BLESSINGS EVEN IN POISONING

My Dear Precious Child,
    Aboard different ships on Paul's journey to Rome where he wanted to present his case of being falsely accused in front of Caesar, even though he was a prisoner he had almost complete freedom because of the centurion who was sent with him to keep him in chains.  After one of the storms in which the ship on which they were traveling was shipwrecked, the people on the ship safely made it to land because of the guidance of the Holy Spirit through Paul when My Holy Spirit sent angels to give wisdom to Paul on how to safely escape the storms that the devil had sent in an effort for Paul to never reach Rome where he would preach and teach about his conversion experience to the authorities there and hopefully attain his release.  I made it possible that Paul was able to speak about his wonderful experience with Jesus on the way to Damascus in all of his journeys, whether he was in chains as a prisoner or not.  He confessed that he "--- was not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God leading to salvation for all men."  (Romans 1:16)
     While shipwrecked on the island of Malta, the people from the ship were treated with respect and favor by the natives there who had built a fire for the ship passengers to have some warmth.  Paul gathered some sticks for the fire and in doing so a snake bit him and attached itself to him.  Paul merely shook the snake off into the fire with no ill effect from the venom which went into him.  The natives were so impressed they were convinced that Paul was super human because he had no ill effects of the very poisonous snake.  That incident fulfilled the prophesy of Jesus when He said that when people became filled with the Holy Spirit that even if they were accidentally bitten by a snake that they would suffer no ill effects. (Mark 16:16-18)   Jesus prophesied that supernatural event because he had seen it in a vision, evidence of the prophesies that My Holy Spirit would show people things to come.     
      Unfortunately, fundamentalist religious people have made a religious doctrine of that prophesy of Jesus in which he saw in a vision of the future ministry of Paul of an incident of My protection for Paul on his ministry journeys.  It was never meant to become a fundamentalist doctrine being taught in your age in which people tempt Me by handling snakes unwisely to prove their religious power when they have none.  Many have died in trying to prove their faith by tempting Me by purposely handling snakes, making a doctrine of an incident in which Jesus merely saw into the future an event that Paul would accidentally be bitten by a snake and show no ill effects.  What that fundamentalist doctrine perpetuates is contrary to My command not to tempt Me by doing something foolish and then asking Me to protect you, because that it is tempting Me.  (Deuteronomy 6:16; Acts 28:1-5)  Because of the incident of the fulfillment of the prophesy of Jesus Christ, the natives of Malta considered Paul a god because of his having no ill effects from the snake venom.  
    The owner of the island royally entertained the shipwrecked people for full three days.  The owner's father was sick and Paul went to see him, laid hands on him, prayed and the man was healed of the diseases that afflicted him.  Because of that incident, other people came to Paul to be healed.  The shipwrecked people were honored and even given supplies for the continuation of their journey to Rome after repair of their ship after three months.  The ship had a few more stops before arriving at Rome.
    At Rome, Paul called a meeting of the leading Jewish men and he gave his complete history of his life as a Pharisaical Jew and told them that he had done nothing to deserve being accused and arrested because he always kept the beliefs of his forefathers.  He appealed to the Jewish leaders to understand his side of the case, and he asked them to understand and rule that he was merely promoting the Hope of Israel's coming Messiah.  The Jewish leaders told Paul that they had not received any letters from Judah accusing Paul of anything.  They quizzed Paul about the religious sect that he was reputed to believe. Paul set a day in which he would tell those Jews his entire conversion story.  On the designated day large numbers of people came to hear his story in which he testified about My Kingdom of God, trying to persuade them concerning Jesus's ministry found in the prophesies of the Law and the prophets.  Some were convinced and some were not.
    Paul told the crowd that the Holy Spirit had prophesied through the prophets that many would hear and not understand, and look with their eyes and not see, beause their hearts had been hardened by the devil by his putting a veil over their minds so that they could not perceive and turn to Me so that I would heal them. (Isaiah 6:9-10)  He told the Jews that because of that hardness of heart that He had been called to take the message of salvation to the people in Gentile nations whom I had said would listen and understand, turn to me and be healed.  The majority of the Jews in that crowd went away arguing among themselves but not believing.  
    Paul lived in Rome two years at his own expense and in his own house preaching to the Gentiles there about My kingdom of God and teaching about the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for their salvation.  He did so with boldness unhindered.  (Acts 27:1-31)  
    It took many incidents of divine appointment to get Paul to the locations where I sent him to the Gentiles whom I knew would accept the ministry of Jesus Christ because of the lack of the veil of unbelief which many Jews had inherited from the devil's assault on the Law of Moses in the minds of the members of the Jewish nation.   In Paul's imprisonments and in chains, to the disappointment of the devil and the Jewish leaders Paul had never been limited in his writings or his ministry.  My children reap the benefits of those writings even today because they contain Truth.
    Your Father of Powerful Callings