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A Special Sign for the Early Church
There were three great Jewish festivals to which every male Jew living within twenty miles of Jerusalem was legally bound to come—the Passover, Pentecost and the Feast of Tabernacles. Pentecost was so called because it fell on the fiftieth day, a week of weeks, after the Pa …

Peter Preaches On Prophecy
This passage brings us face to face with The Day of the Lord. In both the Old and New Testaments there is much that is not fully understood unless we know the basic principles underlying this time period. The Jews divided all time into two ages. There was The Present Age, which w …

Peter Proclaims Jesus’ Resurrection Power
Peter has just finished the introduction of his sermon to this large crowd at Pentecost. He now tells this doubting crowd that Jesus is Messiah (vv. 22). This is the theme of his message. It insists that the Cross was no accident. It belonged to the eternal plan of God (v. 2 …

Four proofs of the Resurrection and Ascension
These verses include four proofs of the Lord’s Resurrection and Ascension: The empty tomb (vv. 29-31)The witness of the Resurrection (v. 32) The witness of the believers (v. 33) The presence of the Holy Spirit (vv. 34-36)If the Holy Spirit is in the world, then God mu …

Characteristics of the early Church
Peter’s words pierced their hearts and they questioned what they should do (v. 37). Notice how the Holy Spirit took Peter’s message to cause the listeners to be angry about their sin. He told them they must repent, turn to God, be baptized so their sins would be forgi …