You know, there really is a fountain. Satan would like for us to forget that, but there really is a fountain and, yes, it is filled with Immanuel’s blood, the blood of our Savior and our Lord. And if we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from ALL unrighteousness. (See I John 1:9).
Such a story, such an event, such a grand thing could not be fiction. No human mind could have composed such a marvelous and unending story. Creator’s don’t die. They do the opposite, don’t they? They create. They bring forth. They give life. They don’t die. But, yes, our Creator did die. And He died that we might live and live forever.
I have played that hymn “There Is A Fountain” many, many times. Years ago I had a man who attended worship services where I played and every time he made a request it was always that I play “There Is A Fountain.” The English poet and hymn writer William Cowper wrote that hymn in the late Eighteenth Century, not long before his death on April 25, 1800.
Here are some of the words of that stirring hymn:
“There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel’s veins,
And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.
For since by faith I saw the stream thy flowing wounds supply,
Redeeming love has been my theme and shall be till I die.
When this poor lisping, stammering tongue lies silent in the grave
Then in a nobler, sweeter song I’ll sing thy power to save.”
The prophet Isaiah was inspired by God to write, “The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea” (See Isaiah 11:9). “And IN THAT DAY (yes, at that time in the yet future) there shall be a root of Jesse (the father of King David), which shall stand for an ensign (standard) of the people, to it shall the Gentiles (the nations) seek, and His rest shall be glorious” (verse 10). There will be a glorious rest from the deceptions and false religions that have gripped the minds and hearts of men for ages.
Approximately 200 years after Isaiah, God inspired another lesser known prophet, the prophet Habakkuk to write again, “For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.” (See Habakkuk 2:14). Just as the sea beds of earth are covered with thousands and thousands of feet of water, just so someday this earth will also be inundated with the truth of God. God has a plan, folks, and a wondrous plan it is. God wants us to know that His time for enlightening the world to the truth IS FUTURE! God’s not even trying to save the world in this present era, nor has He tried to do so in any previous era. This should be obvious when one looks at the world as it is and has been for ages.
“Behold, the days come, says the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch (Jesus Christ), and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In His days (as reigning King) Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely….” (See Jeremiah 23:5-6). God isn’t even trying to save His chosen people, the Jews yet. Save for only a small remnant, they have been cut off in this present “church” age. (See Romans 9:1-3). Upon Christ’s return He will minister His Word and truth first to the Jews THEN to the Gentile nations. “The Lord also shall save the tents of Judah FIRST!” (See Zechariah 12:7). “And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications, and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and shall be in bitterness for Him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn…….In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness” (See Zechariah 12: and 13:1).
A misunderstanding of 2 Corinthians 6:2 prevents many from seeing the truth of scripture regarding a future offer of salvation to those who lived and died in total ignorance of the truth. That scripture says, “For He saith, ‘I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in THE day of salvation have I succored (helped) thee. Behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is THE day of salvation.'” Few seem to realize that 2 Corinthians 6:2 is a quote from Isaiah 49:8 and that the translators did not correctly translate that text, for Isaiah 49:8 reads, “”Thus saith the Lord, in AN acceptable time have I heard thee, and in A day of salvation have I helped thee….” thus signifying that time was not the only time salvation was being offered to men. They also fail to see that the entire population of the world in all ages is not being spoken of by Paul in Romans 1 when he says, “they are without excuse” (See verse 20). The context clearly shows that Paul is speaking of the enlightened Jews being without excuse for rejecting the truth and embracing rank idolatry. God help you to understand.
Christ’s Aged Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley