The Shaking of Nations - A Harvest Tsunami Is On Its Way....

Chapter Nine

The Age of Harvest

Jesus saw the questioning looks from His disciples as they

returned from buying food and found Him in conversation with

a Samaritan woman. He had gone beyond a line none of them

would ever have crossed.

The Jews hated the Samaritans, considering them a spiritually

polluted people, mongrels of mixed Jewish and Gentile

heritage, believers in a syncretistic mixture of Old Testament

law and pagan beliefs. And good Jews avoided all contact with

them. When the shortest distance between two points ran

through Samaritan territory, Jews on a journey would take

circuitous detours to stay clear.

Yet Jesus had deliberately chosen to walk through a Samaritan

town. And when He sent the disciples on their errand, he had

stayed there to rest — at the town well. What the disciples didn’t

realize was that He had been led there by God, and as He

waited for them the reason became clear.

It was mid-day, so Jesus and the disciples might have expected

that He would have the well to Himself. Typically, women in a

first-century town would go to the well early in the morning, to