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Prof. M. M. Ninan

SAUL PAUL

“The builder and the Architect of the Church”Liturgy of St.Jacob

God gave him a new heart.

He became:

Jerusalem

Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.

Act 2:3 And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them.

Act 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Act 2:2 And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. Act 2:3 And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. Act 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance

Day of Pentecost (Acts 2)

Apostles proclaimed the mesia to the Jewish nation.

                                                                                                      

Peter’s Sermon

Act 2:36 Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified."

Act 2:44 And all who believed were together and had all things in common

Stoning of Stephen (Acts 7:59)

Stoning of Stephen

"Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God."

"Go not into the way of the Gentiles....but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel."  (Matthew 10:7)

Recruit new personals

No, the gospel is not to be preached to the Gentiles and

Samaritans.

Yes, the gospel is to be preached to everyone,

including the Gentiles and Samaritans

Mt.10:5-6

Mt.15:24

Mt.28:19

Mk.16:15

Acts 15:3

Acts 15:3

Acts 22:21

Acts 28:28

Act 10:1-8, 24-48

“Tell Peter that the project plan has changed”

Amos 9:7 "Are you not like the Ethiopians to me, O people of Israel?" says the LORD.

"Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor

and the Syrians from Kir?

PAUL'S CONVERSION AND FOLLOWING EVENTS

[31-45 AD] Acts 9:1-19 1. Paul seeks to arrest

Christians--vv. 1-2 2. Blinded by light from heaven;

hears Jesus' voice--vv. 3-9 3. Paul visited by Ananias; sight

restored--vv. 10--19

According to Josephus, Damascus was founded by Uz, grandson of Shem who was the son of Noah.

                                                                                                                                                                          

                   

New Project Manager recruited

                                                                                                                                

                                

baptized

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Painting attributed to Francesco Xanto Avelli; place of production uncertain

Shallow bowl on low foot with the Conversion of Saul, c. 1525

Widener Collection

Saul of Tarsus met the Risen Christ on the Damascus Road. He was thrown to the ground and blinded by the brightness of the Risen Son of God!!

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3 Days of PaulAct 9:9 And for three days he was without sight, and neither ate nor drank.

Rom 6:4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Acts 9:17-19

Act 9:18 And straightway there fell from his eyes as it were scales, and he received his sight; and he arose and was baptized;

Kinesat Hanaiya (Chapel of Ananias) in the Christian Quarter of the Old City; reputedly the place where Ananias laid his hands on Saul to restore his eyesight.

According to Paul's own account in his Letter to the Galatians 1:17, he then went away to Arabia, before returning to Damascus.

Paul went to Sinai mountains like Moses and Elijah to commune with God?

                                                                          

                                                 

Jebel al-Lawz St. Catherine's Monastery and Mt. Sinai

Gal 4:25 "Now this Hagar is Mt. Sinai in Arabia,...".

Petra in Nabotea

Alternate suggested place where Saul went

Petra inNabotea

Was it here?

Mount Sinai

Petra Nabotea

"I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven" (2 Cor. 12:2)

Heaven = Non material dimension

II Corinthians 12:2-4

Divine

Spiritual

Mental

Material

Trinity

Cherubim & Seraphim

Arch angels

Angels

Zoologicals

The Unknown

DivineThird Heaven

SpiritualSecond Heaven

Mental

First Heaven

Material

Trinity

Cherubim & Seraphim

Arch angels

Angels

Zoologicals

The Unknown

"I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven" (2 Cor. 12:2)

Corinthians 12:7. 'And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.'

Chronology of Paul’s Missionary Journeys

Chronology of Paul’s Epistles.