Paul’s Eschatology Confronted on the Damascus Road by the glorified Messiah who identified himself as Jesus of Nazareth (Acts 9:3–6; 22:6–11), it did not take a man of Paul’s native genius very long—three days would have been quite sufficient (see Acts 9:9)—to deduce certain conclusions. The following things became immediately evident to Paul from this encounter: 1. Stephen, whose execution he had been party to, had in fact seen, just as he had declared, “heaven open and the Son of Man standing