what did the Lord tell Paul at his conversion on the Damascus road?
At his conversion on the Damascus road, the Lord told Paul that He would send him far hence to the Gentiles. Rather than sending him back to Jerusalem to check with Peter and the twelve, the Lord directed him into Sinai and Arabia, where over three years He gave Paul a revelation of truths not previously hinted at in Scripture.
Les explains that Israel rejected their Messiah and crucified Him, so God immediately turned through the Apostle Paul to the heathen or Gentile world. In Galatians 1:11-12, Paul says the gospel he preached was not after man; he neither received it of man nor was taught it, but it came by the revelation of Jesus Christ. At Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus, the Lord spoke to him and said He would send him far hence to the Gentiles. Paul did not immediately go back to Jerusalem to check in with Peter and the twelve. Instead, the Lord sent him the opposite direction down into Sinai and Arabia, and evidently for three years the Lord laid on him a whole revelation of things that were never hinted at in Scripture. Les emphasizes that all through the Old Testament, the Gospels, and the early book of Acts, the term “the Body of Christ” is never seen until Paul.