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For Your Bible Flyleafs: ACTS CHAPTER 2 . . . .

. . . . yea, the entire first 7 chapters of the Book of Acts are not so much about the first days of the Church as they are about the last days of Israel. The audiences in the first 7 chapters are Israelites. The speakers are Israelite apostles of the circumcision (Galatians 2). The messages are all to circumcised Israelites and their leaders, promise the return of Christ upon their repentance, and have something very much to do with the very legitimate and hopeful question of those same apostles, just posed in the previous chapter, "Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?" (1:6) The theme is given as being the prophesied events of Joel chapter 2; never touching any such thing as a "church age" (as we often call it), but delving entirely into Jacob's Trouble (Jeremiah 30:6-8) and Daniel's 70th Week (Daniel 9:24-27). The signs and the gifts there are to and for the Jews (1 Corinthians 1:22; 14:22). It was precisely the generation that bore the legal guilt of crucifying their Christ, their King (Luke 20:14; Acts 2:23).

By forcing Acts chapter 2 to be about the first days of the church (O, so much of man's tradition to overcome), we would be complicit in confusing Bible readers and dragging them into Charismatic tomfoolery, baptismal regeneration nonsense, and myriad private interpretations of religious cults.

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