Acts 7:60 - Prayer Tents

Stephen’s Address: The Call of Abraham

7Then the high priest said, "Are these things so?"G1161G2036G749G1487G686G2192G5023G3779

2And he said, "Brethren and fathers, listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,G1161G5346G435G80G2532G3962G191G2316G1391G3700G2257G3962G11G5607G1722G3318G4250G2228G846G2730G1722G5488

3"and said to him, 'Get out of your country and from your relatives, and come to a land that I will show you.'G2532G2036G4314G846G1831G1537G4675G1093G2532G1537G4675G4772G2532G1204G1519G1093G3739G302G1166G4671

4"Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Haran. And from there, when his father was dead, He moved him to this land in which you now dwell.G5119G1831G1537G1093G5466G2730G1722G5488G2547G3326G846G3962G599G3351G846G1519G5026G1093G1519G3739G5210G3568G2730

5"And God gave him no inheritance in it, not even enough to set his foot on. But even when Abraham had no child, He promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his descendants after him.G2532G1325G846G3756G2817G1722G846G3761G968G4228G968G2532G1861G1325G846G846G1519G2697G2532G846G4690G3326G846G846G5607G3756G5043

6"But God spoke in this way: that his descendants would dwell in a foreign land, and that they would bring them into bondage and oppress them four hundred years.G1161G2316G2980G3779G3754G846G4690G2071G3941G1722G245G1093G2532G1402G846G1402G2532G2559G5071G2094

7'And the nation to whom they will be in bondage I will judge,' said God, 'and after that they shall come out and serve Me in this place.'G2532G1484G3739G1437G1398G2919G1473G2919G2036G2316G2532G3326G5023G1831G2532G3000G3427G1722G5129G5117

8"Then He gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so Abraham begot Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot the twelve patriarchs.G2532G1325G846G1242G4061G2532G3779G1080G2464G2532G4059G846G3590G2250G2532G2464G2384G2532G2384G1427G3966

The Patriarchs in Egypt

9"And the patriarchs, becoming envious, sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with himG2532G3966G2206G591G2501G1519G125G2532G2316G2258G3326G846

10"and delivered him out of all his troubles, and gave him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.G2532G1807G846G1537G3956G846G2347G2532G1325G846G5485G2532G4678G1726G5328G935G125G2532G2525G846G2233G1909G125G2532G3650G846G3624

11"Now a famine and great trouble came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers found no sustenance.G1161G2064G3042G1909G3650G1093G125G2532G5477G2532G3173G2347G2532G2257G3962G2147G3756G5527

12"But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.G1161G2384G191G5607G4621G1722G125G1821G2257G3962G4412

13"And the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to the Pharaoh.G2532G1722G1208G2501G319G846G80G2532G2501G1085G1096G5318G5328

14"Then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob and all his relatives to him, seventy-five people.G1161G649G2501G3333G846G3962G2384G2532G3956G846G4772G1722G1440G4002G5590

15"So Jacob went down to Egypt; and he died, he and our fathers.G1161G2384G2597G1519G125G2532G5053G846G2532G2257G3962

16"And they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem.G2532G3346G1519G4966G2532G5087G1722G3418G3739G11G5608G5092G694G3844G5207G1697G3588G4966

God Delivers Israel by Moses

17"But when the time of the promise drew near which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in EgyptG1161G2531G5550G1860G1448G3739G2316G3660G11G2992G837G2532G4129G1722G125

18"till another king arose who did not know Joseph.G891G3739G2087G935G450G3739G1492G3756G2501

19"This man dealt treacherously with our people, and oppressed our forefathers, making them expose their babies, so that they might not live.G3778G2686G2257G1085G2559G2257G3962G4160G1570G846G1025G1519G2225G3361G2225

20"At this time Moses was born, and was well pleasing to God; and he was brought up in his father's house for three months.G1722G3739G2540G3475G1080G2532G2258G2316G791G3739G397G1722G846G3962G3624G5140G3376

21"But when he was set out, Pharaoh's daughter took him away and brought him up as her own son.G1161G846G1620G5328G2364G337G846G337G2532G397G846G1519G1438G5207

22"And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds.G2532G3475G3811G3956G4678G124G1161G2258G1415G1722G3056G2532G1722G2041

23"Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.G1161G5613G846G4137G5063G5550G305G1909G846G2588G1980G846G80G5207G2474

24"And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck down the Egyptian.G2532G1492G5100G91G292G2532G1557G4160G2669G3960G124

25"For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand.G1161G3543G846G80G4920G3754G2316G1223G846G5495G1325G4991G846G1161G4920G3756

26"And the next day he appeared to two of them as they were fighting, and tried to reconcile them, saying, 'Men, you are brethren; why do you wrong one another?'G5037G1966G2250G3700G846G3164G2532G4900G846G1519G1515G2036G435G5210G2075G80G2444G91G240

27"But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?G1161G91G4139G91G683G846G683G2036G5101G2525G4571G758G2532G1348G1909G2248

28'Do you want to kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday?'G3361G2309G4771G337G3165G3739G5158G337G124G5504

29"Then, at this saying, Moses fled and became a dweller in the land of Midian, where he had two sons.G1161G5343G3475G1722G5129G3056G2532G1096G3941G1722G1093G3099G3757G1080G1417G5207

30"And when forty years had passed, an Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai.G2532G5062G2094G4137G3700G846G1722G2048G3735G4614G32G2962G1722G5395G4442G942

31"When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight; and as he drew near to observe, the voice of the Lord came to him,G1161G3475G1492G2296G3705G1161G846G4334G2657G5456G2962G1096G4314G846

32"saying, 'I am the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' And Moses trembled and dared not look.G1473G2316G4675G3962G2316G11G2532G2316G2464G2532G2316G2384G1161G3475G1096G1790G5111G3756G2657

33'Then the LORD said to him, "Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.G1161G2036G2962G846G3089G5266G4675G4228G1063G5117G1722G3739G2476G2076G40G1093

34"I have surely seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt."'G1492G1492G2561G3450G2992G3588G1722G125G2532G191G846G4726G2532G2597G1807G846G2532G3568G1204G649G4571G1519G125

35"This Moses whom they rejected, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?' is the one God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush.G5126G3475G3739G720G2036G5101G2525G4571G758G2532G1348G5126G2316G649G758G2532G3086G1722G5495G32G3588G3700G846G1722G942

36"He brought them out, after he had shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.G3778G1806G846G1806G4160G5059G2532G4592G1722G1093G125G2532G1722G2063G2281G2532G1722G2048G5062G2094

Israel Rebels Against God

37"This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel, 'The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear.'G3778G2076G3475G3588G2036G5207G2474G4396G450G2962G5216G2316G450G5213G1537G5216G80G5613G1691G846G191

38"This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, the one who received the living oracles to give to us,G3778G2076G1096G1722G1577G1722G2048G3326G32G3588G2980G846G1722G3735G4614G2532G2257G3962G3739G1209G2198G3051G1325G2254

39"whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt,G3739G2257G3962G2309G3756G1096G5255G235G683G2532G846G2588G4762G1519G125

40"saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods to go before us; as for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'G2036G2G4160G2254G2316G3739G4313G2257G1063G3778G3475G3739G1806G2248G1537G1093G125G1492G3756G5101G1096G846

41"And they made a calf in those days, offered sacrifices to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.G2532G3447G1722G1565G2250G2532G321G2378G1497G2532G2165G1722G2041G846G5495

42"Then God turned and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?G1161G2316G4762G2532G3860G846G3860G3000G4756G3772G2531G1125G1722G976G4396G3624G2474G3361G4374G3427G4968G2532G2378G5062G2094G1722G2048

43You also took up the tabernacle of Moloch, And the star of your god Remphan, Images which you made to worship; And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.'G2532G353G4633G3434G2532G798G5216G2316G4481G5179G3739G4160G4352G846G2532G3351G5209G3351G1900G897

God’s True Tabernacle

44"Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as He appointed, instructing Moses to make it according to the pattern that he had seen,G2257G3962G2258G4633G3142G1722G1722G2048G2531G1299G2980G3475G4160G846G2596G5179G3739G3708

45"which our fathers, having received it in turn, also brought with Joshua into the land possessed by the Gentiles, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers until the days of David,G3739G2532G2257G3962G1237G1521G3326G2424G1722G2697G1484G3739G2316G1856G575G4383G2257G3962G2193G2250G1138

46"who found favor before God and asked to find a dwelling for the God of Jacob.G3739G2147G5485G1799G2316G2532G154G2147G4638G2316G2384

47"But Solomon built Him a house.G1161G4672G3618G846G3624

48"However, the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says:G235G5310G2730G3756G1722G3485G5499G2531G3004G4396

49'Heaven is My throne, And earth is My footstool. What house will you build for Me? says the LORD, Or what is the place of My rest?G3772G3427G2362G1161G1093G3450G4228G5286G4169G3624G3618G3427G3004G2962G2228G5101G5117G3450G2663

50Has My hand not made all these things?'G4160G3780G3450G5495G4160G3956G5023

Israel Resists the Holy Spirit

51"You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.G4644G2532G564G2588G2532G3775G5210G496G104G496G40G4151G5613G5216G3962G2532G5210

52"Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers,G5101G4396G1377G3756G5216G3962G1377G2532G615G3588G4293G4012G1660G1342G3739G5210G1096G3568G4273G2532G5406

53"who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it."G3748G2983G3551G1519G1296G32G2532G5442G3756G5442

Stephen the Martyr

54When they heard these things they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.G1161G191G5023G1282G2588G846G2532G1031G1909G846G3599

55But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,G1161G5225G4134G40G4151G816G1519G3772G1492G1391G2316G2532G2424G2476G1537G1188G2316

56and said, "Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!"G2532G2036G2400G2334G3772G455G2532G5207G444G2476G1537G1188G2316

57Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord;G1161G2896G3173G5456G4912G846G3775G2532G3729G1909G846G3661

58and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.G2532G1544G1854G4172G3036G2532G3144G659G846G2440G3844G3494G4228G2564G4569

59And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."G2532G3036G4736G1941G2532G3004G2962G2424G1209G3450G4151

60Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, "Lord, do not charge them with this sin." And when he had said this, he fell asleep.G1161G5087G1119G2896G3173G5456G2962G2476G3361G5026G266G846G2532G2036G5124G2837