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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摩西遵着耶和华的吩咐记载他们所行的路程,其路程乃是这样:
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正月十五日,就是逾越节的次日,以色列人从兰塞起行,在一切埃及人眼前昂然无惧的出去。
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那时,埃及人正葬埋他们的长子,就是耶和华在他们中间所击杀的;耶和华也败坏他们的神。
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从以倘起行,转到比哈希录,是在巴力洗分对面,就在密夺安营。
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从比哈希录对面起行,经过海中到了书珥旷野,又在伊坦的旷野走了三天的路程,就安营在玛拉。
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从玛拉起行,来到以琳(以琳有十二股水泉,七十棵棕树),就在那里安营。
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从脱加起行,安营在亚录。
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从基博罗哈他瓦起行,安营在哈洗录。
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从哈洗录起行,安营在利提玛。
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从利提玛起行,安营在临门帕烈。
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从临门帕烈起行,安营在立拿。
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从立拿起行,安营在勒撒。
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从勒撒起行,安营在基希拉他。
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从哈拉大起行,安营在玛吉希录。
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从玛吉希录起行,安营在他哈。
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从他哈起行,安营在他拉。
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从他拉起行,安营在密加。
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从密加起行,安营在哈摩拿。
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从哈摩拿起行,安营在摩西录。
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从摩西录起行,安营在比尼亚干。
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从比尼亚干起行,安营在曷哈及甲。
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从曷哈及甲起行,安营在约巴他。
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从约巴他起行,安营在阿博拿。
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从阿博拿起行,安营在以旬迦别。
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以色列人出了埃及地後四十年,五月初一日,祭司亚伦遵着耶和华的吩咐上何珥山,就死在那里。
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从撒摩拿起行,安营在普嫩。
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从普嫩起行,安营在阿伯。
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从以耶亚巴琳起行,安营在底本迦得。
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从底本迦得起行,安营在亚门低比拉太音。
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从亚巴琳山起行,安营在摩押平原─约但河边、耶利哥对面。
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他们在摩押平原沿约但河边安营,从伯耶施末直到亚伯什亭。
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就要从你们面前赶出那里所有的居民,毁灭他们一切錾成的石像和他们一切铸成的偶像,又拆毁他们一切的邱坛。
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你们要按家室拈阄,承受那地;人多的,要把产业多分给他们;人少的,要把产业少分给他们。拈出何地给何人,就要归何人。你们要按宗族的支派承受。
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倘若你们不赶出那地的居民,所容留的居民就必作你们眼中的刺,肋下的荆棘,也必在你们所住的地上扰害你们。
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而且我素常有意怎样待他们,也必照样待你们。