[Lost Sheep McUinnean]

Well, I must admit I do enjoy the invasion, ..or rather...taking possession of the Land of Milf and Honey by the Israelites, the Battles, the slaughter of the unChosen, the wars of Judea and the might of the military rulers of the Old Testament but I must admit my favourite HISTORICAL PERIOD of the Bible is the times relate in the Acts of the Apostles and St Paul's Letters to all and sundry.

It was a time of civil unrest and was the immediate aftermath of Jesus's death/rising and Christians everywhere were under the kosh so to speak.

It was a formative period for ourselves today. It was the beginning of True Salvation.

I think maybe I'm biased towards Paul/Saul. My own conversion was similar in many ways. He persecuted Christians and fought against the Truthful Inner Voice that was God telling him to cut the crap and get Saved, which he did eventually.

I was the same, although far less worthy. I too had Christians as my victims from time to time, though not specifically them as I was walking through a haze of alcohol, resentment, guilt and anger, so just about anybody was a handy victim of some grievous bodily harm or harassment.

But one day that changed. I think it was my 7th or 8th time awaking in a hospital among strangers with a tearful angry wife and nurses attending to my wrecked face or other injuries from falls or picking 12 bikers to poke fun at or assault.

It was the 8th time I think. Long after the 'ewe'.

But I 'saw'. I 'came back' to the 'fold'. And al of this helps explain my username too. I even sign off sometimes with McU to remind me always of my shame. And my repentance. And His Mercy.

And so with Paul and his road to Damascus. And his letters. I bet he wishes now he'd had the internet back then. He could have admonished and converted the world by now. Even Finland.

Not only this, but it is actual historical testimony from eyewitnesses that proves beyond all doubt our Saviour's suffering, passion and resurrection. Where else can you get real historical evidence for events long past? Nowhere, that's where! Except the Bible.

Here's some.
9 And when hee had spoken these things, while they beheld, hee was taken vp, and a cloud receiued him out of their sight.

10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heauen, as he went vp, behold, two men stood by them in white apparell,

11 Which also said, Yee men of Galililee, why stand yee gazing vp into heauen? This same Iesus, which is taken vp from you into heauen, shall so come, in like maner as yee haue seene him goe into heauen.

Now Paul also told the Galatians of his redemption and of his sin and of the Divine nature of the Bible:

10 For doe I now perswade men, or God? or doe I seeke to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I should not bee the seruant of Christ.

11 But I certifie you, brethren, that the Gospel which was preached of me, is not after man.

12 For I neither receiued it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the reuelation of Iesus Christ.

13 For yee haue heard of my couuersation in time past, in the Iewes Religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the Church of God, and wasted it:

14 And profited in the Iewes Religion, aboue many my equals in mine owne nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mothers wombe, and called me by his grace,

And I personally think that is beautiful. Nothing short of tear-jerking poetry. Only in the KJV1611 friends.

And I adore his summary of our purpose as laid out in Corinthians (The sequel).


5 For we preach not our selues, but Christ Iesus the Lord, and our selues your seruants for Iesus sake.

6 For God who commaunded the light to shine out of darkenes, hath shined in our hearts, to giue the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Iesus Christ.

7 But we haue this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellencie of the power may be of God, and not of vs.

8 Wee are troubled on euery side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despaire,

9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast downe, but not destroyed.

10 Alwayes bearing about in the body, the dying of the Lord Iesus, that the life also of Iesus might bee made manifest in our body.

11 For we which liue, are always deliuered vnto death for Iesus sake, that the life also of Iesus might bee made manifest in our mortall flesh.

12 So then death worketh in vs, but life in you.


So I know my favourite HISTORICAL PERIOD of the Bible is perhaps not the most blockbustingly spectacular, but it is one close to my heart. The 1st Century A.D.

Shaer your own favourite HISTORICAL PERIOD of the bible friends!

Share and Praise Him. Hallelujah.

YIC, McU.