Thus, it is of great importance and absolutely essential to confess that Jesus Christ is God! Without this deep confession born out from the revelation given by the Holy Spirit no one can be saved, but we shall return to it later. Enough to say that God, the Holy Spirit, personally reveals to men who Jesus is! Salvation is God’s work from the beginning to the very end, or to be absolutely right, from eternity to eternity! All the events that I have quoted, prove from the lips of his disciples, from God’s His Father and from the very lips of Jesus Christ Himself, that he is Jehovah, (Yahve), God incarnate, who was sent by God down to earth to die for the sins of the whole world, and having done so He lives forever to save all those that His Father gave to Him before the foundation of the earth! ‘And we know that in all things God works for the good of those that love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.’ (Romans 8: 28)

I must also add that at one point Jesus took three disciples, Peter, James and John, up a mountain where he revealed to them His glory which shone forth out of him, I have quoted this event previously. Years after, in their epistles, John and Peter, make mention of that experience in their epistles; how could they forget it? Only James could not, for, soon after Christ’s ascension to heaven, he was beheaded by Herod the evil King. It is obvious that Peter and John never forgot this amazing revelation which lived in them all their lives!  After Christ’s ascension, they lived through great persecutions wherever they went, but none was greater than the one organised by Saul of Tarsus who approved the stoning of Stephen, one of the seven deacons chosen by the church in Jerusalem. In his great hate of the disciples, this treacherous Pharisee, as it is written: ‘Saul, still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples, went to the high priest (Caiaphas) and asked for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that he found any there who belonged to ‘the Way’, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem! (Acts 9: 1-2) His sole purpose was to make a public execution of all the disciples of Christ that he would apprehend!

But Saul of Tarsus, had no clue as to who He was dealing with. I do not know if he had met and heard Jesus, and if he saw His death on the cross! If he did, he came to the conclusion that if Jesus were who He claimed to be, he would not let any one touch Him, let alone crucify Him! But this Jesus, that he despised, was not who Saul thought he was, dead and out of the way, for He was now exalted to the highest place, to Him was given full authority in heaven and on earth. (Matthew 28: 18) How could he have known, what really happened to this man he so despised? But this Christ exalted, had reserved an unexpected experience to this hardened Pharisee; for, as he travelled on his way to Damascus, with the letters of authority, given by the high priest, still hell bent to fulfil his evil plan, Jesus struck him  and blinded Him by the light of His glory, he fell to the ground to rise a changed man, for this little Pharisee, now shaking and blinded by the light of our Lord’s countenance, seeks to know whose voice he was hearing and who it was that struck him? It is written: ‘As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him: Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?’ (Acts 9: 3-4) Saul’s experience here quoted is the most amazing conversion a man could experience; it shows the power of God’s grace. It did not only stir Saul of Tarsus in his innermost being, but to this day the account we have of his conversion in Acts chapter nine, stirs and upsets all the ideas men may have of how God alone, can turn a son of darkness, into a son of light! It is no wonder that from the man that fell down to the earth, humbled and blinded, came out this astonishing confession, for Saul, trembling, in great fear and astonishment, asked: ‘Who are you Lord.’? I do not think for a moment that Saul expected to hear what he did, but He knew that he was the object of a divine encounter for this ‘Lord’ to whom he asked this question, replied: ‘I am Jesus, whom you persecute! Now, get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do. (Acts 9: 5) So, this proud, violent Pharisee, was dependent on the words and actions of a disciple of Christ called: ‘Ananias.’ Thus, finally, even Saul of Tarsus, confessed that Jesus Christ Is Lord. The Son of the living God!