The Word of God is full of examples of how we should live and
walk before God.  In the beginning God governed His people through
patriarchs;  or heads of families.  The three main patriarchs in
the Bible are Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  

     Abraham is called the Father of Faith.  Abraham represents God
the Father.  Isaac is called the son of promise.  Isaac represents
Jesus the Promised Son.  Jacob's name means "surplanter";  or the
one who takes the place of another.  Jesus stated, "When the Spirit
of Truth is come, He will testify", or be a witness of Me.  When
the Holy Spirit came, He came to finish the work that Jesus began
in our lives.  The Holy Spirit is called the Second Comforter, ***
John 14:16.  Jacob represents the Holy Spirit in our lives.  

     Isaac was born to Abraham and Sarah in their old age.  Abraham
was one hundred and Sarah was ninety.  Sarah live to be one hundred
and twenty seven years.  Isaac was thirty seven at the time of his
mother's death.

     After Sarah died, Abraham determined it was time to take a
wife for Isaac.  Isaac was very grieved because of his mother's
death.  Abraham sent his most trusted servant to Haran to his
brother Nahor's house to take a wife for his son, Isaac.  Abraham
had put all his wealth in his servant's hands.

     "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."  *** Genesis 24:10

     God directed Abraham's servant to choose Rebekah for Isaac. 
Rebekah willingly left her family and returned to become Isaac's
wife.  Isaac dwelt in the south country west of Kadesh, by the Well
Lahairoi, *** Genesis 25:11.  The word Kadesh means "a place of
separation".  The word Lahairoi means "the well of the living
seeing one", or the well of the vision of life.

     A well in the desert country of Palestine was the sign of
wealth.  It was also the sign of independence.  Wells were dug by
hand, and it took much time and much hard labour.  Today if someone
has need of a well, they call out the well driller and they drill
down through the earth until they hit water.  The well is then
cased with steel casing.  

     In Abraham's day the wells were dug by hand through solid
limestone.  Sometimes steps were carved in the limestone and the
people went into the well with their containers and carried the
water out.  Other wells used ropes and buckets, or waterskins to
draw out the water.  Some had water wheels where pitchers were
attached to a rope that went down into the water and came up full
of water.  

     Around the mouth of the well was built a low wall.  This kept
animals and people from falling into the well.  Those who owned
wells sold their water, or bartered with those who used the well. 
Wells were most important to the herdsmen in Palestine.  Without
wells the herds could not exist.  Because of this, those who owned
the wells generally became very important, wealthy men in the land.

     Those who owned wells could maintain larger flocks of sheep. 
Sheep were also a sign of wealth.  Abraham was very wealthy and he
passed his wealth to Isaac.  Wells are always signs of life.  Oasis
are planted around wells in the desert.  These areas of green are
always a contrast to the desolate desert around them.  

     Isaac dwelt by the Well Lohairoi, or the Well of the Vision of
Life in the place of separation.  As we view the typology of the
Well Lohairoi, it is easy to relate it to the Word of God.  The
Bible is the vision of life and those who have separated themselves
unto the Word and apply the Word to their lives become the Word as
Jesus became the Word.  The book of John records,

     "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the
     Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost:  and these three
     are one."  *** I John 5:7

     The Word is the Promised Son.  Jesus became the Word, or Jesus
became the Vision of Life.  Solomon wrote,

     "Where there is no vision, the people perish:  but he
     that keepeth the law, happy is he."  *** Proverbs 29:18

     Where there is no vision the people perish.  Even those who
are called by His name sometimes have no vision.  If they are not
drinking of the Well Lohairoi, the vision of life, they are
perishing because they are not being nourished from the water of
the well of life.  They are not separated unto God's purpose for
their lives.  

     A famine came upon the land,

     "And there was a famine in the land, beside the first
     famine that was in the days of Abraham.  And Isaac went
     unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar."  ***
     Genesis 26:1

     God brought a famine upon the land.  This same famine is in
the land today.  The prophet Amos prophesied this famine,

     "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will
     send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a
     thirst for water, but of hearing the Words of the Lord:

     "And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the
     north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek
     the Word of the Lord, and shall not find it."  *** Amos
     8:11-12

     There is a famine of the Word in the land.  The Well Lahairoi
in the place of separation has dried up.  There is no vision of
life taught anymore;  only the message of dying and going to
heaven.  Jesus stated that the overcoming message of life has gone
out of the church system.  Jesus, the Word of God, came that we
might have life and have it more abundantly, *** John 10:10.

     Isaac went into the land of the Philistines unto Abimelech. 
The Philistines represent the flesh.  The flesh is always the enemy
of God.  The word Philistine means "wallowing".  The Philistines
are those who are still wallowing in the dust of the earth (flesh).
They refuse to come to the vision of the water of life.  

     Abimelech means "my father is king".  Abimelech is a title,
not a man's name.  Abimelech was king of those who are still
wallowing around in their earthly, fleshly existence.  This is a
picture of the religious church system today who have made flesh
their king;  those who have not separated themselves unto the
vision of life.

     God told Isaac to stay in Gerar and not go down into Egypt. 
Egypt represents the word in our lives.  Isaac was obedient to
God's voice, and dwelt in Gerar.

     "Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same
     year an hundredfold:  and the Lord blessed him."  ***
     Genesis 26:12

     God prospered Isaac in everything he did.  Isaac became very
great in the land of the Philistines.

     "For he had possession of flocks, and possession of
     herds, and great store of servants:  and the Philistines
     envied him."  *** Genesis 26:19

     God had greatly blessed Isaac because of his obedience.  And
because of this the Philistines not only envied him, but they
feared Him.  Those who are still wallowing around in the fleshly
existence of their Philistine church order are envious of those who
have come into God's realm of blessing because of their obedience
to the Father's voice.

     "Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us:  for thou art
     much mightier than we.

     And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the
     valley of Gerar, and dwelt there."  *** Genesis 26:16-17

     Gerar is the land that Abraham had dwelt in after he left
Mamre, *** Genesis 20:1.  While in Gerar, Abraham dug wells to
water his flocks.  When Isaac came to the this land,  with earth.

     "All the wells which his father's servants had digged in
     the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had
     stopped them, and filled them with earth."  *** Genesis
     26:15

     "And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they
     had digged in the days of Abraham his father;  for the
     Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: 
     and he called their names after the names by which his
     father had called them."  *** Genesis 26:18

     The Philistines had filled Abraham's wells with earth.  The
earth represents the flesh.  Wells represent the life-giving Word
of God.  The Philistine church has filled the Anointed, life-giving
Word of God with their fleshly, carnal teachings which only impart
knowledge.  And the people are perishing because they have been
robbed of their vision of life.  Isaiah the prophet spoke of these
people in the church system.

     "This is a people robbed and spoiled;  they are all of
     them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses; 
     they are for a prey, and none delivereth;  for a spoil
     and none saith, Restore."  *** Isaiah 42:22

     The Philistine church system has snared God's people into
their traps.  None are proclaiming the message of Restoration. 
God's people are crying out for deliverance.  Many are desiring to
walk and talk again with God in the cool of the day.  God is going
to deliver His people from these prison houses and give them the
water's from the well of the vision of life.  Isaiah wrote,

     "Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells
     of salvation."  *** Isaiah 12:3

     Isaac dwelt in the valley of Gerar.  The valley is the place
of refreshment.  Gerar means "to drag away and ruminate".  Ruminate
means "to chew over and over".  God is calling His people to come
out of the Philistine church system to a place of refreshment and
begin to drink of the water of the vision of life.  These who have
come out of the Philistine order are beginning to chew the Word of
God over and over to overcome all the earth that the Philistines
have put in their Well of Salvation.  

     Isaac began to redig the wells of his father, Abraham.  As
Isaac redug these wells, he called them what his father Abraham had
named them.  The first well that Isaac redug was the Well Esek.

     "And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found
     there a well of springing water.

     And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen,
     saying, The water is ours:  and he called the name of the
     well Esek;  because they strove with him."  *** Genesis
     26:19-20

     The word ESEK means "strife and contention".  It was the
herdsmen that strove together.  The herdsmen are the shepherds. 
The shepherds of the Philistine church orders are striving
together.  They strive and are contentious about their doctrines,
creeds and man-made doctrines.  

     They cry out, "The water is ours".  Those who have gone to
seminaries believe they are the only ones who can teach the Word. 
When someone questions their carnal and fleshly teaching, this
brings strife and contention.  Paul also spoke of these pastors who
bring strife and contention into the body when they preach the
Word.

     "Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife;  and
     some also of good will:

     The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely,
     supposing to add affliction to my bonds:"  ***
     Philippians 1:15-16

     The messages these pastors preach cause envy, strife and
contention;  not sincerely.  The word sincerely means "chaste,
clean or pure".  These messages are self-serving and do not promote
life in those who hear them.  These bring condemnation and belittle
the hearer instead of being uplifting and promoting goodwill among
the flock.  The flock is never good enough to suit the pastor. 
These pastors are drinking from the Well Esek.  They blame others
for their failures or lack of success in bringing the flock, that
they have been allowed to oversee, into a oneness in Christ.  The
Philistine church system is full of strife , contention, and
division.  The prophet Ezekiel prophesied of these pastors.

     "Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the
     good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the
     residue of your pastures?  and to have drunk of the deep
     waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?

     And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden
     with your feet;  and they drink that which ye have fouled
     with your feet.  *** Ezekiel 34:18-19

     Those whom God has allowed to drink of the deep waters and
partake of the good pastures refuse to allow the flock to partake
of the good pasture and the deep water because they have trodden
down the good pasture and have fouled the water the flock is given
to drink.  It is not the pure, unadulterated Word of God that they
have partaken of.  The Philistine church systems have filled the
well of the vision of life with flesh, and because of this the Word
of God has been fouled with the precepts and doctrines of men.

     Isaac did not strive nor contend for this well.  Instead he
moved on and redug another of his father's wells.

     "And they digged another well, and strove for that also: 
     and he called the name of it Sitnah.

     Sitnah means "hostility and accusation".  This is the next
well of the Philistine church system.  Again the herdsmen strove
with Isaac at this well.  When the flock begins to question why the
Well of Salvation and the Well of the Vision of Life, the Word of
God, has been fouled, the Philistine system becomes hostile and 
brings forth accusations.    

     When Jesus spoke, He spoke the Words of the Father.  When the
religious system sent the temple guards to arrest Jesus, they came
back without Him.  When asked why they did not bring Him back, they
replied, "Never man spake like this man", *** John 7:46.  

     The religious systems do not understand, nor do they want to
hear the anointed Word of the Father.  It interferes with their
religious ideas.  When Jesus spoke, their desire was to kill Him.

     "Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you
     keepeth the law?  Why go ye about to kill me?"  *** John
     7:19

     Jesus asked them, "Did not Moses give you the law?"  The law
states, "Thou shalt not kill".  The Words of the Father to the Jews
was, "None of you keep the law".  Jesus asked, "Why do you go about
desiring to kill me."

     "The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil:  who
     goeth about to kill thee?"  *** John 7:20

     The words of the Father moved them to hostility and
accusation.  The Jews were drinking from the Well of Sitnah.  The
Words of the Father always provoke hostility and accusation from
those who are drinking from the Well of Sitnah.

     Peter was jailed because of the Word.  Paul spent much time in
prison because of the Word.  John was exiled to the Isle of Patmos
because of the anointed Word God had given him to speak.  Today the
Philistine church system has stopped up the Well of Salvation with
the message that tickles the ears and pleases the flesh.  They get
very hostile and bring accusation to those who are speaking the
anointed Word of the Father.  And they will not allow it in their
midst.  Paul spoke of the time we live in today,

     "For the time will come when they will not endure sound
     doctrine;  but after their own lusts shall they heap to
     themselves teachers, having itching ears;"  *** II
     Timothy 4:3

     Those who will not endure sound doctrine will only listen to
those who satisfy their lustful hearts.  They will only listen to
the teachers who tickle their ears.  Those who refuse to tickle
their ears are cast from their midst.  Jesus spoke of this day,

     "Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they
     shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach
     you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's
     sake.

     Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy:  for, behold,
     your reward is great in heaven:  for in the like manner
     did their fathers unto the prophets."  *** Luke 6:22-23

     Jesus stated we will be blessed in the day that separation
comes from those who cast our name out as evil.  This separation
comes because we have taken our stand for the Word of Life.  Those
who are partaking of the Well of Sitnah will bring their accusation
and act in an hostile manner toward us.  When they do not want us
around, we should rejoice and jump for joy.  Those who are drinking
from the Well of Sitnah did the same to our fathers and the
prophets. The Bible is full of the persecutions at the hands of
those who drink from the Well of Sitnah.

     Isaac did not remain at the Well of Sitnah.  He moved on,
trusting that the Lord would provide a well without contention and
strife.

     "And he removed from thence, and digged another well; 
     and for that they strove not:  and he called the name of
     it Rehoboth;  and he said, For now the Lord hath made
     room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land."  ***
     Genesis 26:22

     Isaac redug the Well of Rehoboth.  Rehoboth means "broad
place".  After we are removed from the restrictive life of the
Philistine Church System, God begins to move us into the broad
place.  Jesus stated to His followers,

     "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth
     unto life, and few there be that find it."  *** Matthew
     7:14

     The word strait means "narrow, or narrowing".  Our walk in God
begins to narrow.  Luke recorded this segment of Jesus' Words,

     Strive to enter in at the strait gate:  for many, I say
     unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able." 
     *** Luke 13:24

     Luke stated we are to strive.  The word strive is the word
AGONIZOMAI and means "to strive, fight and labor fervently".  We
need to agonize to enter in.  Jesus stated that few would enter in
at the strait gate.  Many will seek to enter in and not be able. 
We may ask why this should be.  This is certainly not the message
in the church today.  Most teach "Get saved and baptized", and this
gives you an unlimited passport into all the goodness of God.  No
change is required and certainly no suffering.     If we are to
enter in at the strait gate that leads to life, then we must
agonize, fight and labor fervently.  Matthew recorded Jesus' Words,

     "And from the days of John the Baptist until now the
     kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent
     take it by force."  *** Matthew 11:12   
    
     The word violent means "the strong".  Those who are strong in
the word and Spirit will enter in because they are striving,
agonizing and laboring fervently to enter in.  Luke recorded Jesus'
words,

     "The law and the prophets were until John:  since that
     time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man
     presseth into it."  *** Luke 16:16

     The word presseth means "to be forceful";  not that we can
agonize and labor fervently to force or pressure God.  But we need
to strive to enter in at the strait gate.  After we enter in to the
strait gate, where does it lead?  It leads into the fullness of
God, into the broad places where there is no lack, no restrictions
and no man-made order.  We enter in because we have heard and
become obedient to the Father's voice.  The limitation of
disobedience and uncommittment has been removed.  In the broad
places we have the freedom that God has wrought for His people. 
Paul came into this place,

     "All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not
     expedient:  all things are lawful for me, but I will not
     be brought under the power of any.

     All things are lawful for me, but all things are not
     expedient:  all things are lawful for me, but all things
     edify not."  *** I Corinthians 6:12 & 10:23

     Paul came to a place in God where all things were lawful unto
him, but as Paul stated, all things were not expedient to
accomplish the work the Lord had given him to do.  Nor were all
things edifying to the life of Christ that Paul was living.  Paul
stated he would not be brought under the power of any, or give
himself to any.  Paul would not be brought under the control of any
man-made religious order.  Many times the Jews tried to hinder
Paul's ministry by trying to bring the Gentile converts back under
their law. James spoke of the liberty we have in Christ when we
enter in at the strait gate.

     "But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and
     continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but
     a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his
     deed."  *** James 1:25

     Those who have entered into this perfect law of liberty at the
Well of Rehoboth are the "doers" of the Word.  They are not the
forgetful hearers who look into the mirror of life and when they
turn away forget the kind of person they really are without Christ
in their lives. 

     When Isaac finished the Well at Rehoboth he stated, "The Lord
hath made room for us and we shall be fruitful in the land."  God
has made room in His kingdom for those who have the fruits of the
Spirit working in their lives.  God has His few who will enter in
at the strait gate and drink at the Well Rehoboth in the broad
places in Him.

     Isaac would dig one more well.  Isaac went up from thence to
Beersheba, *** Genesis 26:23.  The directions in the Bible reveal
our going toward or away from God.  Up always means the people are
moving toward God;  down reveals the people going away from God. 
Isaac went up to Beersheba.  After Isaac had come into the broad
places in God, he then went up to Beersheba.

     "And the Lord appeared unto him the same night and said,
     I am the God of Abraham thy father:  fear not, for I am
     with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for
     my servant Abraham's sake.

     And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name
     of the Lord, and pitched his tent there:  and there
     Isaac's servants digged a well."  *** Genesis 26:24-25

     Beer means "a well".  Sheba means "an oath, vow or covenant". 
Beer Sheba means "the well of the oath, vow or covenant".  Beer
Sheba is where we enter into a covenant relationship with the Son. 
Isaac built an altar there.  The altar represents our worship of
God.  Isaac had entered into a covenant relationship with God.  He
began to worship God upon the altar of his life.  When Isaac built
the altar, then Abimelech came with one of his friends and the
captain of his army.  Abimelech had sent Isaac away out of Gerar
because Isaac had become so great and powerful that Abimelech
counted him as an enemy and a threat to his kingship.

     "And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with
     thee:  and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us,
     even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with
     thee;

     That thou would do us no hurt, as we have not touched
     thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and
     have sent thee away in peace:  thou art now the blessed
     of the Lord."  *** Genesis 26:28-29

     Abimelech the King of those who are still wallowing in the
flesh came to Isaac to seek peace and to make an agreement that
Isaac would do them no harm.  When Abimelech witnessed the power of
God working in Isaac's life, they wanted to make peace with him. 
When we come into that covenant relationship with God and we build
our altar of worship in our lives, then those who are serving the
king of flesh are going to recognize the power of God in our lives.
Solomon wrote in the book of Proverbs,

     "When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his
     enemies to be at peace with him."  *** Proverbs 16:7

     When we come into the broad place in God and begin to drink
from the Well of the Oath or Covenant that God has made with His
people, we will be pleasing in His sight.  He will even cause our
enemies to be at peace with us.  The prophet Isaiah wrote,

     "The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come
     bending unto thee;  and all they that despised thee shall
     bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet;  and they
     shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the
     Holy One of Israel."  *** Isaiah 60:14

     The sons of them that afflict us, not the people who afflict
us, but their sons;  God will have dealt with the ones who have
afflicted us in his wrath.  God has warned,

     "Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no
     harm."  *** Psalm 105:15

     And again he stated,

     "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the
     living God."  *** Hebrews 10:31

     The sons of those who have afflicted God's anointed will fall
into the hands of the living God, and they will bow to the soles of
our feet and cry that we are the city of our God, the Zion, the
Holy One of Israel.  Isaiah was speaking of those who have entered
at the strait gate and into the everlasting covenant relationship
with their God.  Abimelech is our example of those who do not drink
at the Well of Beer Sheba.  They will want peace with those who
know their God.

     Those who have entered into this place in God have one more
well that they must drink from.  Jesus spoke of this well when He
ministered to the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well.  Jacob was the
surplanter, the one who took the place of another.  Jacob's Well is
a picture of the Well of the Spirit of Life.  Paul wrote,

     "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath
     made me free from the law of sin and death."  *** Romans
     8:2

     The law is something that regulates our lives.  When the law
of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus is regulating our lives, we
are set free from the letter of the law, which is the law of sin
and death.  In Jesus we have forgiveness of sin.  In Christ Jesus
we have newness of life.  

     Jesus came to Samaria.  Samaria was the capital of the ten
northern tribes at the time Israel was divided following the death
of Solomon.  Samaria belonged to the tribe of Ephraim after Assyria
defeated Hoshea, King of Israel, in 721 B.C.  The ten northern
tribes were dispersed throughout all the earth.

     "And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and
     from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from
     Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria
     instead of the children of Israel:  and they possessed
     Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof."  *** II Kings
     17:24

     Samaria was filled with the heathen nations.  These mixed with
the remnant of the Israelites, and the Israelites were no longer
called Israelites, but Samaritans.  This is why the Jews hated the
Samaritans and had no dealings with them.  They felt they were a
defiled people.

     Jacob's Well is about two miles southeast of Shechem.  Jacob
had purchased this land from the sons of Heth when he returned from
Laban after spending many years in the land of Haran.  Jacob had
fled to Haran after he had deceived Isaac into blessing him instead
of his brother Esau.  Jacob's well is located in a valley between
two mountains;  Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim.  It was here that
Abraham built his first altar when he came into the promised land. 
Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim are the mounts of blessing and
cursing.  Israel was instructed by Moses when they entered the
land,

     "These shall stand upon Mount Gerizim to bless the
     people, when ye are come over Jordan;  Simeon, and Levi,
     and Judah, Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:

     And these shall stand upon Mount Ebal to curse;  Reuben,
     Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali."  ***
     Deuteronomy 27:12-13

     Israel was instructed when they came to possess their land
that half the people were to stand on Mount Gerizim and read the
blessings that God had promised them in the law;  and half the
people were to stand on Mount Ebal and read the cursings that would
come upon them if they disobeyed God's commandments and laws. 
Jacob dug his well between these two mountains.  

     When Jesus came to Samaria, He came to Jacob's well, and being
wearied He sat down on the curbing that was around the well, ***
John 4:6.  There came a woman of Samaria to draw water and Jesus
asked her to give Him a drink, *** John 4:7.

     "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.

     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.

     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?"  *** John 4:9-11

     This woman has always been portrayed as some loose, immoral,
unchaste woman that went from bed to bed.  We need to begin to see
her through Spiritual eyes;  a woman who had a need in her life,
and that need was the everlasting water of life.  What she needed
was the Holy Spirit anointing welling up in her life to bring her
into the knowledge of the truth that can only come through the
anointing.  Jesus proclaimed, "The Words that I speak unto you,
they are Spirit and they are life."  *** John 6:63

     We need to see this woman through Spiritual eyes.  She is a
picture of the Philistine church system that is in the earth today.
When the apostle Paul began to preach the Word, he went into the
synagogue to preach unto the Jews.  Paul went into every city to
proclaim the gospel of salvation unto the Jews.  But the Jews
rejected the Word.

     "Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary
     that the word of God should first have been spoken to
     you:  but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves
     unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the
     Gentiles. *** Acts 13:46

     Paul turned to the Gentiles, whom the Jews considered heathen.
As Samaria was filled with the heathen nations, so the church has
been filled with the heathen nations, the Gentiles, who have come
to the saving grace of Jesus Christ.  The Samaritan woman is a
picture of the church system that is in the earth today, to whom
Jesus is offering the living water through the Holy Spirit
anointing.

     When Jesus offered the Samaritan woman the living water, she
stated, "The well is deep, and you have nothing to draw with.  How
are you going to give me this water?"   The Samaritan woman could
only understand carnal things.  She had no Spiritual perception of
what Jesus was speaking.  It is the same today because there is no
anointing upon the Word the church system is teaching.  They only
have a carnal, fleshly understanding of the Word of life.  They
have nothing to draw out the deep Word with.  Paul proclaimed,

     "Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from
     generations, but now is made manifest to His saints:

     To whom God would make known what is the riches of the
     glory of this mystery among the Gentiles;  which is
     Christ in you, the hope of glory:  *** Colossians 1:26-27

     The mystery that has been hid from the foundations is Christ
in us;  that is our hope of glory.  This is what Jesus was offering
to the woman at the well.  And that is what He is offering to the
church today if they will only receive it.  Jesus revealed to her,

     "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."  *** John 4:14

     The woman's reply was,  "Sir, give me this water that I
     thirst not, neither come hither to draw,"  *** John
     14:15.  
     Jesus' words were Spiritual, but her understanding was carnal.
All she could understand was not needing to come in the heat of the
day to satisfy her thirst for physical water.  This is where the
church is today.  They desire to live in ease, not fervently
seeking after God and the things of God that will quench their
Spiritual thirst.  They have settled back on their lees and
proclaim, "I will take what ever God has to offer as long as it
does not cost me anything, and I don't have to expend any labor to
receive it."

     Jesus told this woman to call her husband to come hither, ***
John 4:16.  The word husband has the meaning of "provider or
protector".  When Jesus told this woman to call her provider and
protector, her answer was,

     "I have no husband.  Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well
     said, I have no husband:  

     For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now
     hast is not thy husband:  in that saidst thou truly." 
     *** John 4:17-18

     Jesus told her she had had five providers and protectors, but
she had rejected these five, and the one she now had was not
providing for, nor protecting her.  We need to Spiritually
understand who these five husbands the woman (the church system)
has rejected are.  Paul spoke of the five husbands (providers and
protectors) God has given to the church.

     "Wherefore He saith, When he ascended upon on high, He
     led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men."  ***
     Ephesians 4:8

     When Jesus ascended up on high He gave gifts unto men,

     "And He gave some, apostles;  and some, prophets;  and
     some, evangelists;  and some, pastors and teachers;"  
     *** Ephesians 4:11

     These are the five husbands (providers and protectors) the
church has rejected, and the one that she has chosen to put her
dependence on now is not her husband.  She has settled for a
religious order that scratches her religious itch, but does nothing
to produce life.  Paul revealed what these five husbands' gifts 
were to produce in the church.  They were given 
water'

     "For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the
     ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

     Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the
     knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the
     measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

     That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and
     fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by
     the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they
     lie in wait to deceive;

     God has given the church all that it needs, but they have
rejected the fountain of Life.  Jeremiah spoke of the religious
system that is in the earth today.

     "For my people have committed two evils;  they have
     forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them
     out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water." 
     *** Jeremiah 2:13

     The church is trying to quench their thirst for God by
drinking from their broken cisterns that can hold no water.  They
have refused the fountain of living water;  that is their first
evil.  Then they have made their own cisterns that hold none of the
living water of life.  Jesus is sitting at Jacob's Well offering
the church to drink of this living water, but they refuse the
husbands He gave her and depend on the one they have chosen who
does not provide for, nor protect her.  This woman is not
reproducing life.  All she can bring forth is illegitimate children
because she has no husband.  The woman said to Jesus,

     "Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet."  *** John 4:19

     Jesus was speaking the prophetic word to her, and she
recognized it.  Her words to Jesus were

     "Our fathers worshipped in this mountain:  and ye say,
     that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to
     worship."  *** John 4:20

     This woman spoke of the two church systems that are in the
earth today.  The Samaritans worshipped their lifeless religion in
Mount Gerizim.  This was the seat of Jeroboam's religious system. 
The Jews were still worshipping their form religion in Jerusalem. 

     After Solomon's death, ten tribes were given to Jeroboam and
two tribes were left with Rehoboam, Solomon's son.  In these two
men's names we have these two church systems.  Rehoboam means
"enlarger of the people".  Jeroboam means "increaser of the
people".  All Jeroboam, the religious system, wants is more people,
more buildings and more glory for themselves.  The Rehoboam system
is the enlarger of the people.  They desire that God's people grow
up into the head which is Christ.

     This woman was part of the Jeroboam religious system, but was
desiring the living water.  Jesus reply to her was

     "Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall
     neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship
     the Father.  Ye worship ye know not what:"  ***  John
     4:21-22a

     Jesus' prophetic word to this woman was, "Ye worship you know
not what!"

     "But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true
     worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and in
     truth:  for the Father seeketh such to worship him."  ***
     John 4:23

     This is the hour in which we live.  The Father desires us to
come away from form religion, and worship Him in Spirit and in
Truth.  Truth is the Holy Spirit of Truth that will lead us into
all the Truth of God.  That is why God gave us the five providers
and protectors in our lives;  to perfect the saints till we all
come into the unity of the faith.  That is the work of the
ministry, to edify the body of Christ.  The only way this can
happen is to come to the knowledge of the Son of man and follow the
example that He left us.  Then His body can come into that perfect
man that Christ Jesus will set His headship on.  This is when we
will cease to be children that are blown about by every wind of
doctrine that is put forth by cunning men who lie in wait to
deceive.  Jesus told the woman at the well,

     "God is a Spirit:  and they that worship Him must worship
     Him in Spirit and in Truth."  *** John 4:24

     Those who drink of the well of living water will never thirst
again for the things of the old religious order.  They will be
nourished by the fountain of life that is springing up in their
inner most being.  The things of this world will have passed away
and they can proclaim as Paul,

     "I am crucified with Christ:  nevertheless I live;  yet
     not I, but Christ liveth in me:  and the life which I now
     live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God,
     who loved me, and gave himself for me."  *** Galatians
     2:20

     Paul was crucified with Christ and the life that Paul lived
was the life of Christ being lived through Him.  Christ had become
His whole being, and that well of living water was springing up in
Him, producing life in everything that it touched.  Paul desired
this for all the churches at Galatia.  He wrote to them,

    "My little children of whom I travail in birth again, until
     Christ (the Holy Spirit) be formed in you."  *** Galatians
     4:19

     Paul desired this well of living water to be in every one that

He ministered to.  Jesus, sitting at the well, offers this living
water to the religious church system today if they will repent of
their ways.  Much of the church system today has an harlot's heart
and a whore's forehead.  They go a whoring after every wind of
doctrine.  They have made gods out of the buildings, their
religious order, and the men who are set over them.  They desire
all the things of the world and refuse to be separated from all
their fleshly idols to come to God with a pure heart to drink of
the water of life. 

     When the woman at the well met the True Messiah, she left her
water pots, *** John 4:28; those broken cisterns she had been
drinking from;  and went into the city.  She began to witness of
this new found revelation in her life, proclaiming,

     "Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I
     did:  is not this the Christ?"  *** John 4:29

     Is not this the Christ, the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in
our lives?  He told the church all the things they ever did.  Jesus
revealed to her the time she had walked with His five providers
which He had set in the church to bring it into perfection.  But
she had divorced these five husbands and had settled for a pseudo
religious system.  Then the church sought to Jesus to tarry with
them,

     "So when the Samaritans were come unto Him, they besought
     Him that He would tarry with them:  and He abode there
     two days."  *** John 4:40

     Peter revealed to us that a day with the Lord is as a thousand
years, and a thousand years as a day.  Jesus has offered this
living water to His church for two days.  These two days are about
over.  We are about to the end of the age.  God has given us His
Word that we may know the way.  He has given us the Wells of
Abraham.  We can choose which well we will drink from:

     Esek, where the herdsmen, the shepherds, are striving
together.

     Or, we can drink at the Well Sitnah where there is envy,
strife and contention, not in sincerity.

     Or, we can move on to the Well Rehoboth where we enter into
the broad place with God where we can be made free from the law of
sin and death into the perfect law of liberty.  Some are willing to
settle here.  They believe they have arrived.

     But there is another well we need to drink from and that is
the well at Beer Sheba where we enter into a covenant relationship
with our God.  This covenant relationship brings us into a knowing
relationship with Him. 

     Jacob's well is where we receive the promise of eternal life. 
This is the well that will spring up in us unto everlasting life. 
When we have this well of spring water in us, then we can return to
our place of beginning.

     And that is the Well Lohairoi, the Well of the Vision of Life
for the church.  

     The Son desires to get the earth, flesh, out of the wells of
his father.  Jesus told the Samaritan woman that if she drank of
the natural water, she would thirst again, but if she partook of
the Spiritual water that Jesus was offering to her, she would never
thirst again.  The Spiritual water ministered by the Spirit of
Truth will quench our thirst for God.  This Spiritual thirst is
resident in every one of God's created beings.  We can choose the
well we desire to drink from.  But God's desire is that we dwell by
the Well at Lahairoi, the Well of the Vision of Life, where the
water of everlasting life is springing up.  We need to draw deep in
the water of the Word of Life.

    
Questions


1.  Who do Abraham, Isaac and Jacob represent in the Bible?

2.  The Well Lahairoi means "The well of the __________
    of ____________.

    What does the water in the Well Lahairoi represent?

3.  What happens where there is no  vision?

4.  Abimilech is a type of the ________________________________in
    the earth today who have made flesh their king.

5.  What is one thing that brings abundant blessing in our lives?
     
6.  What had happened to Abraham's wells by the time of Isaac?
     
7.  What does Gerar mean?
    What does ruminate mean?
    What are we to ruminate over and over?

8.  Who are the herdsmen today who have stopped the Well Esek with
    strife and contention?

9.  The words of the _________ always provoke ___________ and          
    _______________ from the Well of ___________.

10. Those who will not endure sound doctrine will only listen to 
    teachers who ______________________.


11.  When we come to the Well of _________, the broad places, we will
     have entered into the perfect ______of ______.  We will become  
     ______________ of the Word.
     
12.  At the Well at Beer-Sheba, which is the Well of ___________ ,
     even our ___________ will be at peace with us.  

13.  Jacob's Well is the Well of the ______________ of ________ .
     
14.  Today God's people are drinking from man's broken          
     that can hold no ___________ .  

15.  In the Bible, the direction "up" means _____________________                    
     ________________________.

16.  In the Bible, the direction "down" means _________________ 
     from  _______ .

17.  If we are to enter in at the "strait gate", what 3 things must
     we do?

18.  Who is sitting at Jacob's Well offering us the living water of
     life?

19.  What has the Well of the Vision of Life been stopped up with
     today?

20.  What type of famine is in the earth today?


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