Acts 1-13: Unveiling God's Unfolding Plan

When they were come, they went up into an upper room — where they usually held their meetings. The upper rooms, so frequently mentioned in scripture, were chambers in the. In luke 24:53, it is said that, after their return from mount olivet, they were continually in the temple, praising and blessing god: It is probable, therefore, that the upper room mentioned in. 1 in my former book, theophilus, i wrote about all that jesus began to do and to teach 2 until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the holy spirit to the apostles.

As referenced in acts 1:13, the disciples immediately returned to jerusalem to await the fulfillment of the father’s promise. This collective prayer effort reflects their dependence on god for. This segment develops the theme of the geographical/ethnic advances of the proclamation of the gospel in the first geographic target jesus identifies in acts 1:8. As we read acts 1:8 jesus. Do you think of god’s activity on earth as a completed story of what happened in the past, or of a present, ongoing story? After all of jesus’s ministry, it appears that there were only 120. God's plan expands his kingdom through.