“This Jesus Is The Son Of Satan, A Samaritan!” -- By: Emir J. Phillips

Journal: Global Journal of Classical Theology
Volume: GJCT 13:3 (Jan 2017)
Article: “This Jesus Is The Son Of Satan, A Samaritan!”
Author: Emir J. Phillips


“This Jesus Is The Son Of Satan, A Samaritan!”

Emir J. Phillips

Adjunct Professor, Cerritos College and International American University,
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Abstract: This essay focuses on how the Samaritans influenced Jesus’ perception of whom and how to evangelize both in terms of timing and methodology in delivering the Kingdom of God not only to the Samaritans and Jews, but subsequently to the Gentiles as well. Through Ezra and Nehemiah, God stripped the Samaritans of their Jewishness, but critically they remained according to the Patriarch Abraham circumcised, as opposed to uncircumcised. Thus, all Apostolic evangelization before Acts 10 involved ALL the circumcised (Jew and Samaritan) coming to see the Mosaic Law as educational, cultural, and laudatory and if obeyed without any salvific effect or condemnation for those who chose otherwise, would be pleasing to the risen Lord.

Introduction

This Article focuses on how the Samaritans effected Jesus’ perception of whom and how to evangelize both in terms of timing and methodology in delivering the Kingdom of God not only to the Samaritans and Jews, but subsequently the Gentiles as well. Through Ezra and Nehemiah, God stripped the Samaritans of their Jewishness, but critically they remained according to the Patriarch Abraham circumcised, as opposed to un-circumcised. Thus, all Apostolic evangelization before Acts 10 involved all the circumcised (Jew and Samaritan) coming to see the Mosaic Law as educational, cultural and laudatory and if obeyed in that volitional vein, without any salvific effect or condemnation for those who chose otherwise, would be pleasing to the risen Lord.

Not only would the Samaritans provide a crucial theological link between the Jews and Gentiles entering the Kingdom of Heaven, but the very term Samaritan, Shomroni in Hebrew, would provide a key insight into how Jesus was perceived by the spiritual leaders of Israel. Before the Resurrection during the Feast of Booths, the Pharisees publically and emphatically rejected Jesus by calling him a Shomroni: Samaritan/demon-possessed. In essence, the Pharisees accused Jesus of being the son of Satan and thereby obviously possessed by a demon (Satan). Jesus saw Himself and the Samaritans in an extremely different light. The Samaritans were vitally important to Jesus, and they like the Jews and Gentiles had been given a specific Key, all three held and subsequently used by Peter to open the Gates of Heaven (Holy Spirit Baptism) which fulfilled the Lord’s prophetic anticipation at Jacob’s well of a future Samaritan mission, thereby further legitimating the Lord in his Prophetic role.

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