HE Sends HIM To Bless

"While he clung to Peter and John, all the people, struck with astonishment, came running to them in Solomon's Porch, as it was called.  When Peter saw the people, he said to them,

'Fellow Israelites, why are you amazed at this?  Why do you stare at us, as if it was by some power or holiness of our own, that we made this man walk?  The GOD of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, the GOD of our ancestors has glorified HIS servant JESUS, whom you handed over to death and denied before Pilate; when even Pilate had decided to release HIM.  You rejected the Holy and Just One; and you insisted that a murderer be released to you.  You killed the Master of life, but GOD raised HIM from the dead; and we are witnesses of this.  It is HIS Name, and faith in HIS Name, that has healed this man, whom you see and recognize.  The faith that comes through JESUS has given him wholeness in the presence of all of you.

Yet, I know that you acted out of ignorance, as did your leaders.  GOD has fulfilled, in this way, what HE had foretold through all the prophets, that HIS Messiah would suffer.

Repent, then, and turn to GOD so that your sins may be wiped out; and the time of refreshment may come by the mercy of GOD, when HE sends the Messiah appointed for you, JESUS.  For HE must remain in heaven, until the time of the universal restoration, which GOD spoke of long ago, through HIS holy prophets.

Moses foretold this, when he said: The LORD GOD will raise up for you a prophet, like me, from among your own people; you shall listen to HIM in all that HE says to you.  Whoever does not listen to that prophet is to be cut off from among HIS people.

In fact, all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel onward, have announced the events of these days.  You are the children of the prophets, and heirs of the Covenant that GOD gave to your ancestors, when HE said to Abraham: All the families of the earth will be blessed through your descendant.  It is to you, first, that GOD sends HIS Servant; HE raised HIM to life, to bless you, by turning each of you from your wicked ways.'" - Acts 3:11-26 

(Why are you amazed at this?  The miracle was done in the Name of JESUS, that is, by the Power over every creature that JESUS received from the FATHER at the time of HIS resurrection.  JESUS was in their midst as the servant of the LORD [Isaiah 42:1; 52:13], but speaking of HIS name was a way of stating HIS divinity [Mark 16:17; Philippians 2:9].

I know that you acted out of ignorance.  Yet Peter demands that they admit their guilt.  All of us must confess similar guilt in the injustices and crimes of out times.

HE must remain in heaven.  The coming of JESUS inaugurated the "last days" in which the Gospel reconciles humanity with GOD, and changes human consciousness thus speeding up the course of history which, in the end, forces humankind to solve their problems together.  Humanity is on its way to the coming of CHRIST and the restoration of the world, namely, the Resurrection.

HE sends HIM to bless.  This blessing comes to those who accept reconciliation with GOD upon seeing the love HE revealed to us in JESUS.  the blessing is not for us alone, rather, through us--the people of GOD--it reaches all the families of the earth.)

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