What did Peter see as the prophetic sequence after Christ was rejected?
Peter saw the Old Testament program: after Christ was rejected, He would be raised from the dead, ascend to the Father, then tribulation would come, and then the king would return and set up His kingdom. This promised coming kingdom drove the eleven men later to be twelve.
Les explains that Peter understood the Old Testament program: after Christ’s rejection, He would be raised from the dead, ascend to the Father, then come the tribulation, and then the king would return and set up His kingdom. That promise of the coming kingdom drove the eleven men later to be twelve. Les then points to verse 4, where Christ commands them not to depart Jerusalem but to wait for the promise of the Father, and verse 5, where John baptized with water but they would be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. He notes the word 'but' signals the flip side.