September 10 | Satan Conceals, Jesus Reveals

DATE: September 10, 2023
THEME: Satan Conceals, Jesus Reveals
SCRIPTURE: Acts 13:4-12

Barnabas and Saul begin their apostolic journey across the sea and begin on the island of Cyprus. They institute a strategy of preaching in the synagogues for several reasons, even though their mission is to the Gentiles. Then they end up in Paphos (140 miles on the western coast of Cyprus and they are summoned to appear before the Proconsul (Governor) of Cyprus for him to hear the gospel. During their presentation to Sergius (the Proconsul), a Jewish False Prophet and Sorcerer named "Bar-Jesus" known as "Elymas", tried to lead him to not hear and receive the message of the gospel, to which Saul (*from now on known by his Roman name "Paul") prophecies blindness over him and instantly he becomes blind. God causes a physical blindness to accompany the spiritual blindness Elymas has chosen.