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       DID THE BODY OF CHRIST START AT PENTECOST?
   DIR By: doug
       Date: April 18, 2026, 10:05 am
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       More than a few think Pentecost was the start of the church.
       This will examine this claim.
       [Acts 2:42 KJV] "And they continued stedfastly in the apostles'
       doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in
       prayers." ********** The Gentiles that believed continued in the
       teachings of Peter and the apostles. Peter was preaching the
       millennial kingdom on earth. This couldn't be the start of the
       body of Christ, because the body will inherit heaven, not the
       earth.
       [Acts 2:44 KJV] "And all that believed were together, and had
       all things common;"
       [Acts 2:45 KJV] "And sold their possessions and goods, and
       parted them to all [men], as every man had need." ********** The
       Gentile believers followed the commandment to sell their
       possessions in accordance to Christ's command to enter the
       millennial kingdom ********* [Luke 12:33 KJV] "Sell that ye
       have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old,
       a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief
       approacheth, neither moth corrupteth." ********* This wasn't a
       command to the body of Christ. On the contrary, the body was
       commanded to lay up for their children ************* [2
       Corinthians 12:14 KJV] "Behold, the third time I am ready to
       come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not
       yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the
       parents, but the parents for the children." ************* the
       body of Christ didn't sell all their possessions and was not a
       practice of the body.
       [Acts 2:46 KJV] "And they, continuing daily with one accord in
       the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat
       their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,"
       [Acts 2:47 KJV] "Praising God, and having favour with all the
       people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be
       saved." *********** The Gentile believers continued daily in the
       temple. Peter and the disciples worshipped daily in the temple
       ************ [Luke 24:53 KJV] "And were continually in the
       temple, praising and blessing God. Amen." ********* the body of
       Christ met in their houses not in the temple.
       The church the Lord added to was not the new church, the body of
       Christ, it was the Jerusalem church whose leaders were Peter and
       the apostles.
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