Join us as we read the scriptures and a daily devotion written by Don Crisp. We pray these messages will bless us all at this time.
Acts chapter 11:27-30:
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Acts chapter 11:27-30:
V27: The NT speaks of the gift of prophecy in the early church. Sometimes the term refers to declaring God’s Word with God-given Authority, in Holy Spirit power, but sometimes, as here a God-given revelation of things to come. In this sense, we would hold, with many Bible teachers, that the gift was for the immediate NT period, the Apostolic age, like some other gifts found in the NT.
V28: One such prophet, Agabus foretells a great famine throughout the Roman world – Luke, the careful historian, records that this happened when Claudius was Emperor – not in fact long after this chapter.
V29: The Antioch church at once decide to send a gift, each contributing what they could, for the relief of the Jewish believers in Judea.This was a gracious and loving gesture from this largely Gentile church to Jewish believers they did not know.
V30: Barnabas and Saul ( as he still is at this stage ) are chosen to take the gift up to the Elders in the Jerusalem church. Similar gifts from Gentile churches to their Jewish brothers remained a significant part of Paul’s later dealings with the churches, and his concern to foster love between Gentile and Jewish Christians. ( See for example 2 Corinthians 8:1-5.)