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Why is it important to learn about the geography where Christ ministered at different times in His public ministry?
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The geography where Christ ministered at different times in His public ministry is important because it helps you understand the gospels, the challenges Jesus faced, the culture, His emotions, the encounters with oppositions and such much more. It sets your mindset to understand the gospels perspective. As I read Jesus’s travels, it increases my insight of Jesus’s mission and obedience to save the world. I love taking my imagination back to the times when you had to get water from wells or riding a boat across the Sea of Galilee.
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It helps us to understand His journey. It also makes it more real to people that read the Gospels but are not followers of Jesus yet.
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I think it makes it more real to us today when we can imagine where Jesus ministered. Realizing that these were real places helps us relate and even get closer to Him. It also shows us that Jesus ministered to all; He didn’t simply favor certain areas or people or group. He ministered to all people from all over the region.
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It is important to learn about the geography where Jesus believed and ministered in so that the modern beliver can have a mental view of where Jesus’s ministry was. It is also important because one can relate these places in the modern world.
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It is important to learn about the geography where Christ ministered at different times in His public ministry. It is important because the Bible teaches believers to carry out the great commission which is to go and teach all nations about the written word and baptize them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Therefore, if God wants us to go to the nations and teach about the written word, it would be a good practice for Jesus to lead the way by ministering and performing miracles in several places.
While Jesus was on the earth, His ministry began in Galilee where He stayed for several months. He also performed miracles in selective places and became friends with those He encountered. His first miracle of turning water into wine took place in Cana of Galilee at a wedding. Another miracle took place when He stopped at a well in Samaria and ministered to a woman who had no husband. As He conversed with her, He saved her from past hurts and emotional wounds.
Jesus continued to perform many more miracles in places such as Decapolis and Phoenicia.
He also preached a sermon on the mount to several people and His 12 apostles. In knowing where Christ ministered, we can rest assure that His presence, power, and anointing are resting in those specific places. While His presence, power, and anointing are still resting in those places, miracles are still happening because the spirit of the Lord continues to rest in those geographical places.