Welcome to the NECK Bible Podcast episode 45 at 9.

I'm your resident layman, Trace Trichland, and he's the scholar, Dr. Michael Heiser.

Hey Mike, how you doing?

Pretty good, how are you Trace?

I'm doing good, so we got Acts 9 right now I guess.

We do indeed.

Okay, look at the portrait.

Alright, so let's just jump in with Acts chapter 9.

I think we're going to do what we've been doing, you know, just sort of working our way through the passage.

When we get toward the end here, there's going to be something that's a bit of a rabbit trail where I'm going to be reading

along excerpt of something.

So I don't want to do too much time to reading the whole chapter, but we'll just see how it goes.

So in Acts 9 we get the conversion of Saul, of course, who will become known as Paul.

So let's just jump in here.

We have but Saul still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord went to the high priest

and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the way,

men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

Now as he went on his way, he approached Damascus and suddenly a light from heaven shown around him.

And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?

And he said, who are you Lord?

And he said, I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting, but rise and enter the city, and you will be told what you are to do.

The men who were traveling with him stood speechless, hearing the voice, but seeing no one.

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