The Coronation Of The King

After Jesus had spoken to them about the kingdom of God and the coming power of the Holy Spirit, something extraordinary happened on the Mount of Olives. The risen Lord—fully alive, fully human, fully divine—was taken up before their very eyes. A cloud received Him out of their sight. In that moment, the King of kings was crowned.



This was no mere disappearance. This was the coronation. The same Jesus who had walked dusty roads, touched lepers, calmed storms, and conquered death now ascended to the right hand of the Father. He entered the throne room of heaven not as a servant but as the victorious Sovereign. Every knee in heaven bowed. The angels sang. The Father placed the scepter in His hand. The One who had humbled Himself to the cross was now exalted above every name (Acts 1:9).


The disciples stood there, necks craned, eyes locked on the empty sky—exactly where many of us find ourselves today. That is when two men in white appeared with the gentle rebuke that still echoes through every prophecy conference and late-night headline scroll:


“Men of Galilee, why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven” (Acts 1:11).


Fundamentalist brothers and sisters, this passage is written straight to us. We who believe the Bible is inerrant, who take every word literally, who still affirm the bodily, visible, physical return of Christ—we are the very ones most tempted to become modern Galileans with our faces tilted heavenward and our feet planted in place.


We love the King. We study His coronation prophecies. We track every sign, every headline, every potential fulfillment of Daniel, Ezekiel, and Revelation. We can diagram the timeline, debate pre-trib versus post-trib, and refresh prophecy updates faster than we open our Bibles for daily devotion. And while we are busy being right about the Second Coming, the ascended King is asking us the angels’ question: *Why are you still looking into the sky?*


The same Bible we defend verse by verse tells us plainly: the coronation has already happened. Jesus is already enthroned. He is already ruling. He is already seated at the right hand of Majesty. The cloud that hid Him did not remove His authority—it confirmed it. And the angels’ promise is rock-solid literal truth: “This same Jesus… will come back in the same way.” Bodily. Visibly. Gloriously.


But until that day, the King has not left us without orders.


Look at verse 12: “Then the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives.” They didn’t build a shrine on the spot. They didn’t camp out waiting for the next sign. They walked back down the mountain and obeyed. They gathered in the upper room, prayed, waited for the Spirit, and then turned the world upside down with the Gospel.


That is what coronation living looks like for fundamentalist Christians today.


It means we stop treating the Ascension as an excuse to disengage from the world and start living like subjects of an already-crowned King.  

It means we trade endless speculation about the timing of His return for faithful obedience to His Great Commission.  

It means our churches spend more on reaching the lost than on polishing our prophecy charts.  

It means we love our neighbors—Muslim, atheist, confused teenager, struggling single parent—not as a cultural concession but as loyal service to the King who commanded it.  

It means we teach our children that Jesus is already King before we teach them the details of the end times.


The early church believed Jesus could return at any moment. That belief did not paralyze them; it propelled them. They didn’t stare at the sky—they stormed the gates of hell with the Gospel. They didn’t hoard resources for a tribulation they couldn’t schedule; they shared everything so that no one among them had need. They didn’t waste their days decoding current events; they spent their days declaring that the crucified and risen Jesus is Lord.


The coronation has taken place. The King is on the throne. The Spirit has been poured out. The mission is still in effect.


So let the angels’ question land on your heart today:  


Why are you standing here looking into the sky?


The King has been crowned.  

The King is coming back.  

But until He does, the King has work for us to do—right here, right now, in our Jerusalem, our Judea, our Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.


Stop looking up long enough to start going out.


The coronation is complete. The commission remains.  


Let’s live like it.


*Share this with a fellow believer who’s been stuck gazing at the sky. What is the ascended King calling you to do today while you wait for His return? Leave a comment below.*


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