Importance of the Well 

John 4: 5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

(what journey is Jesus weary of?  that journey of attempting to reach those hard-hearted Jews with truth)…..important,,,it was about the sixth hour.  nothing is said here for no reason…six….

7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)

9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.

God will do nothing but what He has revealed to his servants the PROPHETS.  This, prophets here, means the old testament prophets, which God used to give out his word.  It is not referring to new testament prophets, which only use the gift of prophesy for immediate things, not giving out the word of God.

So all that God will do to us as people on earth, He has first prophesied by the old testament prophets.  When a doctrine is not written first in the old testament prophecies they are WRONG.  This is one of the greatest ways of ‘proving’ a doctrine.  If it is not written, as spoken, it is false.

Did God say he was coming to earth as a human baby?  Not one single prophesy says such a thing….so it is false.  Did God say he is three people?  not once, so again, false.

 Jesus told this woman at Jacob’s well, that God is a spirit.  He had never revealed this to anyone before this woman.  Why?  He knew Old Testament prophesy.  He knew the importance of the WELL.

This is exactly why he had sat down on the well in the first place.  He knew about Hagar and her well.  He knew what it meant.  He knew it was time to fulfill what that was all about.

Hagar and her son had been sent away from home by Sarah.  They had run out of food and WATER.  She knew her son was near death and she sat down a ways off from him and cried.

An angel from God called to her and opened her eyes.   God showed her a WELL OF WATER.  She had not been able to see this well before a touch from God.  Now she was told to rise up and DRAW WATER from this WELL, and give to her son.  

This is not told to just say a story.  It has very great spiritual meaning and reason.  This is the very first time a well of water is mentioned in any Scripture, so it is important to understand what is going on here.

Hagar represents all true Christians, who once were bond-children, but are now children of God. We once were dying of spiritual ‘thirst’.   Jesus gives us that water of life.

He has led the woman at the well into receiving this LIVING WATER.  She is thinking of natural water, but Jesus is bringing her into spiritual understanding of LIVING WATER. 

When the OT people dealt with wells, it is because of the NT spiritual connection.  Nothing is told in any scripture just to tell a story.  It is written there because, and ONLY BECAUSE it is to teach spiritual truth.

The New Testament is fulfilling the old testament prophesies.  When Hagar drew that water out of the well and gave it to her son, it is showing that Christians who are filled with the true baptism of the Holy Ghost are to draw that precious LIVING WATER up out of our souls, where Jesus put it,  drawing up true Revelation of Scripture, to give this drink of Living Water, to other thirsty souls.   IMPORTANT…IT ALSO SHOWS THAT WOMEN are just as much into drawing this living water as men.

In fact, WOMEN are the very ones that Scripture says draws the water out of the wells:

Genesis 24: 10 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.

11 And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.

[at even time, the WOMEN go out to DRAW THAT WATER;  SEE, THE TRUE MINISTERS]

12 And he said O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.

13 Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:

[standing by that well of water, shows people seeking to find Jesus or the Holy Ghost;  the daughters shall prophesy;  or give out this living water]

14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.

[Notice that the way it was made known that Rebekah was the chosen bride is the fact of her being willing to DRAW WATER FOR THE MEN AND THE CAMELS;  she is giving out this ‘living water’.] 

15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

16 And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.

[See this is showing that this woman has been filled with the Holy Living Water or the Spirit and word;  this is the very thing that Jesus was going by with the woman at the well….the fact of the prophesies of Hagar, Rebekah and Rachel;  three women].

17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.

Here, this servant, as a type of the servant, Jesus, goes and asks this woman for a drink of water.  It is a perfect picture of what Jesus would later do with the woman at the well.  So perfect.  

Here is the perfect picture of the true Bride of Christ Jesus, at work drawing water, living water for those around her:

18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.

19 And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.

20 And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.

Rebekah being willing to do this work of drawing up water for those thirsty souls, brought her into the place of being the wife of Isaac.  She is showing the true Bride of Christ, as we draw up that living water and give to the thirsty souls around us.  If you are not thirsty for truth, you will end up lost.

Now for the third pure sign of the Bride of Christ Jesus, drawing water from the well and the blessing it brought:

Genesis 29King James Version (KJV)

29 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.

2 And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth.

3 And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place.

4 And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.

5 And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.

6 And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.

7 And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.

8 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.

9 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep; for she kept them.

10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father.

This is the perfect type of Jesus giving life to his people.  Jacob finds a WELL in the field or world.  Three, God’s number and the third  day for resurrection,….three flocks of sheep waiting to be watered…..a stone on the mouth of the well….that stone on his grave….keeping that water shut away from those sheep…..let him that have ears to hear, hear this revelation.

The men told Jacob that they could not water the sheep till they are be gathered… but When Rachel came with her father’s sheep,  Jacob went and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth and watered that flock of Laban.  This is showing that Jesus rose out of that grave and watered his sheep.

Then Jacob kissed Rachel and loved her.  See then how the well of water, is so connected with the bride of Christ and the bringing in souls into the kingdom of God.

Abraham, Issac and Jacob had all been into well-digging.   These wells are very important, spiritually.  The Canaanites around them had stopped up some of their wells and fought over them.  This is showing that when true Christians begin to dig deep into the word of God and draw up revelation or truth, and attempt to give it to others, satan’s evil folks will try to shut them up, or stop up their wells.

If you allow dirt, sand, mess into your lives, it stops up that well.

You will then have a stagnate mess, instead of living water.  The Woman had told Jesus, this well is DEEP, and you have nothing to draw with, so how can you get this water?

See, the word of God is DEEP and we must have the HOLY GHOST, in order to draw up this water.  The woman was thinking of natural water.  But Jesus told her, if you knew who is speaking to you, you would ask him for a drink and he would give you LIVING WATER so you never thirst again.  She then said, give me this water.

Jesus then revealed himself as the messiah to her and that God is a spirit.  After their conversation, she was no longer interested in that natural water or the world.  She LEFT her water pot  (church system), and went into town and brought many to Jesus. She had that living water or well, inside herself.  She is the very first evangelist.

John 4:14

But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

The water that Jesus gives us is IN US, a WELL OF WATER springing up into everlasting life.  This Well is A SPRINGING well of  WATER.  It cannot be dry inside you.  It cannot be stopped up and do any good.  If you are not DRAWING up revelation from inside yourself, by having the Word of God in you, you DO NOT HAVE THIS LIVING WATER, AND WILL NOT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.

That is how important this WELL INSIDE YOU IS.  If it is not there, springing up, constantly feeding you, teaching you, you do not have it.  If this well does not reveal to you the secrets of God, you do not have it.  If you are not drawing up this living water, and giving it to others, you do not have it.

If your church is not  a springing living fountain, giving out living water, it is not of God.  If you do not have this living well inside yourself, you are not a person with everlasting life in you.  If you must run to some pit, or church, or anyone other than what Jesus put into you, to get fed, you do not have it.  If it is not inside YOU, YOU ARE NOT OF GOD.

Jeremiah 14King James Version (KJV)

14 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.

2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.

4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.

6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.

7 O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.  (this is why they had no water….their sins separated them from God.)

8 O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

9 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O Lord, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.

10 Thus saith the Lord unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the Lord doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

11 Then said the Lord unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.

3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.

2Peter : 12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

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17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

These WELLS without WATER, are people who covet, take pay for doing a work for God, same as Balaam, taking wages for their so-called works of God.  They are full of adultery.   They deceive many others who follow their teachings and ways.  See, they are a WELL, but have no WATER in them.  This WATER represents the Spirit of God and the Word of God.  It is also the water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins.

When your church does not teach you this, or even if they do, and still do not have the truth of God, they are these DRY WELLS.  Jude calls them clouds without WATER.  Same thing.  

These dry wells, or churches, are those PITS, that the nobles sent the children to to get water.  But there was no WATER IN THOSE PITS OR CHURCHES.

Jer 14: 3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads

See, they went to the waters, or pits, and found NO WATER.  This means they went to church but received no truth or salvation for their dying souls.  They returned home with their VESSELS or souls, EMPTY.

You run to your ‘church’ every week.  You are faithful to that dry well.  You go week after week, pay him and yet go home EMPTY.  No infilling of the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of God, or the TRUTH of God. So you are dying of thirst. 

These little ones were then ashamed and confused.  As a result of this THEY COVERED THEIR HEADS.  This goes deep.  One thing I wish to point  out here is that the catholics and muslims make their women cover their heads with cloth.  This is a sure sign that they are ashamed or confused.  They are running to a dry well, with no water or LIFE.

Look at this:  4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

Their ground is chat from a lack of rain, or the blessings of the Holy Ghost.  The PLOWMEN (which is the preachers or those seeking to get with God), were ASHAMED AND COVERED THEIR HEADS.

So it is all the same thing;  covering the head is a sure sign of no life from God.  So now when you hear people claiming we need to wear a headscarf, tell them it is a sign of death.

There was no GRASS of green food, (no pasture), so the animals were dying also.  It means no spiritual food in that pit.  When there is no water, there can be no pasture or grass.

See, the jealous brothers of Joseph put him into a pit to get rid of him.  When you run to a lifeless church, that man is putting you into a pit to get rid of you.

Next, they took Joseph out of the pit and SOLD HIM INTO SLAVERY TO THE EGYPTIANS.  YOUR preacher, in that dry well or pit, is selling you into slavery to sin, then to hell fire.

Here is the result of that dry well or pit: .. 8 O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

9 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O Lord, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.

What?

It is causing Jesus to be as a stranger in the land.  You truly do not know Jesus.  You have a fake or false jesus but not the true Jesus of Scripture.

Why should Jesus be as a man astounded, as a man that cannot save?  When you have no moving of the Holy Ghost, no truth of Scripture, NO LIVING WATER IN YOUR WELL, you are saying that Jesus cannot SAVE.

By:  Jo Smith…. Sept. 19, 2016 

These are the only times that a WELL OF WATER is mentioned in Scripture, so it has to all be speaking of the same thing.  Hagar, Rebekah and Rachel  are the only pure examples of this drawing up living water in the prophecies.