Bitten By the Mid-Acts Love Bug 
Bitten By the Mid-Acts Love Bug
Following up with the fact that Paul was not teaching the mystery to the Bereans in Acts 17:11, due to the fact that Paul says they can find what he teaches by studying the OT scriptures.
Then we have Paul in Acts 26:
Acts 26:22 KJV
(22) Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:
This is in contrast to preaching the mystery that was hidden.
I love exploring these differences between us who are Mid-Acts/Acts 9.
Just love it!
Even more so when we explore
how we arrived at our conclusions and their resulting assertions!
The way I learned
how to study these issues out, does not lead me to your above quoted assertion, Tambora.
What I see in your
how is that you applied deduction instead of induction first.
In fact, that is exactly what our opposition consistently does; which is why they believe what they are seeing is correct; that we're the one's off our rocker.
Deduction too soon, for example, had kept J.C. O'Hair stuck for some time between the rock and the hard place that are Acts 2 and Acts 28.
He'd come to see that Acts 2 was too soon in one's deductions as to the Body's beginning, but at the same time, and for a time, he had been unsure, if Acts 28 was too late as to said beginning.
It was not until he stopped comparing the passages towards deducing from them a conclusion he could live with, and instead began to apply much a more inductive approach to his studies prior to attempting to deduce a conclusion that he was at last able to see a Mid-Acts beginning for the Body.
And that moment - that is our moment too.
Just over two hundred years before O'Hair, what's his name's pet peeve, John Nelson Darby's writings indicate something similar - that it was only after all the information he had gathered [Induction] and then just as exhaustively studied out as to some common feature within all that information, some general rule of thumb he might then be able to rely on as a guide to his deductions, that the distinction between Israel and the Body practically leaped off the pages of Scripture at him.
While some three hundred years before that, Martin Luther related a same kind of a moment; in which that distinction that leaped up out of the Scripture at him exploded into the raging fire that had been that brief moment of brightness that had so lit up all Europe with its glorious light - "the just shall live BY FAITH!"
I just love that - that's us - that's that same moment that each of us within Mid-Acts have also experienced; that all those naysayers out there have not; for their disinterest in the Book they assert is Sola Scriptura.
In this I have no doubt that we have not been alone out of all those billions of people that have come and gone since our beloved Apostle penned his last known words - The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen - 2 Timothy 4:22.
That moment in those men is our actual history all the way back to when Saul of Tarsus was forced to note his own first distinction - note, sis - note our actual history that only we can understand between us throughout the world wherever Mid-Acts is rejoiced in, for that wondrous first time in common to each and every one of us:
Paul's Acts 9 Distinction - Acts 26
8. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
9. I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
10. Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.
11. And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
Here it comes, Saul, that moment we share with you!
12. Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,
13. At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.
14. And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
That's right brother, we shut up our notions, and we ask!
15. And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
16. But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the
which I will appear unto thee;
17. Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
18. To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Hunh - say what - BUT - nevertheless, what was his/our attitude - why are we in the pickle we are in with everyone?
19. Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
20. But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
And boy oh boy does that cause tribulation to rejoice in!
21. For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.
That trouble-maker, how dare he be our pattern as to following the Living Word on these things, lol.
Anyway, that's my heart. That's -
Our - heart.
In the next segment I'll return to the subject I pulled a Richard Jordan on - went off after a rabbit on, in my excitement over the mutual faith both of you and me, lol
