Acts 21:1-7 - The Trip to Tyre/Ptolemais Warning

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The Acts of the Apostles
Acts 211-26 Paul at Tyre and Caesarea

• Acts 211-7 - The Trip to Tyre/Ptolemais
  Warning
• Tyre was in ancient Phoenicia, then part of the
  Roman province of Syria.
• When we had departed from them see the route
  above.

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The Acts of the Apostles
Acts 211-26 Paul at Tyre and Caesarea

• departed torn
• The Great Escape?
• Notice we Luke was still with Paul et al and
  they sailed.
• The ship was to unload its cargo at Tyre were
  they stowaways?
• Constable - Sea journeys in the ancient world
  depended on finding shipping available, and
  accepting delays arising from loading and
  unloading.
• Paul is advised not to go to Jerusalem through
  the Spirit by the disciples he found at Tyre.
• Whos being led through the Spirit, the disciples
  or Paul?
• What was the motive and was this a contradiction
  to Acts 2022, and if so is this a battle between
  the Holy Sprit and the human spirit?
• Was he being disobedient to God?
• See Acts 916, 1921, 2022-24, 2114, 231,11
• And after 7 days, we departed and went on our
  way and they

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The Acts of the Apostles
Acts 211-26 Paul at Tyre and Caesarea

• all accompanied us, with wives and children,
  till we were out of the city. And we knelt down
  on the shore and prayed (v. 5).
• Acts 218-16 To Jerusalem via Caesarea
  Warning
• In Caesarea (capital of the province of Judea)
  they entered the house of Philip the evangelist
  .who had 4 virgin daughters who prophesied.
• Philip is one of the seven deacons (Acts 65).
• What relevance is there in mentioning these 4
  daughters (Acts 217, Joel 228?).
• Women also prophesized in the OT Judges 44 II
  Kings 2214
• Then a prophet named Agabus from Judea comes on
  the scene.
• Agabus had previously come from Jerusalem to
  Antioch to foretell the famine of AD 46 (Acts
  1126-28).
• .he took Pauls belt, bound his own hands and
  feet, and said, Thus says the Holy Spirit, So
  shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns
  this belt, and deliver him into the hands of the
  Gentiles. (v.11).

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The Acts of the Apostles
Acts 211-26 Paul at Tyre and Caesarea

• A recollection of the past Isaiah 202 Jerem
  131 Ezek 51
• Also, any reminders here regarding our Lord and
  Savior?
• Mark 931, 1033 John 2118
• Further advice given by Luke and the others to
  Paul, and even with tears (v.13), not go up to
  Jerusalem.
• Paul responds - What do you mean by weeping and
  breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be
  bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name
  of the Lord Jesus.
• Accepting this as the will of the Lord even unto
  death, the trip to Jerusalem ensues, and Luke is
  still present.
• And Mnason of Cyprus is with them, a Hellenistic
  Jewish believer who was one of the earliest
  converts to Christianity, with whom they should
  lodge.
• Acts 2117-26 Paul, James, the Vow, the Temple
• The day after Paul, Luke et al arrive, they meet
  with James and the elders, and Paul shared with
  them his missionary journeys.
• Which James?

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The Acts of the Apostles
Acts 211-26 Paul at Tyre and Caesarea

• The Lords half brother, leader of the Jerusalem
  church Acts 1217, 1513.
• He mentions nothing about the monetary gift that
  likely accompanied Paul (Rom. 1525-27 1 Cor.
  161-4) but stressed the spread of the gospel.
• He also states that the Gentiles who believe are
  confused by the Jewish believers who are all
  zealous for the law but that Paul teaches all the
  Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses,
  saying that they ought not to circumcise their
  children nor to walk according to the customs
  (v.21).
• What do you think was Pauls true position on
  this issue?
• Paul thereupon decides to comply with James
  advice to be purified with the four men who had
  taken the Nazarite vow (Num 61-7) despite their
  new-founded belief.
• Shaving their heads and paying their expenses -
  Num 613-21.
• Informing everyone that you walk orderly and keep
  the law.
• What happened to Pauls position of the blotting
  out of ordinances (Col 214-17)?
• You can understand the confusion.
• This action of Pauls was entirely voluntary!
• He then reminds Paul that they had written and
  stated to the Gentile believers that they should
  observe no such thing, except that they should
  keep themselves from things offered to idols,
  from blood, from things strangled, and from
  sexual immorality. (v.25).

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The Acts of the Apostles
Acts 211-26 Paul at Tyre and Caesarea

• This was a statement of clarification for the
  Gentiles consistent with the take-home message
  from the Jerusalem Council - Acts 1520,29.
• Paul then is purified with the four men and
  enters the temple to announce the expiration of
  the days of purification, at which time an
  offering should be made for each one of them.
• Did Paul accomplish what he wanted?
• You need to wait until next week!!!!

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