ACTS 2:5-15- Corps Notes - November 4, 1975
ACTS 2:5-15 November 4, 1975 On the day of Pentecost there were only twelve apostles who received. The location of the experience was the temple. It was the time of the first hour of prayer. What occurred was the new birth and they spoke in tongues. That ‘what’ is; “the promise of the Father” in Acts 1:4; “baptized with pneuma hagion” in Acts 1:5; and “endued with power from on high” in Luke 24:49. You ought to know who, where, when and what concerning Pentecost. You should constantly be able to remember the scripture in Acts 2:3, that the phenomenon of Pentecost was the cloven tongues like as of fire and the miracle (in verse 6) was that they all heard them speak in their own languages. This must have been such a fantastic experience that our minds just cannot comprehend it at all. To us, we read it in the scriptures and it’s just cold ink but to those people that thing must have been so astoundingly exciting and vivacious that it just blew their minds. They spoke in tongues around 6:00 a. m. and three hours later (9:00 a.m.) they were just hotter than a firecracker. Can you imagine how electrifying it was? Imagine this thing. No wonder the three hours went by almost like that (real fast). Acts 2:5 “at” – in “Jews” — this is a constant misnomer in the King James. One of these days we are going to republish a book that we took off the market years ago called, Was Jesus A Jew? They were Judeans and the Judeans were the followers of Judaism by religion. This becomes very interesting when you work the details of it. “devout” - religious, pious “men” - this word is used in the Bible to describe heads of families or heads of households; also translated “husband.” I understand this because this was the Feast of Pentecost where all the heads of families would appear in Jerusalem. The other two feasts were the Passover and Tabernacle. We think sometimes we put forth a lot of effort. What do you think these people put forth in these days when they didn’t have automobiles? Th
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a tremendous Word. And hardly anybody understands verse 26. They argue about it, but they don' t get the understanding. Now this is the expanded one according to understanding, I hope. And again, I would like to just lay some things before the Corps, and especially before the Research Department. I translated the first part of verse 26, You always stay angry with an all-out desire to have them to change which anger will not be sin on your part. Then I have another translation of that first part of it: You be righteously angry, 'teed off' with sin... 'Teed off' I put in quotes. But don't you sin by acting ' holier than thou' vaunting yourself by acting so righteously like you never sin. I do not know which one of those two the Research Department feels would be the better. The last part of the phrase that I translated which would go with both of these that I have given you here on the exp