Acts 7 מעשי השליחים

מעשי השליחים

Acts 7

1.   What were the false charges that were placed against Stephen and did he address them in his response in ch. 7?

 

2.   Stephen begins his response with the story of Avram’s flight from “Mesopotamia” – how is Stephen’s version slightly different from what is written in the Torah, what is the explanation for this?

 

3.   In vs. 6-7 Stephen lays great emphasis on Avram’s sojourn as a foreigners, how is this affine to what Hebrews says about the sojourning of “all believers”?

 

4.   Stephen mentions Joseph’s brother’s jealousy towards him, how does this foreshadow Yeshua and the Apostles, (give citations), and what is the problem with Stephen’s number of Jacob’s relatives when went down to Egypt?

 

5.   Why does Stephen mention the burial place of Abraham, what is the significance of that place, and who is buried there?

6.   What does Stephen mean when he says that Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians?

 

7.   How does Stephen know that Moses was about 40 when he went to visit his brethren Hebrew slaves?

 

8.   How could Stephen say that Moses expected and assumed that the Hebrews understood him to be their deliverer during the episode when he killed the Egyptian?  Where does he get this information?

 

9.   How did Stephen know that it had been 40 years passed when finally God revealed himself to Moses?

10.                  What “book of Prophets” does Stephen quote, what was the point he was making, and how does this quote also resemble what another great Prophet of Israel said about Israel turning to other gods?

 

11.                  Stephen begins to complete his dissertation by wrapping up to his main and central point – what is that point and to whom was it directed to?

 

12.                  How did Stephen actually die, how was his final words similar and in contrast to righteous men in the Bible before him?

 

 

How Genealogy Became Almost as Popular as Porn

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Rabbi Eric has been teaching a series entitled נְחֵל Nachal - all about being Culturally Confident in our Heritage in Messiah. This week he will continue on Shabbat, and this recent article from Time, illustrates how relevant this issue is in our society here in the U.S. According to this article: "The great irony is that many Americans — particularly those who were several generations removed from the immigrant experience — were trying to find personal meaning in their ancestry long after their heritage ceased to play a meaningful role in their lives."

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Acts 6 מעשי השליחים

1.   What does Luke attribute towards the problem that arises in the early Messianic Jewish community, in wider context, how were people provided for in their elderly years in “Jewish” cultural background in the first century?

2.   What is meant by the Shaliachim regarding what they felt they should be appropriate for them to spending their time; what kind of occupation where they seeking and how do we see this as well in Jewish culture?

 

3.   How does the appointment of the Seven reflect what Moses was told to do in the Torah and what is significant about the parallels between the qualifications of these Seven and of those whom Moses appointed?

 

4.   How did the Apostles approve and appoint the Seven; what did they do?

 

5.   How did the early Messianic Jewish community have an influence among the Levites and how did this take place, what could’ve been the connection?

 

6.   What exactly was the Synagogue of the Freedmen, what do we know about it?

7.   Why did some of these “Diaspora” Jews argue with Stephen, what was their motiviation; and what grave sin against the Torah did they commit?

8.   Who was actually responsible for Stephen’s execution, the Freedmen, or the Sanhedrin?

9.   What is the meaning of Stephen’s “countenance”, where else do we see this in Scripture?

 

 

On this day Adar 13 in Jewish History...

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Adar 13: Fascinating historical facts about the Jews and Judaism, arranged according to the Jewish calendar.

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Acts 5 מעשי השליחים

מעשי השליחים

 

1.   How does the incident with Ananias and Saphira have to do with Barnabba?

 

2.   Give Biblical examples of things that could be dedicated as “voluntary offerings” to help the poor in the Torah, how does it relate to Acts 4?

 

3.   Give previous Biblical examples of the same fate of Ananias and Sapphira suffered; what are the parallels?

 

 

4.   Where was the regular meeting place of the emissaries, and why is this significant?

5.   What was the contemporary belief in healing at the time, and what did this have to do with Peter’s shadow?

 

6.   Who exactly is responsible for arresting and imprisoning the emissaries this time, why is this significant?

 

7.   Who exactly set them free, and where did he tell them to go and why is this significant?

 

8.   What were the likely repercussions of the emissaries escape on the Captain, and what does this all say to us about the success of Messianic Jewish preaching and ministry despite opposition?

 

9.   Why did the Captain and guards not take the emissaries a 2^nd time by force,  what did they fear and why?

 

10.                  What does the expression “this Man’s blood” mean, how did the Sanhedrin interpret it, and what did Peter mean it to be?

 

11.                  What were “all” the causes of the Sanhedrin’s reaction of rage to the emissaries and their intention to kill them?

 

12.                  Who was Rabban Gamaliel, why do you think it was he to warn the Sanhedrin to take a different course regarding the emissaries?

 

13.                  Who was Theudas and Judah, what did they do and what was perhaps one of the chronological problems with their mention in Acts 5?