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])
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对以色列地说,耶和华如此说:我与你为敌,并要拔刀出鞘,从你中间将义人和恶人一并剪除。
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我既要从你中间剪除义人和恶人,所以我的刀要出鞘,自南至北攻击一切有血气的;
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人子啊,你要叹息,在他们眼前弯着腰,苦苦地叹息。
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他们问你说:为何叹息呢?你就说:因为有风声、灾祸要来。人心都必消化,手都发软,精神衰败,膝弱如水。看哪,这灾祸临近,必然成就。这是主耶和华说的。
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人子啊,你要预言。耶和华吩咐我如此说:有刀、有刀,是磨快擦亮的;
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磨快为要行杀戮,擦亮为要像闪电。我们岂可快乐麽?罚我子的杖藐视各树。
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这刀已经交给人擦亮,为要应手使用。这刀已经磨快擦亮,好交在行杀戮的人手中。
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人子啊,你要呼喊哀号,因为这刀临到我的百姓和以色列一切的首领。他们和我的百姓都交在刀下,所以你要拍腿叹息。
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有试验的事;若那藐视的杖归於无有,怎麽样呢?这是主耶和华说的。
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人子啊,你要拍掌预言。我─耶和华要使这刀,就是致死伤的刀,一连三次加倍刺人,进入他们的内屋,使大人受死伤的就是这刀。
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我设立这恐吓人的刀,攻击他们的一切城门,使他们的心消化,加增他们跌倒的事。哎!这刀造得像闪电,磨得尖利,要行杀戮。
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刀啊,你归在右边,摆在左边;你面向哪方,就向那方杀戮。
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人子啊,你要定出两条路,好使巴比伦王的刀来。这两条路必从一地分出来,又要在通城的路口上画出一只手来。
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你要定出一条路,使刀来到亚扪人的拉巴;又要定出一条路,使刀来到犹大的坚固城耶路撒冷。
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因为巴比伦王站在岔路那里,在两条路口上要占卜。他摇签(原文是箭)求问神像,察看牺牲的肝;
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在右手中拿着为耶路撒冷占卜的签,使他安设撞城锤,张口叫杀,扬声吶喊,筑垒造台,以撞城锤,攻打城门。
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据那些曾起誓的犹大人看来,这是虚假的占卜;但巴比伦王要使他们想起罪孽,以致将他们捉住。
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主耶和华如此说:因你们的过犯显露,使你们的罪孽被记念,以致你们的罪恶在行为上都彰显出来;又因你们被记念,就被捉住。
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你这受死伤行恶的以色列王啊,罪孽的尽头到了,受报的日子已到。
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主耶和华如此说:当除掉冠,摘下冕,景况必不再像先前;要使卑者升为高,使高者降为卑。
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我要将这国倾覆,倾覆,而又倾覆;这国也必不再有,直等到那应得的人来到,我就赐给他。
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人子啊,要发预言说:主耶和华论到亚扪人和他们的凌辱,吩咐我如此说:有刀,有拔出来的刀,已经擦亮,为行杀戮,使他像闪电以行吞灭。
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人为你见虚假的异象,行谎诈的占卜,使你倒在受死伤之恶人的颈项上。他们罪孽到了尽头,受报的日子已到。