Collections on the First Day of the Week - Richard A Wiedenheft - November 1973

Richard A Wiedenheft

THE story begins around A.D. 42 when Agabus foretold a famine that began in the reign of Claudius Caesar (Acts 11:27-28). Claudius ruled from A.D. 41 to A.D. 54. Around the spring of A.D. 55 (during this famine), Paul wrote to the Corinthians concerning the plight of the Christians of Judaea. Read carefully and analyze I Corinthians 16:1 and 3. "Now concerning the collection for the saints...." - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library