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25 October 2024 | The church in the South Pacific is in an uproar at the allegation that the church in Fiji failed to address a known situation of the now-president of the Seventh-day Adventist Mission in Fiji abducting and attempting to rape a 13-year-old girl when he was the pastor of the Damboro church. […] Source: https://atoday.org/woman-alleges-that-fiji-mission-president-abducted-and-tried-to-rape-her-when-she-was-13/
Join the Hit the Mark panel as they discuss Sabbath School Lesson 4 – Witnesses of Christ as the Messiah. It’s the fastest hour of the week!
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Daily Lesson for Sabbath 26th of October 2024
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Memory Text:
“Then they said to the woman, ‘Now we believe, not because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world’ ” (John 4:42, NKJV).
Who were the Samaritans? The northern kingdom of Israel had been taken captive by the Assyrians in 722 b.c. To create political stability, the Assyrians dispersed their captives throughout their empire. Likewise, captives from other nations were brought to populate the northern kingdom, and these became the Samaritans, who practiced their own form of Judaism.
Relations, however, were not good between them and the Jews. For instance, the Samaritans worked against the rebuilding of the temple at the return of the Jews from Babylon. The Samaritans, meanwhile, had built their own temple, on Mount Gerizim. But this temple was destroyed by the Jewish ruler John Hyrcanus in 128 b.c.
At the time of Christ, this animosity continued. The Jews avoided Samaria as much as possible. Though commerce may have gone on, other interaction was taboo. The Jews would not borrow from Samaritans or even receive a favor from them. Within this context, John recounts the encounter between Jesus, the woman at the well, and the people of the Samaritan city of Sychar.
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