Atos 12

Atos 12

Vernon McGee writes “The answer is that this is the sovereign will of God. He still moves like this in the contemporary church. I have been in the ministry for many years, and I have seen the Lord reach in and take certain wonderful members out of the church by death. And then there are others whom He has left. Why would He do that? If He had asked me, from my viewpoint as the pastor, I would say that He took the wrong one and He left the wrong one! But life and death are in the hands of a sovereign God... This is His universe, not ours. It is God’s church, not ours. The hand of a sovereign God moves in the church.” Acts 12:12 And when he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was also called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying. KJV Acts 12:12 And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying. he went to the house of Mary Acts 4:23; 16:40 John Acts 12:25; 13:5,13; 15:37-39; Colossians 4:10; 2 Timothy 4:11; Philemon 1:24 where many were gathered together Acts 12:5; Isaiah 65:24; Matthew 18:19,20; 1 John 5:14,15 PETER COMES TO HIS SENSES And when he realized this - Realized is suneidon (4894)(sun = with + eido = to see) which means to see together, to grasp as a whole, to see clearly, to perceive, to become aware of, to gain a mental perception of something (only other use Acts 14:6+ = "they became aware" that plans were being made to stone them - cf Acts 14:5). The verb strictly means to see together, or at the same time and so means to see in one view, to take in at a glance. Peter now realized that God had in effect "checkmated" the evil intentions of Herod and the Jews. The only uses in Septuagint is Da 3:14. Suneidon is the word from which suneidesis or conscience derives. A T