

Now the main point of what is being said is this: We have this kind of high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

But this man, after offering one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God.

keeping our eyes on Jesus, the source and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that lay before Him endured a cross and despised the shame and has sat down at the right hand of God’s throne.

Angels

For I am persuaded that not even death or life,
angels or rulers,
things present or things to come, hostile powers,

Then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when He abolishes all rule and all authority and power.

far above every ruler and authority, power and dominion, and every title given,

not only in this age but also in the one to come.

General references

Then what if you were to observe the Son of Man ascending to where He was before?

For God has put everything under His feet.

But when it says “everything” is put under Him, it is obvious that He who puts everything under Him is the exception.