Les Feldick Bible Study

Did Paul consult the other apostles after receiving revelation from Christ?

No. After receiving the revelation of Jesus Christ, Paul did not immediately confer with flesh and blood, nor did he go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before him. Instead, he went into Arabia, returned to Damascus, and only after three years went up to Jerusalem to see Peter.

Les explains from Galatians 1 that Paul did not receive his message from a man, nor was he taught it, but he received it by the revelation of Jesus Christ. Les emphasizes that Paul immediately conferred not with flesh and blood, did not go up to Jerusalem to them who were apostles before him, but went into Arabia and returned again to Damascus. Only after three years did he go up to Jerusalem to see Peter. Les says this is the background for Paul’s knowledge of revelation and the mystery, which is later mentioned in Ephesians 3, where Paul writes that by revelation the mystery was made known to him.

Galatians 1:16

To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

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Why did God keep Paul separate from the Twelve apostles after his conversion?

God kept Paul away from the Twelve after his conversion so that the revelations He would give Paul would not be mixed with what the Twelve had already understood.