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The book of Acts tells the story of the church’s most important juncture with history. In spite of rejections of the Messiah, God’s unconditional promises are in the process of realization in Luke’s account of salvation history. Luke’s story narrates and thereby interprets the fulfillment of conditional and unconditional promises in history and narrates the responses of believers and unbelievers....

Here it is not the Spirit which filled all the house, but the sound. Luke’s use of analogy shows that we are not dealing with natural phenomena but with the inbreaking of the powers of heaven. The storm symbolizes the audible presence of the Spirit of God. In addition visual tongues as of fire appeared, distributed and resting on each one of them, not just on the Twelve. The sound like a storm and the tongues like fire signify from where the Spirit comes, from heaven. The distribution of the tongues
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