2 Corinthians 11:32-33 “In Damascus the governor, under Aretas the king, was guarding the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desiring to arrest me; (33) but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and escaped from his hands.”
When a government’s laws contradict God’s laws, because of the adverse consequences, it is not always prudent for believers to stand their ground and simply disobey. Sometimes it is more expedient for the saints to leave the localities where the oppressive laws are being passed. You will recall that our Lord’s counsel to His church was that if they persecute you in one city then flee to another city (Matthew 10:23). The context of the above quoted passage of scripture was that an arrest warrant had been issued for the apostle Paul, because the Jews in the city wanted to silence him and had conspired with the governor to have him executed. And so we see in this passage that rather than allow himself to be taken into custody and certain death, Paul chose to evade the authorities and he fled the city of Damascus.
Michael E.B. Maher
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