After the Party
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6 So when they had gathered together, they began to ask him, “Lord, is this the time when you are restoring the kingdom to Israel?”
7 He told them, “You are not permitted to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.
8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest parts of the earth.”
9 After he had said this, while they were watching, he was lifted up and a cloud hid him from their sight.
10 As they were still staring into the sky while he was going, suddenly two men in white clothing stood near them
11 and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand here looking up into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will come back in the same way you saw him go into heaven.”
The Disciples were Looking for Another Outcome
The Disciples were Looking for Another Outcome
Disciples: “Lord, is this the time when you are restoring the kingdom to Israel?”
Messianic Hope
The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you—from your fellow Israelites; you must listen to him.
15 The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you—from your fellow Israelites; you must listen to him.
16 This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the Lord your God: “Please do not make us hear the voice of the Lord our God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die.”
17 The Lord then said to me, “What they have said is good.
18 I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command.
19 I will personally hold responsible anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet speaks in my name.
20 “But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.
21 Now if you say to yourselves, ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the Lord?’—
22 whenever a prophet speaks in my name and the prediction is not fulfilled, then I have not spoken it; the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”
We hold Jews to be accountable unfairly
According to the word they deemed that Jesus was not authorized to speak as he did. Deut. 18:20
Their challenge was not taking personal responsibility for their faith
When does everything start to change?
When does everything start to change?
Witness of the disciples is that nothing had changed.
Jesus: “You are not permitted to know”
4 In the wilderness John the baptizer began preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
5 People from the whole Judean countryside and all of Jerusalem were going out to him, and he was baptizing them in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.
The change began at the appearance of Christ
The story of Nicedemous