THE JEWS, MUSLIMS AND THE SAMARITANS RELATIONSHIP IN THE HOLY LAND BY PROPHET GOODNEWS ADOLPHUS

The woman of Samaria is another issue to be discussed here in respect of the Muslims belief as regards to the temple mountain’s importance and significance in Islam.. In the New Testament, the woman of Samaria also made a claim of this temple acknowledging its scriptural significance in respect of the coming Messiah. This is what she said to Jesus Christ as recorded in the Gospel of John 4:12 “Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank, thereof himself, and his children and his cattle?" according to King James Version. The statement she made indicates that she was a partly Jewish like Prophet Mohammed case but according to history the Samaritans were denied of their rights as full citizens of Israel. Therefore there was discrimination between the Samaritans and the Jews long before the birth of Christ. So both she and Christ were auguring on the matter who asked him “What relationship between Samaritans and the Jews” because Jesus demanded from her water to drink from a well dug by Jacob their father. It was an abomination to collect water to drink from a Samaritan because he was a Jew. In John chapter 4 she said to him in respect of the significance of Jerusalem “our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and ye say that Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship." When she mentioned “our fathers” she was referring to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and his sons that drank from that well. But the Jews no longer recognize that place as the place where their forefather worshiped God but now they said except in Jerusalem. Also having acknowledged the teachings of the coming of the Messiah as a Jew she said, "I know that Messiah cometh, who is called Christ. When He has come, He will tell us all things." Now who were the Samarians? They were associated with some of the lost tribes of Israel that returned on exile to the northern kingdom that were destroyed by the Assyrian forces. The Capital of the northern kingdom was called “Samaria” which was very famous in the days of King Ahab in idolatry worshiping. It was the ancient battle ground of the prophets such as Prophet Elijah and all the others that prophesied to them to repent from idol worshipping but refused. Consequently, they were carried away by the Assyrian forces and scattered to different nations. They are known as the” Lost ten tribe of Israel”. After several years, some of them returned to their ancestral land as indigence of Samaria but from that time one the division began between them and the Jews that returned from Babylon to Jerusalem. Those who returned from Babylon drove all their foreign wives away while they considered themselves as real Jews unlike those who returned to Samaria who marred foreign wives and became mixed blood. So they considered them to be gentile. However, those people today are known as the Palestinians Arabs. Majority of them now embraced Islam and still recognized the temple mountain as their holy site as their heritage while minority of them still practice Judaism but different from those of the Jews in Israel. They still observe their Passover feast till today but those Jews in Israel do not recognize them. They hope the Messiah will come and build the temple for them in their own territory; while at the same time they have taken possession of the birth place of the Messiah called “Bethlehem of Judah” and no more in Israel. Also, the Dome of the Rock which is the Islamic Mosques is built right there in the temple mountain where the former Temple of Jerusalem was built. Only the Muslims are allowed to climb the mountain site to worship in the Mosque which the whole Muslims world wide recognized as the third holy place in Islam.

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