In the beginning of the world, everyone knew God, then Adam sinned and everyone who came after him began to drift away. God then choose a family to be his witness to the world so that everyone would come back to him. (Isa. 42:6) They failed to be this light, and in the fullness of time Jesus came to be that light to the whole world. (Luke 28-32) In the same way, Acts starts off with a Jewish revival, transitions to the proselytes, then to Samaritans, and finally to Gentiles…

This week’s section opens up with a prophet named Agabus coming down from Jerusalem to predict an up coming famine. This famine would be wide spread, covering most of the Roman world at that time, and was quite severe in Jerusalem. History records the literal fulfillment of this prophecy with…