The way of the East

But the remnant in the city know not that YAHWEH Elohim Tz’vaoth has returned to the mountain, whence, in the time of Ezekiel (xi. 23) and in the days of the apostles (Acts i. 11) he had taken his departure. The prediction of Ezek. xliii. 2, is now fulfilled, that "the glory of the Elohim of Israel came from the way of the east, and his voice was like the noise of many waters; and the earth shined with his glory." This was the Rainbowed Angel from the Valley of Achor, "the way of the east." The common idea is, that the Lord Jesus is to make a perpendicular descent, and to touch the earth for the first time upon Mount Olivet. The text in Acts i. 11, is cited to prove it. But this says nothing about the place he should first descend to; but only that he should come again; and that he should come again "in like manner" as he departed. This was verified in his descent to Sinai; and, as we have seen, he arrived at the place of his departure, "travelling in his strength" "from the way of the east."