Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Mark 16:15-18

Mar 16:15  And He said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the Good News to every creature. 
Mar 16:16  “He who has believed and has been immersed/tabal, shall be saved, but he who has not believed shall be condemned. 
Mar 16:17  “And these signs/aut shall accompany the ones who believe: In My Name they shall cast out demons, they shall speak with renewed tongues, 
Mar 16:18  they shall take up snakes, and if they drink any deadly drink it shall by no means hurt them, they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall get well.” 
Mar 16:19  Then indeed, after the Master had spoken to them, He was received up into the heaven, and sat down at the right hand of Elohim. 
Mar 16:20  And they went out and proclaimed it everywhere, while the Master worked with them, and confirmed the word through the accompanying signs. Aman. 

The words of Yahusha have to be understood in the correct perspective. 
The word 'tabal' which is translated in English as 'baptized' cannot be understood unless we understand Turah portions. The word 'tabal' means is 'dip'


Exo 12:21  And Mosheh called for all the elders of Yisra’ĕl and said to them, “Go out and take lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and slay the Pĕsaḥ.

 22  “And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip/tabal H2881 it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin, and you, none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning.

Who is the Pesach /Passover lamb in whose blood the hyssop was dipped/tabal and doorposts sprinkled? Yahusha is the Lamb of Alahym who takes away the sins of the world.


Heb 9:19  For when, according to Torah, every command had been spoken by Mosheh to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the scroll itself and all the people,
 20  saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which Elohim commanded you.”

 21  And in the same way he sprinkled with blood both the Tent and all the vessels of the service.
 22  And, according to the Torah, almost all is cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
 23  It was necessary, then, that the copies of the heavenly ones should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly ones themselves with better slaughter offerings than these.
 24  For Messiah has not entered into a Set-apart Place made by hand – figures of the true – but into the heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of Elohim on our behalf,
 25  not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters into the Set-apart Place year by year with blood not his own.


Masha took the hyssop and dipped/tabal in the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and sprinkled both the scroll and all the people saying '' This is the blood of the covenant which Alahym commanded you''

It's amazing to see the dipping/tabal in the light of Turah or else it's just a outward ceremony of a carnal washing which doesn't help.

Luke 3:21  And it came to be, when all the people were immersed/tabal, יהושע also being immersed/tabal, and praying, the heaven was opened,
 22  and the Set-apart Spirit descended/yarad in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven saying, “You are My Son, the Beloved, in You I did delight.”

Yahusha was dipped/tabal in the Yarden/Jordan river


1Cor 12:13 For by one Spirit we were all dipped/tabalnu into one body, whether Yahudi or Yawan,
whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Ruach

The body we were dipped /tabal was Mashyakh.

Rom 6:3 Or do you not know that many of us who have been immersed/tabalnu into Mashiyach Yahusha have been immersed/tabalnu into His death? 
Rom 6:4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through immersed/tabyalah into death, so that as the Mashiyach was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. 


1Pe 3:20 who once were disobedient, when the patience of Elohim waited in the days of Noah,
during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were brought safely through the water.
1Pe 3:21 The like figure whereunto even dipping /tabyalah does also now saves you 
not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward Elohim by the resurrection of Yahusha the Mashiyach,

The word 'tabyalah' is the same word 'tabal' used in the above verse.


Matt 28:19 “And you go to all the nations. Make disciples, dipping in completeness/tabaltam them/atam in the name of the Father and the Son and the Ruach Ha Qodesh,”

The word 'tam' in Abary means complete/whole. The dipping of the hyssop, scarlet in the blood of calves and goats and water points to the purging in Yahusha ha Mashiyach in a three fold witness from the dabar/Word which makes us complete/whole. The hyssop/azub 

Psa 51:7  Cleanse me with hyssop/azub H231, and I am clean; Wash me, and I am whiter than snow.

The word 'azub' has the root word 'zub' which means 'issue/yellow' which shows an issue/flowing of cleansing/purging from the 'Álaph' (Alaph zub/issue or flow). The word 'gold/zahab' also has the root word 'zab/zub' which means yellow/issue and gold goes through a purification to be processed as pure.

Exo 25:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying, 
Exo 25:2  “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, that they take up a contribution for Me. From everyone whose heart moves him you shall take up My contribution. 
Exo 25:3  “And this is the contribution which you take up from them: gold, and silver, and bronze, 

Exo 25:4  and blue and purple and scarlet Tolah H8438 Shanah H8144 , and fine linen, and goats’ hair, 

Exo 26:1  “And make the Dwelling Place with ten curtains of fine woven linen and blue and purple and scarlet Tolah H8438 Shanah H8144. Make them, with keruḇim, the work of a skilled workman. 

Exo 26:31  “And you shall make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet Tolah H8438 Shanah H8144 , and fine woven linen, the work of a skilled workman, made with keruḇim. 

There are many more scriptures showing that the Dwelling place curtains, veil, clothing of priests, high priest etc all had the blue, purple and the double dipped crimson (tola shanah). Yahuah wove the twine of a two/ shanay fold witness/adah in his dabar which reveals Mashiyach  and the curtains of twined linen and blue, purple and DOUBLE/shanay  crimson/tola is just one of the examples.

The word scarlet in Abary is 'Tolah H8438 Shanah H8144' . The Tola is the 'crimson worm' which lived on trees from where the red dye came. Many English translations render the translation of the word 'Tola shanah' as crimson. This English word 'crimson' comes from the word 'Kermes vermilio' (worm) from whom this red dye was made. For details you may look up my study ' The worm that clung to the tree'

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Scarlet/shanah also means 'Red'. The words 'Tolah shanah/ crimson scarlet' put together shows us a 'double dipped red' .....the scarlet thread of redemption running throughout scriptures which witness of Yahusha ha Mashiyach in a three fold witness (blue, purple and double dipped crimson) woven in scriptures i.e.the witness of the Son in the Dabar/Word so that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established as stated in Turah. Hence, the dipping/tabal in the name of the Ahb, Ban and Ruach Ha Qodesh is the three fold witness and not Trinity of persons as Christianity teaches. Hence, since belief comes by hearing and hearing by the dabar of Alahym, he who has believed and dipped into the three fold witness is saved and those who have not believed shall be condemned.

Mar 16:16 “He who has believed and has been dipped/tabal, shall be saved, but he who has not believed shall be condemned.

The word 'signs' is the Abary word 'aut' (alaph uau tau) and points to the destination i.e. alaph tau who is Mashiyach. For details you may look up my study on ' Alaph Tau- The Mark of Yahusha' in my notes section on Facebook.
A sign/aut is like a sign post pointing towards a destination and not the destination itself. What is interesting to see is this 'aut' H226 was the mark placed on Qayin and he became a wanderer/vagabound, never able to attain to salvation as he was cut off from the alaph tau-This DAY. I have touched this briefly in my study on ' Alaph Tau- The Mark of Yahusha'

Gen 4:15 And Yahuah said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Qayin, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And Yahuah set a mark (H226 aut/owth : Alaph Uau Tau) upon Qayin, lest any finding him should kill him.

The 'aut' H226 is a Sign/Token of the 'alaph tau'

Gen 4:14 Behold, thou hast driven me out H853: את Alaph Tau this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me. Gen 4:15 And Yahuah said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And Yahuah set a mark (אוֺת H226 ) upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

Hence, when Yahusha said ''These signs/aut shall follow those who believe...'' the signs pointed towards a spiritual fulfillment in Yahusha ha Mashiyach himself.

The signs that would follow them that believed:

1) Cast out demons:

Luk 11:20 “But if I cast out demons by the finger of Elohim, then the reign of Elohim has come upon you. Luk 11:21 “When a strong man, having been well armed, watches over his own court, his possessions are in peace. Luk 11:22 “But when a stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him, he takes from him all his armour in which he trusted, and divides his booty. Luk 11:23 “He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.

The stronger man is Yahusha ha Mashiyach himself who disarmed the principalites and powers in the heavenly places (the strong man) and made a public spectacle of them

Col 2:15 Having stripped the principalities and the authorities, He made a public display of them, having prevailed over them in it.

The physical sign of casting of demons pointed out to the stronger man coming and spoiling the prince of the power of the air under whose influence we were once children of disobedience

Eph 2:1 And you were dead in trespasses and sins, Eph 2:2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,


2) Renewed/chadashut tongues/lashanut :

While the basarah/gospel went out in different languages as seen on the Day of Shavout/Pentecost as the Yahudites from all nations who came to celebrate the feast, hearsd the works of Alahym in their native language and they believed and were engrafted into the olive tree. They were given a pure lip to call on the name of Yahuah. The basarah came to us in our native tongue but we are in the same process of the transition to our Abary roots where we understand the language of creation and call upon Yahuah with a pure lip as we begin to understand his name and his work.

Zep 3:9 “For then I shall turn unto the peoples a clean lip, so that they all call on the Name of יהוה, to serve Him with one shoulder.

3) And in the hands, they shall pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them;

When stating this Yahusha never taught that one should go around picking up literal serpents. He was showing the rod of Aharon sign which became a serpent and when Pharoah's magicians threw their rods, their rods also became serpents but the rod of Aharon which turned into a serpent swallowed all their serpents.

Exo 7:12 And they, each one, threw down his rod, and they became serpents. But the rod of Aharon swallowed up their rods.

Also when Yasharal was bitten by serpents for their rebellion Masha was told to make a pole with a brazen serpent on it and whoever saw it was healed of the poison of the serpent.

Joh 3:14 “And as Mosheh lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so the Son of Aḏam has to be lifted up,

It is a clear indication that those in Mashiyach the poison of the serpent Shatan won't affect his people anymore for by his wounds we are healed. He is our Yahuah Rapha.

Rev 12:15 And out of his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river after the woman, to cause her to be swept away by the river. Rev 12:16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.

In Rev 12 we have beautiful imagery of the Heavenly Yerushalam (elect) being protected from the face of the serpent Shatan. He spewed water like a river i.e. an imagery for a false basarah/gospel after the woman but the earth helped the woman and opened its mouth and swallowed up the river. The earth which helped the woman are the covenant less people who are not chosen and indulged in the false basarah's/gospel's of Shatan. They drink that poison and eventually will die but an elect man in his transition journey towards Mashiyach may drink some of the poison but it won''t affect him as eventually he will turn away from it as his eyes would be opened.

4) They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

Jas 5:14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil in the Name of the Master. Jas 5:15 And the prayer of the belief shall save the sick, and the Master shall raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he shall be forgiven. Jas 5:16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, so that you are healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous one accomplishes much.

While the literal healing happened in the name of Yahusha our Master the sign pointed to the Master himself who is the Healer, the One who heals us from all wrong measures and renews us making us conformed to His name and likeness.

Yahusha healed the blind man to teach that He is the light of the world
He raised the dead to teach that He is the resurrection and life
He healed the lame to teach that He is the staff we need to lean on
He healed the deaf to teach that ''He who has ears let him hear''
He healed the dumb to teach that the mouth is healed to speak His pure words.

The ordinance of calling for the elders of the assembly to restore a sinner in the way of Yahuah by praying and anointing him with oil in the name of the Master shows He set up his elders in the assembly to guard the flock in the Way of Yahusha.

The signs pointed to the Destination who is Mashiyach and the signs glorify him. Those indulged in signs and running after them without seeing the fulfillment are in the way of Qayin, ever learning and never coming to attain to the knowledge of truth.

2Ti 3:7  always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 

May Yahuah barak us all with the correct understanding of his Scriptures in understanding the sign/s and their fulfillment in Mashiyach in a spiritual perspective.



Saturday, May 19, 2018

Shaul's conversion accounts in Acts 9, 22 & 26, contradiction or harmony?

In Acts of the apostles there are three accounts mentioned of Shaul's conversion on his way to Damascus. Recently I saw some calling Shaul/Paul a false prophet for the 3 different accounts of his conversion accounts. These men and women are depraved in their understanding of scripture and use these occasions to teach the corruption in the New testament. This study is to closely examine the 3 accounts to understand the account of the Damascus journey. Our focus will only be on who saw what and who heard what on that journey in a wholistic approach. The first blush is always fleshly and seems to show a contradiction but a closer look will always show a harmony by the Ruach who wrote these accounts to testify of Shaul’s conversion. To begin with, this book was written by Luke and not Shaul, hence it’s a testimony from the Ruach through the pen of Luke about Shaul.


Act 9:3  And it came to be, that as he journeyed, he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light flashed around him from the heaven.
Act 9:4  And he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Sha’ul, Sha’ul, why do you persecute Me?”
Act 9:5  And he said, “Who are You, Master?” And the Master said, “I am יהושע, whom you persecute. It is hard for you to kick against the prods.
Act 9:6  Both trembling, and being astonished, he said, “Master, what do You wish me to do?” And the Master said to him, “Arise and go into the city, and you shall be told what you have to do.”
Act 9:7  And the men journeying with him stood speechless, hearing indeed the voice but seeing no one.
Act 9:8  And Sha’ul arose from the ground, but when his eyes were opened he saw no one. And leading him by the hand they brought him into Damascus.

Act 22:6  “And it came to be, as I was journeying and coming near Damascus, about noon, suddenly a great light shone around me out of the heaven,
Act 22:7  and I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Sha’ul, Sha’ul, why do you persecute Me?’
Act 22:8  “And I answered, ‘Who are You, Master?’ And He said to me, ‘I am יהושע of Natsareth, whom you persecute.
Act 22:9  “And those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they did not hear His voice speaking to me.
Act 22:10  “And I said, ‘What shall I do, Master?’ And the Master said to me, ‘Rise up, go into Damascus, and there you shall be told all that you have been appointed to do.’
Act 22:11  “And as I could not see because of the esteem of that light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came into Damascus.

Act 26:12  “While thus engaged, as I was journeying to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,
Act 26:13  at midday along the highway, O sovereign, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me.
Act 26:14  “And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Heḇrew language,‘Sha’ul, Sha’ul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the prods.’
Act 26:15  “And I said, ‘Who are You, Master?’ And He said, ‘I am יהושע, whom you persecute.
Act 26:16  ‘But rise up, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you a servant and a witness both of what you saw and of those which I shall reveal to you,
Act 26:17  delivering you from the people, and the gentiles, to whom I now send you,
Act 26:18  to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and the authority of Satan to Elohim, in order for them to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are set-apart by belief in Me.

The book begins with Luke writing to Theophilos and reminding of the first account he wrote to him

Act 1:1  The first account I made, O Theophilos, of all that יהושע began both to do and to teach,
Act 1:2  until the day when He was taken up, after giving instructions through the Set-apart Spirit to the emissaries whom He had chosen, 

Act 1:3  to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them for forty days, speaking concerning the reign of Elohim. 



Luk 1:1  Since many have indeed taken in hand to set in order an account of the matters completely confirmed among us,
Luk 1:2  as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,
Luk 1:3  it seemed good to me as well, having followed up all these matters exactly from the beginning, to write to you an orderly account, most excellent Theophilos,

Luk 1:4  that you might know the certainty of the words which you were taught.  

The identity of Theophilos is hidden and no one can exactly say who he was. But we can understand by Luke’s address of him as ‘most excellent Theophilos’ that he was an important official, probably a Roman official but of Yahudite origin or else it would be meaningless to write the testimony of Yahusha and his talmidim/disciples to a pagan gentile who doesn’t understand scriptures.
Also Acts 9 is a direct historical account of the actual conversion of Shaul whereas the testimonies in Acts 22 & 26 are accounts which he personally gave to the Yahudites in Yarashalam (Acts 22) and king Agrippa (Acts 26) concerning his conversion with some additional or less things which Luke initially did/didn’t record in Acts 9. Now coming straight to Shaul’s accounts recorded by Luke who was a close associate of the emissary Shaul.

To begin with in Acts 9 Luke testifies a light flashed around him from heaven (v 3) and the men journeying with him heard the voice but saw no one (v 7)

In Acts 22 Luke testifies of the testimony of Shaul that a great light shone around him out of heaven (v 6) and those with him saw the light and were afraid, but they did not hear the voice speaking with Shaul.
In Acts 26 Luke testifies of the testimony of Shaul that he saw a light from heaven brighter than the sun, shining around him and those who journeyed with him (v 13) but he doesn’t mention whether they saw the light around them or they heard the voice that spoke with him. 

Moreover, Shaul gives additional information which is not recorded in Acts 9 & 22

Act 26:16  ‘But rise up, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you a servant and a witness both of what you saw and of those which I shall reveal to you,
Act 26:17  delivering you from the people, and the gentiles, to whom I now send you,
Act 26:18  to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and the authority of Satan to Elohim, in order for them to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are set-apart by belief in Me.

As I said a first blush reading of these scriptures show a contradiction but when we understand what actually happened we see that there is no contradiction in understanding who saw what, who heard what and in what happened.

Firstly, we must understand that the men journeying with Shaul were Romans as he had taken letters from the high priest to arrest all those of the Way in the congregations of Damascus to bring them bound to Yerushalayim. 

Act 9:1  But Sha’ul, still breathing threats and murder against the taught ones of the Master, having come to the high priest,
Act 9:2  asked from him letters to the congregations of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, to bring them bound to Yerushalayim


In Acts 26:14, Luke records Yahusha spoke with him in the Hebrew tongue


Act 26:14  “And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Heḇrew language,‘Sha’ul, Sha’ul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the prods.

Hence, it’s evident that in Acts 9 the men journeying with Shaul heard the voice but did not understand the language Yahusha spoke with Shaul, and they did not see anyone i.e. as in saw no form. Just because it is not mentioned in Acts 9 that they saw the light, it doesn’t mean they didn’t see it. Also, the word ‘shamua’ can either mean ‘hear’ or ‘understand’. In Acts 22:9 it means ‘understand’ and not ‘hear’ and in Acts 9:7 it means ‘hearing’ and not ‘understanding’

Act 22:9  “And those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they did not understand/shamua His voice speaking to me.

 H8085

shâma‛
שָׁמַע shaw-mah'
A primitive root; to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively to tell, etc.): -    X attentively, call (gather) together, X carefully, X certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, X diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear (-ken, tell), X indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim (-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, X surely, tell, understand, whosoever [heareth], witness.

 Its all about keeping the usage of the words in its correct context.

The Greek word G191 akouo/akouei also is used as 'understand', in 1 Corin 14:2 & 'noised', in Matthew 28:14 as 'ears'.

1Cor 14:2 For one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to Elohim, for no one understands/akouei G191, but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries. 

Mark2:1 And it came to pass after some days He came a second time to Kephar Nachum, and it was noised/akousthe G191 that He was in the house.

Matt 28:14 “And if this matter comes to the governor's ears/akousthe G191 in his house , we shall appease him. But as for you, do not fear.”

The Hebrew renders the word as 'shamua' which means hearing/understand.

Acts 9:7 The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing/shamua the voice but seeing no one.

Act 22:9  “And those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they did not understand/shamua His voice speaking to me.

Hence, when Acts 9:7 says those who journeyed with Shaul indeed heard Yahusha’s voice but as stated in Acts 22:9 they did not understand the voice. There was a noise to their ears but they didn't understand. Don't we see the same thing on Mount Sinai, the people heard 'qolot/voices' but didn't understand what was being said, and those who heard the 'gadul qol' (magnificent voice) were the elders of Yasharal, who told Mosheh that they cannot endure what is being spoken and asked him to go for them lest they die.

In Acts 26:13 we don’t have much problem in understanding the text because those who journeyed with Shaul indeed saw the light, but as Acts 9:7 says ‘…but seeing no one’. Also, in Acts 9:7 Luke doesn’t mention they saw the light, just because he doesn’t mention it doesn’t mean they didn’t see it.

Act 26:13  at midday along the highway, O sovereign, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me.

There are some other things also that need to be seen and reconciled:

Acts 9:5-6 records Shaul asking Yahusha two questions.

Acts 9:5 records Shaul asking Yahusha “Who are You, Master?” 
Acts 9:6 records Shaul asking Yahusha “Master, what do You wish me to do?”

Acts 22:10 only records Shaul asking Yahusha the second question ‘What shall I do, Master?’. Here it doesn’t mention the first question he asked which Luke records in Acts 9:5.

Acts 26:15 records Shaul asking Yahusha the first question ‘Who are You, Master?’Here it doesn’t mention the second question he asked the Master which Luke records in Acts 9:6 and Acts 22:10

Just because Luke mentions in one account and doesn’t mention in the other accounts doesn’t mean he didn’t ask these two questions. It simply means Shaul asked both the questions and Luke mentions both the questions in Acts 9:5-6 but mentions only one of them in Acts 22:10 as per Shaul’s speech to the Yahudites and in Acts 26:15 as per Shaul’s speech to king Agrippa.
We should remember that Shaul did not know the Master Yahusha, whose people he was persecuting unknowingly, being zealous for Yahudism and hence, he asked the first question to identify with whom he had the encounter with and the second question to know what he should he be doing now.

In Acts 9 and Acts 22 account, Luke doesn’t mention that Yahusha spoke with Shaul in the Hebrew tongue, but in writing Shaul’s testimony in Acts 26:14 to king Agrippa he mentions “And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Heḇrew language…..” and this indeed clears the air with the understanding of the word ‘shamua’ which should be correctly translated as ‘hearing’ in Acts 9:7 and ‘understand’ in Acts 22:9 as those who journeyed with Shaul were Roman guards executing the letters received from the Sanhedrin to arrest all those in Damascus calling on the name of the Master Yahusha. And as Romans they didn’t understand the Hebrew language but only heard the voice.

One other thing we must see closely is Acts 26:14 records all had fallen to the ground when they saw the bright light as the sun

Act 26:14  “And when we had all fallen to the ground,….

Whereas in Acts 9:4 & Acts 22:7 Luke only records Shaul falling to the ground and not those who journeyed with him

Act 9:4  And he fell to the ground,

Act 22:7  and I fell to the ground

This again needs to be understood that an absence of those falling to the ground in Acts 9:4 and 22:7 doesn’t mean that those who journeyed didn’t fall to the ground.

Similarly Acts 9:8 records Shaul rose from the ground and Acts 26:16 says the Master told Shaul to rise up, and to stand on his feet. Acts 22 account doesn’t mention Shaul rising up from the ground or the Master telling him to stand on his feet.

Act 9:8  And Sha’ul arose from the ground,

Act 26:16  ‘But rise up, and stand on your feet,

What is important to understand that in all three accounts Shaul is the focus as it’s his testimony and not of the Roman guards journeying with him. Hence, any missing piece or addition of what happened to him and the Roman guards in these accounts don’t account for a contradiction because the spotlight is on Shaul’s encounter with Yahusha ha Mashiyach and not on those who journeyed with him. Just because Luke mentions in two accounts differently of Shaul rising up from the ground and doesn’t mention in the Acts 22 account of him rising up doesn't mean he didn't rise up, and yes he rose up from the ground as the Master told him to rise up and stand on his feet.

In his testimony to the Yahudites in Acts 22 Shaul mentions Yahusha telling him ‘’I am Yahusha of Nastsareth, whom you persecute’’ whereas in Acts 9:5 and Acts 26:15 its only recorded ‘’I am Yahusha, whom you persecute’’

Act 9:5  And he said, “Who are You, Master?” And the Master said, “I am יהושע, whom you persecute. It is hard for you to kick against the prods.


Act 22:8  “And I answered, ‘Who are You, Master?’ And He said to me, ‘I am יהושע of Natsareth, whom you persecute.

Act 26:15  “And I said, ‘Who are You, Master?’ And He said, ‘I am יהושע, whom you persecute.

 While Shaul mentions what exactly he heard and testified to the Yahudites verbatim because they considered ‘Natsarim’ a cult/sect and they needed to know that the Master introduced himself as a Natsareth so that they believe, while before king Agrippa he didn’t seem it necessary to mention Yahusha’s introduction to him as a Natsareth because king Agrippa knew the practices of the Yahudim and believed in the prophets and also understood Shaul’s position well. Luke also doesn’t mention Yahusha introducing himself as a ‘Natsari’ in Acts 9 which is a historical account of Shaul’s conversion while Acts 22 and Acts 26 accounts are from the mouth of Shaul himself (his testimony). 

Act 24:5 “For having found this man a plague, who stirs up dissension among all the Yehuḏim throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Natsarenes,

Act 26:1  And Agrippa said to Sha’ul, “You are allowed to speak for yourself.” Then Sha’ul stretched out his hand and made his defence:
Act 26:2  “I think myself blessed, Sovereign Agrippa, because today I shall make my defence before you concerning all of which I am accused by the Yehuḏim,
Act 26:3  you being most of all an expert, knowing of all practices and questions which have to do with the Yehuḏim. So, please hear me patiently. 

Act 26:27  “Sovereign Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you do believe.”
Act 26:28  And Agrippa said to Sha’ul, “With a little you might persuade me to become a Messianite!”

In Acts 9:5 (historical account) and Acts 26:14 (testimony of Shaul to Agrippa), Luke mentions Yahusha telling Shaul ‘’It is hard for you to kick against the prods’’ but Shaul leaves out this piece of information in his testimony to the Yahudites in Acts 22

Acts 9:5 ….It is hard for you to kick against the prods.

Acts 26:14 It is hard for you to kick against the prods.

What the reader needs to see and understand that the historical account in Acts 9 as well as both the testimonies of Shaul in Acts 22 and 26 need to be reconciled in its entirety and not isolate them to say there is a contradiction because it deemed necessary for Luke to mention one or two pieces of information, or abstain a piece or two of information, or add a piece of further information in the three accounts. When we reconcile the historical account with both the testimonies of Shaul we see the whole picture.

In Summary, the whole account combined:

Shaul breathing threats and murder against the taught ones of the Master, came to the high priest and took letters to bind all that called on the name of Yahusha of the Way in Damascus. When he set out with the Roman guards on the way a bright light shone on all of them and all of them fell to the ground, the guards were sore afraid, Shaul heard the Master speak to him in the Hebrew language, while those journeyed with him heard the voice but didn’t understand what the Master spoke with Shaul, and they saw no one. Shaul asked the Master “Who are You, Master?” on hearing “Sha’ul, Sha’ul, why do you persecute Me?” and the Master introduced himself as “I am יהושע of Natsareth whom you persecute. It is hard for you to kick against the prods.Trembling and astonished Shaul asked the Master the second question ‘’ “Master, what do You wish me to do?” and the Master asked him to rise up and stand on his feet and Shaul rose up, The Master told him in detail why he appeared to him. 
‘’ For I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you a servant and a witness both of what you saw and of those which I shall reveal to you, delivering you from the people, and the gentiles, to whom I now send you, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and the authority of Satan to Elohim, in order for them to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are set-apart by belief in Me. The Master further instructed him to rise and go to Damascus and there he would be told all that he has to do for what he was appointed for. Shaul couldn’t see for the esteem of the light and those with him led him by hand and brought him to Damascus where he didn’t eat or drink for three days being without sight.

All the three accounts show us the whole picture through ‘’here a little and there a little’’ and those who can’t see this only look for contradictions and they go backward and fall for they don’t understand why the prophet/emissary testifying of the Master mentions one or two pieces of information here or there, while omits some piece/s here or there or adds further information here or there. A wholistic picture of all the accounts give us a clear picture. If you say Shaul is a false apostle based on your misunderstanding of these accounts and not seeing a wholistic picture, you are actually saying even the basharah/gospel of Luke is false as the writer of Acts was Luke and not Shaul. Shalum!