Jerusalem in the Scriptures :: Christianity Bible Scriptures Essays

capital of Israel in the Scriptures37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the sensation who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, barely you were not uncoerced38 See Your house is left to you desolate39 for I say to you, you sh both see Me nomore till you say, Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD (Matthew2337-39)Jerusalem in the Scriptures is symbolic of the Church in general. The word Jerusalem means city of peace.Paul writing to the church at Galatia makes adistinction between the two Jerusalems - thenatural one and the spiritual one. BothJerusalems are described symbolically as motherswith children.25 for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia,and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is,and is in bondage with her children26 but the Jerusalem above is free, which isthe mother of us all. (Galatians 425-26)We see that when Jesus laments over Jerusalem,He is actually lament ing over BOTH the naturalJerusalem AND the spiritual one. From historywe know that Jerusalem had a record for killingthe prophets God sent to her to warn her torepent of idolatry. The irony of it all, is that thecity of God had a tendency to reject GodHimself when He came to them in the form ofthese men. This led to the ultimate of all ironies- the rejection of the man Jesus, who was in factGod in the flesh. And all this by those zealouslyattempting to adhere to the principles of Godbut at the same time rejecting the person of Godin Jesus.37 And the Father Himself, who sent Me, hastestified of Me. You stomach neither heard Hisvoice at any time, nor seen His form.38 But you do not have His word abiding inyou, because whom He sent, Him you do notbelieve.39 You search the Scriptures, for in them youthink you have eternal life and these are theywhich testify of Me.40 But you are not spontaneous to come to Methat you may have life. (John 537-40)We, as born-again believers, have the see d of theword of God living and abiding in us because wewere willing to come to Him and believe inHim. Likewise, as we learn to recognise thosesent by God, we will be able to receive the wordliving in them which may be the very anointingwe need to have the yokes and bondagesdestroyed in our lives and be changed from glory