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Acts 7:38 – “In the Assembly” (June 25)
Hello and thanks for joining in on to today’s daily devotion. Today is Saturday. June 25th. The 7th day of the Hebraic week. And everybody says “HalleluYah”.
Our verse today is Acts 7:38.
Continuing with the account of Stephen, we see him say “In the assembly”. The Greek word here for assembly is “ekklesia”. “Assembly” is a great translation for “ekklesia” However, this word is actually translated as “church” throughout the rest of the New Testament.
So why didn’t the translators make this particular “ekklesia” in Acts 7:38 say “church” like all the other ones in the New Testament? Because that would put Moses in the “church.” and most all want to separate the church from Israel. When nothing could be further from the truth.
Even the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament, actually uses ekklesia for assembly throughout the translation. The Septuagint was written hundreds of years before Yeshua came. If the word “assembly” was used like it should have been for the Greek word “ekklesia” in the rest of the New Testament, we would then see that the “church” is simply the assembly of the Old Testament continuing and not some supposed new creation from Yeshua.
Let this be a focus in your time of meditation throughout the day. Until tomorrow, shalom!
