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Originally Posted by Believer
It depends on the context and how the word is used. You are trying to compare two different words. The Greek word for ascension has a completely different meaning then the word coming.
an-al'-ape-sis From G353; ascension: - taking up.
er'-khom-ahee coming
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My apologies for the misunderstanding.
I wasn't speaking about the actual word ascension...
I mentioned the ascension because the scriptures you mentioned as being what the Coming of the Son of Man in his Kingdom (per some scholars) could be referring to (provided below) are, indeed, speaking of the ascension... correct?
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Mat 17:1 Six days later Jesus *took with Him Peter and James and John his brother, and *led them up on a high mountain by themselves.
Mat 17:2 And He was transfigured before them; and His face shone like the sun, and His garments became as white as light.
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