Tag: Luke
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Pentecost – a narrative of the fifty days fulfilled
And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place Acts 2:1 YLT 50 days later: Pentecost Please discard your New Testament notions of Pentecost for a moment and allow me to narrate what has just taken place for the Apostles in first century Jerusalem which…
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Matthias – Scripture fulfilled in Jerusalem – מַתַּתְיָה
Choosing Matthias And they drew lots for them, and the lot fell to Matthias; and he was added to the eleven apostles. Acts 1:26 NASB20 Matthias fills a position of an Apostle from off the bench (so to speak) as a substitute for Judas who had betrayed Christ and then took his own life. This new Twelfth Apostle gets little mention as…
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No Prophet is welcome in his hometown – 2
Jesus’ reference to the Prophets of Kings This week we have been talking about Jesus of Nazareth and other Prophets of the Old Testament mentioned by Jesus. We continue by asking why Nazarites rejected their local Messiah who had worked miracles like these Old Testament Prophets. What do you know about the two Prophets of…
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