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While I was in the Army they sent us to Italy to do a little rock climbing. After a month of training we all received a three day pass, I had never been to Rome and there was something there I wanted to see, Mamertine Prison.
This is where history tells us that the Apostle Paul wrote his last epistle, 2 Timothy, while waiting for his execution. Nero had just sentenced him to death.
As I stood there in the lower cell where he supposedly was kept, I pulled out my pocket New Testament Bible and read the final words of the great apostle.
2 Tim. 4:6-8,
"For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing."
I had hired a guide and for 2 days I went on a tour to see the sights of Rome, but nothing could even come close to what I had experienced at Mamertine Prison!
That must have been quite an experience. Paul was in my opinion the greatest hero of the Christian faith---the greatest of the apostles and chosen by Jesus to take the Gospel to the Gentiles. I can imagine the atmosphere inside that prison knowing that Paul had once been imprisoned there.
While I was in the Army they sent us to Italy to do a little rock climbing. After a month of training we all received a three day pass, I had never been to Rome and there was something there I wanted to see, Mamertine Prison.
This is where history tells us that the Apostle Paul wrote his last epistle, 2 Timothy, while waiting for his execution. Nero had just sentenced him to death.
As I stood there in the lower cell where he supposedly was kept, I pulled out my pocket New Testament Bible and read the final words of the great apostle.
2 Tim. 4:6-8,
"For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing."
I had hired a guide and for 2 days I went on a tour to see the sights of Rome, but nothing could even come close to what I had experienced at Mamertine Prison!
That must have been quite an experience. Paul was in my opinion the greatest hero of the Christian faith---the greatest of the apostles and chosen by Jesus to take the Gospel to the Gentiles. I can imagine the atmosphere inside that prison knowing that Paul had once been imprisoned there.
No doubt in my mind either, Mike. Paul was the greatest of them all.
I left that place with even more respect for the man.
God did warn Paul to leave Jerusalem now as they are coming for Him, but Paul took His time and then got arrested ....... So God did change His plans and Paul spread the gospel from a prison in Rome ............ I don't know how many times God told me to do something and I reasoned the idea out and then after I got into trouble ..... Glory to God
God did warn Paul to leave Jerusalem now as they are coming for Him, but Paul took His time and then got arrested ....... So God did change His plans and Paul spread the gospel from a prison in Rome ............ I don't know how many times God told me to do something and I reasoned the idea out and then after I got into trouble ..... Glory to God
Yes, Paul always took his time. I remember as Luke was writing the books of Acts he said of Paul, and he was in hast, if it were possible for him.
He wasn't afraid of what was coming his way, he was very thorough.
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