New Testament Doctrine — John 4:27-42

Posted on August 7, 2021 by ehurst

First, some chronology. Jesus passed through Samaria to get away from the political heat in Judea, but to also avoid the higher likelihood of arrest in Perea, on the heels of John the Baptist being put in prison at Machaerus. Jesus stays a couple of days in Sychar, then heads north. In Nazareth He encounters resistance to point they tried to push Him off a bluff to His death. From there He continues north to Cana, from whence He heals the nobleman’s son. The nobleman had hiked all day from Capernaum to plead with Jesus, and got back the next day to find his son healed.

But the story at hand is the time Jesus spent among the Samaritans.

Jesus told the brassy woman He was the Messiah. She completely forgot her water pot and quickly went back into Sychar. From a distance, the Disciples were returning and saw their Master talking to this woman, and thought it quite strange. Not only was she a Samaritan, but Jesus normally observed strict protocol about such things as talking to non-family women in public. Of course, they had no idea how pushy she had been with Jesus, and how aloof He had been with her. Still, knowing their Rabbi had done many strange things so far, there was not much use in asking Him about this odd scene.

She had run off to blabber in the town about this encounter with what she believed was the Messiah, seeing that He knew all she had ever done without ever seeing her before. She managed to stir up quite a crowd. Being a pushy gal, she would have pestered everyone in sight, and the difference in her message this time would have been quite obvious to the folks living in Sychar.

Meanwhile, the disciples were trying to get Jesus to join in the lunch they bought in Shechem. It’s probably not obvious to some readers what would make Jesus lose His appetite at this point. He was still a man, and had resolved to do nothing that wasn’t possible for any man under under the Covenant. But He did possess moral purity under the Covenant, and so was deeply moved by spiritual events.

This encounter with the Samaritan woman echoed with a mighty move of the Spirit. And it wasn’t over yet. Jesus was so stirred savoring this spiritual victory that He couldn’t be distracted with eating mere food, and He said so. But of course, He spoke in parables, and His disciples were puzzled, as usual. We aren’t told much about this event in terms of how it was so important to His mission, only that Jesus regarded this as something too good to miss.

This was the cool rainy season, when the crops around them were still green. It was still another four months before the grain would mature and turn dry, with the heads drooping. Yet, here came out of the city a hoard of people whose clothing would have been roughly the same color as ripened wheat, an off-white color some Samaritans still wear today. Jesus told them that the spiritual harvest was ripe. The Samaritan woman had planted the seed, and they were about to reap.

The crowd approaching had been primed to believe Jesus was the Messiah. Upon arriving, they asked Him to stay with them and share His message. We aren’t told how the disciples reacted to this prospect, but Jesus stayed a couple of days. If you keep in mind what kind of personality she had, it does matter what the townsmen said to her. They admitted that she piqued their curiosity. This woman, of all people, ranting and raving about the Messiah? But after a couple of days under Jesus’ teaching, it was obvious to them He certainly was the Messiah.

And we know that Jesus would have spoken straight from the Old Testament without compromise. They embraced it; John’s choice of words indicates it was not unanimous, but it was a substantial portion of the folks in Sychar. What John gets across is that these folks were already primed to hear what Jesus taught. From what we can tell, the Samaritans had latched onto the ancient Hebrew style of mysticism, and had never developed the legalism of the Talmud. They had far less resistance to Jesus’ parabolic style of teaching, and His emphasis on otherworldly truth.

But the most important element here is how even those who didn’t embrace His teaching weren’t hostile. His time there didn’t create any trouble. What He said to the woman about worshiping in spirit and in truth was not foreign to their religion, yet we know that such talk got Him into big trouble among Jews. This was a good time for His disciples to see just how hungry souls were to hear the message that Israel should have carried to the rest of the world.

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Introspection Required for Penitence

Posted on August 7, 2021 by ehurst

This is not a rule; it’s a tendency.

Apparently it’s shocking enough to our American culture that it warrants making a point of it on a regular basis. I’m not referring to having that inner conversation some of us keep running in our heads. That seems to be something you either have or don’t, based on DNA and some formative factors in your upbringing. Rather, this is more about the moral ability to see that you are a sinner.

This is what Paul meant about seeing yourself in a mirror, and then walking away totally forgetting what kind of moral condition you have. If you cannot see your sins, then you cannot repent. More to the point, if you cannot see that you are fundamentally flawed, you’ll never turn to the Lord.

I lived very close to someone who carried around major barriers to introspection. He choked when it was time to say, “Oops! I was wrong about that.” He wanted people to have the impression that he was never wrong. It was often said of him that he would argue with a fence post. But he was not merely hard-headed; he was hard-hearted.

To differentiate, let’s note that the proper biblical attitude about standing your ground is that you may well be wrong about facts, but that your convictions won’t let you take any other path. It’s an attitude that is placid in the face of conflict, because the outcomes don’t matter. What matters is the inner process of being faithful to your calling.

Thus, it’s never a question of being a winner or a loser. It’s always a question of being obedient. Your Master’s pleasure is the only guide. Hard-hearted people care only about their own pleasure, even if it comes off as a regime of “doing what’s right.” They have become their own law, and are determined to assert it over the rest of the world, as far as they can touch.

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Revelation Revision for Printing

Posted on August 6, 2021 by ehurst

My commentary on Revelation in printable format (Word DOCX): AT-Revelation. This one has page numbers added. As always, you can ask for it in other formats (older Word DOC, PDF, OpenDocument, etc.) I rushed this one because I had lost the source version of my 2nd edition, so I was a little anxious to recover that. I simply used Adobe’s online service to translate it from PDF to DOCX, but then had to do a lot of clean up. While I was at it, I did the usual editing for grammar, etc.

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Gospels Revision for Print

Posted on August 5, 2021 by ehurst

The revision of my Ancient Truth: Gospels book for print is ready: AT-Gospels-p

For now I’m offering the one version with footers and page numbers added. If you prefer it without, or in the older DOC format, I can send it by email. I can also do Open Document format and PDF. Other formats are possible, but only by request.

Now, on to the next book revision!

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Grab It Now

Posted on August 5, 2021 by ehurst

You need not be a prophet, only a heart-led observer, to have a fair idea of coming tribulations. I learned some hard lessons about expectations and seeing storm clouds on the horizon. It is too obvious that this is a time of God’s wrath.

Some obvious things we expect: economic collapse, political and social turmoil, violence, along with natural disasters. What may not be obvious is that tribulation seldom comes all in one fell swoop. For example, an economic collapse comes in stages. It isn’t the kind of thing that is ever complete, so that you can record clear turning points, and discern a fresh start. Some of elements of collapse are inevitable, just the results of bad choices taken too far. Some of it is carefully planned by people with evil motives and hands on the controls. Even with the latter, the consequences won’t ever work out as expected. It is humanly impossible to know all the details, much less account for them.

It’s better to think of it as a long transition period from one kind of trouble to another. Human folly is boundless, and sin always has consequences that may drag on for generations. It would be a mistake to expect big events with clear labeling, as if you were playing some big RPG (roll-playing game) or computer simulation.

However, I think it’s safe to say that, if you aren’t already moving your stuff somewhere else, now is not the time to start. If you were able to reduce your life to living on wheels, then this doesn’t apply to you. And know that I am envious, because I wish I could do that. I’ve enjoyed following the stories of people who were blessed to have the means for mobile living. But for those of us whom God didn’t endow with a mobile lifestyle, it’s too late to consider finding another home.

A major element in serving Christ is knowing your place, in the sense of where your mission field is. I’m utterly certain I’m in the location God intends for me to serve through this tribulation. I’ll probably die here. I sense very strongly that all the other options have closed. Of course, you must follow your own convictions, but I’m convinced that, for the most part, a major shift is right on top of us, and completing a move to another place would require extraordinary resources.

Long time readers may recall that, on the day I shattered my right kneecap back in 2016, I knew something was coming that day, but had no idea what it was. Just a few minutes before I collided with that sweeper, I had stopped to pray and all I knew was to ask the Lord for strength to keep a cool head. He delivered, and I managed to stay friendly with the guy whose mistake put me in the hospital.

Well, I’ve got that kind of “spidey sense” that something is on top of us again, something that will affect all of us. There are too many different issues that could explode into serious trouble, so I have no idea what the specific problem will be. Oddly enough, it comes with a sense that we can do this, that we should face it with aplomb, because anything we might lose was never ours in the first place. It’s more important to simply keep your eyes on the Lord and respond quickly to the flow toward His glory.

Indeed, I believe that there’s nothing we can do to prep any further. There will be plenty of moments ahead when the Lord will nudge you about something and will provide in the day of need. Let me discourage you from fretting about something you may have forgotten. Our Father is keeping track for us. I’d say it’s more important to spend time in worship and prayer. Just let things go and enjoy some time with the Spirit of God. When you feel the urge to do that, you’ll know that you are about to enter a time when you’ll wish you could do it again, because you are about to get busy with things you can’t predict.

I’ll be looking for an outdoor prayer chapel today…

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Technical Difficulties

Posted on August 3, 2021 by ehurst

Just so you’ll be aware, folks: I’ve been having trouble getting logged into the admin controls on this blog. Right now I’m testing it via a VPN to get a feel for what kind of problems we are having. Yesterday’s post went up on the forum under “Miscellaneous”. While there’s a good chance Jay can figure out what’s going wrong here, be prepared to check the forum for posts that should appear here.

Update: Jay says the server is overheating. For some reason I am able to login with my tablet, but not any computer I’ve tried. I can blog like this if necessary. Lord have mercy…

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New Testament Doctrine: John 4:1-26

Posted on July 31, 2021 by ehurst

Rome would not have tolerated any trouble between the Jews and Samaritans. The spite remained, but things were generally peaceful. According to the Law of Moses, Jesus would later restrain His disciples from preaching to Samaritans the message meant to give Israel one last chance to recover her original mission of revelation, before the Covenant was closed on them. Yet it was clear that Jesus bore the Samaritans no ill will when He referred to the Good Samaritan.

On the one hand, we have some reports that, during some periods of tension between the two nations, Jews would cross to the East Bank of the Jordan to avoid passing through Samaria. We have no way of ascertaining how prevalent this practice was, nor even if it were true at all. It need not be taken as a factor at this point. When Jesus realized that the Sanhedrin were aware that John’s controversial ministry was now passing to Him — and this was about the time John was arrested by Herod Antipas — it was time to leave Judea. He also needed to avoid provoking Antipas, so passing through Samaria was about the only way.

We get the feeling that Antipas was more strict in Perea where he actually lived most of the time. His fortress of Macaerus was down near the tense border with the Nabatean Kingdom; Rome never conquered them. But his domain in Galilee was the tourist trap, and he kept a gentler hand there for the sake of keeping a friendly face to the rest of the world. It was important for him to avoid being too much like his notorious father.

Nothing demonstrates Jesus’ lack of hatred for Samaritans more clearly than this episode we call the Woman at the Well. It also represents His lack of rabbinical spite for women in general. In other words, Jesus had more animus towards the Jewish leadership than just about anyone else. Still, it’s obvious that He remained somewhat aloof, which is what the Covenant had in mind for such occasions. This would explain His use of the third person.

Shechem never stood precisely between the Mounts Ebal and Gerizim. It was a little to the east of the narrow gap. Just outside that ancient city was Jacob’s Well on the southeast, and Sychar was a suburb lying on the northeast, which put it directly east of the peak of Ebal. Jesus stopped at Jacob’s Well, and the smaller village of Sychar was clearly visible across the fields there in the valley. We note that John seems to mix using Roman time and Jewish reckoning of the hours of the day, but it seems to make the most sense that here he means noon. They’ve been walking half the day and it’s time to take a break.

Most such wells offered something like a picnic area; it was a common eastern courtesy since ancient times. John notes that the disciples had gone into “the city” to buy food, which almost certainly refers to the main city of Shechem. A woman came walking out of Sychar from the north to draw water at the wrong time of day. Women typically did this just after dawn, making it a big social occasion to chatter and gossip with no men around. This woman came out at noon when only mostly male travelers were likely to be there.

Whether she was merely a social outcast unwelcome among the more respectable women, or something closer to a hooker checking if there were any clients, is hard to estimate. Maybe it was some of both. Either way, she found something totally unexpected. Normally at least one person in a traveling entourage would carry a soft leather bucket to get water from wells they passed while traveling, but they must have taken it with them. Thus, Jesus sitting alone there asked the woman if He could have some water from her draw. This was common enough, an acceptable variation from the routine of never speaking to non-family females in public.

So, her remark was about the tension between Jews and Samaritans. It says much about her — brassy and sarcastic. Perhaps she expected some self-righteous indignation, but was caught off guard by what Jesus said. Referring to Himself in the third person, He disarms her completely, even while retaining the upper hand. John translates a common Semitic expression for a surface spring of flowing water — “living water” — versus a deep well of more stagnant water. It was a parable.

Sticking with the literal, she missed the point. This was the only public drinking water for quite some distance, and one of the deepest wells in the land, and Jesus must not have had a traveler’s skin bucket on Him to get even this water. Where was He going to get spring water? Keeping up the sarcasm, she poked at Him some more by claiming Jacob as her forefather, referring to him as the one who dug this well in the first place, now the inheritance of Samaritans.

Jesus persisted with His parabolic riddles to get her into a different frame of mind. In a literal sense, drinking from this well was a body maintenance task that needed frequent repetition. He had water of a different type, something that would flow from within the soul, a source of eternal life. Again with the sarcasm, she said she would be glad to have it so she could stop taking that hike to draw from the well every day. Few men would have ever thought this was a pleasant woman.

Jesus tried a different tack. To her, it might seem He was going to provide her with something through a gift to her husband. He told her to go and bring her husband back. This sounded almost normal to her, but not normal for her. She claimed to have no husband. To which Jesus answered she was quite right. She was not married now, but had been married to five different men in the past, and was living with yet another at this moment. Her brassy demeanor in that culture was enough to explain such a bad record with marriage.

Now she was spooked, because it was an accurate assessment. Without admitting anything, she said that Jesus must be some kind of prophet. “So tell me this, all-seeing prophet: What’s up with this argument over where we should worship Jehovah? Where is God’s real home?” She was referring to Mount Gerizim just a short distance to the southwest of where they were having this conversation, versus Mount Zion. We can still see the ruins of a Samaritan temple on Gerizim today.

If this was one of the questions burning in her soul, she got a far better answer than anyone else might have given her. Someday the place would no longer matter; the Covenant was about to end soon. Jesus referred to how the Samaritans had embraced a portion of that Covenant without ever having been fully a part of it in the first place. The covenant claimed by the Jews was the true revelation of Jehovah, whereas the Samaritans had a highly excised version of it. Still, such as the Samaritan “covenant” was, it would be all the more dead when the Israeli Covenant from which it was derived was gone.

The Heavenly Father was no mere earthly king, but was a spirit being. Those who were going to connect to Him must do so on a spiritual plane. Historical human disputes have no place there.

It was over her head. She simply remarked that when the Messiah shows up — something the Samaritans believed in — she was sure everyone would have the final spiritual truth about things. Again, Jesus refers to Himself in the third person, but this time claiming to be this Messiah.

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Cannot Silence the Message

Posted on July 31, 2021 by ehurst

On the one hand, the Internet is overwhelmed with iniquity. It’s hard to avoid defiling yourself by what is being pushed so forcefully at us. This is the primary reason I use adblockers in all my surfing. I’ve mentioned subliminal conditioning in the past, and tried my best to explain how it works. Lately it has shown up in the writing tools most of us use. It’s a pathway for demons to suppress your resistance. It requires a strong heart-led awareness to avoid the conditioning to open up to sin. While not everyone involved is fully aware of it, the whole idea is to silence the power of the gospel flaming inside each of us. But that’s not the only problem.

There is yet another form of silencing at work on the Net. I have no hard evidence to offer on all of it, but I’m seeing a trend in censorship that I never expected.

The early efforts are familiar by now. It’s not enough that the gospel truth has been displaced in public with the dreaded “wokeness” idolatry, but those who oppose that idolatry are being forced off the primary social media carriers. And perhaps you are aware of how various “woke” Internet service providers, along with the background traffic moving providers, have been trying to silence voices they didn’t like. Plus there are plenty of governments blocking unapproved traffic at their borders. It’s been a game of whack-a-mole, an arms race between those governments and their tech savvy citizens slipping past the virtual roadblocks.

Lately, the “woke” folks have been colluding together rather like trade groups, bringing very heavy pressure to bear on those who haven’t bought into the “woke” point of view. It’s getting harder and harder to find hosting and traffic support for anyone who defies the idolatry, never mind those who actually condemn the idols. The safe harbors are being closed.

So far, the mainstream churchianity has been the only resistance. But as we have seen, the churches themselves are being hijacked from within. Did you notice how even Southern Baptists, the traditional bellwether of conservatism, have now significantly compromised with this evil over the past two years at the national level? It’s trickling down into the individual churches already. Church offerings are now being spent in ways that support the “woke” message on the Internet.

Our far more primitive biblical ways are even more threatening to the system.

Every means to expression on the Internet is under attack all at the same time. Apparently there are other ways of crushing dissent, ways I haven’t seen directly, but I’ve seen the effects. I’m not sure I can put it into words, but there’s this dark mass behind yet another major push to subvert every form of human communication on the Net. Very soon it will seem almost impossible. This is part of why I keep expecting this blog to be shut down by outside forces — there’s something big and evil cooking out there. I can smell it, but I can’t see in the fog where the demon kitchen is.

I won’t tell you to get off the Net. That’s not my place. What is my place is to obey my convictions, and that’s where I get the idea that my computer should be reverted back to mostly a writing and printing machine. And if any kind of CME or EMP fries that, I’m already part-way shifted over to using pen/pencil and paper alone. Again, I can offer no timeline. All I know is that it’s on its way.

Perhaps a useful parable is the image of the Roman Roads of the New Testament world. The Internet has been that for us, but now the roads are being closed. It’s not just the surveillance; it’s the road closures that are the big issue now. They are being fenced off with checkpoints all over the place. We’ll have to learn how to take a slower path on the backroads and trails that are now often hard to use because of neglect. It’s time to restore the old paths, and maybe open up some new ones. I’m sure I can’t imagine all the ways God will work in this time of tribulation, but that He is working is never in doubt.

The message may be slowed, but it cannot be stopped.

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Another Slice of Life

Posted on July 29, 2021 by ehurst

For some time my clownish sense of humor had been dampened, but it’s back now. My outlook of joy and hope have returned, and I’ve missed it. Of course, this means for folks around me that they have to put up with my outrageous joking. Pray for my wife.

For the time being, as long as everything works, I’ll keep using my computer and tablet. I’ve decided to pass my laptop off to my son. The point here is that I’m leaving the ranks of online content producers. When it comes to the Net, I’ll be just another consumer of content — and very selective about it. Of course, this blog will stay alive until God makes it clear it’s mission is finished, or external events force a stop.

But my desktop computer will become what my first computer was thirty years ago: a glorified typewriter. That is, I’ll keep writing and printing, along with collecting important material I find on the Net, but I’m not going to participate directly in whatever the Internet has become. I’m withdrawing.

Meanwhile, I won’t even bother getting a typewriter. I’ll just try to find a really nice, fat ink pen like I once had that is comfortable for gripping and scribbling for hours at a time. I’ve been working on my penmanship. Note: My brain does not like cursive writing at all, so my best hope is the old grade school printing. I managed to submit a handful of research papers that way back in my college days and was commended for making it readable, even without a typewriter.

I can do this.

The trick is to collect the necessary materials before the economy crashes. That’s coming any day now, never mind CMEs and stuff like that. TPTB are working hard to make it happen, once they are satisfied that they have scraped off the last bit of plunder that they can possibly extract from us. So I’ve stocked up on writing pads, pens and I’ve got some pencils on order. If I can’t find a fat writing pen, maybe I can get some of those cushy finger guards for the thinner pens/pencils.

But I still need a mechanical watch, so if you have one floating around somewhere that you can afford to let go, I’d love to know how I can get it from you. It needs to have a face large enough and contrasting enough for my aging eyes to discern where the hands are. I’ve been searching for one locally with no luck, so far.

Do you realize that a great many retail stores no longer even sell watches? Sure, you can get a smartwatch almost anywhere, but even those cheap electronic chronographs are disappearing. And the only reason I had to order pencils online is that I need #3 hard lead, and nobody stocks those any more in my neck of the woods.

So in the meantime, I’ll keep using what works during a sort of transition period until something shuts it all down. Aside from this blog, the forum and some email or texting, I’ve moved the bulk of my writing onto paper. For years I kept a rolling daily journal on my computers, just because writing something daily is critical to keeping me sane, but it’s now going into those composition books kids have to use for school around here. But I’m still chasing down Bible reference materials online that I can’t find in print, and printing it off for my own use.

I’m plowing back through the Ancient Truth Bible study series of books, giving them one last edit for a print-on-demand edition. I started with the Gospels and I’m almost finished with Mark. This has become my daily job for now. As I get through these books, I’ll announce it on the blog and put up a link for the raw word processing document. They’ll be in Word DOCX, but I can easily get you one in the older DOC format, or in the Open Document format by request. It’s been a real blessing to read those commentaries again.

For those wondering, my physical therapy is going great. I’ve cut back to every other day, and I’m not taking as many long rides for the simple reason that I have too much to do. I’m still riding enough to get to quiet prayer chapels every couple of days, of course. I still can’t walk too far without a bad response from my knees, but the strength is coming back. In my younger adult days, I was proud of my ability to squat and rise on one leg at a time. It was a skiing thing in Alaska; our instructor made a big deal of it, and I could do it from the start. Well, I’m getting closer to regaining that kind of leg power. Also, I’m working hard at the kind of interval training that most older folks can’t handle. Age and death will have to chase me down to catch me.

And how are you folks coping?

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A Little More on CMEs

Posted on July 28, 2021 by ehurst

Let me offer a little more about the prospects for CME disasters.

From what I understand, an EMP (weaponized electromagnetic energy) is a high-frequency blast that threatens everything that conducts electricity. However, an EMP bomb is a single point, with a limited radius of effect. There’s some debate as to how fast the shockwave weakens the farther it travels. It could be the thing has only a short range before the power of the pulse dissipates. Still, it’s high damage as far as it can reach.

CMEs are massive and will overwhelm the whole earth, rushing past our earth’s magnetic field — a field that has been weakening over the past century. It’s currently weakest over South America, but is quickly spreading. It’s difficult to assess, and the graphical representations vary. (See here and here for examples; blue = bad in both pictures). A CME is a low frequency blast from the sun that is picked up mostly by long wires. We don’t know if the sun can do high-frequency, but it hasn’t done it where anybody has noticed so far.

So, as previously noted, it’s not so much a threat to the wires of the electric grid themselves, but the transformers connected to the wires. The wires will get hot. Transformers are more heat sensitive than wires. Furthermore, a lot depends on how the transformers are connected, in that hot wires sag and pull on the connections. If there is a buffered connection, it pulls on something else, something designed to take the stress. But when wires are directly hung on the transformer, sagging wires can pull the connectors off.

But beyond that, a CME is loaded with plasma and particles that affect all living things. There’s a lot of theory about these effects, but not much established fact. Furthermore, the high intensity magnetic disturbance are bound to affect us in ways that we cannot predict very well. Different creatures bear varying sensitivity to magnetic fields, notably migratory animals like birds and some sea creatures. We don’t yet know that much about latent sensitivities in other creatures; it may be impossible to know until it happens. But there’s every reason to believe almost everything has some sensitivity to magnetic disturbance at that level.

Because the earth has so much metal in the core, a magnetic disturbance is guaranteed to provoke earthquakes and volcanoes. It’s guaranteed to have weather effects, most notably in the form of lightning, in part for the same reason volcanoes have lightning strikes above them. Overcharging the earth’s magnetic field will bring clear-air lightning strikes, literally out of nowhere. Those strikes will affect lots of things, and it’s exceedingly difficult to estimate, because they’ll be of such a high magnitude.

Your standard CMEs are not much threat to small bits of conducting material, such as electronics and electrical appliances. They could threaten the electricity grid. It’s the big ones that cross some invisible threshold that should be a concern. Over that threshold are effects we cannot estimate; we know only what kind of things it might include. It’s not that I want to promote fear, but a sense of calculus about what we can do to carry on the divine mission. If you know what’s likely, you’ll be less surprised and less panicky.

When a big one comes, we will have some hours advanced notice, less than a day to prepare. If you keep track of the weather on the sun, you’ll get a better idea of such things. The sun is more volatile than ever, even while the earth’s protective shield is coming down. This was God’s plan in foreknowledge of the need for His wrath to fall and shake things up a bit. Who will cling to Him through the coming apocalypse?

How we respond is a major element in our witness.

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