Acts affirms the whole purpose of God as the kingdom of heaven (20:25-27).
And in the kingdom, resurrection is not to land or tabernacle, as the Jews taught, but rather to God. Paul's accusers charged him with sedition, but they lied, of course, to both Festus and Agrippa (25:18-19; 26:6). Their interest in Paul was in regard to their own belief system and the preservation of their religious authority.
Paul taught what Jesus taught, that Adam did not forsake the flesh but rather the spirit. In the garden, man forsook God and nothing else. Christ reconciled that severed relationship, dying not for individual salvation, per se, as Christians teach, but for the church, as Acts 20:28 and Ephesians 5:25 aver.
Acts relates the realization of the kingdom on earth through the fulfillment of Israel's prophecies, such as Joel's prophecy (2:17-21).Shortly after his speech at Pentecost, Peter iterated the point he had made in the temple regarding Joel’s prophecy, that those were the days that the prophets had proclaimed (Acts 3:24). Likewise, James also hearkened to the fulfillment of prophecy at that time, as when he spoke before the Jerusalem Council that Amos’ prophecy was at that moment transpiring, that God had adopted into His family Simeon and his fellow Gentiles (15:13-18).
Jesus died for the church, and Acts seems to relate the events in the 40 days after his resurrection as his transformation to becoming the head of that church. It is finished.
As I read it, anyway.
