God

When they heard it, they raised their voices to God with singleness of heart. “Master,” they prayed, “You made heaven, earth, the sea and everything in them.

While they were still praying, the place where they were gathered was shaken. They were all filled with the Ruach HaKodesh, and they spoke God’s message with boldness.

Before you sold it, the property was yours; and after you sold it, the money was yours to use as you pleased. So what made you decide to do such a thing? You have lied not to human beings but to God!”

Kefa and the other emissaries answered, “We must obey God, not men.

The God of our fathers raised up Yeshua, whereas you men killed him by having him hanged on a stake.

God has exalted this man at his right hand as Ruler and Savior, in order to enable Isra’el to do t’shuvah and have her sins forgiven.

We are witnesses to these things; so is the Ruach HaKodesh, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them; you might even find yourselves fighting God!” They heeded his advice.

So the Twelve called a general meeting of the talmidim and said, “It isn’t appropriate that we should neglect the Word of God in order to serve tables.

So the word of God continued to spread. The number of talmidim in Yerushalayim increased rapidly, and a large crowd of cohanim were becoming obedient to the faith.

So they secretly persuaded some men to allege, “We heard him speak blasphemously against Moshe and against God.”

and Stephen said: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to Avraham avinu in Mesopotamia before he lived in Haran

and said to him, ‘Leave your land and your family, and go into the land that I will show you.’

What God said to him was, ‘Your descendants will be aliens in a foreign land, where they will be in slavery and oppressed for four hundred years.

But I will judge the nation that enslaves them,’ God said, ‘and afterwards they will leave and worship me in this place.’

“Now the Patriarchs grew jealous of Yosef and sold him into slavery in Egypt. But Adonai was with him;

“As the time drew near for the fulfillment of the promise God had made to Avraham, the number of our people in Egypt increased greatly,

He supposed his brothers would understand that God was using him to rescue them, but they didn’t understand.

‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Avraham, Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov.’ But Moshe trembled with fear and didn’t dare to look.

I have clearly seen how My people are being oppressed in Egypt, I have heard their cry, and I have come down to rescue them, and now I will send you to Egypt.’

“This Moshe, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge?’ is the very one whom God sent as both ruler and ransomer by means of the angel that appeared to him in the thorn bush.

This is the Moshe who said to the people of Isra’el, ‘God will raise up a prophet like me from among your brothers’

So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the stars — as has been written in the book of the prophets, ‘People of Isra’el, it was not to me that you offered slaughtered animals and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness!

No, you carried the tent of Molekh and the star of your god Reifan, the idols you made so that you could worship them. Therefore, I will send you into exile beyond Bavel.’

Later on, our fathers who had received it brought it in with Y’hoshua when they took the Land away from the nations that God drove out before them. “So it was until the days of David.