Jesus Christ went to Samaria known for unclean sinners: Jesus Christ has come to a world of unclean sinners.

John 4:5

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“So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.” John 4:5 

Coming to Samaria symbolizes Jesus Christ coming to everyone considered to be unclean sinners. The land Jacob gave to Joseph was a double portion above all his other eleven brothers, as described in Genesis 48:22. That is symbolic of Christianity being given the larger blessing above all the nation of Israel. The younger child (Christianity) received the greater blessing of the elder child (Israel). In that way, the promise God made to Abraham to multiply his descendants came through Jacob through Jesus Christ. The Jewish people are no longer able to claim exclusive rights to God because whatever unclean sinner believes in the Lord Jesus becomes a part of the family of God.

Abraham was the father of Isaac and Isaac was the father of Jacob. Abraham was about to sacrifice his only son Isaac as a sin offering to God, and that would have dashed any hope whatsoever of God’s promise being fulfilled of multiplying Abraham’s descendants. Jacob would not have been born and neither would the Twelve Tribes of Isarael. The Twelve Tribes of Israel are the twelve sons of Jacob, but Jacob’s name was changed to Israel in Genesis 32:27-28. That is why they are called the Twelve Tribes of Israel and not the Twelve Tribes of Jacob. Moments before Abraham plunged the knife into the heart of Isaac, God provided an animal sacrifice. That enabled Jacob to be born which gave birth to the nation of Israel to fulfill God’s promise to Abraham. That represents God sending Jesus Christ as the sacrifice for our sin. His sacrifice enabled Christianity to be born and greatly multiplied the descendants added to Abraham’s lineage.

When Israel is spoken of in the Bible, the name refers to Jacob directly or to the nation carrying his name. Today, we automatically think of the State of Israel without thinking about Jacob who is Israel. Actually, Christians are the nation of Israel since the coming of Jesus Christ. Through the twelve tribes of Jacob/Israel came Jesus, who is from the tribe of Judah. He was different from all of His other brothers/tribes because He was the Son of God and Messiah who atoned for sin. He fulfilled the New Covenant promise made to Abraham, which is that whoever believes in Him; Jew, Samaritan or Gentile, would become a child of God. Those who receive Jesus Christ are the descendants of Abraham.

The last days meaning of the name of Joseph is symbolic of Jesus Christ in today’s times, and the last days meanings of the names of the twelve sons of Jacob/Israel are described in Genesis 49, Click here for a post on the last days meanings of the Twelve Tribes. “And Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather together, that I may tell you what shall befall you in the last days:” Genesis 49:1 Below is the last days meaning of the name of Joseph, who symbolizes Jesus Christ. It is possible to put the name of Jesus in place of the name of Joseph because that is an example of the “scarlet cord” throughout the Bible.

Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a well; his branches run over the wall.

The archers have bitterly grieved him, shot at him and hated him. But his bow remained in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty God of Jacob (From there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel),

By the God of your father who will help you, and by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

The blessings of your father have excelled the blessings of my ancestors, up to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills. They shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers.

Genesis 49:22-26

The world we live in today does not want Jesus Christ to come anywhere near the “Samaria” of the soul. The thing which forms what people think, feel, does, and speak does not want the soul to live in the cleanliness of the spirit. It thrives as it enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people and by what they say and do they detest the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They deny the existence of God as they are conformed to the anti-Christian global culture. They are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do.

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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