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Originally Posted by Drake
This is the heavenly vision that turned Saul on the road to Damascus. He was persecuting believers and the Lord said “Why are you persecuting Me?” then the Lord drove the point home by sending Saul to get healed by a little member of the Body, Ananias. By this Saul the great persecutor became Paul the lead Apostle for the universal truth of the great corporate entity of Christ and the Church.
Drake
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Talk about a distorted interpretation of the vision Saul saw! If it was all about Saul persecuting the Jewish believers who were calling on the Lord, then why did the Lord send him to the Gentiles?
Read again about what happened in Jerusalem. (Acts 21.27 - 22.23) At the temple, all the Jews were willing to hear Paul speak of his testimony until he mentioned the Gentiles. The real "vision" Paul received from the Head was not just that believers were members of Christ, "
the universal truth of the great corporate entity of Christ and the Church,"
but that the believing Gentile nations were now part of Christ.
This was why Paul had to suffer such great things on behalf of His name. (Acts 9.16, Gal 1.15-16, Eph 3.8)