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The Book of Acts beginning in the 2nd chapter records the beginning of the Church Jesus founded on Pentecost, June 17, 31 AD and continues to about 60 AD. As the Apostles begin to leave the scene, there comes the change Jesus warned us all about (see Matthew 24:4-5). Here is how one historian describes the events during the early Church:
Historian Jesse Hurlbut says of this time of transformation: "We name the last generation of the first century, from 68 to 100 A.D., The Age of Shadows, partly because the gloom of persecution was over the church, but more especially because of all the periods in the church's history, it is the one about which we know the least. We have no longer the clear light of the Book of Acts to guide us; and no author of that age has filled the blank in the history . . .
For fifty years after St. Paul's life a curtain hangs over the church, through which we strive vainly to look; and when at last it rises, about 120 A.D. with the writings of the earliest church fathers, we find a church in many aspects very different from that in the days of St. Peter and St. Paul ( The Story of the Christian Church, 1970, p. 33).
The transformation noted above continued to grow and spread throughout the then Roman Empire. However, though persecuted and killed for not conforming to the new 'Christianity', followers of the Church of God Jesus founded and the Apostles spread throughout still exists today as the 'Little Flock' (Luke 12:32).
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∙ 8y agoThe first 400 years after Christ is usually considered the early Christian church period.
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