The Samaritans were right when they declared Jesus of Nazareth to be “the Savior of the world” (John 4:42). He is not just the Savior of the Jews. They discerned that it is He who “gives life to the world” (John 6:33).
The Father “laid on Him the iniquity of us all” (Isa. 53:6). He has “tasted death for every man” (Heb. 2:9). He is a cosmic Savior, “the last Adam” who is the true “Father” of the human race having taken over the lordship of the world from the first Adam (1 Cor. 15:21, 22).
Thus Christ has reversed the evil that the first Adam brought on the entire human race (Rom. 5:15-18). The Samaritans at the village Sychar knew nothing of what Romans and Hebrews were later to declare, but they were dead right in their conclusion about who Jesus is. (And they didn’t ask any theologians!)
If the Samaritans were right (and they were!), then Christ also is the world’s great “High Priest” that Hebrews talks about so much (2:17, 3:1, 4:14, etc.), not just the high priest of the Jews or of the professing Christians.
And if so (and it is true!), then the great antitypical Day of Atonement is the world’s Day of Atonement! Fox, CNN, the NY Times, Time, Newsweek, all should be trumpeting the news everywhere.
According to Revelation 18:1-4, they will—when the “earth [is] lightened” with the glory of the good news. The Enemy can not succeed forever in keeping that truth of the fourth angel’s message “from the world.” The Lord Christ is to be “crowned King of kings and Lord of lords” and His “angel” knows how to get the attention of the world.
And all this glorious good news need not await another century; all the Lord needs is a people who will not further oppose the message, but whom He will be safe to put on the stage for the intense scrutiny of the world (and of the universe!), a people in whom He and His truth can be glorified, a people who have “grown up” out of their spiritual infancy to become “the Lamb’s wife” (Eph. 4:15; Rev. 19:7, 8).
Isn’t that a truth worth living for, worth giving your all for?
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