Tag: damascus

Posted on

Hezekiah Superstar

And the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying, “Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.” ’

(Isaiah 38:4-6) NKJV

The sign of the sundial was a precursor to a main event: during the the night 185,000 soldiers of the Assyrian army became dead corpses. The Assyrian king fled to Damascus where he was killed by his own children.

Continue reading “Hezekiah Superstar”
Posted on

I Didn’t Confer With Flesh and Blood

Cutaway of planet Earth showing the crust, mantle, great gulf and hell.

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and remained with him fifteen days.

(Galatians 1:15-18) NKJV

After Paul’s conversion on the Damascus road he spent three years in Damascus and Arabia being taught, by the Holy Spirit, the doctrine which he would preach, teach and eventually write.

Continue reading “I Didn’t Confer With Flesh and Blood”