Acts 17:30
30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commanded all men every where to repent:
Acts 17:19
19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, (Mars Hill) saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?
Acts 17:20-21
20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
Acts 17:22-23
22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.
Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, HIM declare I unto you.
He is the CREATOR OF ALL THINGS.
Acts 17:24a
24 God that MADE the world and all things therein,
He is the CONTROLER ALL THINGS.
- Controls all things in the Heavens.
Acts 17:24
24 God that made the world and all things therein, he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands
- Controls all the Earth’s Humans.
Acts 17:26a
26 and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth…
- Controls all the Earth’s History
Acts 17:26b
…and hath determined the times before appointed…
Acts 17:26c
and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation;
WHY?
Acts 17:27
27 that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
Acts 17:28
28 for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
God can’t be CONFINED
Acts 17:24
24 God that made the world and all things therein, that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands
Acts 17:25
25 neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
Acts 17:29
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
Acts 17:30
30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commanded all men every where to repent:
He is COMING AGAIN
Acts 17:31
31 because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by THAT MAN whom he hath ordained;
whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Acts 17:32, 34
32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
34 Howbeit certain men clave unto him and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
Acts 17:33
33 So Paul DEPARTED from among them.