seekeroftruth
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Luke 9:51 As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. 52 And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him; 53 but the people there did not welcome him, because he was heading for Jerusalem. 54 When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?” 55 But Jesus turned and rebuked them. 56 Then he and his disciples went to another village.
Oh, now they have confused this old woman to my wits end.
They couldn't heal the little boy yesterday. BUT they think they can call down fire from Heaven on a town?
I think this would be the time Jesus would finally realize He is totally on His own.
These humans are just too ignorant to thrive!
I wonder, did Jesus ever think "why did I even bother?"
OK, back to the reason the Samaritans turned Jesus away. Samaritans didn't/don't like Jews.
I found this at a Bible Study site I used to use all the time.
To explain the origins of the Samaritans, we must go back to the days of the kings. After King Solomon ruled over the Israelites – God’s people – the unwise actions of his son Rehoboam in the tenth century BC led to a schism in which the kingdom was split into the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah, each with its own king.
Both kingdoms devolved into corruption and sin, despite repeated warnings from prophets sent by God. Thus, God warned, they would be overtaken by conquerors. The northern kingdom fared worse than the southern kingdom, with a long line of wicked rulers. It didn’t help that the temple, where God’s people were to worship, was located in the southern kingdom.
In 721 B.C., the northern kingdom of Israel fell to the Assyrians. Many of the people of Israel were led off to Assyria as captives, but some remained in the land and intermarried with foreigners planted there by the Assyrians. These half-Jewish, half-Gentile people became known as the Samaritans.
In 586 B.C., the southern kingdom of Judah fell to the Babylonian Empire once and for all, as the walls of Jerusalem were breached, the temple was destroyed, and the city walls torn down.
So, these "healing" disciples, James and John, wanted to burn Samaria to the ground as God did to Sodom, but the same disciples couldn't pull the demon out of a helpless little boy shaking on the ground. See, they are ignorant!
Samaritans didn't want 2 million refugees passing through their land back when Moses was moving the Nation form Egypt to Israel. Samaritans didn't keep their "Jewishness" separate; they married the Syrians who came to conquer.
The Samaritans were just too cozy with the enemy.
The hatred James and John showed for the Samaritans was historical and wrong.
I don't think they could really call down fire and brimstone! Do you?
James and John wanted to "Call down Hell Fire!
