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ACTS
APOSTLES
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OF THE
One more feature must be brought into line, to demonstrate the movement of the Acts of the Apostles from
Jerusalem to Rome, from the Jew to the Gentile and that is the insistence of both Peter and Paul, that the message
each had to deliver was `sent' to a specific people.
Peter.- To Israel. `Unto you first God ... SENT Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his
iniquities' (Acts 3:26).
`The word which God SENT unto the children of Israel' (Acts 10:36).
Paul.- To Jew and Gentile. `Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you
feareth God, TO YOU is the word of this salvation SENT' (Acts 13:26).
`It was necessary that the word of God should FIRST have been spoken to you (Jews); but seeing ye put it from
you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the GENTILES' (Acts 13:46).
Paul.- To the Gentile only. `Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is SENT unto the
GENTILES, and that they will hear it' (Acts 28:28).
The present dispensational boundary is not at Pentecost, not in Acts 13, but at that crucial point in the apostle's
ministry when Israel were `dismissed' (`departed', Acts 28:25,29 is too tame a word, it means `divorced', see
Matthew 1:19; 5:31,32). The recognition of this one fact solves the problem of the discontinuance of Pentecostal
gifts, and illuminates the prophecy of Daniel 9. (See SEVENTY WEEKS OF DANIEL NINE9).
The analysis of the Acts here presented is necessarily limited, and must be supplemented by the studies
presented on the many side issues already referred to. For our present purpose we conclude this analysis by
repeating the geographical, the racial and the alliterative, followed by the literary structure of Acts as a whole.
Acts 1 to 12
Acts 13,14
Acts 28
Jerusalem
Antioch
Rome
Jews only
Jew and Gentile
Gentile only
Restoration
Reconciliation
Rejection
Unto you first ... sent.
To you is ... sent.
Sent to the Gentiles.
Structure of the Acts
The Present Treatise
Acts 1:15 to 28:31
PETER
A 1:15 to 2:13.
JERUSALEM. Holy Spirit. The Twelve.
B 2:14 to 8:1.
Peter and others. Israel. Jerusalem.
C 8:1 to 11:30.
Peter and others. One Message to a Gentile.
D 12:1-23.
Jerusalem. Prison. Close of ministry.
PAUL
A 12:24 to 13:3.
ANTIOCH. Holy Spirit. Paul and Barnabas.
B 13:4 to 14:28.
Paul and others. Independently of the twelve.
C 15:1 to 19:20.
Paul and others. Associated with the twelve. Seven epistles to believers. One of which
is to Hebrews.
D 19:21 to 28:31.
Rome. Prison. Close of one ministry, and commencement of the present
`dispensation of the mystery'.