A Lamp for Today
Light from the OT on Acts 2: The Guidance of the LORD
We read Acts 1:15-26, understanding Peter’s instruction in the light of Joshua 18:10, 1 Kingdoms/Samuel 10:20–21, 1 Chronicles 24:5, 25:8, Psalms LXX 68, 108 (MT 69, 109), Proverbs 16:33, Luke 24:3, 1 Cor 8:6, and 2 Peter 1:16-20. Especially important is how the apostle directs the praying community to look to the Old Testament for light upon their understanding of the LORD Jesus and what God is doing in their midst.
Friday, May 8, 2026 14 mins
Listen now Download audio
Support podcasts like this and more!
Donate Now
Transcript

Transcripts can be commissioned for most episodes at $1.25 per audio minute. Sponsor this episode’s transcript to help make it available to everyone.

Sponsor this transcript
About
Join Edith Humphrey in reading Old Testament passages designed to bring to life the weekly Gospel and/or Epistle reading for the Divine Liturgy. The apostle Peter, speaking of these books, called them a “lamp,” confirmed in Christ, which we must heed until the very return of our Lord (2 Peter 1:19). Discover how the apostles and the New Testament writers followed the pattern of Jesus in their understanding of the “Holy Scriptures” of the early Church—the Law, the Prophets and the Writings.  See what happens as we “read backwards” from the New Testament to the Old, just as the evangelists do: here is a quest to see the continuity between the testaments that will both encourage and challenge. As Jesus opened the Old Testament to the two on Emmaus, their “hearts burned within them:” can we afford to ignore words that so powerfully witness to our Lord Christ, through which the Holy Spirit still speaks today?
English Talk
Walking in the Christmas Spirit