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.
(références: Arcana Coelestia 4539, 8938; The Apocalypse Explained 365 [35-38])
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人子啊,你要审问审问这流人血的城麽?当使他知道他一切可憎的事。
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你要说,主耶和华如此说:哎!这城有流人血的事在其中,叫他受报的日期来到,又做偶像玷污自己,陷害自己。
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你因流了人的血,就为有罪;你做了偶像,就玷污自己,使你受报之日临近,报应之年来到。所以我叫你受列国的凌辱和列邦的讥诮。
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你这名臭、多乱的城啊,那些离你近、离你远的都必讥诮你。
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在你中间有谗谤人、流人血的;有在山上吃过祭偶像之物的,有行淫乱的。
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在你中间有露继母下体羞辱父亲的,有玷辱月经不洁净之妇人的。
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这人与邻舍的妻行可憎的事;那人贪淫玷污儿妇;还有玷辱同父之姊妹的。
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在你中间有为流人血受贿赂的;有向借钱的弟兄取利,向借粮的弟兄多要的。且因贪得无餍,欺压邻舍夺取财物,竟忘了我。这是主耶和华说的。
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看哪,我因你所得不义之财和你中间所流的血,就拍掌叹息。
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到了我惩罚你的日子,你的心还能忍受麽?你的手还能有力麽?我─耶和华说了这话,就必照着行。
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我必将你分散在列国,四散在列邦。我也必从你中间除掉你的污秽。
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你必在列国人的眼前因自己所行的被亵渎,你就知道我是耶和华。
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人子啊,以色列家在我看为渣滓。他们都是炉中的铜、锡、铁、铅,都是银渣滓。
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所以主耶和华如此说:因你们都成为渣滓,我必聚集你们在耶路撒冷中。
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人怎样将银、铜、铁、铅、锡聚在炉中,吹火镕化,照样,我也要发怒气和忿怒,
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我必聚集你们,把我烈怒的火吹在你们身上,你们就在其中镕化。
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银子怎样镕化在炉中,你们也必照样镕化在城中,你们就知道我耶和华是将忿怒倒在你们身上了。”
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人子啊,你要对这地说:你是未得洁净之地,在恼恨的日子也没有雨下在你以上。
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其中的先知同谋背叛,如咆哮的狮子抓撕掠物。他们吞灭人民,抢夺财宝,使这地多有寡妇。
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其中的祭司强解我的律法,亵渎我的圣物,不分别圣的和俗的,也不使人分辨洁净的和不洁净的,又遮眼不顾我的安息日;我也在他们中间被亵慢。
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其中的首领彷佛豺狼抓撕掠物,杀人流血,伤害人命,要得不义之财。
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其中的先知为百姓用未泡透的灰抹墙,就是为他们见虚假的异象,用谎诈的占卜,说:主耶和华如此说,其实耶和华没有说。
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国内众民一味地欺压,惯行抢夺,亏负困苦穷乏的,背理欺压寄居的。