Acts- Ac.1:3-8 “infallible proofs”

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“(Disciples)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.” (v.3)

Jesus revealed himself to the disciples and the Holy Spirit reveals these evidences as infallible proofs which are both in the worlds of the body and of the Spirit. It is of the latter he said, “For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.”(Luke 8:17) The same idea Mark cites (Mark 4:22) because as the true Light the ministry of Jesus was to reconcile both heaven and the earth by the single standard of the word which is eternal. ‘Thy word is truth.’

God breathed into the nostrils of Adam and made him a living soul. Before Jesus would depart he revealed,”Peace be…

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Acts of the Apostles- Ac.1:1-12 “In Like Manner”

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The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

This book is evidently continuation of the Gospel, the same writer and the same recipient. (Luke1:1-3).The Holy Spirit while organizing the God document does not leave any loose ends. God sends His word which shall return indeed, and as Isaiah says,”So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” (Is.55:11) Jesus was the word become flesh and here in these verses what the angel announced was very much in keeping with the narrative thrust of God. “Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like…

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