He read in the scriptures Ecclesiasticus 23:19 where it says, “...the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the sun, beholding all the ways of men, and considering the most secret parts.” So when he was on the road to Damascus and he saw the light that shinned brighter than the noonday sun, it was no quesiton in his mind that this was the Lord. He said in Acts 26:13, At midday, O king. I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me. And when we were fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. ( A prick or a goad is a spiked stick which was used for driving cattle. When their was an ox going astray, they would use these goads to get them back in line, the more of a struggle they put up, the more pain they would feel.
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So Paul answers, “Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.”
Because of this experience, Paul is now blinded and has to be lead away. You can't have an encounter with God and things be the same, something is going to change. So he goes to the city to a street called straight and he is waiting.
While he is their God talks to a Ananias in a vision, He tells him to go and pray for Paul, that he get his sight back. Even though Paul persecuted the church, and had many killed, But God said, he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake. The early church had it right, for them suffering, although it was hard, it was an honor. For the knew that to be absent in the body was to be present with the
So Paul answers, “Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.”
Because of this experience, Paul is now blinded and has to be lead away. You can't have an encounter with God and things be the same, something is going to change. So he goes to the city to a street called straight and he is waiting.
While he is their God talks to a Ananias in a vision, He tells him to go and pray for Paul, that he get his sight back. Even though Paul persecuted the church, and had many killed, But God said, he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake. The early church had it right, for them suffering, although it was hard, it was an honor. For the knew that to be absent in the body was to be present with the