Mark 16:17 – right before Jesus ascended into heaven, He prophesied “they will speak in new tongues.” There are only four instances in the New Testament where people speak in tongues: 1– Acts 2:3 – when the Holy Spirit descended upon the twelve apostles on Pentecost Sunday, they beg...
The year is circa 55CE, approximately 20 years after Jesus resurrected and ascended to heaven. A man named Paul is driving the outward expansion of the Christian church into the Roman Empire. In Acts 16, we read that he arrives in the city of Philippi, which is an archaeological site in...
This is an important statement about the manner in which Jesus comes. When he left the earth and ascended to heaven, he left with clouds and returns with clouds. Clouds appear at many places when talking about the return of Jesus and of God. And when He had spoken these things, while t...
In my Scripture studies I discovered why the disciples knew why they recorded Jesus ascended on the 40th day. They were counting up to t... Scripture Search Tool HNVKJVNKJVNLTNIVESVRVR60NASBRSVASVYLTDBYWEB Rest Stops Along The Emmaus Journey ...
Acts 1:15 – Peter initiates the selection of a successor to Judas right after Jesus ascended into heaven, and no one questions him. Further, if the Church needed a successor to Judas, wouldn’t it need one to Peter? Of course.
Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who haspassed through(ascended to)the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession…Let us therefore comeboldly to the throne of grace,that wemay obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” ...
He underwent and suffered the punishment deserved by us, being made sin and curse for us; He was crucified and died; He arose on the third day with the same body in which He suffered; and He ascended into heaven where He sits at the Father's right hand making intercession for His peop...
How could God, when once the Daystar of the beauty of Jesus had disappeared from the sight of His people, and ascended unto the fourth heaven, cause His holy Book, His most great testimony amongst His creatures, to disappear also? What would be left to that people to cling to from the...
When He came to earth, Jesus was 100% God and 100% man. He was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, performed miracles, and died on a Roman cross for all mankind. By His blood, Jesus atoned (paid) for our sins. Thereafter, He rose from the dead three days later, ascended ...
For forty days they were being taught by Jesus, learning to forgive sins and feeling their hearts burn within them as he opened the Scriptures to them. And then he ascended. And maybe they felt empowered by the great commission or maybe they felt afraid and alone or maybe they wondered if...