POOL OF SILOAM
John 9:7 And He said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So he went and washed, and came back seeing.
This is the story of one of the great miracles in the ministry of Jesus. This is the story of the man who was born blind and healed by the power of God. The details are quite significant, and as always, quite unusual. This man who was blind from birth, had an encounter with Jesus. It started with a discussion between Jesus and his disciples about the role of sin in this man’s sickness. Jesus said that in this case, this man or his parents carried no responsibility for his ailment. The Lord viewed it as an opportunity to display the power of God. Jesus spit on the ground, made “clay” from the mud and told the man to go wash his eyes in the pool of Siloam. This pool carried all sorts of connection to messianic types and shadows pointing to the ministry of the messiah. Here is a quote from the Fire Bible about this special pool.
“Furthermore, Jesus tells the man to wash in the pool of Siloam. This pool connects this healing story with the Tabernacles celebration, important in chapters 7–8. Its name also connects with Jesus. Siloam is the Greek translation of the Hebrew Shiloach, which means “the sent one.” The Hebrew word may be connected to “Shiloah” (cf. Isa. 8:6), which may in turn be Shiloh of Genesis 49:10 (cf. NIV note there). Both Jewish and Christian interpretations connected Shiloh with the Messiah. In John, Jesus is the “Sent One” (cf. 5:36–38; 8:16). He is the rock out of which comes the water (i.e.. Spirit), who brings life, spiritual sight, and physical healing.”
The feast of Tabernacles speaks about the water of life that bubbles up in us like a fountain. This blind man got more than physical healing that day, He began to drink from the eternal waters of life that brought light and awakening to his whole being. Today these waters are available for all of us. We can go and wash ourselves in these waters of renewal, and like the blind man, will find ourselves looking into the face of Jesus. The Lord also used this opportunity to speak about the coming darkness. He said time was precious and it was important to make the most of our time. Here is a quote from Leon Morris and his comments on this verse.
“THERE ARE HEAVEN SENT WORKS THAT WE MUST DO. AND THERE IS AN URGENCY ABOUT DOING THEM, FOR THE OPPORTUNITY WILL NOT ALWAYS BE PRESENT, NIGHT IS COMING THE REMORSELESS PASSAGE OF TIME REMOVES THE PRESENT OPPORTUNITY.”
Maybe we are not blind like the man in this story, but let’s say we may not see as clearly as we should. If that is the case, let’s go wash the mud from our eyes in this pool of renewal. Maybe then we will see this prophetic moment that we live in.
2 thoughts on “POOL OF SILOAM”
GOOD MORNING, PASTOR FRANK, whew hoo, quite different, ha, awesomely different.
HALLELUJAH, PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME, HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE, LET HIS NAME BE KNOWN.
Let your light shine, show, His love and amazing work to others off of youa. Go tell your neighbors, friends, loved ones, let them see a difference off of you and let it rub off you onto them, ha, let it flow off you into them, the time is now. Send scriptures through your phones, put on Christian music let it play loud outside your home if you have speakers to all that pass by , walk by all the possibility you can do. Have Your way Holy Spirit, its all Yours.
Show LOVE= AGAPE, all the time help people, when your finished helping tell them Jesus loves you.
Praise the LORD O my Soul, praise HIs Holy Name. Got to get ready for Church, 🙂 running out of time, CAN’T BE LATE.
LOVE YOU PASTOR, SEE YOU IN A BIT. LORD LET IT RAIN….
how amazing that the Lord Jesus would “revert back” to using dirt to create eyes for the blind man… how mind blowing that He used His spit to create the healing balm…from his mouth to the man… again! Adam was the ultimate creation made in His image,and the life was from God’s mouth into the man…. awesome