Paul received his revelations directly from the risen, ascended Lord Jesus Christ while in Arabia — identified by Les Feldick as Mount Sinai — and not from the apostles in Jerusalem.
Paul himself says he did not confer with flesh and blood and did not go up to Jerusalem to the apostles, but went into Arabia. Les Feldick teaches that in Arabia, at Sinai, God revealed the doctrines of grace to Paul in what he calls a private seminary training with the Ascended Lord.
Galatians 1:15-17 — Paul explicitly says that after God called him he immediately went into Arabia rather than going to the apostles in Jerusalem.
Galatians 4:25 — Paul himself locates Mount Sinai in Arabia, which is the place Les identifies as where Paul received his revelations.
Paul directly addresses the source of his revelations in Galatians. He writes, “For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ” (Galatians 1:12). Then he recounts that after God revealed His Son in him, he “immediately conferred not with flesh and blood: Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus” (Galatians 1:16-17). The only place Scripture identifies as “Arabia” in this discussion is Sinai. In Galatians 4:25 Paul says, “For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.” Thus, the biblical record shows Paul went into Arabia and received his message by direct revelation from Jesus Christ.
Les Feldick stresses that Paul did not receive his gospel from the earthly ministry of Christ or from the Twelve. Even though it would have seemed logical for Paul to go to Jerusalem and learn from the apostles who had spent three years with the Lord, Paul purposely did not do that. Instead, God separated him from the Twelve and sent him into Arabia, which Les identifies from Galatians 4 as Mount Sinai.
Paul is making it clear that no human being gave him his gospel. Les explains that Paul didn't go back to Jerusalem to check with the Twelve; rather, God revealed these doctrines of grace to him directly by revelation, a supernatural revealing from the ascended Lord. Paul wasn't taught it from the Twelve, the chief priests, or the rabbis.
Les teaches that God kept these revelations secret until He was ready to reveal them to Paul. The Twelve couldn't comprehend what Paul was given, so God separated Paul from their ministry and revealed the doctrines directly to him out on the desert. God's purpose, as Paul expresses it, was to reveal His Son in Paul so he could preach Him among the Gentiles.
When Paul says he went into Arabia, he later gives the geographical clue in Galatians 4:25, where he says Mount Sinai is in Arabia. Les points to this verse and says Paul made his way from Damascus down to Mount Sinai. He also notes that God revealed the doctrines of grace at the same mountain where He had revealed the Law to Moses.
Les acknowledges that Paul later went through Jerusalem for 14 days and visited Peter, but he says Paul never saw the other apostles. Paul also later went up to Jerusalem by revelation, as recorded in Galatians 2:1-2, but this was on the Lord's instruction, not because Paul was receiving his gospel from the Twelve.
Paul's Calling to Preach Among the Gentiles
Les emphasizes that God's purpose was to reveal His Son in Paul and that Paul was commissioned to preach Him among the Gentiles, which sets the stage for why Paul received direct revelation.
Arabia as Sinai / Doctrines of Grace Revealed
Les shows from Galatians that the Arabia Paul went to was Sinai, and he stresses that God revealed the doctrines of grace at the same mountain where He gave the Law to Moses.
Paul Separated From the Twelve
Les explains that Paul deliberately disassociated himself from the Twelve because God revealed to him something no one else had heard before — revelations that God had kept secret until it was time to reveal them.
Revelation, Not Human Instruction
Les says Paul's gospel did not come from man and was not taught to him by the Twelve; it came by direct supernatural revelation from the ascended Lord.
Private Seminary With the Ascended Lord
Les calls Paul's time on the desert his private seminary training with the ascended Lord from heaven, where he received the doctrines of grace after Christ's crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension.
God Separated Paul and Revealed Doctrines in the Desert
Les says God separated Paul from the Twelve and sent him to the back side of the desert, where these doctrines were revealed to him; later Paul visited Peter but did not join the Twelve's ministry.
Paul Operated by Ongoing Revelation
Les notes that Paul received revelation not only on the road to Damascus but in other areas too, and that Paul operated by direct revelation beyond what Peter and the Eleven could comprehend.
Mount Sinai in Arabia
Les traces Paul's route from Damascus down to Arabia and says he is sure it was Mount Sinai in Arabia, based on Paul's own geographical statement in Galatians 4.
Galatians 1:12: For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Paul directly claims that his gospel came by revelation from Christ, not from any human teacher.
Galatians 1:15-17: But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
Paul recounts that after his calling he went to Arabia instead of checking with the apostles in Jerusalem.
Galatians 2:1-2: Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also. And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
Paul later went to Jerusalem by revelation, confirming that even his contact with the Twelve was directed by the Lord.
Galatians 4:25: For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
This verse is Paul's own geographical marker locating Mount Sinai in Arabia, which Les uses to identify where Paul received his revelations.
Paul says he went into Arabia rather than going up to Jerusalem to the apostles (Galatians 1:17). Les Feldick identifies that Arabia as Mount Sinai, based on Galatians 4:25, and says Paul made his way from Damascus down to Mount Sinai.
No. Paul says he did not receive the gospel from man nor was he taught it, but by revelation of Jesus Christ (Galatians 1:12). Les stresses that Paul did not check in with the Twelve and instead received direct supernatural revelation from the ascended Lord.
According to Les, God revealed the doctrines of grace to Paul in Arabia at Sinai — the same mountain where the Law was given to Moses. Les describes this as Paul's private seminary training with the Ascended Lord.
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