Pivotal Chapter

The Bible begins in dramatic fashion with the creation.  "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."  It then follows a thread of history leading up to the New Testament, to Jesus Himself, and to all the happenings to Jesus through His ministry and His death and resurrection.  In all of this building, there is a flow that is pointing toward the coming of a king, a great kingdom, a messiah, a new beginning.

All of this building, this progression, is leading to the pivotal chapter in all of the Bible.  This chapter is Acts 2.  It is here that all that the Old Testament was leading up to, all that Jesus prepared for, the beginnings of the kingdom are reflected on earth.  Jesus had left His apostles as recorded in the first chapter of Acts and gone into heaven to reign from the throne.  He left the apostles to carry on the work; and He sent the Holy Spirit back to help these men in their work, to give them power to work miracles and prove that they were for real, carrying a real message for a real Messiah.

The reader is encouraged to read all of Acts 2; it is very powerful.  It begins, "When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.  Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.  They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire...."  It is this major event and the occurrences to follow that would begin the existence of "Christians" and the "church."  

After this pivotal chapter, the rest of Acts tells of the conversion of many people and the development of the church....in Israel and on beyond into all of the known world.  After the book of Acts, the NT tells Christians how to live, how to serve, how to avoid the evil of Satan.  It all revolves around the key chapter in all of the Bible.....Acts chapter 2.

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