[Faith Presses On]

Heavenly Father, thank You for raising us to life with Your Son whom You gave for us. Help us in our study of Your Word and also help all of Your missionaries, pastors and church leaders, and all those being persecuted for Your Son's sake. Help us, too, as we face living in this time and place which is more and more rejecting Your Son and in which coldness is growing in many churches, and help our leaders in the world, including the Trumps and Pences. Help and protect, too, children who are being abused. In Jesus' name, Amen.

[Ezekiel]

I know this wanders into other chapters, but that's because it always interests me to see how chapters connect to the next chapters and the end of one book will connect to the beginning on another.

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_proof

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.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Amen.

And thanks for posting one of the most important Chapters in the history of the world.