Final Preparation for the Kingdom - The Apostolic Foundation

Luke's intent in his two-fold account (Luke-Acts) was to demonstrate the truth that all the Scriptures find their fulfillment in the person and work of Jesus Christ. But he also importantly recognized that the Old Testament scriptures everwhere testify of Jesus in the sense that they everywhere predict and portray the kingdom of God that the Christ would institute and reign over. This kingdom is redemptive in nature, and thus Luke recorded Jesus' ascension and enthronement as the prophesied Melchizedekian Priest-King as a crucial precursor to the formal inauguration of the kingdom. But there remained one other preparatory work to be accomplished before the coming of the kingdom, and that was the completion of the apostolic foundation upon which God had determined to found His kingdom and His Church. Luke records that work in Acts 1:15-26.