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WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ISRAEL AND YOUR PROMISE TO ABRAHAM?

Everything.  Shortly after my son had ascended back to us and before we sent him back in judgment, there was a great deal of friction between those followers of our new covenant and the sticklers to the old one who were unable to discern what had happened.  One particular fellow from the old camp, an intellectual zealot whom we had been grooming for some time to enter the new way, was wrecking great havoc on our fresh charges.  At a critical point, my son knocked the unruly fellow of his ride, blinded him, and told him where to go.  The man was converted to the new way in the process and would become one of our chief spokesmen.⁸²  So much for “free will.”  I meddle – both inwardly and behind the scenes.Also, can you see a pattern here?  How we use donkeys, horses, camels – various rides – in the production?  It’s quite colorful and the audience loves it.

THE UNRULY FELLOW WAS SAUL OF TARSUS WHO BECAME THE APOSTLE, PAUL?

That’s right, but there is something that I want to reiterate here.  My long suite – taking something very bad and recreating the same into something very, very good.  Think about the introductory remarks and those whom we enabled and inspired to write them.  The major portion of those writings was penned by former murderers or accessories to murder.  Moses killed the Egyptian taskmaster.⁸³  David saw to it that his paramour’s husband would not return alive from battle.⁸⁴  While an angry mob of legalistic zealots stoned a chosen young man of ours, a consenting Paul – known as Saul at the time – guarded their coats.⁸⁵

THAT’S AMAZING.  I NEVER THOUGHT OF IT THAT WAY.

Nonetheless, Paul became a key player, and we became quite intimate.  I was able to reveal much to him.  He came to understand just whom my true Israel had always been and will always be.  It’s not those of Jewish ancestry who continue to migrate to the tiny nation of Israel which many of our people are mistakenly fixed upon these days.

82 “Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples . . . (gained authority to search them out at Damascus so that) he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.  As he journeyed . . . suddenly a light shone around him from heaven.  Then he fell to the ground and heard (Jesus’) voice . . . So he, trembling and astonished, said, ‘Lord, what do you want me to do?’  Then the Lord said to him, ‘Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.’  Then Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened he saw no one . . . (and) was three days without sight. . . .(Simultaneously) the Lord said in a vision (to) . . . a certain disciple named Ananias (that he would be) ‘putting his hand on (Saul) so that he might receive his sight.’  (Ananias expressed fear.)  But the Lord said to him, ‘Go for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel, for I will show him how many things he must suffer for My name’s sake.’  . . . Ananias . . . lay his hands on him . . . and he received his sight at once; and he arose and was baptized . . . received food . . . was strengthened . . . spent some days with the disciples at Damascus. Immediately, he preached Christ in the synagogues, that He is the Son of God”  (Acts 9:1a, 2-4a, 6, 8a, 9a, 10b, 12b, 17a, 18b-20). The author acknowledges that according to Scripture, Saul of Tarsus may have very well been on foot when he “fell to the ground” in awe.  However, in this interview, God makes it clear that he was atop some conveyance of the time.

83 “So he (Moses) looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand” (Exodus 2:12).

84 “And he (David) wrote in the letter (to his general, Joab), saying, ‘Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck down and die’” (2 Samuel 11:15).

85 “Then they cried out . . . ran at him (Stephen) . . . cast him out of the city and stoned him . . . (laying) their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul (who, thereby) . . . was consenting to his death” (Acts 7:57-58, 8:1a).