Naked Bible 35: Acts 1:1-11

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 5 February 2015

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Most Bible students would say this passage is about the ascension of Jesus to heaven. For sure that’s described, but the passage directs our attention to several points of biblical theology that are simultaneously tied to the OT and look forward to the events of Pentecost described in Acts 2. In other words, Luke isn’t just reporting the ascension—he’s framing the theological context for what he’ll be describing in his second book. In this episode we’ll see how Acts 1:1-11 makes us think carefully about how the NT writers connected their thoughts to the OT. The passage raises questions about the kingdom of God and eschatology—specifically, whose eschatology are we talking about, and what is the kingdom of God? Rather than filter the passage through theological systems to which we’ve been exposed, we need to allow the OT to guide our thinking about Jesus’ teaching and the events of his life—just like the NT authors did. Discussing these things in the context of the OT passages to which Luke alludes helps us see the beginning of an important biblical-theological motif: the “already but not yet” nature of God’s plan for reclaiming the nations and having a human family to rule and reign with him.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Native Bioblog Podcast.
0:23.0	Welcome back.
0:24.0	You're listening to the Native Bioblog Podcast episode number 35, Acts 1st Chapter
0:29.7	Verse 1 through 11.
0:31.7	I'm your residential layman, Trace Strickland, and he's the scholar, Dr. Michael Heiser.
0:36.5	Hey Mike, how are you?
0:38.5	Good.
0:39.5	How are you doing, Tray?
0:40.5	I'm doing pretty good.
0:41.5	Well, we want to get into Acts 1 through 11 today and I should tell people that I'm going
0:47.3	to be reading a lot of passages and I do that because I can't assume and won't assume
0:51.8	that you have a Bible along with you.
0:53.3	But if you do, whether it's in digital form or something sitting on your table or your
0:58.0	lap, you'll want to have it with you while we do these sessions, these episodes, because
1:04.0	I will want to take you into the text, but I'm going to try for the most part to read
1:08.4	a lot of scripture for those who are just listening, maybe driving or doing something else.
1:13.3	So with that introduction, let's go to Acts 1 and I'm going to read the first 11 verses
1:19.4	since that's where we'll be camped out today.
1:21.8	And I'm going to be reading in the ESV.
1:25.4	So if you have that version, that's the easiest one to follow.
1:28.6	If not, that'll all be basically the same.
1:32.0	So verse 1, in the first book of Theophilus, I have dealt with all the Jesus began to
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