Read Acts Chapter 2
1. What is the Jewish feast of Pentecost? What did it celebrate? When did the feast occur in the Jewish calendar? What other name was/is the feast known by?
2. What do you learn about the feast of Pentecost from Leviticus 23:4-7 and 15-16?
Going deeper: How is Pentecost celebrated today by Jews in Israel? Messianic Jews?
3. According to Acts 2:1, where were the disciples?
4. What happened on that day according to the following verses?
Acts 2:2
Acts 2:3
Acts 2:4
Acts 2:5
5. How is the crowd described in Acts 2:6?
Going deeper: Why were there men from every God-fearing nation in Jerusalem (Acts 2:6)?
6. What is the implication of the statement in Acts 2:6-7 for the Jews in the first century? For the future?
7. What places are listed in Acts 2:9-11? Locate these on a map of the first century world. What do you notice?
8. What do you observe from the following verses?
Exodus 3:2
Exodus 13:21-22
9. What do you learn about earthquakes from the following verses?
Isaiah 29:6
Ezekiel 3:13-14
Matthew 27:45-51
Matthew 28:2
Acts 4:31
Acts 16:26
Revelation 8:5
Revelation 11:13, 19
Revelation 16:17-19
10. After reviewing the above scriptures, what general or summary statements can you make about earthquakes in the scriptures and in connection with God and heavenly things?
11. What was the reaction to the events according to Acts 2:12?
12. What is the accusation made by some in Acts 2:13?
13. What do you learn about tongues from the following verses?
Exodus 14:24-25
Exodus 19:18
Mark 16:17
Acts 10:44-47
Acts 19:5-6
1 Corinthians 12:4-11
1 Corinthians 13:1, 8
1 Corinthians 14:2-19
14. What do you learn from the following verses?
Job 38:1
Ezekiel 1:4-5
Prayer prompt: Re-read the first 4 verses of Acts chapter 2. Close your eyes and pray for at least ten minutes about the images, the people, the location, the sounds, asking God to bring this story to life, to show you what you may have overlooked. Imagine you are there with the disciples. Record your heart’s response to these events.
For 10-15 more minutes pray asking God to reveal to you the power of his spirit as it has fallen in your life. Consider your heart’s response. Are you afraid of the Spirit’s work? Are you open to the Spirit’s work? Are you desiring the Spirit to do more work in and through your life? Be mindful of your heart’s response. Try to sit with God and just allow him to reveal to you what is in your heart about the Spirit.
For 10-15 minutes, consider what your life would look like without the Holy Spirit.
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