Read Acts 1:8 . Instead of indulging in prophetic speculations, what were the disciples expected to do?
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Sunday: The Restoration of Israel
There are two kinds of Messianic prophecies in the Old Testament, one that anticipates a kingly Messiah who would rule forever ( Ps. 89:3-4 , Ps. 89:35-37 ; Isa.
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Sabbath: You Will Be My Witnesses
Read for This Week’s Study: Acts 1:6-8 , Luke 24:25 , Luke 24:44-48 , Deut. 19:15 , Acts 1:9-26 , Prov. 16:33 . Memory Text: “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth” ( Acts 1:8 , NRSV) . Jesus’ mission on earth was finished.
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The Book of Acts
The Victory of the Gospel M any historians believe that the three most crucial decades in world history occurred when a small group of men, mostly Jews under the power of the Holy Spirit, took the gospel to the world. The book of Acts is an account of those three crucial decades, which spanned from the resurrection of Jesus, in A.D. 31, to the end of Paul’s first Roman imprisonment, in A.D
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Friday: Further Thought – The Return of our Lord Jesus
Further Thought: The second coming of Jesus isn’t the epilogue, the appendix, or the afterword to the sad story of human sin and suffering in this fallen world. Instead, the Second Coming is the grand climax, the great hope of the Christian’s faith. Image © Stan Myers from GoodSalt.com Without it, what? The story of humanity just goes on and on, one miserable scene after another, one tragedy after another, until it all ends only in death. Apart from the hope that Christ’s return offers us, life is, as William Shakespeare wrote, “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” And yet, we have this hope because the Word of God confirms it for us, over and over
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