Jerusalem
Jerusalem, on Mount Zion, signifies the doctrine of love to the Lord, and how it governs your life. Jerusalem first comes to our attention in 2 Samuel 5, when King David takes the city from the Jebusites and makes it his capital. In the next chapter he brings the Ark of the Covenant there, and later it is where Solomon builds the temple, and his own palace. From then on Jerusalem is the center of worship of the Israelitish church. It is the place where the Lord was presented in the temple as a baby, where He tarried to talk to the priests at age twelve, where He cleansed the temple, had the last supper, was crucified and then rose. It is a central place in both the old and new Testaments. The city was built on Mount Zion, the highest point of the mountains of Judea. A city, in the Word, represents doctrine, the organized knowledge of the truths of the church. Mountains represent love of the Lord and the consequent worship. If you put those things together, Jerusalem on Mount Zion signifies the doctrine of love to the Lord, and how it governs your life. This is why David was led to make Jerusalem the most important city of the land, and why all worship was conducted there. And this is also why Jeroboam was condemned for introducing idol worship in Samaria. In the Book of Revelation, John's vision of the city New Jerusalem descending from God is a prophecy of a new dispensation of doctrine coming from the Lord.
(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 4539, 8938; The Apocalypse Explained 365 [35-38])
以西结书 4
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人子啊,你要拿一块砖,摆在你面前,将一座耶路撒冷城画在其上,
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又要拿个铁鏊,放在你和城的中间,作为铁墙。你要对面攻击这城,使城被困;这样,好作以色列家的预兆。
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你要向左侧卧,承当以色列家的罪孽;要按你向左侧卧的日数,担当他们的罪孽。
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因为我已将他们作孽的年数定为你向左侧卧的日数,就是三百九十日,你要这样担当以色列家的罪孽。
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再者,你满了这些日子,还要向右侧卧,担当犹大家的罪孽。我给你定规侧卧四十日,一日顶一年。
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你要取小麦、大麦、豆子、红豆、小米、粗麦,装在一个器皿中,用以为自己做饼;要按你侧卧的三百九十日吃这饼。
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耶和华说:以色列人在我所赶他们到的各国中,也必这样吃不洁净的食物。
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我说:哎!主耶和华啊,我素来未曾被玷污,从幼年到如今没有吃过自死的,或被野兽撕裂的,那可憎的肉也未曾入我的口。
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於是他对我说:看哪,我给你牛粪代替人粪,你要将你的饼烤在其上。
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他又对我说:人子啊,我必在耶路撒冷折断他们的杖,就是断绝他们的粮。他们吃饼要按分两,忧虑而吃;喝水也要按制子,惊惶而喝;