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The book of Acts is unlike any other in Scripture; it has no rival in terms of a book spanning so many different lands. Written by a Gentile, it recounts the birth of the church age and the lives of early Christians that serve as lasting examples for the church today. When believers see how these events worked together to fulfill God’s promises, they gain a better understanding of the Trinitarian...

Jewish rabbi. The resurrection and the ascent validate what happened on the cross. Second, David Moffitt has argued that Luke connects forgiveness and purification with Jesus’s exaltation.19 The ascension is the culminating sacrificial act as Jesus conveys the materials of the sacrifice into God’s presence and presents his blood by approaching the true altar in heaven. Acts notably begins with Jesus’s ascent, thus putting the whole book under the banner of blood, forgiveness, and purification. Third,
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