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Acts 22:7&8
"7 And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?
8 And I answered, Who art Thou, Lord? And He said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest."

That will get your attention!
A brilliant light from heaven, brighter than the sun, suddenly flashed around him and knocked him to the ground. The repeated use of his name underscores the personal and urgent nature of this divine confrontation.

The man Saul thought was a dead blasphemer is alive and glorified. In attacking Jesus’ followers, Saul had been attacking Jesus Himself. The Lord identifies so closely with His Church that He takes persecution of His people personally (Matthew 25:40).

This encounter marks Paul’s conversion, from persecutor to apostle, through a direct meeting with the risen Christ. As in other biblical callings, God gave him a new heart and spirit, now responsive and ready to love and obey.

Saul had every reason to be proud: a devout Jew, trained in Jerusalem under the renowned rabbi Gamaliel. He carried official letters from the Sanhedrin authorizing him to arrest followers of “the Way” in Damascus and bring them back to Jerusalem in chains. Yet his mission was dramatically interrupted, launching his transformation from Saul the persecutor to Paul the apostle.
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