SaulToPaul 2
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The times of refreshing are the spirit of God coming in Acts. The fulfillment is not exact like the past. The Israel that was envisioned was going to be a blessing to the world through the same message of Christ. this is why Ps 68 mentions the Messianic gifts to be given after Messiah's ascension (as interp'd by Eph 4). This is why the mission, not the land of Israel, is the attention of the apostles all through Acts, and they keep trying to get those with the background of Judaism to take up the mission, right to the last paragraph. It is never about a fulfillment in the previous sense, never a replication of the monarchy of the past etc.
By now it seems like you would see this from 2-3, 13, 15 and 26 of Acts, but the roots of the land of Israel fulfillment run deeper in you and those in 2P2P than does the truth as found in Christ.
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Bible believers do not talk this way. Your commentaries are doing you a great disservice.