{"id":19242,"date":"2019-02-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sugar-land-bible-church.local\/sermon\/the-coming-kingdom-062\/"},"modified":"2019-02-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T06:00:00","slug":"the-coming-kingdom-062","status":"publish","type":"sermon","link":"https:\/\/slbc.org\/es\/sermon\/the-coming-kingdom-062\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coming Kingdom 062"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","book":[89],"series_event":[470],"sermon_service_type":[474],"speaker":[6],"class_list":["post-19242","sermon","type-sermon","status-publish","hentry","book-acts","series_event-the-coming-kingdom","sermon_service_type-wednesday-evenings","speaker-dr-andy-woods","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":{"sermon_title":"The Coming Kingdom 062","sermon_date":"20190227","sermon_month":"2","sermon_year":"2019","sermon_notes":6468,"sermon_slides":6469,"sermon_mp3":6470,"sermon_id":"22719215915695","series_or_event":470,"service_type":[474],"speaker":6,"books_of_the_bible":89,"chapter_and_verse":"2:30-35","sermon_transcript":"Andy Woods\n\nThe Coming Kingdom\n\n2-27-19\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Acts 2:30-35\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lesson 62\n\nOn Sunday we had some people visiting from Iowa, wasn\u2019t it, and now we\u2019ve got another couple visiting from Indiana so Dave and Tamara Browning, just put\u00a0 your hand up really fast, are here visiting, they have been following us for about a year and a half on social media or internet, so that\u2019s kind of neat.\n\nLet\u2019s take our Bibles tonight if we could, open them to Acts 2, verses 30-35.\u00a0 And as you all know we\u2019ve been teaching through the doctrine of The Kingdom, so we\u2019re in chapter 18 of the book that I wrote called The Coming Kingdom,<\/em> and in this study we\u2019ve sort of laid out that the kingdom is currently in a state of postponement.\u00a0 So we don\u2019t think it\u2019s been cancelled, and we don\u2019t think it\u2019s being fulfilled now, the Kingdom promises, so our position is that the kingdom is in a state of postponement.\u00a0 But what you discover within evangelicalism or Christendom is that by and large most Christians, going really all the way back to Augustine in the fourth century, believe that we are in the kingdom now.\u00a0 So these people that teach this obviously have verses that they use to\u00a0 promote this and so rather than just giving you our view on this what I\u2019m trying to do in the latter parts of the book is give you the verses that people quote all of the time to demonstrate that we\u2019re currently in the kingdom.\u00a0 And there are many, many passages from Christ\u2019s ministry that they use, we\u2019ve sort of explained those and now we\u2019re into the section dealing with passages in Acts that people us to argue that we are currently in the kingdom.\u00a0 And no doubt the dominant chapter that\u2019s being used today to argue that we are now in the Messianic kingdom is Acts 2.\n\nI think we started that last week, didn\u2019t we?\u00a0 So rather than sort of respond to bad teaching from Acts 2 out of the gate let\u2019s first review what Acts 2 is about.\u00a0 Acts 2 is about the beginning of the church age.\u00a0 And so what happened in Acts 2:1-4 is the falling of the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 [Acts 2:1-4, \u201cWhen the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. [2] And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. [3] And there appeared to them tongues as of fire distributing themselves, and they rested on each one of them. \u00a0[4] And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.\u201d]\n\nAnd then verses 5-8 it was evidenced through the gift of tongues, which was an ability to speak in\u00a0\u00a0 a language you have never learned.\u00a0\u00a0 And there were many people from out of town there on Pentecost in Jerusalem and so they heard the apostles speaking in not just the dialect of the apostles but their own dialect of all of these out of towners.\u00a0 They were speaking in languages that they had never learned.\u00a0 That\u2019s in verses 5-8.\u00a0 [Acts 2:5-8, \u201cNow there were Jews living in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven. [6] And when this sound occurred, the crowd came together, and were bewildered because each one of them was hearing them speak in his own language. [7] They were amazed and astonished, saying, \u201cWhy, are not all these who are speaking Galileans? [8] \u201cAnd how is it that we each hear them<\/em> in our own language to which we were born?\u201d]\n\nAnd then in verses 9-12 of Acts 2 there\u2019s a description of those present on the day of Pentecost.\u00a0 There\u2019s a little map in the upper right hand corner, I\u2019ve got a better map I\u2019ll show you later.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[Acts 2:9-12, \u201cParthians and Medes and Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, [10] Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya around Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, [11] Cretans and Arabs\u2014we hear them in our own<\/em> tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of God.\u201d [12] And they all continued in amazement and great perplexity, saying to one another, \u201cWhat does this mean?\u201d]\n\nBut these are people from the known world assembled there on the day of Pentecost.\u00a0 And what happens is unbelief kicks in, you know unbelief always takes what God is doing and tries to assign a naturalistic explanation for it.\u00a0 So when unbelievers saw this gift of tongues\u2026 tongues, as I tried to explain in other classes we taught here, is a lousy translation. It\u2019s better translated languages.\u00a0 But people that were unbelievers took this gift of languages that was being exhibited in Acts 2 and they tried to attribute the whole thing to drunkenness.\u00a0 So Peter stands up and he begins to give a defense, really beginning around verse 13, 14, 15, as to why what they were witnessing there in Jerusalem had nothing to do with drinking; it was a work of the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 And in the process he\u2019s explaining where these miraculous occurrences were coming from.\u00a0 They were actually coming from heaven wrought by Jesus who was no in Acts 2 at the right hand of the Father.\u00a0 [Acts 2:13-15, \u201cBut others were mocking and saying, \u2018They are full of sweet wine.\u2019\u00a0 [14] But Peter, taking his stand with the eleven, raised his voice and declared to them: \u2018Men of Judea and all you who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and give heed to my words. [15] \u2018For these men are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only<\/em> the third hour of the day;\u201d]\n\nSo Peter makes a very simple point that this couldn\u2019t be drunkenness because (verse 13) it\u2019s nine o\u2019clock in the morning; most people don\u2019t start their drinking that early.\n\nAnd then in verses 16-21, now in the second half of chapter 18 in my book we\u2019re going to be dealing with verses 16-21.\u00a0 He quotes Joel 2 and there\u2019s a lot of misunderstanding concerning Joel 2 but I think, and I\u2019ll try to make the case that Joel 2 being quoted in Acts 2 is not saying that\u2019s what\u2019s happening in Joel 2 is a fulfillment of Joel 2.\u00a0 He\u2019s using an analogy because this is \u201clike\u201d what\u2019s going to happen in the future for the nation of Israel as predicted in Joel 2.\u00a0 More on that later.\u00a0 He\u2019s reasoning, in other words, analogically.\u00a0 You don\u2019t find the word \u201cfulfilled\u201d in Acts 2:16-21.\n\n[Acts 2:16,\u201cbut this is what was spoken of through the prophet Joel: [17] \u2018AND IT SHALL BE IN THE LAST DAYS,\u2019 God says, \u2018THAT I WILL POUR FORTH OF MY SPIRIT ON ALL MANKIND; AND YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY, AND YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS, AND YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS;\u00a0 [18] EVEN ON MY BONDSLAVES, BOTH MEN AND WOMEN, I WILL IN THOSE DAYS POUR FORTH OF MY SPIRIT And they shall prophesy.\u00a0 [19] \u2018AND I WILL GRANT WONDERS IN THE SKY ABOVE AND SIGNS ON THE EARTH BELOW, BLOOD, AND FIRE, AND VAPOR OF SMOKE.\u00a0 [20] \u2018THE SUN WILL BE TURNED INTO DARKNESS AND THE MOON INTO BLOOD, BEFORE THE GREAT AND GLORIOUS DAY OF THE LORD SHALL COME. [21] \u2018AND IT SHALL BE THAT EVERYONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.\u2019\u201d]\n\nAnd then beginning in verses 22-35 he begins to explain that the source of these miraculous manifest\u00adations is Jesus Christ who is at the right hand of the Father, now functioning not as Davidic King but a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.\u00a0 So he explains that Jesus is a worker of miracles, verse 22, that\u2019s what He had done through His whole earthly ministry in their presence, and now He\u2019s continuing to work miracles, it\u2019s just now He\u2019s working these miracles not from the earth but from the Father\u2019s right hand in heaven.\u00a0 He explains very clearly that this is the very Messiah that the nation rejected.\u00a0 Remember Israel took Christ and turned Him over to the Romans for execution.\u00a0 And when the did that you\u2019ll recall that Jesus said of Israel that they\u2019ve committed the greater sin. The Romans committed a sin but Israel committed even a greater sin because they had Old Testament revelation that those in Rome really didn\u2019t have, and \u201cto whom much is given, much is required.\u201d\u00a0 [Luke 12:48 \u201cFrom everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more.\u201d]\n\nAnd then beginning in verses 24-35 he begins to put together Old Testament prophecies explaining that what has happened and what is happening is the fulfillment of God\u2019s program prophetically.\u00a0 So he explains, verses 24-29, quoting Psalm 16, that Jesus has risen from the dead.\n\n[Luke 12:22, \u201cAnd He said to His disciples, \u201cFor this reason I say to you, do not worry about your<\/em> life, as to<\/em> what you will eat; nor for your body, as to<\/em> what you will put on. [23] For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.\u00a0 [24] Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet<\/em> God feeds them; how much more valuable you are than the birds! \u00a0[25] And which of you by worrying can add a single<\/em> hour to his life\u2019s span? \u00a0[26] If then you cannot do even a very little thing, why do you worry about other matters? [27] Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. \u00a0[28] But if God so clothes the grass in the field, which is alive<\/em> today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe<\/em> you? You men of little faith! \u00a0[29] And do not seek what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not keep worrying. \u00a0[30] For all these things the nations of the world eagerly seek; but your Father knows that you need these things. [31] But seek His kingdom, and these things will be added to you. \u00a0[32] Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has chosen gladly to give you the kingdom.\u00a0 [35] \u201cSell your possessions and give to charity; make yourselves money belts which do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near nor moth destroys. \u00a0[34] \u201cFor where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.\u00a0 [35] \u201cBe dressed in readiness, and keep<\/em> your lamps lit.\u201d]\n\nWe\u2019ll be using Psalm 16 a little bit later but Psalm 16 David makes a statement there that my anointed one will not see decay, speaking of the resurrection of Christ.\u00a0 [Psalm 16:10, \u201cFor You will not abandon my soul to Sheol; Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.\u201d]\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And Peter makes the point that that Psalm, written a thousand years earlier can\u2019t be a reference to David because David\u2019s sepulcher or tomb is right there in Jerusalem.\u00a0 In fact, I had a chance to actually go to David\u2019s tomb when I was in Jerusalem a few weeks ago.\u00a0 So this is obviously a psalm pointing to the Messiah and His resurrection from the dead.\u00a0\u00a0 So Peter says Jesus rose from the dead, verses 30-32, He is the Davidic heir, and there he quotes Psalm 132:11.\u00a0 [Psalm 132:11, \u201cThe LORD has sworn to David A truth from which He will not turn back: \"Of the fruit of your body I will set upon your throne.\u201d]\u00a0 In other words, he wants the nation of Israel to understand that they rejected in the first century the heir to David\u2019s throne.\n\nAnd then in verses 33-35 he uses a third psalm and he quotes Psalm 10:1 to show that Jesus is at the Father\u2019s right hand.\u00a0 [Psalm 10:1, \u201cWhy do You stand afar off, O LORD? Why do You hide Yourself in times of trouble?\u201d]\u00a0 Now is He at the Father\u2019s right hand permanently?\u00a0\u00a0 No, because He uses Psalm 110:1 to say \u201c\u2018Sit at My right hand\u201d what\u2019s the next word? \u201cUntil I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 So He\u2019s at the Father\u2019s right hand until the nation of Israel gets its act together and trusts in Christ as the Messiah. Prophetically we know that will happen in the tribulation period and then the Lord will return and establish His kingdom on the earth.\n\nAnd then he gets to his conclusion, verse 36, now what\u2019s the point that he\u2019s making as Peter is preaching? He says, \u201cTherefore let all the house of Israel know for certain that God has made Him both Lord and Christ---this Jesus whom you crucified.\u201d\u00a0 [Acts 2:36] So he\u2019s making the point that Israel got it wrong in rejecting their own King.\u00a0 And apparently of the million or so people that were in Jerusalem at that point a minority of them started to feel very convicted at what Peter has just said, because he is exposing the guilt of first century Israel and when you look at verse 7 it says, \u201cNow when they heard this they were pierced to the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, \u2018Brethren, what shall we do?\u2019\u201d\u00a0 So they\u2019re convicted.\u00a0 Now why are they convicted?\u00a0 We\u2019ll talk about it a little bit later.\n\nBut Jesus, prior to His crucifixion in the\u00a0 Upper Room said \u201cit is to your advantage that I go away, for when I go away\u201d who\u2019s going to come, the Spirit or the Paraclete, or the one who comes alongside to assist.\u00a0 \u00a0[\u201cBut I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.\u201d\u00a0 John 16:7]\u00a0\u00a0 John 16:8, \u201cAnd He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment;\u201d so one of His ministries would be to convict people of the need to trust in Christ as Messiah, and I believe this is the first evidence of that ministry now in operation because in verse 37 it says \u201cthey were pierced to the heart.\u201d\u00a0 [Acts 2:37, \u201cNow when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, \u2018Brethren, what shall we do?\u201d\u2019]\u00a0 That\u2019s the Holy Spirit convicting them.\n\nAnd verses 38-41 He gives an exhortation, and what\u2019s the exhortation, it starts with an \u201cr\u201d it ends in epentance, [laughs] repentance.\u00a0 He tells them to repent, and that\u2019s the Greek word metanoe\u014d<\/em>, which literally means change your mind, change your mind from what to what?\u00a0 Go from being on Israel\u2019s side that rejected their own Messiah, go from being a Christ rejecting Jew to a Christ accepting Jew.\u00a0 And that\u2019s this conviction you feel, that\u2019s what you should do with that conviction; it\u2019s there to show you to repent.\n\nThen He gives this invitation and look at what happens, verse 41, you\u2019re got about three thousand responders.\u00a0 [Acts 2:41, \u201cSo then, those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand souls.\u201d]\u00a0 That\u2019s a heck of an altar call, isn\u2019t it?\u00a0 Three thousand people are saved, and that\u2019s the beginning of this new movement, a new dispensational chance called the age of the church.\u00a0 The age of the offering of the kingdom has past, the age of Israel is temporarily passed, and now God\u2019s doing a new work through the church.\u00a0 And this is the beginning of it, right here.\n\nAnd so what do these three thousand people do?\u00a0 Well, they had their church meeting and meetings so they were meeting in the temple and then they were meeting from house to house, big group meetings, small group meetings.\u00a0 And they were taking communion together, they were learning apostolic doctrines and there is a number of things described there in verses 42-47.\n\n[Acts 2:42-47, \u201cThey were continually devoting themselves to the apostles\u2019 teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.\u00a0 [43] Everyone kept feeling a sense of awe; and many wonders and signs were taking place through the apostles. [44] And all those who had believed were together and had all things in common; [45] and they began<\/em> selling their property and possessions and were sharing them with all, as anyone might have need. [46] Day by day continuing with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart, [47] praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved.\u201d]\n\nSo that\u2019s how the church started.\u00a0 That\u2019s when the baptizing ministry of the Holy Spirit began and the Holy Spirit began to take men and women and as they came to faith in Christ identify them with the body of Christ.\u00a0 So what I just gave there in kind of a bird\u2019s eye view is basically a traditional understanding of Acts 2.\u00a0 And what I\u2019ve been trying to explain last week and this week is what we\u2019re being told today by kingdom now theologians is that\u2019s not what Acts 2 is about at all; Acts 2 is about the inauguration of the kingdom.\u00a0 And so I\u2019ve talked to you a little bit about the movement at Dallas Seminary called Progressive Dispensationalism where they\u2019re not quite amillennial, meaning they don\u2019t\u00a0 believe we\u2019re in the total kingdom now because your amillennialists will tell you the whole kingdom started in Acts 2.\n\nThat\u2019s not what we believe; we believe the kingdom is postponed for reasons we\u2019ve articulated in this study, and God, beginning in Acts 2 started something totally different, that had nothing to do with the kingdom.\u00a0 It\u2019s called the age of the church and we\u2019re still in the age of the church right now, for two thousand years, and the kingdom program has been put on abeyance or postponement or suspension until God has completed the body of Christ.\u00a0 But people say no, that\u2019s not what Acts 2 is about, it\u2019s about the inauguration of the kingdom.\u00a0 And progressive dispensationalists say the kingdom started in an already sense, oh yeah, there\u2019s going to be a future kingdom too but it\u2019s already started.\u00a0 So they look at what\u2019s going on in what we call the church and what they\u2019ll do is they\u2019ll call it a sneak peek of the kingdom, they\u2019ll start\u00a0 using all this language where a colony of the kingdom.\n\nIt\u2019s interesting that if you look at ministry marquees today and vision statements and these kind of things you see this language all the time.\u00a0 People say they\u2019re building the kingdom, we\u2019re kingdom builders.\u00a0 One popular man wrote a book called The Kingdom Man<\/em>, and someone else wrote a book called The Kingdom Woman<\/em>.\u00a0 And people say this a lot, \u201cwe\u2019re doing kingdom work today,\u201d and people sign their e-mails \u201cfor the kingdom,\u201d they\u2019ll put that kind of thing in an e-mail.\u00a0 And this is all an outworking of this kingdom now theology which is basically confusing the church with the kingdom.\u00a0 And that\u2019s what\u00a0 you have with progressive dispensationalism.\n\nOne of the leading progenitors of progressive dispensationalism, my professor, Darrell Bock, writes, and I\u2019ve given you this quote before, and he\u2019s getting this from Acts 2 and he is the world\u2019s leading expert, I believe, in the subject of Luke who wrote Luke and Acts.\u00a0 He\u2019s written two scholarly commentaries on the Gospel of Luke, another scholarly commentary on Acts, and he believes that Luke is all about how Jesus and then the apostles in Acts 2 started the kingdom, which is obviously very different than the interpretation I just gave earlier.\u00a0 Right?\n\nSo Darrell Bock says, \u201cThe crucial linking allusion<\/strong> appears at this point. Peter notes that David was a prophet. Not only was David a prophet, he was the conscience beneficiary of an oath God had made to him that \u201cone of the fruit of his [David\u2019s] loins\u201d (KJV) would sit on his throne.(Acts 2:30, quoting Psalm 132 verse 11.\u00a0 Now how have we understood Acts 2:30 quoting Psalm 132:11?\u00a0 That\u2019s just saying Jesus is the Davidic heir.\u00a0 Darrell Bock is saying no, that\u2019s not what that verse is saying, it\u2019s saying that Jesus is now seated on David\u2019s throne in heaven.\u00a0 He\u2019s not functioning as high priest only, He\u2019s functioning as what?\u00a0 As king over this colony of the kingdom called the church.\n\nAnd so he says, \u201c The term kathisai <\/em>(to sit), which is reintroduced in the citation of Psalm 110 (note kathou<\/em>, \u201csit,\u201d in v. 34). The allusion in verse 30 is to Psalm 132:11, a Psalm which is strongly Israelitish and national in tone (see vv. 12\u201318). The Psalm in turn is a reflection of the promise made to David in 2 Samuel 7, especially verse 12. This 2 Samuel passage is better known as the Davidic covenant.\u201d\u00a0 And then Bock says, \u201cWhat is crucial<\/strong> is that David\u2019s awareness of this covenant promise is immediately linked\u201d now that\u2019s a very important word to understand to figure out where these\u00a0 guys are coming from.\u00a0 \u201c\u2026it\u2019s immediately linked to his understanding of the resurrection in Psalm 16, which in turn is immediately tied to the resurrection proof text of Psalm 110 (vv. 31\u201335).\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019ll decipher this in a second, don\u2019t panic if you\u2019re not understanding everything that he\u2019s saying.\u00a0 And if you\u2019re not understanding everything that he\u2019s saying I say praise the Lord because I don\u2019t think what he\u2019s teaching is very healthy.\n\n\u201cBeing seated on David\u2019s throne is linked<\/em>\u201d see how he keeps using those words, \u201cto being seated at God\u2019s right hand<\/em>. In other words, Jesus\u2019 resurrection-ascension to God\u2019s right hand is put forward by Peter as a fulfillment of the Davidic covenant, just as the allusion to Joel fulfills the new covenant. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0To say that Peter is only interested to argue that the Messiah must be raised misses the point of the connection in these verses and ignores entirely the allusion to Psalm 132 in the Davidic covenant.\n\nThis passage and Luke 1:68\u201379 also counter the claim that no New Testament text asserts the present work of Jesus\u2019 as a reigning Davidite sitting on David\u2019s Throne. The throne on which Jesus is said to sit is the one promised to David\u2019s descendent through the Davidic promise of 2 Samuel, which was initially passed on through Solomon. Jesus sits here as David\u2019s promised Son on David\u2019s promised Throne. This fits Old Testament imagery as well. The idea of sitting describes the idea of rule, as the parallelism of Jeremiah 22:30 shows.\u201d And here\u2019s the key point, \u201cAs the Davidic heir, Jesus sits in and rules from heaven.\u201d\u00a0 [Darrell Bock, \u201cThe Reign of the Lord Christ,\u201d in Dispensationalism, Israel and the Church<\/em>, ed. Craig A. Blaising and Darrell L. Bock (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1992), 49\u201350.]\n\nSo what in the world is he saying?\u00a0 He\u2019s saying you have to connect verse 30 with verse 34.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think you connect those verses at all; I think they are separate points in Peter\u2019s presentation but he thinks those verses are connected, verse 30 and verse 34 and he thinks the verb sit connects those texts.\u00a0 So he thinks that what is connected is Psalm 132:11, Jesus one day sitting on David\u2019s throne, with Psalm 110:1, Jesus sitting at the Father\u2019s right hand.\u00a0 And rather than take those as separate events one happening now, one happening in the future, he thinks the verb \u201csit\u201d allows you to take both psalms and combine them together to teach this doctrine that Jesus is now reigning on David\u2019s throne and that\u2019s how he\u2019s gotten all of these people to believe that Jesus is now reigning on David\u2019s throne and that we\u2019re in the Davidic kingdom even though Acts 2 doesn\u2019t even mention the word kingdom.\u00a0 See that?\n\nSo what I was doing with you last time is I was giving a seven point response to what Darrell Bock is saying.\u00a0 So here is point one: To believe that would be to interpret David\u2019s throne out of harmony with how that throne is always described earlier in Luke.\u00a0 Now remember Luke and Acts are meant to be\u00a0 understood together.\u00a0 Luke is the prequel, Acts is the sequel, both written by the same author.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In fact, if you go back to Acts 1 just for a second, Luke writes, \u201cIn the first account I composed, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach,\u201d\u00a0 Now what is the \u201cfirst account\u201d that he\u2019s referring to?\u00a0 The Gospel of Luke.\u00a0 So Luke is the prequel, Acts is the sequel.\u00a0 And what you discover as you go back into Luke\u2019s Gospel, same writer, is that David\u2019s throne is always manifested where?\u00a0 In heaven?\u00a0 No, it\u2019s always on earth.\u00a0 We saw Luke 1:32-33, over a repentant Israel.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[Luke 1:32-33, \u201cHe will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David;\u00a0 [33] and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and His kingdom will have no end.\u201d]\n\nThat\u2019s how Alva J. McLain quoting Geode.\u00a0 I gave you that quote last time, it explains that reality.\u00a0 [\u201cThe \u2018throne of David\u2019 here is not God\u2019s throne in heaven, nor is the \u2018house of Jacob\u2019 a reference to the Christian church. As Godet rightly observed: \u2018These expressions in the mouth of the angel, Luke 1, keep their natural and literal sense. It is, indeed, the theocratic royalty and the Israelitish people, neither more nor less, that are in question here; Mary could have understood these expressions in no other way.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 [Alva J. McClain, The Greatness of the Kingdom: An Inductive Study of the Kingdom of God as Set Forth in the Scriptures (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1959), 282.]\n\nSo that should immediately make you suspicious of Darrell Bock\u2019s interpretation because he\u2019s coming up with an interpretation of David\u2019s throne that contradicts what early Luke presents about David\u2019s throne.\u00a0 And this is a way to recognize false teaching; the interpretation they\u2019re giving doesn\u2019t fit with earlier revelation, it contradicts it.\u00a0 God\u2019s Word doesn\u2019t contradict itself, does it?\u00a0 I mean latter Scripture can clarify and amplify former Scripture but it can never do what?\u00a0 Change former Scripture, and we made that point last time.\n\nPoint number two is in Acts 2:30, 34, which Darrell Bock wants you to combine; he wants you to believe that those two psalms taken together that Jesus is seated on David\u2019s throne now.\u00a0 [Acts 2:30, \u201cAnd so, because he was a prophet and knew that GOD HAD SWORN TO HIM WITH AN OATH TO SEAT one OF HIS DESCENDANTS ON HIS THRONE.].\u00a0 [34] \u201cFor it was not David who ascended into heaven, but he himself says: \u2018THE LORD SAID TO MY LORD, \u2018SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND.\u201d]\n\nAnd he wants to connect those psalms through the verb \u201csit.\u201d\u00a0 The second problem\u2026\u00a0 and so because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn with an oath to seat one of his descendants on David\u2019s throne.\u00a0 Darrell Bock wants you to look at that verb \u201cto seat\u201d and he wants you to combine it with verb \u201csit\u201d given in another Psalm a little later and he thinks those two psalms together, that verb in those two different Psalms unite the Psalms creating the doctrine that Jesus is seated on David\u2019s throne now.\u00a0 The problem is those are different verbs; yeah, they\u2019re translated sit or to seat in English but when you actually look at the verb in Acts 2:30, quoting Psalm 132:11 the verb is kathizo<\/em>.\n\nCompare that to verse 34 quoting Psalm 110:1, the verb is kathomai<\/em>, and those two verbs function differently; one is transitive, one is intransitive (those are fancy names).\u00a0 Transitive means takes a direct object; intransitive means does not take a direct object and that\u2019s why they\u2019re translated \u201cto seat\u201d or to place in verse 30, but the other verb is to sit.\u00a0 And his whole argument rests on combining the two psalms via the verb sit, and what he\u2019s not telling his audience is those are different verbs in Greek.\u00a0 I mean, wouldn\u2019t Peter or Luke have used the same verb if the whole point is to connect those two Psalms.\u00a0 Do you follow where I\u2019m going here?\n\nNumber three, and I think that this is the last point we got to last week, if I\u2019m not mistaken.\u00a0 Number three, the mere act of sitting is not enough to equate thrones.\u00a0 Why is that?\u00a0 Because what else does one do on a throne other than what?\u00a0 Sit!\u00a0 So Zane Hodges, who wrote a wonderful response to Darrell Bock that I\u2019m using here in this presentation, and I gave you the source where you can look this up on your own and read it, write\u2026.\u00a0 Zane Hodges was a longtime professor of Greek at Dallas Seminary and was leaving the school via retirement just as this progressive dispensationalism stuff started to take root in the 80\u2019s.\n\nZane Hodges writes: \u201c\u201cTechnical considerations aside, the use of a verb for sitting proves nothing about whether or not the two thrones are to be identified. What else does one do on a throne? Suppose one states, \u201cMr. Smith is destined to sit in the governor\u2019s chair in Austin and currently is sitting in the chair of the Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court.\u201d Would anyone ever conclude from this that the words \u201csit\u201d and \u201csitting\u201d intimate that the two chairs in question are identical? Obviously not.\u201d\u00a0 [Zane C. Hodges, \u201cA Dispensational Understanding of Acts 2,\u201d in Issues in Dispen\u00adsationalism<\/em>, ed. John R. Master Wesley R. Willis, Charles C. Ryrie (Chicago: Moody, 1994), 176.]\u00a0 \u00a0If someone sits in the Governor\u2019s chair and then sits also in the Chief Justice\u2019s chair is it logical or rational to conclude that the Governor\u2019s char equals the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court\u2019s chair.\u00a0 And so Zane Hodges is pointing out this sort of logical fallacy that Darrell Bock is using.\n\nAnd then we pick it up here with number four, the fourth problem that I think Darrell Bock, and he\u2019s not the first to do this, the amillennialists have been using this approach for a long time, it\u2019s just Darrell Bock is the first to use it in a new theology called progressive dispensationalism.\u00a0 \u201cBut those who use these verses this way fail to factor in Peter\u2019s Jewish audience.\u201d\u00a0 Who in the world was Peter talking to in Acts 2?\u00a0 Jew or Gentile?\u00a0 They\u2019re all Jewish.\u00a0 How do we know that?\u00a0 We know that because there\u2019s not a Gentile conversion in the early church until Cornelius, a man in Acts 10. I think the Ethiopian Eunuch was what we would call a proselyte so there\u2019s a little ethnic progress there but you don\u2019t have any full-fledged Gentile converted until Acts 10.\u00a0 So the whole early church is Jewish.\n\nAnd the ethnic complexion of the church doesn\u2019t really even change until Paul\u2019s first missionary journey into Southern Galatia.\u00a0 Once he goes outside the borders of Israel the folks that start getting saved by crazy are the Gentiles.\u00a0 And if he keeps going to the synagogue and getting thrown out of the synagogue\u2026 so when I taught at the Bible College I told the students if I ever ask you what did Paul do in such and such a city just say this and you\u2019ve got a 95% chance of getting the question right.\u00a0 He went into the synagogue, He reasoned with the Jews for a certain period of time, they threw Him out of the synagogue,\u00a0 and He went to the Gentiles and reaped a great harvest.\u00a0 So the answer to that question, no matter where it happened you\u2019re probably going to get the answer right, because that\u2019s the pattern that goes on over and over and over again in the Book of Acts.\n\nAnd Luke is showing us that in the Book of Acts to show us how this church started off so Jewish and ended up as a predominantly Gentile institution.\u00a0 So the church for the past 2,00 years is predominantly Gentile.\u00a0 There are saved Jews periodically but they\u2019re not in the majority.\u00a0 And by the way, don\u2019t get arrogant about that,\u00a0 you Gentiles, because Paul talks about that in Romans 11.\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 He\u2019s saying you are the wild branches that have been brought in.\u00a0 [Romans 11:17, \u201cBut if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree.\u201d]\u00a0 And if God can bring in the wild branches how hard do you think it is for Him to reach out and take the natural branches and reassert them into their own tree, which He will do one day.\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 All Israel will be saved.\u00a0 \u00a0So everybody that\u2019s listening to Peter in Acts 2 is Jewish.\u00a0 How do we know that?\u00a0 Because they\u2019re assembled on the Day of Pentecost, a Jewish holiday.\u00a0 That\u2019s why they\u2019re all there.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nLevitical Feasts (Leviticus 23)\n\nFeast\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Season\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Purpose\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Type\n\nPassover\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Redemption\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a01 Corinthians 5:7\n\n1st<\/sup> fruits\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Separation\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0John 6:35\n\nPentecost<\/u>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Spring<\/u>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Praise<\/u>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Acts 2:1-4<\/u>\n\nTrumpets\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fall\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New\u00a0 Year\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Matthew 24:31\n\nAtonement\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Fall\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Leviticus 16\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Zechariah 12:10\n\nBooths\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fall\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wilderness Provision\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Zechariah 14:16-18\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nAnd Leviticus 23 lists seven feasts of Israel and the Day of Pentecost, unlike a couple of other feasts, if I remember right, was mandatory.\u00a0 You had to show up at the central sanctuary to celebrate it.\u00a0 And in this case the central sanctuary was Jerusalem and that\u2019s why there was probably over a million people in Jerusalem.\n\nThis map is very helpful because it shows you where all these Jews came from.\u00a0 They came from their own areas.\u00a0 So what is the point that I\u2019m trying to make.\u00a0\u00a0 The point I\u2019m trying to make is if Peter is talking to a Jewish audience in Acts 2 there is no possible way a Jewish audience steeped in the Old Testament, steeped in Hebrew Bible, understood any manifestation of the Davidic throne other than an earthly throne.\u00a0 If you start telling this crowd that David\u2019s throne is in heaven they would have thought you were crazy.\u00a0 So if Peter were actually making the point that Jesus is now reigning on David\u2019s throne, which is not on the earth, it\u2019s in heaven, he\u2019d have a lot more\u2026 as Ricky said to Lucy, \u201ca lot more splainin\u2019 to do.\u201d\u00a0 Didn\u2019t Ricky say to Lucy, \u201cLucy, you\u2019ve got some splainin\u2019 to do.\u201d\n\nI mean, if Peter is basically saying that Jesus is now reigning on David\u2019s throne which, by the way, is not on the earth, all you Jews you got it wrong and everything in the Old Testament is wrong.\u00a0 It\u2019s actually in heaven.\u00a0 He wouldn\u2019t have made the point this way.\u00a0 He would have explained it in depth.\n\nSo Zane Hodges says this:\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s perfectly safe to say that no one in Peter\u2019s day could have expected to glean from His words in Acts 2 that somehow the throne of David and God\u2019s extraterrestrial throne were to be identified.\u00a0 For that idea to be clear it would have to be stated directly but Peter does not do that here, \u00a0nor does any writer anywhere else in the New Testament<\/u>. What is truly relevant is Bock\u2019s observation that the quotation found in verse 30 comes from a Psalm (132) \u201cwhich is strongly Israeliteish in tone.\u201d This, of course, is precisely what we saw in connection with Luke\u2019s first reference to the throne of David in Luke 1:28\u201333. The true character of the Davidic throne is that it is indeed Israeliteish in tone, and hence \u201cearthly.\u201d Nothing indicates that such characteristics can be applied to the celestial throne of God.\u201d\u00a0 [Zane C. Hodges, \u201cA Dispensational Understanding of Acts 2,\u201d in Issues in Dispensationalism<\/em>, ed. John R. Master Wesley R. Willis, Charles C. Ryrie (Chicago: Moody, 1994), 176.]\u00a0 Now this is a Gentile audience, maybe the case could be clear because he\u2019s talking to Jews and doesn\u2019t really explain what a celestial David\u2019s throne looks like.\u00a0 It\u2019s very unlikely that that\u2019s Peter\u2019s point there.\u00a0 And that\u2019s the fourth problem with Bock\u2019s argument.\n\nThe fifth problem with the kingdom now argument here is linking is not the same thing as equality.\u00a0\u00a0 And this is a very important principle to understand when you interpret the Bible. Similarity is not equality; because two things are similar doesn\u2019t make those two things equal.\u00a0 For example, I have two cars in my garage, because I\u2019m an American we\u2019re supposed to have two cars, right?\u00a0 Both cars have a steering column, an emergency break, four tires, an engine at the front, I mean there\u2019s a lot of similarities between the two cars.\u00a0 But obviously just because the cars are similar doesn\u2019t mean both cars are the same.\u00a0 A bush looks like a tree to some extent and a tree looks like a bush, I mean, both of them have leaves that are green and are planted in the ground, but it\u2019s an illogical fallacy to say the bush equals a tree.\n\nSo is there similarities between the throne in heaven and the throne on the earth?\u00a0 You can draw some similarities; Jesus in heaven is seated on His Father\u2019s throne, one day He will be seated on His throne in the millennial kingdom.\u00a0 He\u2019s in the seated position in both.\u00a0 The Messiah is on both, one now (the Father\u2019s throne at the Father\u2019s right hand) in heaven, the other on the earth.\u00a0 But that doesn\u2019t mean the two thrones are equal.\u00a0 Why do I say they\u2019re not equal?\u00a0 Because the differences outweigh the similarities.\u00a0 The two thrones are different, one\u2019s in heaven, one\u2019s on the earth.\u00a0 One\u2019s involving Christ\u2019s role as priest today, the other one\u00a0 yet future involves His role as King.\u00a0 One is happening now, one is happening in the future.\u00a0 One is happening in heaven, one is happening on the earth.\u00a0 So yeah, I can link two thrones together but that doesn\u2019t mean the two thrones are the same because similarity is not the same thing as equality. Do you follow that?\n\nSo he\u2019s building his whole case here through similarities. Zane Hodges says, \u201cAnd even if it is, \u201clinking\u201d is not equivalent to \u201cidentification.\u201d Bock\u2019s argument contains a logical fallacy. Bock has rested much on the idea of \u201clinking\u201d without acknowledging that two things can be linked without any necessity that they be equated. Certainly there are various senses which the throne of David can be linked with God\u2019s celestial one. After all (as Paul teaches us in Romans 13) all earthly power proceeds from God in heaven. If anyone is entitled to occupy David\u2019s throne in a future day, it would certainly be David\u2019s descendant who now occupies the right hand of the throne of God.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0Indeed, the writer of Hebrews presents our Lord as seated \u201cat the right hand of the Majesty on high\u201d (Heb. 1:3) where He is \u201cwaiting till his enemies are made his footstool\u201d (Heb. 10:12\u201313). It is most certainly not while He is on the heavenly throne that He achieves the victories associated with the Davidic throne in Luke 1 (see earlier discussion). On the heavenly throne He simply waits for that. But His presence on God\u2019s throne is a guarantee that someday He also will sit on David\u2019s throne as Victor over all of Israel\u2019s enemies. This is the true link between the heavenly and earthly sessions of Christ. But the idea that the two thrones can in any sense to be equated is illusory. It is not supported by any hard data at all<\/u>.\u201d\u00a0 The fact that He is on the heavenly throne now is a guarantee that He will one day be on the earthly throne later, but that doesn\u2019t mean the two thrones are the same.\u00a0 So Hodges says \u201cBut the idea that the two thrones can in any sense to be equated is illusory<\/u>.\u201d <\/em>What does that word illusory mean?\u00a0 \u00a0An illusion.\u00a0 Bock is appealing to an allusion, a-l-l-u-s--i-o-n but Hodges is saying that allusion, a-l-l-u-s-i-o-n is a what? Illusion, i-l-l-u-s-i-o-n.\u00a0 Right\u2026 did I get the spelling right.\u00a0 \u201cBut the idea that the two thrones can in any sense be equated is illusory. <\/u>It is not supported by any hard data at all<\/u>.\u201d\u00a0 [Zane C. Hodges, \u201cA Dispensational Understanding of Acts 2,\u201d in Issues in Dispensa\u00adtion\u00adalism<\/em>, ed. John R. Master Wesley R. Willis, Charles C. Ryrie (Chicago: Moody, 1994), 176-77.]\n\nNumber six of my list of seven here.\u00a0 Progressive dispensationalists have missed the whole point of Peter\u2019s sermon.\u00a0 What I\u2019m trying to say is that Acts 2 is about the inauguration of the Davidic kingdom; that is not the point Peter is making!\u00a0 The point that Peter is making is to teach NOT a fulfillment or a partial fulfillment of the Davidic Covenant.\u00a0 Darrell Bock and his group want you to believe that Peter\u2019s point is that Jesus is now somehow fulfilling or partially fulfilling the Davidic Covenant.\u00a0 In fact, that\u2019s not even Peter\u2019s point.\u00a0 What is Peter\u2019s point?\u00a0 Peter\u2019s point is to teach that what is happening in Acts 2 is the fulfillment of the Father\u2019s promise to send the Holy Spirit.\n\nWhy does Peter want to make that point?\u00a0 Because unbelievers were saying, of this manifestation of tongues, they are full of sweet wine.\u00a0 \u2018\u201dThey are full of sweet wine.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 [Acts 2:13]\u00a0 They are drunken in other words and Peter\u2019s point is they are not drunk, what is happening before you is a manifesta\u00adtion of the gift of tongues, or languages, which is a gift of the Holy Spirit which Jesus promised over and over would come when He ascended.\u00a0 That\u2019s Peter\u2019s point.\n\nSo here\u2019s a nice little chart, I like how Jim fixed it up for us, maybe\u00a0 you guys don\u2019t know this, Jim takes my slides and resuscitates them greatly, he makes them look presentable, so thank you Brother Jim, that looks much better than the chart I normally use.\u00a0 But this is a chart sort of explaining the difference between the Upper Room Discourse and the Olivet Discourse, two different discourses.\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nA Comparison of the Olivet and Upper Room Discourses\n\nDiscourse\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Olivet\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Upper Room\n\nScripture\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Matthew 24-25\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0John 13-17\n\nLocation\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mount of Olives\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Upper Room\n\nPassion week\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Third day\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sixth day\n\nGeneral focus\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Farewell: Israel\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hello: Church\n\nSpecific focus\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Israel\u2019s future\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Divine provisions\n\nPrompting\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Temple\u2019s destruction\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Christ\u2019s imminent departure\n\nExplanations\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Written Old Testament\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Written New Testament\n\nApostles\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Israel (Matthew 19:28)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Church (Ephesians 2:20)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nI don\u2019t have time to work through that whole chart but what prompted the Upper Room Discourse?\u00a0 By the way, why do we call it the Upper Room Discourse?\u00a0 Because it was given in the Upper Room.\u00a0 What prompted the Upper Room Discourse?\u00a0 The announcement by Christ to His disciples that He was departing.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got to keep in mind that He had been with them for close to three years, three and a half years.\u00a0\u00a0 Everything they knew about the truth was from Him, their one on one relationship with Him.\u00a0 So He starts to tell them late in His ministry that He\u2019s departing, referring to His crucifixion, resurrection and ascension.\u00a0 That disturbed them quite a bit.\n\nSo consequently He gives them the Upper Room Discourse explaining to them that it\u2019s actually to your advantage that I am going because when I\u2019m going who\u2019s coming? The Spirit.\u00a0 In the Upper Room He says I will ask the Father and He will give you another helper, another relative to who?\u00a0 You don\u2019t need Me anymore, you\u2019re going to have something better because the Lord really could only be intimate with twelve people and actually He was really intimate with three.\u00a0 Do you know who the inner three were?\u00a0 Peter, James and John.\n\nThe Lord really had the ability in His flesh to be intimate with three people. When the Spirit comes the Lord, through the Spirit, can be intimate with who?\u00a0 Every single child of God.\u00a0\u00a0 And it\u2019s not going to be the type of situation where He\u2019s on the outside and you when you\u2019re talking to Him where is He going to be living?\u00a0 Inside of you!!!\u00a0 That\u2019s a huge privilege that he\u2019s talking about.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s something that was unknown in the Old Testament.\u00a0 You go through the Old Testament and it talks about how the Spirit came upon <\/u>people for certain tasks, Saul, David, Sampson, and then the Spirit would depart.\u00a0 So the Spirit came upon people in the Old Testament temporarily.\n\nYou see how different the promise is that He\u2019s giving in the Upper Room, to His disciples, after His departure?\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u201cI will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you\u201d for how long, the end of verse 16, \u201cforever.\u201d\u00a0 [John 14:16]\u00a0 \u201cthat is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.\u201d\u00a0 [John 14:17]\u00a0 That\u2019s radical, that\u2019s a privilege that prior ages could have never dreamed of.\n\nWe\u2019re living in an age, because of the presence of the Spirit in each of us, that David and everybody else in the Old Testament would be just floored if they could see it\u2026 I guess they can see it now from heaven and understand it. And if you had said something like this in the Old Testament dispensation it was a privilege so powerful they wouldn\u2019t have even comprehended it.\u00a0 And yet that\u2019s the privilege that we have as members of the church.\n\n\u201cI will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you\u201d [John 14:18]\u00a0 through the what? \u00a0The Holy Spirit who\u2019s going to be where?\u00a0 Inside of you!\u00a0 For how long?\u00a0 Forever!\u00a0 That\u2019s why it\u2019s actually advantageous that I\u2019m leaving, He says also in the Upper Room, John 16:5-11, \u201cBut now I am going to Him who sent Me; and none of you asks Me, \u2018Where are You going?\u2019 [6] \u201cBut because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.\u201d\u00a0 They\u2019re freaking out, Jesus is leaving.\u00a0 [7] \u201cBut I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0[8, \u201cAnd He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment; [9] concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me; [10] and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and you no longer see Me; [11]and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.\u201d]\n\nThat\u2019s a powerful promise.\u00a0 And then what did Jesus say in the prequel?\u00a0 What\u2019s the prequel to Acts?\u00a0 Luke?\u00a0 What did He say in the prequel?\u00a0 \u201c So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.\u00a0 [10] For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened.\u00a0 [11]\u00a0 Now suppose one of you fathers is asked by his son for a fish; he will not give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?\u00a0 [12] Or if he is asked for an egg, he will not give him a scorpion, will he?\u00a0 [13] \"If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly\u201d who by the way is not tainted by the same sin nature we\u2019re tainted with, \u201chow much more will your heavenly Father give the\u201d what? \u201cHoly Spirit to those who ask Him?\u2019\u201d\n\nI mean, even as sinful people we know how to bless our children, don\u2019t we?\u00a0 Well, if we know how to bless our children how much more does our heavenly Father know how to bless us?\u00a0 And what\u2019s the ultimate gift He can give you?\u00a0 The \u201cHoly Spirit to those who ask Him.\u201d\u00a0 And so right then and there, early in Christ\u2019s ministry people were asking for the Holy Spirit.\n\nNow today I\u2019ve been in groups and Bible studies where they\u2019re still asking for the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 Why would I ask for the Holy Spirit today when this is a prayer request that has already been answered\u2026 in which chapter of the Bible? Acts 2. Peter is explaining that Acts 2 is the answer to the prayer request that they had all been praying to Acts 2.\u00a0 That\u2019s why I think\u2026. I can\u2019t find the exact verse, I\u2019ll try to find it for you next time but it says that they were praying, in Greek, THE prayer.\u00a0 There\u2019s a definite article in front of prayer.\u00a0 Now what prayer do you think they were praying?\u00a0 I think they were praying this prayer right here in Luke 11, \u201cthe prayer.\u201d They were asking for the Holy Spirit and God answered that prayer request in Acts 2.\n\nLater on in Luke\u2019s Gospel Jesus says, \u201cAnd behold I am sending forth the promise of My Father,\u201d what promise would that be?\u00a0 The Holy Spirit. Where was it promised?\u00a0 Luke 11.\u00a0 \u201cAnd behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.\u201d\u00a0 [Luke 2:49]\u00a0 Now are you still hanging out in the city until you are \u201cclothed with power from on high\u201d?\u00a0 No, because the prayer request has already been answered, in which chapter of the Bible?\u00a0 Acts 2.\u00a0 Just prior to Jesus ascending He says, Acts 1:4, \u201cGathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised,\u201d where did the Father promise this?\u00a0 Luke 11.\u00a0 Luke is the prequel to Acts.\u00a0 \u201cGathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, \u2018Which,\u2019 He said, \u2018you heard of from Me;\u2019 [5] for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 \u201cNot many days from now\u201d was said in Acts 1; when would that promise be fulfilled?\u00a0 Acts 2, \u201cNot many days from now,\u201d one chapter later.\n\nSo in Acts 2 this is Peter\u2019s point because if you look at Acts 2:33 it says, \u201cTherefore having been exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the\u201d what? \u201cthe promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured forth this which you both see and hear.\u201d\u00a0 What you\u2019re seeing with the tongues is not drunkenness, it\u2019s a fulfillment of what the Father had promised.\n\nWhy in the world would we need the Holy Spirit inside of us?\u00a0 Because we\u2019re living in the devil\u2019s world, right?\u00a0 John 15:18-19, in this same Upper Room Discourse Jesus says, \u201c\u201cIf the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated<\/em> you. [19]\u201cIf you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.\u201d\u00a0 We\u2019re on hostile territory.\u00a0 Why are we on hostile territory?\u00a0 Because we\u2019re not in the kingdom.\u00a0 If we were in the kingdom this Scripture here would be unneeded, Jesus would be ruling from Jerusalem.\n\nSo while the kingdom is in abeyance, while the kingdom is in postponement, what do we desperately need as God\u2019s people?\u00a0 We need Jesus living inside of us through the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 That\u2019s the point of Acts 2.\u00a0 Peter, all he\u2019s saying is the promise is being fulfilled now, and to argue that what Peter is really saying is the kingdom has started is a complete and total perversion of Acts 2.\u00a0 It misses the whole point of Acts 2.\u00a0 It misses the whole point of the promise that Peter spoke of in Acts 2:33.\n\nZane Hodges writes, \u201cYet even apart from this consideration, Bock misses the point of the quotation from Psalm 110 in Acts 2.\u00a0As verse 33 makes clear, the real link is with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. It is a well-confirmed New Testament teaching that the gift of the Holy Spirit is the direct consequence<\/em> of our Lord\u2019s ascension to the Father. According to John\u2019s Gospel, the Lord informed the disciples, \u201cit is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send him to you\u201d (16:7). Earlier He had also said, \u201cand I will pray to the Father, and He will give you another helper, that He may abide with you forever\u201d (14:16).\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Our Lord\u2019s return to the Father and His intercession there are necessary to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Thus, in Luke-Acts the gift of the Spirit is termed \u201cthe promise of the Father\u201d for which the disciples must wait until after Jesus\u2019 ascension to Heaven (Luke 24:49; Acts 1:4). Bock labels Psalm 110 a \u201cresurrection proof text.\u201d However, it is not an explicit statement of the resurrection since the resurrection is not mentioned in the Psalm. It does prophesy enthronement at God\u2019s right hand. The point of Peter quoting Psalm 110 is simply this: the seated Christ is the source of the Spirit\u2019s outpouring.\u201d\u00a0 The miracle that Jesus was doing in His earthly ministry He\u2019s still doing now at the Father\u2019s right hand and the first miracle He just performed was a giving of the Holy Spirit, making good on the promise.\u00a0 The point of Peter quoting Psalm 110 is simply this: the seated Christ is the source of the Spirit\u2019s outpouring. By His intercession He has secured what God the Father promised. This is precisely what Acts 2:33 states: \u201ctherefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you see and hear.\u201d [Zane C. Hodges, \u201cA Dispensational Understanding of Acts 2,\u201d in Issues in Dispensationalism<\/em>, ed. John R. Master Wesley R. Willis, Charles C. Ryrie (Chicago: Moody, 1994), 177.]\n\nThe seventh and final problem with Darrell Bock\u2019s Kingdom Now argument is its linkage.\u00a0 He\u2019s trying to get people to link in their minds two independent psalms. Linkage like that fails to allow each psalm to have its own distinctive input. There\u2019s a reason why Peter quoted two different psalms.\u00a0 Peter quoted two different psalms, not to get people to link two different points together.\u00a0 He quoted two different psalms because he\u2019s trying to use them to make different points in his presentation.\n\nWhat does Peter do?\u00a0 He quotes Psalm 16:8-11 in Acts 2:25-28.\u00a0 [Acts 2:25-28, \u201cActs 2:25-28,\u00a0<\/sup>For David says of Him, \u2018I\u00a0saw the Lord always in my presence; For He is at my right hand, so that I will not be shaken. [26] \u00a0<\/sup>\u2018Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue exulted; Moreover my flesh also will live in hope; [27] \u00a0Because You will not abandon my soul to\u00a0Hades, Nor\u00a0<\/sup>allow Your\u00a0Holy One to\u00a0undergo decay. [28]\u00a0<\/sup>\u2018You have made known to me the ways of life; You will make me full of gladness with Your presence.\u2019\u201d]\n\nWhy does he do that?\u00a0 To show that Jesus rose from the dead.\u00a0 Psalm 16 says, as you know, my holy One will not \u201cundergo decay,\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 [Psalm 16:10, \u201cFor You will not abandon my soul to Sheol; Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.\u201d]\u00a0 Peter\u2019s point is that David wrote this a thousand years ago but he couldn\u2019t be speaking of himself because we can go to his grave right now and see David in there.\u00a0 It\u2019s got to be a Messianic Psalm, speaking of the resurrected Christ.\n\nThen Peter quotes a second Psalm in Acts 2:30 he quotes Psalm 132:11 to show that Israel got it wrong in rejecting their own king.\u00a0 [Acts 2:30, \u201cAnd so, because he was a prophet and knew that GOD HAD SWORN TO HIM WITH AN OATH TO SEAT one OF HIS DESCENDANTS ON HIS THRONE.\u201d\u00a0 Psalm 132:11, \u201cThe LORD has sworn to David A truth from which He will not turn back: \"Of the fruit of your body I will set upon your throne.\u201d\u2019\n\nThat point is so clear when you look at verse 23.\u00a0 What does Peter say to these assembled Jews?\u00a0 \u201cThis Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death.\u201d\u00a0 [Acts 2:23]\u00a0 Look at verse 36, \u201cTherefore\u201d Peter still speaking, \u201clet all the house of Israel know for certain that God has made Him both Lord and Christ-- this Jesus whom you crucified.\u201d\u00a0 Who\u2019s the \u201cyou\u201d?\u00a0 Israel.\u00a0 The only hearers he had at this point were Jews.\u00a0 That\u2019s why he quotes Psalm 132:11 and Acts 2:30, he\u2019s trying to get his audience to understand the guilt of first century Israel, so that they\u2019ll do what?\u00a0 Repent or what? Change their minds about who Messiah, who Jesus is.\u00a0 So he quotes Psalm 16 for one purpose, the resurrection, he quotes Psalm 132 for another purpose, to understand that Israel rejected their own Davidic king who will reign on David\u2019s throne one day.\n\nAnd then he quotes a third psalm, he quotes Psalm 110:1 and then he quotes Acts 2:34-35 to show that this Jesus is now seated where?\u00a0 At the right hand of the Father, \u201cSit at my right hand until I make your enemies\u201d your footstool.\u00a0 [Psalm 110:1, \u201cA Psalm of David. The LORD says to my Lord: \u2018Sit at My right hand Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.\u201d\u2019\u00a0\u00a0 Acts 2:34-35, \u201cFor it was not David who ascended into heaven, but he himself says: \u201cTHE LORD SAID TO MY LORD, \u2018SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND,\u00a0 [35] UNTIL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES A FOOTSTOOL FOR YOUR FEET.\u201d\u2019]\n\nYou see how good this sermon is?\u00a0 I mean, he\u2019s got point A and a Scripture to back it up; point B, another Scripture to back it up, point C, another Scripture to back it up.\u00a0 I mean, literally it\u2019s a beautiful tapestry that he\u2019s weaved here.\u00a0 He\u2019s got three separate points and in no way shape or form does he want\u00a0 you to take two of those points and what?\u00a0 Chain them together, which is what kingdom now theology is doing.\n\nZane Hodges again says, \u201cThis precise point\u2014the ascension\u2014is in view in Acts 2:34: \u201cFor David did not send into heavens, but he himself \u00a0says, Hodges says, \u201c It is simply incorrect to treat Psalm 16 as linked with Psalm 110 by asserting that both are resurrection proof texts. Psalm 16 is, but Psalm 110 is not. Rather,\u201d watch this, \u201cRather Peter quoted each Psalm with its own quite distinct emphasis in support of two different elements in his presentation.\u201d\u00a0 [Zane C. Hodges, \u201cA Dispensational Understanding of Acts 2,\u201d in Issues in Dispensationalism<\/em>, ed. John R. Master Wesley R. Willis, Charles C. Ryrie (Chicago: Moody, 1994), 178.\n\nSo what\u2019s wrong with saying the Davidic Covenant kingdom started in Acts 2?\u00a0 Number one, that would be out of harmony with earlier information in Luke about the Davidic throne.\u00a0 Number 2, verse 30 and verse 34 are different verbs.\u00a0 Number 3, The mere activity of sitting is not enough to equate the thrones.\u00a0 Number 4, A failure to factor in Peter\u2019s Jewish audience there would have to be a lot more explanation if Jesus actually was seated on David\u2019s throne now in heaven.\u00a0 Number 5, linking is not the same thing as equating.\u00a0 Number 6, The point of the Acts 2 sermon relates to the source of the Spirit, the fulfillment of the promise that the Spirit, not the manifestation of the\u00a0 Davidic Throne.\u00a0 And finally, Linkage fails to allow each Psalm to have its own distinctive input.\u201d\n\nTwo very fast quotes from Zane Hodges and then we\u2019ll stop.\u00a0 \u201cThe kingdom\u201d this is his conclusion, \u201cThe kingdom was not restored, and it is quite wrong to identify the throne of David with God\u2019s extraterrestrial throne. . . . A contemporary movement within dispensationalism that calls itself \u201cprogressive dispensationalism\u201d has taken a novel tact in regard to Israel\u2019s kingdom. Their analysis, however, remains inchoate,\u201d I had to look up that word, what does inchoate mean?\u00a0 It\u2019s like saying an illusion, no support.\u00a0 \u201c\u2026 their efforts to elucidate notwithstanding. . . . We conclude, then, that Bock\u2019s linkage between the two quotations breaks down under scrutiny.\u201d\u00a0 [Zane C. Hodges, \u201cA Dispensational Understanding of Acts 2,\u201d in Issues in Dispensationalism<\/em>, ed. John R. Master Wesley R. Willis, Charles C. Ryrie (Chicago: Moody, 1994), 172. 178.]\u00a0 The devil is always in the details, right?\n\nAnd his next statement is an enormous leap into thin air:\u201d\u00a0 This is one scholar critiquing another, quoting Bock, \u201cIn other words, Jesus\u2019 resurrection-ascension to God\u2019s right hand is put forward by Peter as a fulfillment of the Davidic covenant, just as the allusion to Joel fulfills the new covenant.\u201d \u00a0Hodges says this is an enormous leap into thin air.\u00a0 The argumentation that has led up to this conclusion proves (as we have seen) absolutely nothing that even impinges on the identification Bock wishes to make. . . . Acts 2 will remain a focal point in dispensational discussion, as well it should. But classic dispensationalism\u201d that\u2019s us, \u201ccan treat this text straightforwardly and with a minimum of complexity. Progressive dispensationalism, on the other hand, is forced to rely on intricate, subtle, and ultimately invalid arguments.\u201d\u00a0 [Zane C. Hodges, \u201cA Dispensational Understanding of Acts 2,\u201d in Issues in Dispensationalism<\/em>, ed. John R. Master Wesley R. Willis, Charles C. Ryrie (Chicago: Moody, 1994), 172. 178.]\n\nWe\u2019re going to finish chapter 18 of the book next week and I\u2019ll show you Joel 2, how they\u2019re abusing Joel 2 in Acts 2.\u00a0 And then I think the following is a week off for spring break, and the Chafer Seminary conference.\u00a0 So I\u2019m finished talking.","series_sermon_number":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t