Posted on 07/19/2018 8:54:40 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
2 And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
3 And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
4 And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.
5 And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.
6 And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.
7 But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.
8 And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid.
9 Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.
10 And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.
11 And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not.
12 After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country.
13 And they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them.
14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
20 And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
20 And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
Continues with
Luke 1
1 Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,
2 Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;
3 It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,
4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.
5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
Aside from the literary device of Apostrophe that addresses Theophilus ("friend of God"), who is an allusion to Abraham (God's friend), the beginning of Luke is similar to the beginning of Acts, where Lukes states,
1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
2 Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:
3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
The Gospel of Mark ends with Jesus going up into heaven, then Luke begins by writing to Theophilus that he's going to lay out a proof. Then Luke links his Gospel to the continuation in Acts, which begins where Jesus is taken up to heaven. That is, where Mark left off and Luke began.
confirming the word with signs following (is that like a "Follow-Me" truck at an airport?) :)
the certainty of those things
many infallible proofs:
5039 tekmerion {tek-may'-ree-on}
from a presumed derivative of tekmar (a goal or fixed limit);; n n
AV - infallible proof 1; 1
1) that from which something is surely and plainly known
2) on indubitable evidence, a proof
Proofs are examples of exhaustive deductive reasoning or inductive reasoning and are distinguished from empirical arguments or non-exhaustive inductive reasoning (or "reasonable expectation"). A proof must demonstrate that a statement is always true (occasionally by listing all possible cases and showing that it holds in each), rather than enumerate many confirmatory cases. An unproved proposition that is believed to be true is known as a conjecture.
This type of reasoning is on a whole other track than the "reasonable expectation" (conjecture) that the apologetics industry puts foward as "proof". What would most people have thought of Moses if he had described the burning bush incident to them? People don't really want to "go there". It messes with the comfort zone of reasonable expectations.
"a goal or fixed limit"
I am reminded of what occurred on this date in history as the fulfilment of the first half of this statement from May 25, 1961:
"First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish."
Which of course meant exactly that: men going up into the heavens and returning back to earth, safe and sound. The date of that return was July 24, 1969, Tisha B'Av:
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/144575/jewish/What-Is-Tisha-BAv.htm
confirming the word with signs following
There is much that connects "That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed" with the first man on the moon, Adam the first man on earth, and the Hebrew letter lamed. Let me know if you are interested.
Amen.
And thanks for posting one of the most important Chapters in the history of the world.
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