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Feb 12, 2023 • 4:45 PM

Looking in Acts 1-12 for the gospel of our salvation is a "wild goose chase!"

Peter calls convicted Israelites to repent, be baptized, receive the promised gift, escape their crooked generation, and join Jerusalem’s believing remnant through faith and obedience.

Peter proves from Psalm 16 and Psalm 110 that Jesus rose, ascended, poured out the Holy Ghost at Pentecost, and is both Lord and Christ.

Peter confronts Israel with Jesus of Nazareth: approved by God, taken by wicked hands, crucified by men, and raised because death could not hold Him.

Peter explains Pentecost from Joel, rejects drunkenness, addresses Jerusalem’s Jews, and places Spirit-filled speech within Israel’s last-days prophetic program, not Pauline mystery doctrine.

Pentecost brings the promised Holy Ghost in Jerusalem, with real languages understood by Jews from many nations, preparing Peter’s prophetic explanation from Joel.

Acts 1:18-26 explains Judas’s end, Peter’s use of the Psalms, the qualifications for replacing Judas, and Matthias being numbered with the eleven apostles.

Acts 1:12-26 shows the apostles waiting in Jerusalem, Judas’s vacancy explained by Scripture, and Matthias chosen to restore the twelve before Pentecost.

Acts 1:6-14 clarifies Israel’s kingdom hope, apostolic witness power, Christ’s visible ascension and return, and Jerusalem’s united company waiting in prayer for the Father’s promised provision.