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New Testament Acts Empower Amy F. Davis Abdallah Ph.D.
New Testament ActsEmpower Amy F. Davis Abdallah Ph.D.
Pentecost
This was already a Jewish festival, called Pentecost because it was 50 days after the beginning of Passover
Pentecost was “Feast of the Giving of the Law” This celebrated when God gave the Law to Moses
on Mount Sinai Passover happened on the 14th day of the first
month The Israelites arrived to Mount Sinai in the third
month (approximately 50 days later)
Pentecost:Parallels to Historical Events
JEWISH CUSTOM ACTS ACCOUNTRead the Book of Ruth, a Moabitess who was received by the Israelites and David’s ancestor
Pentecost:Parallels to Historical Events
JEWISH CUSTOM ACTS ACCOUNTRead the Book of Ruth, a Moabitess who was received by the Israelites and David’s ancestor
Acts would soon show that the gospel is for all people
Pentecost:Parallels to Historical Events
JEWISH CUSTOM ACTS ACCOUNTRead the Book of Ruth, a Moabitess who was received by the Israelites and David’s ancestor
Acts would soon show that the gospel is for all people
Read Ezekiel 1-2 and Habakkuk 3, the appearance of the glory of the Lord with lightning, fire, etc.
Pentecost:Parallels to Historical Events
JEWISH CUSTOM ACTS ACCOUNTRead the Book of Ruth, a Moabitess who was received by the Israelites and David’s ancestor
Acts would soon show that the gospel is for all people
Read Ezekiel 1-2 and Habakkuk 3, the appearance of the glory of the Lord with lightning, fire, etc.
The coming of the Holy Spirit with wind and fire was the glory of the Lord present
Pentecost:Parallels to Historical Events
JEWISH CUSTOM ACTS ACCOUNTRead the 10 Commandments
Pentecost:Parallels to Historical Events
JEWISH CUSTOM ACTS ACCOUNTRead the 10 Commandments
It is only through the power of the Holy Spirit that we can possibly fulfill the commandments
Pentecost:Parallels to Historical Events
OT ACCOUNT ACTS ACCOUNTMoses went up on the mountain where there was lightning and smoke and fire
Pentecost:Parallels to Historical Events
OT ACCOUNT ACTS ACCOUNTMoses went up on the mountain where there was lightning and smoke and fire
The Holy Spirit comes on people like tongues of fire above their heads, and is also a rushing wind.
Pentecost:Parallels to Historical Events
OT ACCOUNT ACTS ACCOUNTWhen Moses came down with the commands, they were worshiping the golden calf. He called those who loved God to him, and they went and killed 3,000 Israelites
Pentecost:Parallels to Historical Events
OT ACCOUNT ACTS ACCOUNTWhen Moses came down with the commands, they were worshiping the golden calf. He called those who loved God to him, and they went and killed 3,000 Israelites
After Peter is filled with the Spirit, he preaches a sermon that many respond to. 3,000 are added to their number that day.
Pentecost:Parallels to Historical Events
OT (General) ACTS ACCOUNTLast time there were many languages, it brought about a scattering (tower of Babel, Gen 11)
Pentecost:Parallels to Historical Events
OT (General) ACTS ACCOUNTLast time there were many languages, it brought about a scattering (tower of Babel, Gen 11)
This time of many languages brought about unity—everyone understood the wonders of God in their own language
Connection to the Theme
The major NT theme is God desires to bring all things into unity in Christ. How do the following passages suggest this? (You read these as pre-reading for the class) Acts 4:23-37 Acts 10-11
Timeline of Saul (later called Paul)
Year Event5 Saul is born in Tarsus,
later educated in Jerusalem
Timeline of Saul (later called Paul)
Year Event35 Stephen is martyred; Saul
is converted
Timeline of Saul (later called Paul)
Year
Event
35-38 Travels around Arabia38 Spends two weeks in
Jerusalem38-43 Returns to Tarsus; 43 Joins Barnabas in Syrian
Antioch
Timeline of Saul (later called Paul)
Year
Event
46-48 First Journey, through the island of Cyprus and Galatia; the shortest journey
Timeline of Paul
Year
Event
49/50 Jerusalem Council (Acts 15)
50-52 Second Journey through Galatia, Macedonia, Greece, and Ephesus
Timeline of Paul
Year
Event
51 Writing of 1 Thessalonians from Corinth (he was there 1½ years)
51/52 Writing of 2 Thessalonians and maybe Galatians from Corinth
Timeline of Paul
Year
Event
53-57 Third Journey53-55 At Ephesus; wrote 1
Corinthians from here (55)55 Wrote 2 Corinthians from
Macedonia57 Wrote Romans from
Corinth
Timeline of Paul
Year
Event
57 Arrested in Jerusalem57-59 Imprisoned in Caesarea59 Shipwreck on the voyage to
Rome60 Wrote Ephesians, Colossians
and Philemon from Rome61 Wrote Philippians from Rome
Connection to the Theme
The major NT theme is God desires to bring all things into unity in Christ. How do the following passages suggest this? (You read these as pre-reading for the class) Ephesians 1:3-14 Ephesians 2:11-22 Ephesians 4:1-16
Timeline of Paul
Year
Event
62 Release from Roman imprisonment
62-67 Fourth Journey, including ministry on Crete
63-65 Wrote 1 Tim & Titus from Macedonia
67 Second imprisonment in Rome
Timeline of Paul
Year
Event
67/68 Wrote 2 Tim from prison68 Trial and Execution
Paul & Women
Paul worked with many women (Romans 16—Phoebe, Priscilla, Junia, etc.)
Paul did not make a distinction about gender when he listed spiritual gifts (Romans 12, 1 Cor 12-14, Ephesians 4)
Paul writes about women praying and prophesying in front of people (1 Cor 11)
Paul writes against ethnic, social class, and gender distinctions in Christ (Galatians 3)
