Conspiracy to kill Saul at the gates of the city.

Acts 9:23-25

Click for a description of the mark of the beast.
Click for a description of the image of the beast.

“Now after many days were past, the Jews plotted to kill him. But their plot became known to Saul. And they watched the gates day and night, to kill him. Then the disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall in a large basket.” Acts 9:23-25

Paul proved His devotion to Jesus by using his previous experience as a Pharisee to show that Jesus is the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy, is the Christ and Son of God. Saul/Paul was so persuasive through his own born-again experience that the Jewish people, whom he once ruled over as a Pharisee, began to plot to kill him. They watched the gates of the city, day and night, waiting for him to leave the city to murder him. Fellow believers [disciples], who believed Paul’s born-again experience, helped Paul to escape. The wall was the wall of the city, and Paul was let down in a large basket, unseen, to help him escape the city.

The global government of the beast and its global culture conspire against we who devote our body as the home of the Holy Spirit by our faith in Jesus Christ. They are watching the gates day and night, the gates being the entry into our heart, mind, and soul. They are waiting to kill those who desire to open the gates to allow the Holy Spirit to come in by the name of Jesus.

The Lord encourages, “Lift up your heads, you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.” Psalms 24:7 The Lord provides a way of escape through the wall that separates Believers from unbelievers. That way of escape is by fleeing those of this world and coming apart from them, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.” Revelations 18:4-5 That way of escape leads to eternal life, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

After many days of the testimony of Jesus Christ being on this earth, there came a plot to extinguish the spread of His Gospel. That resulted in the global falling away from belief in God the Creator. That falling away is described in 2 Thessalonians 2. The global falling away came into force when the United Nations was established in 1945, immediately after WW2. The United Nations brought the government of the beast, as described in Daniel 8:1-14. The process of driving Christianity into extinction is described in Revelations 12.

The only place where the conspiracy against the way of Jesus Christ is made known is in the Bible. We are warned against the beast that sets itself up as God in the temple of God [our body}. That beast sets within people by giving what to speak, do, think, and feel and is the one “…who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:4” The “he” in this verse is the “man of sin” Click here for a post on the “man of sin”.

“Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.” Matthew 5:11-12

---

“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11