“Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.” (Acts 1:11)
His being taken away is a going “to heaven”; his coming back is a going “to earth”. The implication is that he will return from the earth not from heaven. He will arise out of the earth, that is from below; not descend from above. There is the upward movement by which he was taken away; for this movement to be the same, an upward movement, it must come from the ground. So do not look into heaven – there is only an eternal upward movement, like a let-go helium balloon – look to the earth and a rising from the earth.
In Christianity it is about resurrection, it is always a rising from the earth.
In Chinese, Earth is largely yin, receptivity, its trigram three broken lines; Heaven is largely yang, penetration, three unbroken lines. In reading the I Ching, the movement is always upwards, from the lower trigram to the upper trigram; and one looks for the “changing line” on this journey from bottom to top. If the “changing line” is the top line of the heavenly trigram, the third unbroken line – Jesus’ ascension to the Father, yang yang, yang – it changes to a broken line, yin. Jesus’ ascension entails not Terminal Station Heaven, but a new rising from the Earth.