For the superstitious bent of that day, in the over-religious Middle East of that time, to lead a religion would have been the ultimate enticement. He would have been the perfect leader, for it was with his legendary dedication, perseverance and fire that Saul, under the leading of the Holy Spirit, created Christianity as we know it. He would have been the perfect candidate to be the firebrand prophet of the wrong religion. But he was tempted too late. Saul had already experienced a true calling from the angel s unacknowledged master.
Earthly immortality is a paltry substitute for eternal glory.
Perhaps this is why he was so specific when including angels in his epistles because the Middle East might too easily believe a lie and be damned. If that is indeed the case, then his warnings prefigured what Lucifer accomplished roughly 550 years later. The Alternate Seduction Stop me if you ve heard this before. A man is in the Arabian desert when he meets an angel. This angel shares a new truth that is so powerful it must become an organized system of beliefs.