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https://www.thebereancall.org/content/who-was-apollosWell, Tom, this is a most interesting passage.It says, He is mighty in the Scriptures, and yet he didn’t know the Scriptures as related to Jesus, he only knew the baptism of John.Now, the baptism of John, John was the forerunner, and he came preparing Israel for the Messiah, and calling them to repentance.So apparently, now we’re talking about, mighty in the Scriptures, of course it’s the Old Testament, that was all that they had.So, he apparently knew the Old Testament very well, and yet he was still blinded.As Jesus said to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, “You fools, slow of heart to believe all the prophets have spoken.Ought not Christ to have suffered these things?”So apparently, Apollos didn’t yet know that Jesus was the Christ, but he understood the Old Testament very well, but he didn’t recognize the Messianic prophecies, particularly as having been fulfilled by Jesus Christ.It’s rather interesting, I mean, it just tells us, Look, I’ve been studying the Bible on my knees for more than 70 years—well, it began when I was a child.My father had Bible study and prayer twice a day in our home.I never tried to memorize the Bible, I just heard it over and over and over and over, and I think I knew the Bible pretty well, but I hadn’t personally put my faith in Christ, I was not born again by the Spirit of God.You can go seminary and you can think you know the Bible well, and you may be really out of touch with God, because you are not really seeing what the Bible says.So, I think that was the case with Apollos, but Aquila and Priscilla, they must have been good teachers.
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