Bible Questions #4016-4029

By Joyce Webb\

Acts          Chapter 1 Verses 1-14

4016. Who is the letter/book written to? ___________________

(Bible teachers tell us that this letter/book was written by Luke—Luke was a follower of Jesus and he was a doctor/physician)

4017. Verse 2 Luke said that Jesus had been “taken up” by the H___________ S __________________.

When Jesus was last talking to his disciples and others—-Jesus went up in the air and went into the clouds.)

4018. Verse 3 After Jesus came alive again from the dead—-he was seen in different places for how many days? _______________

4019. Verse 4 When Jesus and his disciples were together—-he told them not to leave ______________________ but to wait for the ______________________ of the Father.

4020. Verse 5 John the Baptist baptized people in ___________,

But in a few days, they would be baptized in the ______________

______________________.

4021. Verse 5, 7 The disciples asked Jesus if –at this time—God would give back the rule of the Jewish land to the Jews. (Remember, Rome ruled over their land now.) But Jesus said, it was not for them to know _______________________________

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(The Jewish people—even the disciples—-thought that the “Messiah” “Savior” that the Old Testament prophets said that God promised to come—–would be a man who would be a king.

He would win a war against the nations who ruled over the Jewish lands, and this king would make it possible for the Jewish people to live in their own land, and have their own king—like it was in the Old Testament times.

That was their idea of the Messiah. Today, that is still the idea that Jewish people have of the Messiah.

Never did the Jewish people think that their “Messiah”, “Savior” would be a “preacher, healer”. That he would die.

They thought at some time, Jesus would become this great king/warrior and save them from Rome. Then the Jewish people would have their land back.

To see Jesus as a preacher. teacher, healer, and to die was so surprising to them. They could not understand. Many could not believe—- because it did not fit their idea of what the Messiah was.

When Jesus died then came to life again—they saw that only God could do something like that.

They began to see Jesus differently. They still thought that he would free their people from Rome rule. That is why they asked him the question.

It took the disciples awhile to fully understand that Jesus’ coming the first time to earth—-was to die for people’s sins.

When Jesus comes to earth the second time—the Jewish people in Israel will be fighting a war with the nations around them—this will be the Battle of Armageddon —there will be such powerful weapons that Israel will begin to lose —-when they feel that they are about to go down—Jesus will come down to earth —and he will destroy all those other nations.

The people of Israel will see it is Jesus—the one they rejected before. They will know that he was and is the Messiah. Jesus will at that time become king of the world. He will rule over the whole world.

4022. Vs. 8 They were to receive ________________ after the ________________ ____________________ came on them.

4023. And they were to be a witness to ______________________. _______________________, _________________________, and

_____________________________________________________.

4024. Vs. 5 What happen here in verse 5? _________________

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4025. Vs. 10 As the people were looking up into the sky,

Two __________________ stood near. They were dressed in

____________________ clothing, robes.

4026. Vs. 11 They asked the people, “Why are you standing here looking up?” This ______________ _______________ which

you have seen go into heaven, shall ___________________

in the same __________________________ (way) as you have seen him go. (In other words, Jesus went up into the clouds and He will come down from the clouds in the future.)

4027. Vs. 12 Where were they standing— when Jesus went up into the clouds—on Mount _____ _________________.

4028. Vs. 12 How far was that from Jerusalem? ________

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4029. Vs. 13,14 The 11 disciples went to the upper room to wait for the “promise of the Father” which was the baptism of the Holy Spirit. (At that time, they did not know what Jesus meant when he said “baptism of the Holy Spirit”.)

There were some other people with the disciples—who were they?

____________________________. ________________________________________.

___________________________________________ (notice this—before now—his brothers did not believe he was the Son of God.

They even mocked him. But now, the brothers—at least, two of them—are here with the disciples.)