Empowered by the Spirit
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Biblical:
Subject: What happened 50 days after Jesus’ resurrection?
Textual:
Acts 2:1-21
What happened 50 days after Jesus’ resurrection?
God sent the Spirit (1-3)
Pentecost
Festival of Weeks - Harvest festival
First fruit offerings
later celebrated covenant given by God at Mt. Sinai
God comes in fire
Delivers the law to Moses
Fire and Sinai. At some point during the intertestamental period, the Jewish people had begun to observe Pentecost as a commemoration of the giving of the law at Mount Sinai—an event that involved a fiery theophany (Exod 19:18). VanderKam suggests that Acts 2 understands Pentecost to be a covenant renewal festival (VanderKam, “Covenant and Pentecost,” 239–254). Thus, Acts may be portraying the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2 as the establishment of a covenant between God and the Church in a way reminiscent of the events on Sinai (Davis, “Acts 2,” 43–45; Witherington, Acts, 131).
Ronald D. Roberts, “Pentecost,” ed. John D. Barry et al., The Lexham Bible Dictionary (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016).
From Heaven came a sound
like wind
Ezek 37:9-14
filled entire house
Tongues of fire rested on each of them
God inspired a message (4-11)
all filled (120?? from Acts 1:15)
Spirit gives utterance
beyond human power and understanding
declaring the mighty works of God to the nations in their native tongue
God fulfilled His promise (12-20)
God offers salvation (21)