In the previous installment in the book of John, we covered chapter 4 and the woman at the well. We discovered that the two days that Jesus spent in Samaria where he encountered this woman and revealed the Gospel message to the Gentile Samaritans is a picture of the passing of the two millennia of the Church Age since Jesus ascended back to Heaven after his crucifixion. During these two millennia, the Gospel of Jesus Christ has been shined forth to the Gentile nations of the earth. We are now at the end of those two millennia and we now await the rapture of the Church, followed by the judgment of the seven-year Tribulation period, after which the 1,000-year millennial reign of Christ will begin. Moving forward into chapter 5, we find that there are many facets to John’s fifth chapter that deserve our attention.
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