“and he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. ….Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.”
Acts 3:20-21, 24 KJV
Because "Amill-teachings" (etc)--basically "Covenant Theology"--does not recognize the
TWO distinct "RAISE" issues here
in Acts 3 (Peter, speaking to "ye men of Israel," who he later in the passage tells them, "Repent")...:
--the one referring to His being
RAISED to a position of prominence in His earthly ministry
BEFORE the Cross (vv.22,26 "Unto you first God, having RAISED UP His Servant Jesus, SENT Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities"--i.e. His earthly ministry before His death);
--the other referring to His being
RAISED from the dead AFTER the Cross (v.15)
...and in missing these TWO distinct "RAISE" issues in this chpt, they (CT) MISS the import of this text, and completely misunderstand the point being made in this context.
Where it says (in your verse) "all the prophets FROM SAMUEL and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have LIKEWISE FORETOLD
OF THESE DAYS"--This is referring to the aspect that Peter's hearers HAD OVERLOOKED / BYPASSED in their own "expectation" of [only] a
kingly Messiah (who would overthrow Rome for them, etc)...
...they thus MISSED the parts about His "SUFFERING SERVANT" aspect (who would be "REJECTED")... They are thinking, THIS cannot be him, coz LOOK! He was rejected and DIED after all! ("whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate... ye denied the Holy One and the Just... And killed the Prince of life")...
But Peter is pointing out (specifically)--in his wording of: "... FORETOLD
OF THESE DAYS"--
His "SUFFERING SERVANT" days (of His "rejection"... and ultimately His "death")...
for example:
--where
1 Samuel 8:7 says - "And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee,
but they have rejected me,
that I should not reign over them." This connects both with the prophecy of
Gen37:8 (Joseph's
FIRST dream [connected with Christ's FIRST advent], to which Joseph's brothers responded to him [scoffingly],
"Shalt thou indeed reign over us?") as well as Jesus' own words He spoke
in Luke 19:14 (in story language--but ABOUT Him and them--also prophetically), "
But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying,
We will not have this man to reign over us." ;
--
"cut off" is language used by Jeremiah about himself (but prophetically is also about Jesus Himself), where
in Jer11:19 it says, "
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me,
saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us
cut him off from the land of the living [comp. this "land of the living" phrase where it refers
specifically to Israel/Jerusalem, elsewhere], that his name may be no more remembered" (see also the Dan9 TIME-prophecy, in v.26a "And after 62 Weeks shall Messiah be
CUT OFF,
and have nothing [/or, but not for himself]...")
It was "THESE" aspects (that they had OVERLOOKED / BYPASSED in their "expectation" of a KINGLY messiah [
ONLY]--AT THAT TIME [meaning, His FIRST advent]) that Peter was referring to in his words
of v.24 (you quoted, at top) which also correspond with what v.18 as well as the two places he says "His
SERVANT Jesus" (vv.13,26)--It was
this aspect that THEY HAD OVERLOOKED which Peter is drawing their attention to in Acts 3, AS [PROPHETIC] FULFILLMENTS [ALSO!] regarding their Messiah (His "SUFFERING SERVANT" aspect): "[prophets had] SPOKE OF THESE DAYS" (of His "rejection" [the aspect they had OVERLOOKED, from OT prophecies regarding Him]... and not merely of His "kingly REIGN" which was the only aspect they were zeroing in on, at that point.)