But Elymas the magician (for so his name is translated) was opposing them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith. But Saul, who was also known as Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fixed his gaze on him, and said, “You who are full of all deceit and fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cea…
But Elymas the magician (for so his name is translated) was opposing them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith. But Saul, who was also known as Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fixed his gaze on him, and said, “You who are full of all deceit and fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to make crooked the straight ways of the Lord? Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and not see the sun for a time.” And immediately a mist and a darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking those who would lead him by the hand. Then the proconsul believed when he saw what had happened, being amazed at the teaching of the Lord.
Elymas was fortunate that Saul only cursed him with blindness. Elisha in the incident with the youths from Bethel was less forBEARing. 🐻 (2 Kings 2:23-24)
😂🤣😂I love that story! Those thugs sure got their just deserts. Or was it the bears that got the desserts, eating the’sweet’ little things up. Wonder if their mamas said, “They didn’t do nuffin!”
aren't the Divine miracle afflictions as astounding as the healings? Saul himself BLINDED and hearing THE Voice that the others did not. The belly worms, the venomous vipers, the withered leprous hand, the worm that ate the sheltering gourd, generational death outside the land of Promise to the freed Israelites, indeed The Wages of SIN are difficult and unbearable yet our flesh and deceived minds crave it or toy with it as a toddler with a dangerous object, at so many levels much of the time. Lead us AWAY from Temptations and Deliver us from all Evil.
But Elymas the magician (for so his name is translated) was opposing them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith. But Saul, who was also known as Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fixed his gaze on him, and said, “You who are full of all deceit and fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to make crooked the straight ways of the Lord? Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and not see the sun for a time.” And immediately a mist and a darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking those who would lead him by the hand. Then the proconsul believed when he saw what had happened, being amazed at the teaching of the Lord.
— Acts 13:8-12 NASB1995
Elymas was fortunate that Saul only cursed him with blindness. Elisha in the incident with the youths from Bethel was less forBEARing. 🐻 (2 Kings 2:23-24)
😂🤣😂I love that story! Those thugs sure got their just deserts. Or was it the bears that got the desserts, eating the’sweet’ little things up. Wonder if their mamas said, “They didn’t do nuffin!”
aren't the Divine miracle afflictions as astounding as the healings? Saul himself BLINDED and hearing THE Voice that the others did not. The belly worms, the venomous vipers, the withered leprous hand, the worm that ate the sheltering gourd, generational death outside the land of Promise to the freed Israelites, indeed The Wages of SIN are difficult and unbearable yet our flesh and deceived minds crave it or toy with it as a toddler with a dangerous object, at so many levels much of the time. Lead us AWAY from Temptations and Deliver us from all Evil.