27. CHAPTER IV. THE PROGRESSION OF A CHURCH TOWARDS ITS END, AND THE END ITSELF, ARE DESCRIBED IN VERY MANY PLACES IN THE WORD

1. A successive decreasing of good and truth and increasing of evil and falsity in a Church is termed in the Word its "being laid waste" and "becoming desolate".

2. Its final state, when there is nothing of good or truth remaining, is there termed "consummation" and "being cut off".

3. The end itself of a Church is the "fullness [of time]".

4. The same things also are meant in the Word by "evening" and "night".

5. And also by these things in the Prophets and in the Gospels: then shall the sun be darkened, the moon shall not give her light, the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. ¹

6. Then the Church exists no longer except in name; nevertheless, there is this "remnant" in it, that a man, if he wishes, can know and understand truths, and can do goods. ²

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Title: A City Set on a Hill-the Stronghold of Jerusalem

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Summary: We look at the biblical account of Jerusalem--the historical account of its eventual conquest in the early Old Testament, and the prophetic things said of it in the later portions of the Old Testament and in the New. Paul's statement in Galatians is key: that there are two Jerusalems, one of which is "above," that is, spiritual.

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
Genesis 14:18
Psalms 76:1-2
Joshua 10:5; 15:63
Judges 1:21; 3:1-7; 19:9-12
1 Samuel 17:54
2 Samuel 5
1 Kings 9:20-21
2 Chronicles 32
Isaiah 28:14-18; 29:1-8; 31; 37:28-36; 62:1; 65:17-19
Jeremiah 4:14
Ezekiel 22:17
Joel 2:32; 3:17-21
Micah 3:8; 4:1-2
Zephaniah 3:14-17
Zechariah 2:1-5; 8:3
Matthew 5:13-14
Galatians 4:22-26
Revelation 3:8; 12; 21:27
Zechariah 12:8
Revelation 22:14