Acts

If we want our preaching to be primitive—like the original preaching of Jesus and the apostles—we must preach about prophecy and how it relates to events in Jesus’ generation. I’m emphasizing this point through Peter’s claim: “All the prophets, from Samuel and those who follow, as many as have spoken,…

  We’re used to Peter speaking before he thinks. “Far be it from You, Lord; this shall not happen to You!” (Matt 16:22), he said, earning a stern rebuke from the Lord. Of course, that was before his encounter with the Lord after His resurrection. When we hear him preaching…

Job’s hope is secure in inmillennialism. He said, “I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth” (Job 19:25, NKJV). Our prophetic model says Job’s redeemer—Jesus Christ—stood on the earth in the “last days” (Heb 1:2) of the Mosaic age. Job also said, “And though…

God poured out the Holy Spirit during Israel’s feast of Pentecost. This provided the church with the power necessary to fulfill the Great Commission (Acts 1:8). That commission contains two parts. First, Jesus commands his disciples to “teach (Gk. mathēteuō) all nations” (Matt 28:19, KJV). The word “teach” means “make…

Pentecost provided the Power the church needs to accomplish its mission to “make disciples of all the nations” (Matt 28:19). Jesus had instructed the apostles to abide in Jerusalem until it came. He said, “you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be…

After reading our “Already—Not Yet” post, a reader suggested we provide a list of prophecies inmillennialism puts in the “not yet” category. This post will expand on his request. It will use typology to develop a list of both “already” and “not yet” prophecies. It will emphasize the relevance of…

            Inmillennialism differs from the other prophetic models regarding Jesus’s coming. After he rose from the dead, he spoke with the apostles about the kingdom (Acts 1:3, 6). As he ascended into heaven, an angel said,  Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up…

Prophetic models and their underlying assumptions influence how we interpret Scripture. The atheist Bertrand Russell believed Jesus taught his coming, the end of history, and the kingdom’s arrival would occur simultaneously. Further, he believed Jesus said they would happen in his generation based on passages like Matt 16:27–28; 24:1–3, 34.…

G. K. Beale agrees with at least one point in our first post on Acts (here). He says the “last days” were a reality in the book of Acts. Christians of that period were “the actual beginning fulfillment of the prophesied spiritual resurrection of Israel that was to transpire in…

Our prophetic model, inmillennialism, has a special interest in the New Testament book of Acts. This interest is because of the period called the “last days.” Inmillennialism says this term in Scripture usually refers to the period between Jesus’s crucifixion and the Temple’s fall (i.e., AD 30–70). Jesus referred to…