by Shannon Popp | Nov 21, 2022 | NotABlog
Acts 7:35 ““This Moses, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—this man God sent as both ruler and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.” Stephen shows that God was raising up Moses to be their deliverer and...
by Shannon Popp | Nov 20, 2022 | NotABlog
Acts 7:34 “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.’” God sees! This language is not general, but that the God of the universe sees...
by Shannon Popp | Nov 19, 2022 | NotABlog
Acts 7:33 “Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” The Sanhedrin (legalistic spiritual leaders) accused Stephen of speaking against the Holy Place (the Temple). He points out that God told...
by Shannon Popp | Nov 18, 2022 | NotABlog
Acts 7:32 “‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.’ And Moses trembled and did not dare to look.” Stephen is being accused of blaspheming God, but Stephen does not directly defend himself, but continues to quote directly from...
by Shannon Popp | Nov 17, 2022 | NotABlog
Acts 7:31 “When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and as he drew near to look, there came the voice of the Lord:” This is a brilliant argument, and it should be impacted the hearers hearts, opening their minds, and widening their eyes to God, and His True...
by Shannon Popp | Nov 16, 2022 | NotABlog
Acts 7:30 ““Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.” Moses was 40 when he went into the desert as an alien in a foreign land, and it has been another 40 years with no record of God...
