ACTS CHAPTER TWO
OBSERVATION STAGE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The purpose
of the observation stage is to maintain focus on the text at hand
within the normative rules of language, context and logic 
.which largely limits the observer to the
content offered by the books of Luke and Acts. Other passages must have
a relationship with the context at hand, such as a Scriptural quotation
or reference in the passage at hand. This will serve to avoid going on
unnecessary tangents elsewhere; and more importantly, it will provide
the framework for a proper and objective comparison with passages
located elsewhere in Scripture.
Remember that
something elsewhere may be true, but in the text at hand it may not be
in view.
I) [Acts 2:1-21]:
A) (2:1-5) WHEN THE DAY OF
PENTECOST HAD FULLY COME, THE APOSTLES AND ALL THE DISCIPLES WERE
UNITED IN PURPOSE IN THE UPPER ROOM. SUDDENLY THERE CAME A SOUND FROM
HEAVEN OF A RUSHING MIGHTY WIND, FILLING THE WHOLE HOUSE, EVIDENTLY
ECHOING THROUGHOUT THE STREETS OF JERUSALEM. THEN DIVIDED TONGUES OF
FIRE APPEARED OVER EACH DISCIPLE'S HEAD - THE WIND AND FIRE: SYMBOLS OF
THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, PROOF OF THEIR BAPTISM IN THE HOLY
SPIRIT. AND ALL THE DISCIPLES (120+) WERE FILLED / CONTROLLED BY THE
INDWELLING HOLY SPIRIT AND BEGAN TO SPEAK IN HERETOFORE UNKNOWN FOREIGN
LANGUAGES OF MANY PEOPLES, THE WORLD OVER, AS THE SPIRIT GAVE THEM
UTTERANCE OVER EACH WORD
****** EXCERPTS
FROM ACTS CHAPTER ONE AND LUKE ******
Or skip to the next section in Acts
chapter 2: 
(Acts 1:1-11) AUTHOR LUKE SENT A SECOND
WRITING TO HIS FRIEND, AND FELLOW BELIEVER THEOPHILUS. THE FIRST
WRITING WAS HIS GOSPEL - THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF JESUS UNTIL HIS
ASCENSION. THE SECOND WRITING BEGAN HISTORICALLY WITH THE LORD'S
ASCENSION, HIS APPEARANCES TO THE APOSTLES AND OTHER BELIEVERS - PROOFS
OF HIS RESURRECTION AND PURPOSE. AND IT CONTAINED EVENTS OF THE
APOSTLES PERTAINING TO JESUS' TEACHINGS TO THEM RELATIVE TO THE KINGDOM
OF GOD THROUGH THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THEM - TO BEGIN WITH
THEIR BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT. THEIR COMMISSION WAS TO BRING TO THE
WORLD, THE MESSAGE OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND ENTRANCE INTO IT; WHICH
CONTENT WAS AT FIRST RELATIVE TO REPENTANCE UNTO FAITH IN CHRIST UNTO
ETERNAL LIFE IN THE RESTORATION OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD TO ISRAEL
[Compare Acts 1:4-8]:
[Compare Lk 24:44-53]:
****** END
OF EXCERPTS FROM ACTS CHAPTER ONE AND LUKE ******
(A cont.)
(2:1-5 cont.) WHEN THE DAY OF PENTECOST HAD FULLY COME, THE APOSTLES
AND ALL THE DISCIPLES WERE UNITED IN PURPOSE IN THE UPPER ROOM.
SUDDENLY THERE CAME A SOUND FROM HEAVEN OF A RUSHING MIGHTY WIND,
FILLING THE WHOLE HOUSE, EVIDENTLY ECHOING THROUGHOUT THE STREETS OF
JERUSALEM. THEN DIVIDED TONGUES OF FIRE APPEARED OVER EACH DISCIPLE'S
HEAD - THE WIND AND FIRE: SYMBOLS OF THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT,
PROOF OF THEIR BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT. AND ALL THE DISCIPLES (120+)
WERE FILLED / CONTROLLED BY THE INDWELLING HOLY SPIRIT AND BEGAN TO
SPEAK IN HERETOFORE UNKNOWN FOREIGN LANGUAGES OF MANY PEOPLES, THE
WORLD OVER, AS THE SPIRIT GAVE THEM UTTERANCE OVER EACH WORD, (cont.)]:
1) [Compare Acts 1:13-14]:
B) (2:6-13) AT THAT TIME, JEWS FROM EVERY
NATION UNDER HEAVEN, DWELLING IN JERUSALEM PURSUED THE SOURCE OF THE
SOUND OF THE RUSHING MIGHTY WIND AND CAME TOGETHER AT A LOCATION WHERE
EACH ONE HEARD THE DISCIPLES SPEAKING IN THE LANGUAGE OF HIS BIRTH OF
THE WONDERFUL WORKS OF GOD - INCLUDING THE RISEN MESSIAH / SAVIOR JESUS
CHRIST, THAT THROUGH FAITH IN HIM IS ETERNAL LIFE IN THE KINGDOM OF
GOD. THE JEWS' REACTION TO THE LOCAL GALILEAN DISCIPLES SPEAKING IN SO
MANY FOREIGN LANGUAGES - IN THE LANGUAGES OF THEIR BIRTH - WAS
AMAZEMENT. AUTHOR LUKE GAVE 15 EXAMPLES OF REGIONS OF THE WORLD FROM
ALL POINTS OF THE COMPASS FROM WHICH CAME THE JEWS AND PROSELYTES WHO
DWELT IN OR VISITED JERUSALEM AT THAT PENTECOST. THE AMAZEMENT AND
PERPLEXITY OF THE JEWS CONTINUED. A NUMBER TURNED TO MOCKERY, ACCUSING
THE DISCIPLES OF DRUNKENESS
C) (2:14-21) PETER, AGAIN TOOK THE ROLE OF
LEADER. HE SPOKE OUT IN DEFENSE OF THE DISCIPLES. HE DECLARED THAT THE
DISCIPLES' SPEAKING IN THE LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD OF THE WONDERFUL
WORKS OF GOD WAS TO BE THE BEGINNING OF THE FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY OF
THE RESTORATION OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ON EARTH
1) [Compare Acts 2:33-38]:
D) (2:14-21 cont.) IN THE DAY OF THE LORD,
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY AND FOREVER, THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL BE
POURED OUT UPON ALL MANKIND RIGHT AFTER THE LORD'S TEMPORAL JUDGMENT
UPON THE EARTH. THE PEOPLE OF THE LORD WILL RECEIVE REVELATION FROM GOD
- THEY WILL PROPHESY, DREAM DREAMS, SEE VISIONS - SERVING AS ORACLES OF
GOD AS THEY RULE OVER THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH. AND BEFORE THE GREAT AND
AWESOME DAY OF THE LORD, THERE WILL BE WONDERS IN THE HEAVENS AND THE
EARTH. BLOOD AND FIRE, COLUMNS OF SMOKE. THE SUN WILL BE TURNED INTO
DARKNESS, THE MOON TO BLOOD RED RED. AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS THAT
WHOEVER CALLS UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD, I.E., REPENT UNTO FAITH ALONE
IN THE LORD ALONE TO DELIVER ONE UNTO TEMPORAL AND ETERNAL SALVATION IN
THE ETERNAL KINGDOM OF GOD WILL BE SAVED. BUT ONLY THE REMNANT CHOSEN
BY THE LORD WILL CHOOSE TO BELIEVE AND BE SAVED - THE PEOPLE OF THE
LORD BEING PRIMARILY IN VIEW THROUGHOUT THIS PASSAGE
****** EXCERPT FROM
JOEL CHAPTER 2 ******
........................Or skip to the
next section in Acts chapter 2:
(Joel 2:28-32) IN THE DAY OF THE LORD,
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY AND FOREVER, THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL BE
POURED OUT UPON ALL MANKIND RIGHT AFTER THE LORD'S TEMPORAL JUDGMENT
UPON THE EARTH. THE PEOPLE OF THE LORD WILL RECEIVE REVELATION FROM GOD
- THEY WILL PROPHESY, DREAM DREAMS, SEE VISIONS - SERVING AS ORACLES OF
GOD AS THEY RULE OVER THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH. AND BEFORE THE GREAT AND
AWESOME DAY OF THE LORD, THERE WILL BE WONDERS IN THE HEAVENS AND THE
EARTH. BLOOD AND FIRE, COLUMNS OF SMOKE. THE SUN WILL BE TURNED INTO
DARKNESS, THE MOON TO BLOOD RED RED. AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS THAT
WHOEVER CALLS UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD, I.E., REPENT UNTO FAITH ALONE
IN THE LORD ALONE TO DELIVER ONE UNTO TEMPORAL AND ETERNAL SALVATION IN
THE ETERNAL KINGDOM OF GOD WILL BE SAVED. BUT ONLY THE REMNANT CHOSEN
BY THE LORD WILL CHOOSE TO BELIEVE AND BE SAVED - THE PEOPLE OF THE
LORD BEING PRIMARILY IN VIEW THROUGHOUT THIS PASSAGE
[Compare Joel 2:10-11]:
****** END
OF EXCERPT FROM JOEL CHAPTER 2 ******
II) [Acts 2:22-37]:
A) (2:22-24) AFTER DECLARING TO
THE CROWD OF ISRAELITES IN JERUSALEM THE IMMINENT ARRIVAL OF THE
ETERNAL KINGDOM OF GOD SHOULD EVERYONE IN ISRAEL CALL ON THE NAME OF
THE LORD FOR TEMPORAL AND ETERNAL SALVATION; PETER ADDRESSED THE REASON
WHY ONE COULD CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD TO BE SAVED: JESUS THE
NAZARENE, A MAN DESIGNATED AS APPROVED BY GOD TO BE THE MESSIAH OF
ISRAEL AND OF THE WHOLE WORLD AS EVIDENCED BY THE MIRACLES THAT GOD DID
THROUGH HIM. AND BY THE DETERMINATE COUNSEL AND FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD,
JESUS WAS TAKEN BY LAWLESS HANDS AND CRUCIFIED AND THEN RESURRECTED BY
GOD. WHEREBY HE BECAME THE ATONING SACRIFICE FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD
- THE ONE TO TRUST IN FOR SALVATION UNTO ETERNAL LIFE IN THE ETERNAL
KINGDOM OF GOD FOR HIS PEOPLE ISRAEL AND FOR THE WHOLE WORLD!
B) (2:25-31) PETER PROVIDED SCRIPTURAL
CORROBORATION FROM PSALM 16 TO THE CROWD OF JEWS IN JERUSALEM THAT
JESUS WAS THEIR MESSIAH / SAVIOR. SINCE DAVID RESTED ON THE SURE HOPE
OF GOD'S DELIVERANCE FROM TEMPORAL DIFFICULTIES AND UNTO ETERNAL LIFE
THROUGH THE MESSIAH / SAVIOR - THE HOLY ONE OF GOD; SO GOD WOULD NOT
ALLOW HIS HOLY ONE TO SEE PHYSICAL CORRUPTION IN THE GRAVE, BUT HE
WOULD BE RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD AND WOULD RULE ON THE THRONE OF
DAVID FOREVER
1) [Compare Psalm 16:1-11 Masoretic Text
translation vs Peter's quotation of the Septuagint in Acts 2:25-28]:
a) David Prayed And Trusted In God for
Temporal And Eternal Salvation, Declaring That There Was Nothing In
Life That Was Good Apart From The LORD. He Delighted In Fellowship With
Fellow Saints; And Rejected Those Who Hastened After Other gods. The
LORD Was His Inheritance, Hence He was Incomparably And Pleasantly
Blessed! Hence David Blessed The LORD Who Gave Him Counsel Day and Night
b) David Declared That He Had Set The
LORD Always Before Him And Because The LORD Would Always Be At His
Right Hand, David Would Not Be Moved From His Godly Walk. Therefore
David's Heart Was Glad, The Glory Of His Godly Personal Honor Rejoiced,
His Tongue Rejoiced In The LORD, And His Body Rested In The Sure Hope
Of Temporal and Eternal Salvation. David Declared That The LORD Would
Never Leave His Disembodied Soul In Sheol; Nor Would He Allow His Holy
One - The Messiah - To See Corruption In The Grave Implying
Resurrection. Finally, David Declared That The LORD Would Show Him The
Path Of Life, And In The LORD's Presence There Would Be Fullness Of Joy
And Pleasures Forevermore, Implying Eternal Life In The Eternal Kingdom
Of God
C) (2:32-33) PETER CONTINUED TO ADDRESS
THE CROWD AND DECLARED, "THIS JESUS GOD HAS RAISED UP OF WHICH WE ARE
ALL WITNESSES." PETER DECLARED THAT HE WAS EXALTED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF
GOD THE FATHER. AND AS PROMISED BY THE FATHER, JESUS RECEIVED THE HOLY
SPIRIT WHOM PETER DECLARED JESUS HAD "POURED OUT [THE SPIRIT] AND WHOSE
WORK YOU NOW SEE AND HEAR IN THE DISCIPLES' SPEAKING IN THE TONGUES OF
THE WORLD OF THE MARVELOUS WORKS OF GOD TO ALL THE JEWS PRESENT FROM
ALL OVER THE WORLD - ESPECIALLY OF JESUS CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED,
RESURRECTED AND ASCENDED TO THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER
D) (2:34-37) THEN PETER PROVIDED MORE
EVIDENCE FROM SCRIPTURE BY READING AND INTERPRETING PSALMS 110:1:'
''FOR DAVID DID NOT ASCEND INTO THE HEAVENS, BUT HE SAYS HIMSELF: "THE
LORD SAID TO MY LORD, 'SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND, UNTIL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES
A FOOTSTOOL FOR YOUR FEET.' " ''' PETER DECLARED THAT IT WAS NOT DAVID
WHO ASCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS, BUT IT WAS THIS JESUS WHOM THEY
CRUCIFIED WHO WAS BOTH LORD - MEANING GOD - AND CHRIST MEANING THEIR
MESSIAH / SAVIOR. AND THE JEWS WERE "PRICKED TO THE HEART." THEY
EVIDENTLY RECOGNIZED THAT JESUS WAS THEIR MESSIAH WHOM THEY HAD
CRUCIFIED, BUT THEY HAD NOT YET REPENTED / BELIEVED IN HIM FOR
FORGIVENESS OF SINS. THEY SAID TO PETER AND THE REST OF THE APOSTLES,
"WHAT SHALL WE DO, MEN, BRETHREN?" NOTE THAT THE WORD BRETHREN REFERRED
TO BEING FELLOW JEWS, NOT FELLOW BELIEVERS IN CHRIST
1) [Compare Ps 110:1]:
III) [Acts 2:38]:
A)
(Acts 2:38)
REPENTANCE RELATIVE TO FORGIVENESS OF SINS UNTO ETERNAL LIFE IN THE
ETERNAL KINGDOM OF GOD MEANS TO CHANGE THE MIND - TO TURN FROM A BELIEF
SYSTEM WHICH IS NOT SOLELY IN CHRIST ALONE TO ONE WHICH IS. REPENTANT
BEHAVIOR RATHER THAN A REPENTANCE = CHANGE OF MIND FROM NOT BELIEVING
TO BELIEVING IS NEVER STIPULATED IN SCRIPTURE AS RESULTING IN SINS
BEING FORGIVEN UNTO ETERNAL LIFE
1)
(Acts 2:38) The Greek Words
Metaneo (Verb) And Metanoia (Noun) Rendered "To Repent" And
"Repentance" Mean A Change Of The Mind. They Do Not Include Other
Spheres Of Activity Outside Of The Mind, Such As A Change Of Behavior,
Without Other Words Present In The Text At Hand To Designate This
a)
[Compare 2 Tim
2:24-25]:
2)
The Old
Testament Prophets, John The Baptist And His Disciples, And The LORD
Jesus Christ And His Disciples Before His Ascension Preached To Israel,
"Repent For The Kingdom Of God Is At Hand" - In The Sense Of Believing
In The Coming Messiah / Savior In Order For Them To Receive Forgiveness
Of Sins Unto Eternal Life In The Eternal Kingdom Of God, Which Would
Commence Should All Israel Believe. The Context Of This Repentance Unto
Forgiveness Of Sins Did Not Include Producing Fruit, I.E., Doing Godly
Works, Such As Water Baptism; Nor Did It Include A Committment To Do
Godly Works, As Some Contend
a)
[Compare Mk
1:14-15]:
b)
[Compare Mt
3:1-8]:
c)
[Compare Acts 19:4]:
d)
[Compare Mk
1:4, 14-15]:
e)
[Compare Mt 4:12, 17]:
3) In The Case Of The Message
Of The Gospel After
Christ's Ascension, Beginning With The Apostle Peter, The Greek Word
"Metanoeo" ("Metanoesate") Rendered "Repent" Continued To Signify A
Change From Not Believing To Believing Alone In Jesus Christ (Now
Having Been Revealed In His Resurrected Humanity To The World) As LORD
And Christ / The Messiah For Forgiveness Of Sins Unto Eternal Life In
The Eternal Kingdom Of God; Which Kingdom Would Commence Should All Of
That Generation Of Israel Believe. Plus In This Time There Was Begun
The Reception Of The Gift Of The Indwelling Holy Spirit In All Who
Believed - Jew And Gentile Alike. But Sometime After His Address To The
Jews In Acts Chapter 2, Peter Indicated That Heaven Must Receive Jesus
Christ, The Holy One, Until The Times Of Restoration Of All Things,
I.E., Until A Future Time When The Eternal Kingdom Of God Would
Commence Upon All Of A Future Generation Of Israel Repenting /
Believing In Christ
a) [Compare Acts 2:36-38]:
b)
[Compare Acts 2:41-44]:
c) [Compare Acts 3:11-21]:
d)
[Compare Acts 5:30-32]:
e) [Compare Acts 10:34-48]:
f) [Compare
Acts 13:13-39]:
g) [Compare
Acts 19:1-6]:
h) [Compare Acts 26:12-18]:
B)
(Acts 2:38) PETER'S ANSWER TO THE JEWS' QUESTION OF WHAT THEY SHOULD DO
RELATIVE TO JESUS CHRIST BEING THEIR LORD AND CHRIST, THEIR MESSIAH /
SAVIOR, INCLUDED BEING WATER BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST
- BUT TO SYMBOLIZE AND NOT TO BE PART OF REPENTANCE AS SOME CONTEND.
NOR WAS WATER BAPTISM TO BE CAUSATIVE OF BEING FORGIVEN OF ONES SINS
UNTO ETERNAL LIFE IN THE ETERNAL KINGDOM OF GOD; THEREAFTER ONE WOULD
RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
1) [Prior To
Peter's Message In Acts 2: Water Baptisms Were Always Symbolic Of
Something Depending Upon The Context]
a) [Compare Ex 30:17-21]:
b) [Compare Dt 21:1-9]:
c) [Compare
Heb 9:9-10]:
d)
[Compare Jn
1:29-31]:
2)
(Acts 2:38) On The Other Hand According To Peter's Sermon In Acts
Chapter 2, Water Baptism
In The Name Of Jesus Was Given Specifically To Those Jews Who Crucified
Jesus In The Transition Period From The Law To The Church Age As A
Symbol Of And Not To Be Part Of Repentance Unto Faith In Christ Unto
Eternal Life. Nor Was This Baptism Causative Of Being Forgiven Of
Ones Sins. But After Being Water Baptized Each Jewish Believer Of This
Transition Period Received The Gift Of The Holy Spirit
3)
[Compare Acts
2:41-44]:
4) [Compare Acts 3:11-21]:
5)
[Compare Acts 5:30-32]:
6) [Compare Acts 10:34-48]:
7) [Compare
Acts 13:13-39]:
8) [Compare
Acts 19:1-6]:
9)
[Compare Acts 26:12-18]:
C)
(Acts 2:38-39) THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS UNTO ETERNAL LIFE IN THE ETERNAL
KINGDOM OF GOD AS A RESULT OF REPENTANCE UNTO
FAITH IN JESUS AS LORD AND CHRIST BY THOSE JEWS WHO CRUCIFIED CHRIST
DURING THE TRANSITION PERIOD AND ALL PEOPLES OF ALL AGES IS IN VIEW IN
ACTS 2:1-39
1)
The Old
Testament Prophets, John The Baptist And His Disciples, And The LORD
Jesus Christ And His Disciples Before His Ascension Preached To Israel,
"Repent For The Kingdom Of God Is At Hand" - In The Sense Of Believing
In The Coming Messiah / Savior In Order For Them To Receive Forgiveness
Of Sins Unto Eternal Life In The Eternal Kingdom Of God, Which Would
Commence Should All Israel Believe. The Context Of This Repentance Unto
Forgiveness Of Sins Did Not Include Producing Fruit, I.E., Doing Godly
Works, Such As Water Baptism; Nor Did It Include A Committment To Do
Godly Works, As Some Contend
a)
[Compare Mk
1:14-15]:
b)
[Compare Mt
3:1-8]:
c)
[Compare Acts 19:4]:
d)
[Compare Mk
1:4, 14-15]:
e)
[Compare Mt 4:12, 17]:
2) In The Case Of The Message
Of The Gospel After
Christ's Ascension, Beginning With The Apostle Peter, The Greek Word
"Metanoeo" ("Metanoesate") Rendered "Repent" Continued To Signify A
Change From Not Believing To Believing Alone In Jesus Christ (Now
Having Been Revealed In His Resurrected Humanity To The World) As LORD
And Christ / The Messiah For Forgiveness Of Sins Unto Eternal Life In
The Eternal Kingdom Of God; Which Kingdom Would Commence Should All Of
That Generation Of Israel Believe. Plus In This Time There Was Begun
The Reception Of The Gift Of The Indwelling Holy Spirit In All Who
Believed - Jew And Gentile Alike. But Sometime After His Address To The
Jews In Acts Chapter 2, Peter Indicated That Heaven Must Receive Jesus
Christ, The Holy One, Until The Times Of Restoration Of All Things,
I.E., Until A Future Time When The Eternal Kingdom Of God Would
Commence Upon All Of A Future Generation Of Israel Repenting /
Believing In Christ
a) [Compare Acts 2:36-38]:
b)
[Compare Acts 2:41-44]:
c) [Compare Acts 3:11-21]:
d)
[Compare Acts 5:30-32]:
e) [Compare Acts 10:34-48]:
f) [Compare
Acts 13:13-39]:
g) [Compare
Acts 19:1-6]:
h) [Compare Acts 26:12-18]:
D)
(Acts 2:38) THE
RECEPTION OF THE GIFT / THE BAPTISM - THE PERMANENT INDWELLING - OF THE
HOLY SPIRIT WAS TO EMPOWER THE DISCIPLES AND ALL BELIEVERS TO BE
WITNESSESS TO JESUS CHRIST TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH - TO BE WITNESSES
OF HIS PROVISION THROUGH A MOMENT OF FAITH ALONE IN HIM ALONE FOR
ETERNAL LIFE IN THE ETERNAL KINGDOM OF GOD. THIS GIFT OF HOLY SPIRIT
BAPTISM CAME TO JEWS IN THE TRANSITION PERIOD TO THE CHURCH AGE WHO HAD
CRUCIFIED JESUS AND HAD REPENTED OF THEIR DISBELIEF AND BELIEVED IN
HIM. THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME UPON THEM AFTER THEIR WATER BAPTISM
SYMBOLIZING THEIR SALVATION. THEREAFTER, THE HOLY SPIRIT WOULD COME
TO ALL BELIEVERS AT THE POINT OF REPENTANCE UNTO FAITH IN CHRIST
****** EXCERPT FROM ACTS CHAPTER
ONE RELATIVE TO THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ******
Or skip to the next section in
Acts chapter 2:
(Acts
1:1-11)
AUTHOR LUKE SENT A SECOND WRITING TO HIS FRIEND, AND FELLOW BELIEVER
THEOPHILUS. THE FIRST WRITING WAS HIS GOSPEL - THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS
OF JESUS UNTIL HIS ASCENSION. THE SECOND WRITING - EVENTUALLY ENTITLED
THE BOOK OF ACTS - BEGAN HISTORICALLY WITH THE LORD'S ASCENSION, HIS
APPEARANCES TO THE APOSTLES AND OTHER BELIEVERS - PROOFS OF HIS
RESURRECTION AND PURPOSE. AND IT CONTAINED EVENTS OF THE APOSTLES
PERTAINING TO JESUS' TEACHINGS TO THEM RELATIVE TO THE ETERNAL KINGDOM
OF GOD THROUGH THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THEM - TO BEGIN WITH
THEIR BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT. THEIR COMMISSION WAS TO BRING TO THE
WORLD THE MESSAGE OF THE ETERNAL KINGDOM OF GOD AND ENTRANCE INTO IT;
WHICH CONTENT WAS AT FIRST RELATIVE TO REPENTANCE UNTO FAITH IN CHRIST
UNTO ETERNAL LIFE IN THE RESTORATION OF THE ETERNAL KINGDOM OF GOD TO
ISRAEL. THE DOCTRINES UNIQUE TO THE CHURCH HAVE NOT YET BEEN IN VIEW
[Compare Lk 24:44-49]:
****** END OF EXCERPT FROM
ACTS
CHAPTER ONE ******
******
1)
[Compare Acts
2:38-39]:
2)
[Compare Acts
10:43-48]:
E) ACTS
2:38 DOES NOT COMMAND JEWS WHO, IT IS MAINTAINED, WERE ALREADY SAVED
"BRETHREN," TO REPENT AND BE BAPTIZED IN ORDER TO ADDRESS THEIR
COMPLICITY AS A NATION IN CRUCIFYING JESUS CHRIST AS SOME CONTEND
1) [Compare 1 Jn 5:1]:
2) [Compare Acts 2:39 cf. Acts 10:34-48
]:
IV) [Acts 2:39-47]:
A) (2:39-47) PETER DECLARED THAT THE
PROMISE OF FORGIVENESS OF SINS UNTO ETERNAL LIFE IN THE ETERNAL KINGDOM
OF GOD WAS TO JEW AND GENTILE ALIKE - AS MANY AS THE LORD WILL CALL TO
BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST. PETER EXHORTED THOSE TO WHOM HE PREACHED TO BE
SAVED "FROM THIS PERVERSE GENERATION." THREE THOUSAND SOULS WERE ADDED
TO THE BODY OF BELIEVERS THAT DAY; AND THEY CONTINUED STEADFASTLY TO BE
TAUGHT BY THE APOSTLES, REMAINING IN FELLOWSHIP WITH ONE ANOTHER AND IN
PRAYER. THERE WERE MANY SIGNS AND WONDERS DONE THROUGH THE APOSTLES.
AND THE BELIEVERS REMAINED TOGETHER, SELLING AND SHARING POSSESSIONS
ACCORDING TO THEIR NEEDS. DAILY, MORE WERE ADDED TO THEIR NUMBERS
1) [Compare Acts 10:34-35]:
V) IT IS NOT CONCLUSIVE AS TO WHETHER OR
NOT THE TIMEFRAME OF ACTS CHAPTERS 1 & 2 HAVE IN VIEW THE
COMMENCEMENT OF THE CHURCH
A) [Compare Mt 16:13-18]:
B) [Compare Acts 3:19-21]:
Acts chapter 3
