Interplanner
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lol,the part where they believed and ask "will you restore the kingdom to Israel at this time?" Acts 1:6 KJV is the hard one to swallow though isn't it? It's just wayyy to much fun to say "Darby invented it!". Hint,,,"spiritualize it away",thats usually the next move.
My response to it is they still couldn't adapt to what the Spirit of God was going to do; they couldn't believe that what he had taught from the prophets and law was fulfilled in him.
I understand why MADs think that the apostles denseness or lack of reception lends to the belief of a "kingdom offer" until Acts 3. But that raises the question: how many faux pas (total mistakes) did they make LATE in the ministry of Christ?
1, Peter draws a sword in the garden betrayal scene. Pretty late.
2, Thomas has to have his kind of proof. Pretty late.
3, They were startled and frightened at seeing him resurrected in the room. It's not an entirely rational thing, is it?
4, the words of the ladies seemed like nonsense. Pretty late.
So in Lk 24:16 there is the additional 'inside' clue: they were kept from recognizing him.
5, we had hoped he was going to redeem Israel. Well, he did! But how it would look was not the same. This is 24:21 and ties the book together back to the "OT" songs.
All they same, they are "foolish" and "slow of heart". Pretty late. 24:25.
So I conclude that there was nothing unusual about the momentum of Judaism in their thoughts in Acts 1. The question was misguided but we know they were pretty slow.