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What is the meaning of Acts 1 3?
Jesus lives (1:3) The resurrection was the hope of Israel, something that Peter and Paul stressed in their sermons to the Jews. (And, of course, it is also the hope of the church.) For these reasons, the resurrection of Jesus, and his exaltation, take center stage in Acts.
What is the explanation of Revelation 20?
Revelations 20:5-6 make it clear that the first resurrection refers to the souls of human beings, seated on thrones, who are alive; in other words, those who died physically on earth, but are alive with God in heaven. This truth also reflected in the story of Lazarus and the rich man.
What is the meaning of Acts 1 6?
The apostles still thought that Jesus was soon “going to restore the kingdom to Israel” (1:6). They seemed to be viewing the kingdom of God as a restored national Israel. This idea of Israel as the people of God was deeply imbedded in the Hebrew Scriptures.
What happened in Acts?
Acts begins with Jesus’s charge to the Twelve Apostles to spread the Gospel throughout the world. Peter summarizes the life, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus. He gives scriptural proof that Jesus is the Messiah, the savior whom God promises in the Old Testament to send to save Jews from their adversity.
What did Sanhedrin order Peter and John?
Peter and John are arrested for teaching about Jesus’ resurrection, but they are questioned about the healing. The Sanhedrin did not want to discuss the resurrection of Jesus, partly because Pharisees were a significant minority of the Sanhedrin, and they believed in a resurrection.
What is the first resurrection and the second resurrection?
“The first resurrection” implies a “first death” which precedes it, and “the second death” implies a “second resurrection” which also precedes it. The order of events is, then, “first death” and “first resurrection,” “second resuuection” and “second death,” the “second death” being final and irrevocable.
Where in the Bible do we see speaking in tongues for the first time?
The biblical account of Pentecost in the second chapter of the book of Acts describes the sound of a mighty rushing wind and “divided tongues like fire” coming to rest on the apostles. The text further describes that “they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in other languages”.
Will God restore the kingdom to Israel?
The Father determines when the kingdom will be restored (Acts 1:7), but the Lord Jesus Christ is the Person to whom the power to do so has been given. Neither the apostles, disciples of Christ nor any church denomination will restore the kingdom – it is the Lord Jesus Christ who will restore the kingdom to Israel.