FYI - For Your Information

Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem. But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down. And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on. Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience. The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it. And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness. And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he divided their land to them by lot. And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet. And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years. And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfill all my will. Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus: When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose. Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent. For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him. And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain. And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre. But God raised him from the dead: And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people. And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption. Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: And by him all that believe are justified by the law of Moses.-Acts 13:13-39***When the apostle Paul (Saul) and those with him were in Antioch of Pisidia in Phrygia, Paul recounted some of the history of the Israelites, the descendants of Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai), Isaac and Rebekah, and Isaac and Rebekah's youngest fraternal twin son Jacob (Israel), and Paul spoke of:

-the Israelites being the chosen people of the Lord God.

-the Lord God leading the Israelites away from Egyptian slavery.

-The interaction between the Lord God and the Israelites during the 40-year journey through the desert wilderness.

-the Lord God and the 7 nations in Canaan, the Promised Land, the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham, and Isaac, and to Jacob, and their descendants.

-the division of the Promised Land, by lot and tribal size, according to the commands of the Lord God.

-the leadership of judges.

-Samuel the priest, prophet and judge. Samuel was from the tribe of Levi, descended from Jacob and his 1st wife Leah, and Jacob and Leah's 3rd born son Levi.

-the demand of the Israelites to be given a king.

-Saul, the 1st king to reign over the Israelites in the Promised Land. Saul was from the tribe of Benjamin, descended from Jacob and his 2nd wife Rachel, and Jacob and Rachel's 2nd and last son Benjamin. 

-the Lord God rejecting Saul as king due to Saul's disobedience.

-David, the 2nd king to rule over all of the Israelites in the Promised Land. David was from the tribe of Jacob and Leah's 4th born son Judah.

-Jesus the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.

-John the Baptist and the words he proclaimed, revealing that he was not the Christ. John the Baptist was from the tribe of Levi.

-the request made by the Israelites to Pontius Pilate, governor (procurator) of Judea for the Roman Empire, that Jesus be crucified.

-the crucifixion of Jesus and the burial of Jesus in a tomb.

-the resurrection of Jesus the Christ.

-the eyewitness accounts of the resurrection of Jesus.

-two divinely inspired messages: Psalm 2:7 and Psalm 16:10, written by King David, and Isaiah 55:3, written by Isaiah the prophet.

-the death of David and the corruption of David's dead body.

-the corruption-free body of Jesus the Christ. 

-Jesus the Christ and the forgiveness of sins.

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corruption = diaphthora = destruction, corruption, decay

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