Behold, I Show You a Mystery - by Pastor Mike Taylor -http://www.churchofgod-usa.org/1/post/2016/04/behold-i-show-you-a-mystery.html
"I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.
1. 2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know-God knows.
3 And I know that this man-whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows-
4 was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell (2 Corinthians 12:1-4).
Saul of Taurus, who became Paul the Apostle to the Gentiles, (Romans 11:13) was a remarkable man who lived a remarkable life. Being transformed from the greatest enemy of Jesus Christ, Paul became the greatest evangelist and God's greatest servant at a point in God's timing where God's focus and plans took on a dramatic shift from focusing on Israel as the source of blessing to the world, to focusing on a mostly Gentile body, known as the Church. It was Paul's God given mission to establish this church, and the church began with him.
In the verses above, Paul speaks of a time when a man, (I believe Paul was referring to himself) was caught up to heaven and heard revelations and what Paul spoke of as "mysteries" that were not revealed to any other prophet, or even the twelve apostles of our Lord. It was not spoken of in the Old Testament, and was not spoken of in the New Testament until Paul arrived and was given the mysteries of the plan for mankind that were revealed to him alone, by the risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. You ask, "When did this happen"?
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