Naked Bible 57: Acts 22

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 12 July 2015

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In an earlier episode (#50), we asked whether Paul’s stoning at Lystra in Acts 14 was the backdrop for the heavenly visionary experience he described in 2 Corinthians 12. Did Paul in fact have an NDE? We concluded that the chronology Paul alluded to in 2 Corinthians 12 didn’t align with the Lystra event and therefore dismissed that possibility. In this episode, we consider a more fruitful trajectory. In Acts 22:17 Paul alludes to a trance vision he had shortly after his conversion experience – an experience distinct from his encounter on the road to Damascus but in which he nevertheless saw Jesus again. This correlation works chronologically. If we presume a relationship between Acts 22:17-21 and 2 Corinthians 12, but passages take on new significance – especially when we consider similar ascension experiences into the heavenly places found in Jewish literature prior to, and contemporary with, the apostolic era. Here are the papers referenced in the show: HEAVEN, Heavenlies, Paradise-DPL Heavenly Ascent in Jewish and Pagan Traditions-DNTB Mysticism-DNTB

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0:26.4	Welcome to the Naked Bible Podcast Episode 57, Acts 22.
0:30.9	I'm your layman, Trace Tricklin, and he's the scholar, Dr. Michael Heizer.
0:35.0	Hey Mike, how you doing?
0:36.5	Very good. Glad to be back for another week, another episode.
0:39.5	All right. Well, we're almost done with Acts. So I guess Acts 22 this way.
0:43.4	Yep. Yep. We're we're trucking our way through it. So one chapter today we've been doing
0:48.9	too, but we'll focus on one today and sort of see what happens after that.
0:52.8	Sounds good.
0:53.9	All right. So let's go to Acts 22. Now for those who either know, or I should say those
1:00.1	who don't know, or who didn't happen to listen last week, Acts 21 ends with Paul again
1:06.8	causing a riot. He's in the temple of Jerusalem, the Jews from Asia, again, who had troubled
1:11.9	him earlier and in his travels show up, at least some of them and they they spot him.
1:16.7	They start a riot. He gets arrested. He has to be, you know, saved from the mob by Roman
1:22.2	guards. And in at the end of Acts 21, we read this, as Paul was about to be brought into
1:27.9	the barracks, he said to the Tribune, again, the Roman Tribune, may I say something to
1:33.4	you? And he said, do you know Greek? Are you not the Egyptian then who recently stirred
1:38.5	up a revolt and led the 4,000 men of the assassins out into the wilderness? So the Roman guy
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