Acts 11:27 — 12: 23- Corps Notes - May 18, 1976
Acts 11:27 — 12:23 May 18, 1976 Acts 11:27 Who these prophets were that came from Jerusalem, I do not know. It doesn’t tell me. But it’s in the plural and so there was more than just Barnabas, more than Agabus. Acts 11:28 “Agabus” - In Acts 21:10, is the same fellow. It’s real interesting. In Deuteronomy 18:22 “presumptuously” - means out of his own mind. “Thou shalt not be afraid of him” - means don’t pay any attention to what he says. “by” - through “signified by the Spirit”” - made known by the revelation that the spirit gave him. “death” famine “world” - is not the word cosmos. It’s the inhabited world, where people were living. “which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar” – approximately 44AD. Prophesied before but came to pass later. But even though it came to pass later, the believers acted immediately. Acts 11:29 “relief” - for ministering That’s a tremendously interesting verse to me. Immediately after this declaration came to pass before the actuality of the famine occurred, the believers went to work; they carried it out. “every man according to his ability” every man according to his freedom of will and what he wanted to shares is the text literally, according to usage. “determined” made up their mind In other words, they prepared themselves for the coming famine. According to their ability; I believe that the Christian believers took care of themselves, their families, and also took care of sending their abundant sharing to Judaea, Jerusalem area, because that’s how they got blessed with God’s Word in the first place, and they helped all the believers in that area to get their food stuffs and everything together that when the famine occurred, the body of believers was not hurt. According to Josephus, I think there were four famines during the next five years, between 44 and 49 or 50 A.D., if I remember correctly, long famines. That 29th verse is a lot bigger than any of us have ever seen. Again, let me do it for you. After the prophecy by Agabus,
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Tweet Format: mp3,pdf Publication Date: 05-18-1076 On Ephesians 4:25 where I want to begin tonight, or where we will begin tonight , the first part of what the Research Team gave me is the work that Walter Cummins published in our wonderful Way Magazine on "The Spoken Word." Also, as we cover Ephesians 4:28 tonight, I had all the information in front of me from another article that Walter Cummins has in the... has had in the Magazine. The first article on Ephesians 4:25 is entitled "The Spoken Word." The one on Ephesians 4:28 is "Workers for God." Both of these pieces of work by Walter are absolutely superb. And I believe that they should appear and will appear in our research journal GMIR whenever we begin publishing that. {GMIR Aramaic word meaning ' to perfect, accomplish , mature, complete, arithmetically to be divisible without any remainder.} And I noticed again that some of the th