When a Russian cosmonaut became the first man to walk in space, a conservative religious publication in our country published an editorial saying, "This Russian was not the first one to walk through space. This occurred two thousand years ago when Christ ascended to heaven." Such an interpretation of the Ascension leaves thinking modern men cold. Science has given us a view of the world quite different from the cozy little three-story universe of ancient times, according to which beneath our earth is an underworld of the dead, on top of it a flat earth, and above our space a place called heaven. The true significance of our Lord’s Ascension cannot be expressed in any spatial terms at all, whether ancient or modern. Its meaning for all time is that Jesus is the exalted Christ, the ruler of …