The Book Of Acts Ch. 3 verses one and three: Among the Jews (tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Levi) there were two times during the day that it was customary to pray: the 6th hour (9:00 a.m.) and the 9th hour (3:00 p.m.). Each was referred to as the “hour of prayer.” Those within the Jerusalem area tried to get to the Temple during those prayer times. At around 3:00 in the afternoon we find the Apostles Peter and John approaching the Temple entrance–which begs the question: Why? If, as we have all been told repeatedly, the New Covenant Christian Church established by Jesus Christ had broken every tie to the “Jews’ religion,” why were the leaders of that church, along with other Jews, entering a Jewish Temple at the Jewish prayer time to pray to the Jews’ God? If, as we are told from pulpit and podium, true believers must divorce themselves from “all that Jewish stuff,” what were these church leaders doing in the most famous, most revered symbol of the Israelite religion? During the days and nights they had spent with Jesus, had He not told them that the church He would establish would have nothing to do with the Israelite religion as we have been told? No, He had not, as the postings titled White Fields, God’s Royal Law, The Importance of the Old Testament, Replacement Theology, God’s Holy Days and Abraham’s Seed make clear. As we examine the ministry of the Apostle Paul–the “apostle to the Gentiles”–in this study of the Book of Acts, we will find that he spent much time in the Jewish synagogues on the Jewish Sabbath speaking to the Jews about their Jewish Messiah using the Old Testament as His reference. As I said in the opening statement on my YouTube site, if you are involved in so-called “Christianity,” YOU’VE BEEN LIED TO. One of those lies concerns the church and the Old Testament. As the above-mentioned postings point out, only two things separate true Christianity from the Israelite religion: 1) the identity of the Messiah and 2) the practices of the sacrificial, ritualistic law. The church accepts God’s Messiah and has discarded the sacrificial, ritualistic law. Verses two through eight are well-known by those of professing Christendom and do not need to be addressed at this point. Notice verse 8 where we are told that the formerly crippled man “entered with them (Peter and John) into the (Jewish) Temple.”

Verses nine through sixteen: The man whom God had healed was well-known among the Temple visitors. Because of this they were amazed when they saw him “walking, leaping and praising God.” Word spread quickly, causing a crowd to gather around the apostles and the former beggar. Note that Peter was quick to inform the people that it was not by their own power that the man had been healed. He emphasized that God had performed miracle. Peter then told the Jews that they had killed the One Whom God had sent to them and that they had preferred a murderer over their Messiah whom God had raised from the dead. L.J.