The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling!

Blinding Light~

Lets say that you are a professional house thief, a good one! You are very careful as to the areas in which you work, and the types of houses you burgle. You 'case' the joint thoroughly, and do a recon of the property, making sure there are no dogs or alarms to deal with, and know if the residents will be home or away when you break in and enter the house. After you are inside the house you have your routine as to what you are looking to steal, and where it is. You want to spend as little time as possible inside the house and on the property as possible, in order to minimize the chance of something going wrong and being caught.

You have disabled the alarm by cutting the power; your eyes had adapted to the darkness as you have made your way silently through the house in the pitch dark, filling your list, and have taken a variety of expensive and important objects by using a dimmed flash light, and placed them in your satchel. You have moved silently upstairs onto a landing, listening for the slightest sound that is out of place as you move down the dark hall way.

Suddenly, you hear the soft squeek of a floorboard, and you freeze in place, eyes wide looking intently down the hall. Then, out of the dark comes the clack/click of a gun slide, and a piercingly painful bright light hits your eyes, blinding you. A quiet, calm voice says, "Please, don't move, or I WILL shoot you!"

You don't know who this person is, you don't know the kind of gun he is holding, and you don't care.  All you know is that you believe him. You don't move because you are terrified, and you wait.

This is like what Saul/Paul experienced on the road to Damascus. He was blinded by the light of a being that he didn't see, didn't know. He heard a name and believed because he felt threatened and terrified. How would Paul know who it was? He didn't!