(Acts 17:24). "God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands.
How does Paul introduce "God" to the pagan greek?
As the "Lord of Heaven and earth" the true God of the universe is the "Lord" -i.e, the master and the creator of everything who made the world and everything on earth in heaven. Note. Lord appeared it should be Elohim in those days they are called Lord, it was only brand name Lord. Who "dwell in temples made with hands (acts17:24). Their man made idol.
(Acts 17:27)." nor is he worship with men's hand, as though he needed anything since He gives to all life, breathe, and all things.
What do their idol need?
Manual maintenance? Webster?
Mean the technical document that describes the asset how it operate, contain instruction, the preventives action program, suggestion for corrective action, list of spare part, corrrective of faults danger warning and the assets catalogue among other, modification.
What does the Lord of heaven and earth need?
Nothing, and it is the creator who maintain His creation; He gives to all life, breath, and all things for in Him we live and move and have our being (acts17:25-28).
(Acts 17:26-27) "And he has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their "preappointed times" and the boundaries of their dwelling. So that they should seek the Lord, it should be (Elohim), in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.
WHEN DO THE VARIOUS NATION OF THE WORLD turn to Christ?
When their time "preappointed" by God comes; He has from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their "preappointed times" and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that the might grope for Him and find Him."
(acts 17:26-27).
Has this been true in the world history?
When Paul, silas and timothy were in mysia and tried to head east to Bithynia the Lord stopped them and pointed them west instead (see phygia, Bithynia, mysia), ever since then the main thrust of evangelization and harvest around the world has been westward, from Israel to turkey to central Europe, to Western Europe, to the British isles, to the Americas, to the continent of Asia where China's 120+,million and growing number of christians now comprise the world's largest National church it is as if a giant "Bus" has been going around the world on a westward route picking up people at their "preappointed times" (acts 17:26). The Lord has begun to harvest in india, the Muslim nations of the middle east, and in israel. Once those nations have been harvested. The bus will have a complete loop around the earth.
What about the people who died before the "bus" reached their region?
They never had a ticket to get on the Bus God declares that,
1.He assigned the bus ticket
2.before the creation
3.according to His will,
"just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be Holy and without blame before Him in love, having before predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself according to the good pleasure of His will"
(Ephesians 1:4-5).
Then is God unjust?
God is just... Have not I, the Lord? And there is no other God besides me." just God and a Savior, there is none beside me. (Isaiah 45:21).
But how is it just assign bus ticket to some and not others?
First, when God's infallible declaration collided with fallible human reasoning, the latter must trust and submit to the former, for "Lord" is someone you, submit to unconditionally.
Second, "wheat" differ in origin from "tares" and one cannot become the other; another parallel he put forth to them, saying; "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tared among the wheat and went his way. But while when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop then the tares also appeared. So the servant of the owner came and said to him, sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares? He said to them, an enemy has done this. The servant said to him, do you want us them to go and gather them up? But he said, no, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest i will say to the reapers, "first gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn"' (Matthew 13:24-30). As wheat and tares fundamentally differ, there is a fundamental difference in the spiritual realm between those to be saved and the rest a difference whose nature we won't learn until we get to heaven.
Then should we share the gospel only with those to be saved?
If someone asked you 24 hours before Jesus died on the cross, "between a criminal in pilate prison to be crucified tomorrow and judas iscaroit whom do you think will go to heaven and whom do you think will go to hell," you would will and won't be saved us the choice, knowledge and business of God our business is to obey Him and sow the seed- "the word of the kingdom (Matthew 13:18). On all soil trusting the some of it will fall on the good ground' (Matthew 13:23). As God has" preappointed times (acts 27:26). (Acts 17:38). "For in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said," for wr are also His offspring." to which " poets" (acts 17:38). Is Paul referring? The phrase Paul quoted is found in the 4th and 3th century BC works of aratus of cilicia and cleanthes of mysia-both are in what is turkey today.
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