Intro to Acts
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Acts 1:8 If you have never seen the movie District 9, I am sorry and suggest you go watch it now. While this movie does contain aliens from another planet, it is meant to depict real events which occurred in Cape Town, South Africa. An apartheid government began to relocate over 60,000 “undesirables”, in order to pave the way for whites-only infrastructure. Why do I bring this movie up? Well for one, it is a great movie. And two, it leaves us with sort of a cliffhanger. We want to know what will happen and if there will be a resolution in a sequel, but no sequel comes. In Luke’s gospel to Theophilus, we read in the last chapter of Jesus rising from the dead, visiting the disciples and then ascending into Heaven. The very last two verses in that Gospel tells us that they “worshipped him and returned to Jerusal...