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A transition occurs when two systems are in operation simultaneously for a temporary period of time. One system is phasing in while the other is phasing out. So it is that certain theologians and careful Bible teachers have observed that the history of the early Church, as recorded in the book of Acts, represents a Transition time period wherein the old system of historic Judaism is gradually phasing out and the new system of pure Christianity is phasing in. In other words, on the Day of Pentecost when the Church of Jesus Christ suddenly came into existence by the promised baptism of the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:5; 2:1, 2; 1 Cor. 12:13), Spirit baptized believers did not suddenly stop practicing the old Mosaic Law system. Indeed, the believers who now formed the early fellowship of that Church in Jerusalem were all Law abiding Jews who continued the practice of the Mosaic Law system. In fact, the Jewish Temple itself became the very center of their operations—Luke 24:52, 53; Acts 2:46; 3:1, 11; 5:12, 20, 25, 42.