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The apostle Paul’s first missionary journey started in Jerusalem (Acts 13:4). The estimated date for the start of this missionary journey is the spring of A.D. 47 as determined by William M. Ramsay who was once an atheist. 1 William Ramsay personally visited and researched the Middle East extensively in an attempt to prove the book of Acts was wrong.
The Christian church in Jerusalem was the center of the Christian faith. It was there that the apostles were first located. The church had elders with James, Jesus’ brother, being the lead elder of the church (Acts 15:3-23). From there the truth about Jesus spread and God caused the Christian church to grow. So then, those who had received ...
Bible Answer: Paul started his second missionary journey in the summer of A.D. 50. He and Barnabas traveled together. Their adventures are described in Acts 15:36-18:22. During this journey Paul returned to the churches in Galatia that God had started through Paul and Barnabas during the first missionary journey.
The apostle Paul’s first missionary journey started in Jerusalem (Acts 13:4). The estimated date for the start of this missionary journey is the spring of A.D. 47 as determined by William M. Ramsay who was once an atheist. 1 William Ramsay personally visited and researched the Middle East extensively in an attempt to prove the book of Acts was wrong.
Bible Answer: Paul’s third and final missionary journey occurred in the years of A.D. 53-57. The purpose of the trip was to strengthen the newly established churches. He left Antioch, Syria and from there the apostle Paul went to Galatia or Asia Minor and then to Greece. The entire trip was his longest missionary journey, lasting four years.
The spiritual decline of the seven churches (chaps. 2,3) also argues for the later date. Those churches were strong and spiritually healthy in the mid-60s, when Paul last ministered in Asia Minor. The brief time between Paul’s ministry there and the end of Nero’s reign was too short for such a decline to have occurred.
The Third Scene in Heaven. The third scene occurs in Revelation 14:1-20. This scene includes another glimpse of the 144,000 witnesses (Revelation 14:1-5), an angel presenting the gospel (Revelation 14:6-13) and looking ahead to the final judgment upon the nations of the world, which is called the battle of Armageddon (Revelation 14:14-20).
Therefore we do not know the answer to the question, “ What jobs did the twelve disciples have before they followed Jesus? The Bible only reveals the vocations of Peter, Andrew, James, John, and Matthew. Three of the gospels tell us that Peter, Andrew, James, and John were fisherman (Matthew 4:18-22; Mark 1:16-20; Luke 5:1-11).
Jude is saying that they have crept in unnoticed. They may be in your church or mine. They may be in our pulpits, in church leadership, in Bible studies, or teaching Sunday school classes. The message is that it can be hard to identify them. The late Dr. J. Vernon McGee had a very interesting comment about Jude 4.
Acts 20:28 is an important verse confi rming that God selects elders. Th e verse says, Be on guard for yourselves and for all the fl ock, among which. the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church. of God which He purchased with His own blood. Acts 20:28. (NASB) Th is verse records part of Paul’s conversation with the elders ...