John 4:20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
John 4:21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
John 4:22 Ye worship ye know not what: WE know what WE worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
Yes, the Gentile Samaritan woman, like many today trapped in a Gentilized "Christianity," have their idolatrous traditions and don't know who or what they're worshipping. However, the Jews in Jesus' day knew that the Word of God did command to worship in Jerusalem as a nation on the biblical festivals, but that individually we are free to worship God anywhere, but the Temple Mount and imminent Third Temple are extra special, for Yeshua even spoke of "the most holy place" prophetically being defiled by Europe's wannabe divine emperor - making a distinction some presently fail to recognize or agree with. I hope and pray such a situation changes, because the Word and Will of God is also expressed through the Prophet Isaiah who reveals the whole world will recognize Jerusalem, the Temple Mount and the Temple as the "most holy place" to learn and worship God (while spiritual Gentiles remain willfully blind to this fact and resist it and suffer the consequences for it as Zechariah warns):
Isaiah 2:1-4
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Now it shall come to pass in the latter days
That the [Temple] mountain of the LORD’s house
Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be exalted above the hills;
And all nations shall flow to it.
3 Many people shall come and say,
“ Come, and let us go up to the [Temple] mountain of the LORD,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
He will teach us His ways,
And we shall walk in His paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth the law,
And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 He shall judge between the nations,
And rebuke many people;
They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
And their spears into pruning hooks;
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
Neither shall they learn war anymore.
Friday, May 12, 2006
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