Paul's First Missionary Journey - Iconium and Lystra

Establishing the pattern for all of Paul's gospel ministry, his time with Barnabas in Pisidian Antioch yielded the fruit of Jewish and Gentile believers, while also meeting with resistance and opposition from both groups. Even while the new saints of Antioch were carrying Christ's gospel into the surrounding regions, His opponents were mounting an orchestrated persecution against the men who'd turned their community upside down. Once again opposition drove the gospel onward and outward, this time into Iconium and then to the Lacaonian city of Lystra. There Paul would, for the first time, bring his gospel to a community of Gentiles indeed - people who knew nothing of Jewish monotheism and the God of Israel. The light was at last dawning upon the darkened nations; the god of this age who'd been cast down and bound by the Lamb's triumph was now having his house plundered.