College Press Bible Study Textbook Series
Acts 2 - Introduction
THE CHURCH IN JERUSALEM
All the events of the first seven Chapter s can be summed up under the heading: The Church in Jerusalem. In the picture of the preceding page you can observe an artist's conception of Jerusalem as it appeared in the time of the events recorded in the book. Within the walls are designated four buildings. These are lettered and named as follows:
A.
The Upper Room,
B.
The Temple,
C.
The Public Ward or Jail,
D.
The Synagogue of the Libertines.
In and around these buildings, (which, with the exception of the Temple, are conjecturally located) all the events recorded in the first seven Chapter s took place. These events can be counted as eighteen in number and are so designated on the preceding page. You can follow these events, one by one, as to where they took place and as to what happened by following the numbers on the chart from one through eighteen and reading the scripture references given.
The pages following are simply an enlargement upon the points or numbers you found upon the foregoing picture. The scripture is printed under the heading of the points and the comment following is intended to make the events recorded in the text a living reality to your mind and heart.
ACTS EXAMINATION OVER Chapter S ONE AND TWO
1.
What do you think of the title of the book?
2.
Give two reasons for saying Luke wrote the book.
3.
What does Nero have to do with the book of Acts?
4.
How many years are covered in this narrative?
5.
How do I know that gospel preaching began in this book?
6.
Do you say the church has the record of its beginning in this book? Prove it.
7.
What four cities appear most often in this book?
8.
What is meant by the divine execution of the great commission?
9.
What is a treatise?
10.
Is everything Jesus taught recorded in the New Testament?
11.
What is The commandment spoken of in verse two?
12.
In what places was the great commission given?
13.
What question did the apostles ask Jesus on His last day on earth?
14.
What is strange about the above question?
89.
With an open Bible outline the five results of the unity.
90.
Should the community of goods described in these verses be practiced today? If not, why not?
91.
Why would it be logical to imagine Jehovah saying while looking over the list of names in the Lamb's book of life these are my called out ones, my church?
15.
How did the promise of the power answer the question of the apostles?
16.
How will Jesus come in like manner as He went?
17.
What comparison can we make in Acts 1:1 to Acts 2:12 to our lives? (Read the text).
18.
How did the apostles secure the upper room as place for their living?
19.
Name the twelve apostles.
20.
Was there a ten day prayer meeting? If not, what was there?
True or False
_________
1.
There was a lapse of time between the prayer meeting and the filling of the office of Judas.
_________
2.
The filling of the office of Judas happened while there were 120 present in the large upper room.
_________
3.
The filling of the office of Judas lends no particular force to the thought that only the apostles were baptized in the Holy Spirit.
_________
4.
Isaiah said: Let his habitation be made desolate, and let no man dwell therein and, his office let another take.
_________
5.
It was 700 years between the prophecy and its fulfillment.
_________
6.
Judas pointed Jesus out to His enemies by kissing Him.
_________
7.
Jesus never really called Judas.
_________
8.
Judas did not himself buy the field in which he fell. (i.e. personally).
_________
9.
Judas was slaughtered in this field.
_________
10.
It was a potter's field.
_________
11.
The field came to be called by strangers: The field of blood.
_________
12.
There was only one direct qualification given for an apostle.
_________
13.
The apostles knew even before Pentecost that they were to preach the resurrection of Christ.
_________
14.
The place to which Judas fell was the paupers-' field.
_________
15.
God was the one who chose Matthias.
Fill in the Blanks
1.
The five steps in discovering God's will in matters that are not spoken of in God's word are:
Know that ___________________________________________________________ ______ Second. Know that _____________________________________________ _____________________________________ Third. To have ___________________ _____________________________________________________________________
Fourth. To pray ________________________________________________________
Fifth. Make ___________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2.
The day of Pentecost was the day toward which the whole ___________ and ___________ of Jesus pointed.
3.
On this day Jesus-' words in Caesarea Philippi were fulfilled when He said: _______________________________________________________ Matthew 16:18
4.
The hand of God can be seen in the selection of the day of Pentecost as the day for the establishment of the church for the proper ________ were present, the proper ________ was present, and the proper ________ was present to accomplish this wonderful work.
5.
The apostles were all together in an ____________________________ in the temple for the Holy Spirit baptism.
6.
The day of Pentecost was also called the feast of the __________________________ because:
7.
The reason for the sound as of a rushing wind and the tongues like as of fire was to attract ______________ and ______________ from the crowd.
8.
We can know for a certainty that verse of the ______________ second chapter is a fulfillment of verse ______ of the first chapter.
9.
The ______________ of the apostles was that portion of their beings baptized in the Holy Spirit.
10.
There was devout Jews from ______________ (give the number) nations present in Jerusalem for Pentecost.
Can you find TEN MISTAKES in this paragraph?
(Cross out the mistakes)
All the crowd said: They are filled with new wine. But Peter standing up with the twelve lifted up his voice and spake forth unto them and said: Ye men of Judea and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem. then it was that he said it was only the ninth hour of the day and therefore these men could not be drunk. He further said that this was a fulfillment of Jacob's prophecy. The last days mentioned are the last days of Israel and Jacob. The pouring forth of His spirit upon all flesh was not accomplished on that day in any form. The statements in verses seventeen and eighteen relative to the prophesying and visions (read them if you like) can be understood as the baptism in the Holy Spirit of such persons. The proposition of Peter's sermon was: A demonstration of Jesus as the Christ. His sermon was addressed directly to the men present and brought great conviction to them. There were five points in the sermon's development. David spoke of the death, burial and resurrection of the Messiah. These facts Peter's sermon demonstrated occurred in the life of the Christ. There were two results to Peter's sermon. The three thousand were baptized in a day or two and thus on the coming Lord's day they continued in the breaking of the bread.