Acts 7:22 — Community Reflections

ACTS 7:22 — KING JAMES VERSION 1 0

“And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.”

'This is the same Moses they had rejected with the words, 'Who made you ruler and judge?' He was sent to be their ruler and deliverer by God himself, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush - Stephen now interprets the significance: the Moses Israel rejected is the one God appointed (apestaltē) as 'ruler and deliverer' (archontos kai lytrōtēs). The rejection and the divine appointment stand in paradoxical tension: Israel says 'no'; God says 'yes.' The theme of rejecting God's appointee is now explicit.

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God's faithfulness through history — Acts 7

I think this is a call to trust beyond what we can see. God is faithful in every circumstance.. God is faithful in every circumstance.. His timing, His methods, His purposes — all beyond our comprehen...