A Reference to John?
Shalom everyone
In this week’s reading of the scriptures, in II Corinthians 12:2-5 I read…
“2) I knew a man in the Messiah above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: Elohim knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven 3) and I knew such a man, (whether in the body,or out of the body, I cannot tell:Elohim knoweth;) 4) How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. 5) Of such an one will I boast: yet of myself I will not boast, but in mine infirmities.”
I am wondering… could this possibly be a reference to John? and his subsequent dictation of the book of Revelation?
Mona
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January 1, 2020 at 12:33 am /
Good question. John the Revelator had his vision, being taken up somewhere around 90 AD for his Revelation, so when Paul wrote this it hadn’t happened yet. I grew up being told Paul was speaking of himself but not naming himself so as not to boast, and we lost something in translation (like when Paul is called a Native Born Roman Citizen, but it should be understood he was ‘Naturalized’ by Sergius Paulus on Cyprus in Acts ch. 13 for saving him from a false Jesus – from that point on Saul is now called Paul). Maybe John had been taken up on a previous occasion also – I guess it’s still undetermined.