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The Naked Bible Podcast

Naked Bible 37: Acts 2:1-21

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2015

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

While this episode covers Acts 2:1-21, the emphasis is on vv. 14-21. The first thirteen verses are only summarized with respect to what they describe and its biblical-theological significance. Listeners are encouraged to watch the video Introducing the Divine Council Worldview (located under “New? Start Here!”). The second half of that video covers Acts 2:1-13, the events of Pentecost. Acts 2:14-21 takes us back to the New Covenant idea of the Old Testament. Dr. Heiser talks about the connections between these verses and items in Acts 1, Jer 31:31-34, Ezek 36:22-27, and Joel 2:28-32, which Peter quotes in this section of Acts 2. The episode gets into how these inter-connections should inform how we think about eschatology (end times) and biblical theology in general.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Neck-A-Fible Podcast episode 37, Acts 2, verse 1321.

0:29.5

I'm your residential layman, Tray Strickland, and he's the scholar, Dr. Michael Heiser.

0:34.4

How are you doing?

0:35.9

Very good. How are you, Tray?

0:37.3

Doing pretty good. I'm excited about Acts 2 because I think we kind of get into the meat

0:41.9

of the world view, the divine counsel, so I'm excited to hear it.

0:47.0

Yeah, well, I'm hoping actually that people have taken the advice both on the website and in the

0:54.5

last episode to make sure that they view the video because I'm not going to rehearse all the content

1:00.2

of the video. I'm more or less going to summarize it in a couple minutes and then move on.

1:04.4

So, in Acts 2, we might as well just jump in here. Having said that, I hope that you did

1:11.6

watch the video because the video, again, is the one that deals with the divine counsel world view,

1:18.3

and that covers both old and new testament. When you get to the new testament portion of that video

1:23.0

on the Naked Bible Podcast website, you'll, again, see how the events of Acts 2 factor in or

1:31.7

build from, you know, link into, link back into the events of the Old Testament specifically,

1:38.4

the events of Deuteronomy 32, verses 8 and 9, where the nations were divided at Babel,

1:45.2

which, of course, is recorded as an incident in Genesis 11. So, in the video, essentially,

1:51.2

to summarize that because that's why we made the video. I'm not going to go back and, you know,

1:56.0

today and just go through all the content. But to make the summary as short as I can possibly make it,

2:04.7

what happens in Acts 2 looks back on the division of the nations in Genesis 10 and 11,

2:12.4

the 10th Genesis chapter 10, of course, is the table of nations, and those nations are the ones

2:17.6

referred to in chapter 11 of Genesis with the Tower of Babel Incident, where the God has to

2:24.8

got us to punish the nations and divide them and disperse the people all over the earth.

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