I'll take a look when I get the chance.
Okay.
I'm never too sure about the time-lines on those books. It seems to me that if you removed Acts 9 thru Philemon, that Hebrews would pick up right where Acts 7-8 left off. Acts 7 almost sounds like a highly condensed version of Hebrews.
Right, because God's program for Israel was put on pause, not cancelled.
The epistles to the Jews were for a future generation, not the current (at the time) one.
Once God cut off Israel in Acts 9, as time went on, it was less and less likely that Christ would return within their lifetimes, as more and more were saved by grace through faith, rather than by keeping the law, and Paul's gospel became more and more prevalent, especially by the time of the Jerusalem Council in Acts 15, which was right around the time that Galatians (and maybe James, even before Galatians, and perhaps even before the Jerusalem Council (earliest date for James is thought to be AD 45, which certainly fits with the J.C. and Galatians 2)) was written.
That does not sound likely to me. They were concerned that they should leave the word of God AND serve tables.
How would serving tables affect them in such a way as to lead them to depart from what Christ had taught them? It just doesn't follow to me.
It sounds like they had a more time consuming task at hand, like writing some epistles.
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, I think you misunderstood what was being said:
Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a complaint against the Hebrews by the Hellenists, because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution. Then the twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said,
“It is not desirable that we should leave the word of God and serve tables. Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business; but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” And the saying pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch, whom they set before the apostles; and when they had prayed, they laid hands on them. Then the word of God spread, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith.
Seven Chosen to Serve - Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a complaint against the Hebrews by the Hellenists, because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution. Then the twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, “It is not...
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Jesus didn't task the Twelve (and by extension, their disciples) with meeting the physical needs of all the new disciples. He tasked them with spreading the gospel of the Kingdom (the word of God), for "the kingdom of God is at hand!" Jesus would return "before they could make it through all the cities of Israel."
Up to that point, they had been faithful in doing so, and the number of converts had multiplied. "Serving tables" would be a distraction to spreading the gospel to as many people as possible.
