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.

(Референце: Arcana Coelestia 4539, 8938; The Apocalypse Explained 365 [35-38])

7992. “以色列众人世世代代” 表有真理所产生的良善和源于良善的真理在其中的那些属于属灵教会的人. 这从 “以色列人” 的代表和 “世代” 的含义清楚可知: “以色列人” 是指那些属于属灵教会的人, 如前面频繁所述; “世代” 是指信与仁的事物 (参看2020, 2584, 6239节), 因此是指那些有真理所产生的良善和源于良善的真理在其中的那些人; 因为那些属于属灵教会的人通过信之真理被引入仁之良善, 并且被引入良善后, 又从良善被引向真理. 从良善被引向真理的, 就是那些构成内在教会的人; 而通过真理被引入良善的, 则是那些构成外在教会的人.