The fantastic events of Pentecost in a.d. Three thousand members were added during the Pentecost season (Acts 2:1, 41). The newly Spirit-begotten Church had a significant impact on the people and society, beginning at Jerusalem. On the day of Pentecost after Christ’s death, the original disciples and new converts were given the Holy Spirit and inflamed with a passion to proclaim Christ’s gospel. If Christ physically headed a little group today, this world would kill Him again! The chief culprit would be false religion. Most of the persecution against God’s people came from false religion. Verse 15 reveals that even after all of Christ’s preaching and miracles, there were only 120 disciples! Jesus Christ led His disciples for 3½ years, and then the world killed Him. His exclusion of certain events shows that God canonized only those events that were vital for God’s Church of the future to know. In this book, Luke records only those events that affected the early Church in a major way. Does that mean these apostles did not do an important work? Absolutely not! They did many mighty works. However, the book is silent on the acts of at least 10 of the original apostles.
Luke’s account is best known as the Acts of the Apostles.
But a close study of this book reveals that its history is quite selective. It was written to a man named Theophilus as a companion book to Luke’s gospel account (Acts 1:1).īible scholars agree that the book of Acts contains important early Church history. 62, thirty-one years after the true Church began. Luke is the unquestioned author of the book of Acts. Jesus Christ personally laid its foundation. This era could not have had a better beginning. Revelation 2 calls this first era of the Church the Ephesus era. God’s New Testament Church officially began on the day of Pentecost, June 17, a.d.
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