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[1] {My Lord and My God}
The deity of Jesus Christ is declared in Scripture: (1) In the
intimations and explicit predictions of the O.T. (a) The theophanies
intimate the appearance of God in human form, and His ministry thus to
man
# Ge 16:7-13 18:2-23
especially
# Ge 18:17 32:28
with
# Ho 12:3-5 Ex 3:2-14
(b) The Messiah is expressly declared to be the Son of God
# Ps 2:2-9
and God
# Ps 45:6,7 Heb 1:8,9 Ps 110:1 Mt 22:44 Ac 2:34
# Heb 1:13 Ps 110:4 Heb 5:6 6:20 7:17-21 Zec 6:13
(c) His virgin birth was foretold as the means through which God could
be "Immanuel," God with us
# Isa 7:13,14 Mt 1:22,23
(d) The Messiah is expressly invested with the divine names
# Isa 9:6,7
(e) In a prophecy of His death He is called Jehovah's "fellow"
# Zec 13:7 Mt 26:31
(f) His eternal being is declared
# Mic 5:2 Mt 2:6 Joh 7:42
(2) Christ Himself affirmed His deity. (a) He applied to Himself the
Jehovistic \\I AM\\. (The pronoun "he" is not in the Greek; cf
# Joh 8:24 8:56-58
The Jews correctly understood this to be our Lord's claim to
full deity.
# Joh 8:59
See also,
# Joh 10:33 18:4-6
where, also, "he" is not in the original.) (b) He claimed to be the
Adonai of the O.T.
# Mt 22:42-45
» See Note "Ge 15:2"
(c) He asserted His identity with the Father
# Mt 28:19 Mr 14:62 Joh 10:30
that the Jews so understood Him is shown by
# Joh 10:31,32 14:8,9 17:5
(d) He exercised the chief prerogative of God
# Mr 2:5-7 Lu 7:48-50
(e) He asserted omnipresence
# Mt 18:20 Joh 3:13
omniscience
# Joh 11:11-14
when Jesus was fifty miles away;
# Mr 11:6-8
omnipotence
# Mt 28:18 Lu 7:14 Joh 5:21-23 6:19
mastery over nature, and creative power
# Lu 9:16,17 Joh 2:9 10:28
(f) He received and approved human worship
# Mt 14:33 28:9 Joh 20:28,29
(3) The N.T. writers ascribe divine titles to Christ
# Joh 1:1 20:28 Ac 20:28 Ro 1:4 9:5 2Th 1:12 1Ti 3:16 Tit 2:13 Heb 1:8
# 1Jo 5:20
(4) The N.T. writers ascribe divine perfections and attributes to Christ
(e.g.
# Mt 11:28 18:20 28:20 28:20 Joh 1:2 2:23-25 3:13 5:17 21:17
# Heb 1:3,11,12 13:8 Re 1:8,17,18 2:23 11:17 22:13
(5) The N.T. writers ascribe divine works to Christ
# Joh 1:3,10 Col 1:16,17 Heb 1:3
(6) The N.T. writers teach that supreme worship should be paid to Christ
# Ac 7:59,60 1Co 1:2 2Co 13:14 Php 2:9,10 Heb 1:6 Re 1:5,6 5:12,13
(7) The holiness and resurrection of Christ prove His deity
# Joh 8:46 Ro 1:4
03760
[1] {kingdom}
Forty days the risen Lord had been instructing the apostles "of the
things pertaining to the kingdom of God," doubtless, according to His
custom
# Lu 24:27,32,44,45
teaching them out of the Scriptures. One point was left untouched,
viz., the \\time\\ when He would restore the kingdom to Israel; hence
the apostles' question. The answer was according to His repeated
teaching; the \\time\\ was God's secret
# Mt 24:36,42,44 25:13 1Th 5:1
03780
Scofield Reference Notes (1917): Book Introduction The Acts of the Apostles
\\WRITER.\\ In the Acts of the Apostles Luke continues the account of
Christianity begun in the Gospel which bears his name. In the "former
treatise" he tells what Jesus "began both to do and teach"; in the Acts,
what Jesus continued to do and teach through His Holy Spirit sent down.
\\DATE.\\ The Acts concludes with the account of Paul's earliest
ministry in Rome, A.D. 65, and appears to have been written at or near
that time.
\\THEME.\\ This book records the ascension and promised return of the
Lord Jesus, the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, Peter's use of
the keys, opening the kingdom (considered as the sphere of profession, as
in Mat. 13) to the Jews at Pentecost, and to the Gentiles in the house of
Cornelius; the beginning of the Christian church and the conversion and
ministry of Paul.
The Holy Spirit fills the scene. As the presence of the Son, exalting
and revealing the Father, is the great fact of the Gospels, so the
presence of the Spirit, exalting and revealing the Son, is the great fact
of the Acts.
Acts is in two chief parts: In the first section (1-9.43) Peter is the
prominent personage, Jerusalem is the center, and the ministry is to
Jews. Already in covenant relations with Jehovah, they had sinned in
rejecting Jesus as \\the Christ\\. The preaching, therefore, was
directed to that point, and repentance (i.e. "a changed mind") was
demanded. The apparent failure of the Old Testament promises concerning
the Davidic kingdom was explained by the promise that the kingdom would
be set up at the return of Christ (Ac 2.25-31 15.14-16). This ministry
to Israel fulfilled Lu 19.12-14. In the persecutions of the apostles and
finally in the martyrdom of Stephen, the Jews sent after the king the
message, "We will not have this man to reign over us." In the second
division (10.1-28.31) Paul is prominent, a new center is established at
Antioch, and the ministry is chiefly to Gentiles who, as "strangers
from the covenants of promise" (Ep 2.12), had but to "believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ" to be saved. Chapters 11, 12, and 15 of this section are
transitional, establishing finally the distinction, doctrinally, between
law and grace. Galatians should be read in this connection.
The events recorded in The Acts cover a period of 32 years.
03785
[1] {again the \\kingdom\\ to Israel}
Forty days the risen Lord had been instructing the apostles "of the
things pertaining to the kingdom of God," doubtless, according to His
custom
# Lu 24:27,32,44,45
teaching them out of the Scriptures. One point was left untouched,
viz., the \\time\\ when He would restore the kingdom to Israel; hence
the apostles' question. the answer was according to His repeated
teaching; the \\time\\ was God's secret.
# Mt 24:36,42,44 25:13 1Th 5:1
03790
[1] {come}
The two Advents--Summary: (1) The O.T. foreview of the coming Messiah is
in two aspects--that of rejection and suffering (as e.g. in Is 53), and
that of earthly glory and power (as e.g. In Is 11 Jer 23 Ez 37). Often
these two aspects blend in one passage (e.g. Ps 2). The prophets
themselves were perplexed by this seeming contradiction
# 1Pe 1:10,11
It was solved by partial fulfilment. In due time the Messiah, born of a
virgin according to Isaiah, appeared among men and began His ministry by
announcing the predicted kingdom as "at hand"
» See Note "Mt 4:17"
The rejection of King and kingdom followed. (2) Thereupon the rejected King
announced His approaching crucifixion, resurrection, departure, and
return
# Mt 12:38-40 16:1-4,21,27 Lu 12:35-46 17:20-36 18:31-34 19:12-27
# Mt 24:25
(3) He uttered predictions concerning the course of events
between His departure and return
# Mt 13:1-50 16:18 24:4-26
(4) This promised return of Christ becomes a prominent theme in the Acts,
Epistles, and Revelation.
Taken together, the N.T. teachings concerning the return of Jesus Christ
may be summarized as follows: (1) That return is an event, not a process,
and is personal and corporeal
# Mt 23:39 24:30 25:31 Mr 14:62 Lu 17:24 Joh 14:3 Ac 1:11 Php 3:20,21
# 1Th 4:14-17
(2) His coming has a threefold relation: to the church, to Israel, to
the nations.
(a) To the church the descent of the Lord into the air to raise the
sleeping and change the living saints is set forth as a constant
expectation and hope
# Mt 24:36,44,48-51 25:13 1Co 15:51,52 Phm 3:20 1Th 1:10 4:14-17
# 1Ti 6:14 Tit 2:13 Re 22:20
(b) To Israel, the return of the Lord is predicted to accomplish the yet
unfulfilled prophecies of her national regathering, conversion, and
establishment in peace and power under the Davidic Covenant
# Ac 15:14-17
with
# Zec 14:1-9
See "Kingdom (O.T.)"
# 2Sa 7:8-17
» See Note "Zec 13:8"
# Lu 1:21-33
» See Note "1Co 15:24"
(c) To the Gentile nations the return of Christ is predicted to bring the
destruction of the present political world-system
# Da 2:34,35
» See Note "Re 19:11"
the judgment of
# Mt 25:31-46
followed by world-wide Gentile conversion and participation in the
blessings of the kingdom
# Isa 2:2-4 11:10 60:3 Zec 8:3,20,23 14:16-21