Jesus Christ left an area when powerful leaders learned He was very popular, and on the way, He had to go through an undesirable place.

John 4:1-4

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 “Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that He made and baptized more disciples than John (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples), He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. But He needed to go through Samaria.” John 4:1-4

The baptism done by John and the disciples of Jesus was the baptism of Jewish people. The Pharisees became aware that the disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ were drawing even larger crowds than John the Baptist. One by one, the Pharisees were losing their grip, power, and authority on the Jewish people to Jesus and John. Jesus knew the Pharisees would be coming in force against Him, so He decided to leave the area. He needed to go through Samaria. The Samaritans were as detestable as the Gentiles to the Jewish people, and the Jews had nothing to do with Samaritans. The Samaritans were considered rejects which God had abandoned.

The one thing the Pharisees could not tolerate is for masses of people to be drawn away from their grasp. First, John was drawing the people in mass numbers, and now Jesus is drawing even more people than John. Even though Jesus did not baptize anyone with water, He was considered the leader behind the baptisms. The Pharisees were on the “edge of their seat” anticipating a way to put down the mass gatherings. Part of the attitude of the Pharisees was because the Romans held them responsible for any religious unrest or uproar within the Roman Empire. The Pharisees were losing their Roman-given authority as well as the authority they had over the people by corrupting the Old Testament law.

Jesus left Judaea to escape the uproar centering around the masses being baptized in His name. He desired to continue to do what He was sent to do without distraction, to declare the arrival of the Kingdom of God and the forgiveness of sin. He needed to go through Samaria which was considered an unclean and sinful place equal to the non-Jewish Gentiles. Jesus was a Jew, from the Tribe of Judah, with a family tree leading all the way back to Adam. The Jewish people, including Jesus, were expected to avoid the Samaritans like they would a plague.

Today, sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ is like water baptism, but the ministry of Jesus Christ is to baptize in the Holy Spirit. After the Gospel is shared and believed then comes the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The leaders within today’s churches are expected to keep tabs on their congregations. They have to ensure that the Gospel of Christ is not shared among the masses and that the Spirit of Christ is not infilling the human spirit. That is why the essence of John 3:16 is no longer shared in the churches.

The governors of this world need the human spirit to be hardened to build a wall against the Spirit of Christ. They insist that the masses are drawn to them through the thing which forms what people think, feel, say and do which enables the image of the beast to speak and live through them. As it lives and speaks through people, they are conformed to their place in life, their mark in life, which enables the governors of the “democratic” society to keep a firm grasp on the masses of people. People in every city around the world are kept in their place as they are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do.

Today, Jesus needs to go through Samaria, which is to say the Gospel of Jesus Christ needs to reach those who are considered the un-cleanest of sinners. The comfortable Sunday ministry within the churches and public street ministry no longer exists.

Sharing the testimony of Jesus is within a world which makes a mockery of the Holy Spirit and of the life of Holiness. They ridicule and mock the idea of the remission of sin through Jesus Christ. They have no belief in God the Creator. They include those of the anti-Christian global culture as well as those who rebel against the global culture of the beast, and both reject the Gospel of peace and eternal Salvation. There are those who rebel against the Gospel of Christ and at the same time rebel against the global culture. They live by carnal desires of bitter, angry, and vengeful attitudes as well as indulging in carnal pleasures, including substance abuse and many other vices. Love has grown cold in this world as the human spirit has become hardened to Jesus Christ.

Even though we know walls are built against spreading the testimony of Jesus, God still cares about the outcasts, and someone will be held responsible, and the governing authorities are high on the list. God has already condemned and pronounced His judgment on the global government of the beast.

Take counsel, execute judgment; Make your shadow like the night in the middle of the day; Hide the outcasts, do not betray him who escapes. Let My outcasts dwell with you, O Moab; Be a shelter to them from the face of the spoiler.

Isaiah 16:3-4a.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11