Is Jerusalem The Place to Worship?
December 1st, 2008 | Temple | No Comment
Much written about eschatology centers
around the city of Jerusalem in Palestine.
Bible prophecy is interpreted so as to give
preeminence to the physical city?
Is Jerusalem the place to worship? Jesus
debated the issue with a woman of Samaria
almost two thousand years ago.
Jesus ventured outside the box of his
fellow Jews and traveled through the land
of Samaria.
He met a woman who asked him a direct
question about the valid place for men
to worship.
“Our fathers worshiped on this mountain
and you Jews say that
in Jerusalem is the place where
one ought to worship.” (John 4:20).
Rather than quote Deuteronomy 12:5, 11, the
Lord, addressed not the present reality, but
pointed ...