So when they had gathered together, they began to ask him, “Lord, is this the time when you are restoring the kingdom to Israel?” He told them, “You are not permitted to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest parts of the earth.” (Acts 1:6-8) 

 “Jesus’s reply in verses 7–8 does not reject the premise of the question, that the kingdom will one day be restored to Israel. . . . We shall see that throughout Acts the role of Israel remains and the hope is preached as the natural extension of Jewish expectation, the divinely promised hope of restoration” - Darrell L. Bock