“Indeed, on that day of Pentecost, as the Scripture emphasizes, “all were filled with the Holy Spirit” (Acts 2:4). All were filled: that is how the life of the Church began, not from a precise and detailed plan, but from the shared experience of God’s love. That is ...
Answer:Divine healing has been a fundamental, cardinal doctrine of the Church of God from its inception on the Day of Pentecost and throughout this dispensation of time down to now. In Act. 5:12 we read of many signs and wonders being wrought among the people by the hands of the apostle...
It should not surprise us, then, to see that on the Day of Pentecost, Peter boldly preached to the Jews of Jerusalem that Jesus’ death on the Cross came “by the set plan and foreknowledge of God” (Acts 2:23). We understood from the Gospel reading how important it was to Jesus, ...
Peter (Acts 2:16) as fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost. Hence, and from the fact of πᾶς ο{ς α}ν being emphatic in the original, it is well quoted by the apostle as supplementing the previous one from Isaiah, and as conclusive for his argument. Parallel Commentaries ... ...
It so happens that the church age began on the day of Pentecost (May 22nd) in the year 33 AD. Then 1955 years later, the church age came to its conclusion on May 21st, which was the day before Pentecost in 1988. On May 21st, 1988, God finished using the churches and congregations...
The "day of the LORD's feast" refers to the sacred festivals ordained by God, such as Passover, Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles. These feasts were times of celebration and remembrance of God's deliverance and provision. However, Hosea's use of this phrase suggests a time when ...
though Christ was leaving the disciples that did not mean that his work would come to an end. He promises to give his servants everything they need to carry on in His work. The Helper – the Spirit of Truth - was to come, and come it did, as agiftgiven on the day of Pentecost....
That is, of tabernacles, as appears from ( John 7:2 ) , which was usually called (gx) , "the feast", in distinction from the passover and Pentecost F17; and the eighth day of it was called (Nwrxah lgrh) , "the last day of the feast" F18, as here: and it was a "great...
And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, [that] it may be an holy convocation unto you This proclamation was made by the priests with the sound of a trumpet, that the people might observe that this fiftieth day, or day of Pentecost, was devoted to sacred service, and that they were...
The author saw in what Jesus did for the disciples at this point a partial and symbolic fulfillment of Ezekiel’s prophecy, much as Peter made use of the prophecy of Joel 2:28-32 in his sermon on the day of Pentecost as recorded in Acts 2:17-21. What then did Jesus do for the ...