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NASB | Acts 28:23 ¶ When they had set a day for Paul, they came to him at his lodging in large numbers; and he was explaining to them by solemnly testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to persuade them concerning Jesus, from both the Law of Moses and from the Prophets, from morning until evening. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 28:23 ¶ When they had set a day for Paul, they came to his lodging in large numbers. And he carefully explained [Christianity] to them from morning until evening, solemnly testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to persuade them concerning Jesus, both from the Law of Moses and from the [writings of the] Prophets. |
Subject: Progressive Revelation of the Kingdom |
Bible Note: "From man's point of view we see the Scriptures unfold a step-by-step process until the gospel is reached as the goal. But from God's point of view we know that the coming of Christ to live and to die for sinners was the pre-determined factor even before God made the world. We must not think of God trying first one plan and then another until He came up with the perfect way of salvation. The gospel was pre-ordained so that at the exact and perfect time God sent forth His Son into the world. "In the meantime, until that perfect 'fullness of time' should be reached, God graciously provided a progressive revelation of the Christ event. These prefigurements of the gospel had two purposes: First, this progressive revelation led man gently to the full light of truth. Secondly, it provided the means whereby the Old Testament believer embraced the gospel before it was fully revealed. The Old Testament believer who believed the promises of God concerning the shadow was thus enabled to grasp the reality. It was by Christ that the saints of Israel were saved, for such is the unity of the successive stages of revelation that, by embracing the shadow, the believer embraced the reality. Only in this way can we account for the 'unity expressions' of the New Testament which speak of Old Testament believers as hearing the gospel, seeing Christ, or hoping for a heavenly Kingdom." --Graeme Goldsworthy (1981) from his book, "Gospel and Kingdom: A Christian Interpretation of the Old Testament" |
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