A NEW SPIN ON THE STORY OF THE GOOD SAMARTIAN

We all know the written PARABLE in God's Word of The Good Samartian...  Below the original that is written I have shared only using TODAY CURRENT TERMINOLOGY and what it would be like in today's world with this story...

I wanted to put a 'spin' on this parable to share what it would be like today in today's world.

This is the original:

Luke 10:25-37

New International Version (NIV)

The Parable of the Good Samaritan
²⁵ On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” ²⁶ “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”
²⁷ He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’^[a]; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’^[b]”
²⁸ “You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”
²⁹ But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
³⁰ In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. ³¹ A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. ³² So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. ³³ But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. ³⁴ He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. ³⁵ The next day he took out two denarii^[c] and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’
³⁶ “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”

³⁷ The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”

Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”


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Now for the SPIN on this parable...


There was a Messianic Jewish Rabbi whom lived in Jerusalem Israel.  He suffered geatly from even his own jewish people inside of Jerusalem for they dispised anyone whom had accepted YESHUA as Messiah.  But this Messianic Jewish Rabbi was very well known around Jerusalem.  Those whom truly knew him, loved him for he was very kind hearted and he often would give even the shirt on his own back if someone needed it more than he...


One day as he was walking down a street - a mob of young men from Gaza decided to beat this Messianic Jewish Rabbi and steal from him.  So they beat him so badly that he layed in a pool of his own blood with his face down on the street.  His face had been crushed and he was dying.


A very educated Pharisee JEW saw the entire incident occur but because he knew that this Jewish Rabbi was Messianic and had accepted YESHUA - he decided to walk on the other side of the street and pretend he did not see anything happen.  He walked by very fast to be sure no one noticed him.


Another JEWISH Levite Priest was walking toward the beaten man that had been left for dead, but he too recognized that this was the Messianic Jewish Rabbi.... This JEWISH Levite Priest had even gone to the Messianc Jewish Priest when he and his family needed some food.  But because he did not accept the ways of the Messianic Believers of accepting YESHUA - He too walked on the other side pretending not to see his own JEWISH people laying in a pool of his own blood.


Then a young man came by, He too was hated by the JEWISH PEOPLE for he was an outcast since He was an Arab and was originally from Iran. The JEWISH people in Jerusalem hated this man because he looked Arab, so they judged his heart from his looks from the outside.  This young man grew up in a muslim family but he himself became agnostic for he could not understand why a GOD would hate so much as within the Islam ways.  So he wanted nothing to do with this kind of GOD..   But because he looked and spoke arabic and also his native language of Persian, and also he spoke Hebrew, this man was only a stranger in the midst... he was shunned from all.   This young man had a very gentle and kind heart...


When this young man, whom did not know the MESSIANIC JEWISH RABBI (for he was only a stranger), he saw the JEWISH man laying on the streets, almost to the point of death...

His heart cried for this dying man so he picked up the dying JEWISH man, and carried him to the nearest hospital setting to get the help that the man needed to live.  This young ARAB Iranian man stayed by this strangers side until this MESSIANIC JEWISH man got the help he needed.

The Iranian man also told the hospital personnel, I do not know this man, but I want to be responsible for him and I will pay you all and any costs that it takes to bring this JEWISH man back to life and to health and I will pay you in full when I return back from my business trip.


WHOM did what GOD would want them to do?

Did the RELIGIOUS JEWISH PRIESTS do what God would want them to do?  To judge and point their fingers at everyone else.... to even hate this stranger whom was from the Arab world from Iran...


Or did the young Iranian man that was hated by all JEWISH people because he was Arab and from Iran, but even as a stranger this young Arab man did more to demonstrate GOD's heart to the beaten stranger then those whom had studied GOD'S WORD for a life time but never shared GOD's word to others with actions (For actions speak louder than words.)


Please beloved people... Please do not come against your OWN PEOPLE regardless if Messianic Jews or Jews or Christians or Arabs or human beings.... 

Even in Christian churches we place others on the outside and ask them to leave if the person is BROKEN, rather than helping the BROKEN to find freedom and HEALING.  (This happened in my own life of being asked to leave because my brokenness was too much for the same women's bible group so they placed me on the outside and told me to come back when I got better.)


We are all made out of the same ingredients called CLAY (DUST) and to DUST we all will go back. 


Please value human beings - no matter who they are.... for we all have sinned, we all have failed, we all have turned our backs from GOD... but the only way people will want to know anything about GOD is that they see LOVE poured out to others, including strangers...

What good does it do to know all of GOD'S WORD but not living by His Word... and showing GOD's AGAPE LOVE and MERCY to those from within whom are broken - let alone to those on the outside of our walls...

Please go and do likewise as the STRANGER ....







JEWS WHOM ARE AGAINST EVEN THEIR OWN PEOPLE (FELLOW JEWS) IN ISRAEL... WHY LORD... WHY...

Please watch to the left.





Messianic Jews Persecuted - CBN.com

THE WRITTEN PROPHECIES OF ISRAEL AND EVERY NATION SHALL COME AGAINST ISRAEL

In the end, all nations shall come against Israel.



Zech 14:2 I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped.


By far, the greatest number of prophecies in the Bible concern the nation of Israel. In fact, many have said that if you want to know what time it is on God's clock, then look at the nation of Israel, for she shall be the center of attention in the fulfillment of Bible prophecies in these last days. Today we live in an age when the entire focus of the world is upon a tiny strip of land in the Middle East called Israel. So lets have a look at what Bible prophecy says about this nation.


1. Disobedience would lead to the nation of Israel being scattered amongst all nations.



Deut 28:64 'Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other.'



See also Lev 26:33, Jer 9:16, Ezek 12:15. In all, 6 different books of the Bible predict the scattering of Israel amongst all the nations of the earth. History records this being fulfilled in 70 AD when Jerusalem was destroyed by the Roman Empire and the remaining Jews were scattered amongst the nations.


2. No rest for their souls while in exile amongst the nations



Deut 28:65-66 Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart. You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life.'



For nearly 2000 years following the destruction in 70AD, the 'wandering Jew' has lived without a homeland, subject to the strongest racial prejudice and torment suffered by any people group. From the day they were scattered to the day Hitler devised his 'final solution to the Jewish problem', this prophecy spoken by Moses has sadly been fulfilled.



3. God himself would restore the Jews to the land of Israel from all the nations



Jer 16:14-16 However, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "when men will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,’ but they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had banished them.’ For I will restore them to the land I gave their forefathers.



In all, 13 books of the Bible speak of the nation of Israel being restored in their land from the nations in which they were scattered. This prophecy became history in 1948 when the United Nations granted a homeland to the Jewish people and the nation of Israel was reborn! See also Jer 3:14, 31:8-9, Isa 60:8-9, Deut 30:3, Amos 9:15.



4. The desolate land of Israel would again blossom and be fruitful in the last days.



Zech 7:14 I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations, where they were strangers. The land was left so desolate behind them that no one could come or go. This is how they made the pleasant land desolate.



History records that while the Jewish people were exiled amongst many nations, the land of Israel was a barren desert. See also Lev 26:14, Ezek 15:8, Jer 9:12-13, 23:10, 44:22, Isa 32:13



Isa 27:6 In the days to come, Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill the world with fruit.



This is exactly the case today! Not only has God bought the Jewish people back into their land like He said He would in the last days, but He has also blessed the land so that they now export flowers and fruit around the world! Satellite photos show the green pastures of the nation of Israel, in sharp contrast with the surrounding desert lands of the Arab nations. See also Isa 35:1, Ezek 36:35.



5. God Himself would defend Israel and cause Israel to be mighty in battle



Zech 12:8 On that day the LORD will shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the Angel of the LORD going before them.



Taken in context, this verse speaks about God defending Israel in a battle to come in the last days. Have we not seen this miraculously occur several times since Israel became a nation again in 1948. They have been greatly outnumbered in key Arab-Israeli wars in 1948, 1967, and 1973. Yet Israel exists! God has seen to that!



6. In the last days, Jerusalem would be a burden to the entire world.



Zech 12:2-3 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about^... And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces.



Turn on your TV and watch the news. What nation and what city would you most likely expect to see? Israel and Jerusalem! Today, Jerusalem is a burden that causes trembling for all the nations just as God foretold. What makes this prophecy even more remarkable is that when the prophet Zechariah spoke these words around 520BC, Jerusalem lay in ruins. But God said it would become the focus of the world's attention! Today, Israel has 0.01% of the worlds population, yet 33% of the United Nations resolutions have been passed concerning her!



7. In the end, all nations shall come against Israel.



Zech 14:2 I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped.



Apart from the USA, Israel has few allies. In a recent conference on racism in South Africa, the Israeli and United States delegates were forced to walk out as the other participating nations vented their anger towards Israel and tried to declare it a racist state. One day, the Bible predicts, she will have no allies, and all nations shall be gathered against her. The TV news will show you that we are on the road towards that battle. But if the odds seem a little uneven, please read the next prophecy that the Bible predicts...



8. God Himself, Jesus Christ, will return and fight for Israel against the attacking nations.



Zech 14:3-4 Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights in the day of battle. On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south.



You may have heard of this battle to come. It's called the battle of Armageddon because of the location where the nations assemble themselves before attacking. The book of Revelation puts it like this...



Rev 16:14-16 They are spirits of demons performing miraculous signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty... Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.



Revelation also prophecies the return of Jesus Christ on this day saying...



Rev 19:11 I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war.



9. The nation of Israel will finally recognize that Jesus was their Messiah, whom they crucified!



Zech 12:9-10 On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem. And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.



What a day that will be! Even though the Bible predicted that the Messiah would die, and have His feet and hands pierced, the nation of Israel has, for the last 2000 years, hardened their heart and not believed that Jesus was their Messiah. At the time of the end, they will again look to the one whom they pierced and oh how great the mourning and sadness will be on that day for what they did! Yet Jesus will pour out His grace upon Israel!



10. God will judge the nations depending upon their treatment of the Jewish people.



Joel 1:1-2 In those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning my inheritance, my people Israel, for they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.



Today we live in an age where we hear all the time about a 'Middle-East peace process'. It essentially comes down to 'Israel give up more of your land and we won't send as many suicide bombers into your cities...' It seems everyone wants a slice of Jerusalem for themselves. For this, and the world's repeated and continual abysmal treatment of the Jewish people, the judgment of God will come.



These prophecies are not vague like Nostradamus or modern day 'so-called' psychics. They are detailed and specific in their application. Time and space does not permit us to go into the many other prophecies concerning the nation of Israel. Yet such things as a false peace, the rebuilding of the third Jewish temple, and a coming great persecution of the Jewish people under a world leader have all been prophesied. It will all take place because God has said it.