Acts

THREAD 1 · REACHING GOD

"That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him." God reaching across the Aeropagus to philosophers who didn't know His name. Universal apokalupsis explicit in Paul's sermon.

THREAD 2 · CORPORATE ELECTION

"God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name": the corporate elect now drawn from the nations.

THREAD 3 · ROYAL TRAJECTORY

"God had sworn... that of the fruit of his loins... he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne": the apostolic preaching anchors the royal trajectory in the resurrection.

THREAD 4 · REAL RESPONSE

hymeis aei tō pneumati tō hagiō antipiptete: "ye do always resist the Holy Ghost." Present active. Real resistance to real divine drawing. And 13:46: "ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life."

THREAD 5 · DISPENSATIONAL

"It is not for you to know the times or the seasons." The dispensational hinge of Pentecost. The Spirit poured out, the Church born, the gospel turning to the Gentiles by the end of the book.

THREAD 6 · IN HIM UNION

The canonical sequence in narrative: heard → believed → baptized → sealed. Three case studies (Pentecost, Cornelius, Philippian jailer). Eph 1:13 walked out in three different rooms.

THREAD 7 · WHOSOEVER WILL

"In every nation he that feareth him... is accepted of him"; the command to "all men every where to repent": the open door swung wide to the Gentiles.