Acts 7:42

Then God turned and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: ‘Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

1. Often the best way to teach someone is to allow them to learn from their mistakes. The only way a child will learn to walk is for the parents to let go, allow them to fall. It is in falling that they learn to stand. The simple rule of learning to roller skate, applies to all of life. "You get up one more time than you fall down."

2. The book of the Prophets is a reference to the Hebrew scriptures. Where we have each of the 12 minor prophets as a separate book, the Hebrew Scriptures combined them into one book called the Book of the Prophets or the Writings of the Twelve.

3. This passage is quoted from Amos 5:25-26.