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.
(Referenser: Arcana Coelestia 4539, 8938; The Apocalypse Explained 365 [35-38])
耶利米书 7:17-34
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孩子捡柴,父亲烧火,妇女抟面做饼,献给天后,又向别神浇奠祭,惹我发怒。
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耶和华说:他们岂是惹我发怒呢?不是自己惹祸,以致脸上惭愧麽?
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所以主耶和华如此说:看哪,我必将我的怒气和忿怒倾在这地方的人和牲畜身上,并田野的树木和地着的出产上,必如火着起,不能熄灭。
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万军之耶和华─以色列的神如此说:你们将燔祭加在平安祭上,吃肉罢!
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因为我将你们列祖从埃及地领出来的那日,燔祭平安祭的事我并没有提说,也没有吩咐他们。
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我只吩咐他们这一件说:你们当听从我的话,我就作你们的神,你们也作我的子民。你们行我所吩咐的一切道,就可以得福。
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他们却不听从,不侧耳而听,竟随从自己的计谋和顽梗的恶心,向後不向前。
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自从你们列祖出埃及地的那日,直到今日,我差遣我的仆人众先知到你们那里去,每日从早起来差遣他们。
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你们却不听从,不侧耳而听,竟硬着颈项行恶,比你们列祖更甚。
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你要将这一切的话告诉他们,他们却不听从;呼唤他们,他们却不答应。
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你要对他们说:这就是不听从耶和华─他们神的话、不受教训的国民;从他们的口中,诚实灭绝了。
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耶路撒冷啊,要剪发抛弃,在净光的高处举哀;因为耶和华丢掉离弃了惹他忿怒的世代。
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耶和华说:犹大人行我眼中看为恶的事,将可憎之物设立在称为我名下的殿中,污秽这殿。
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他们在欣嫩子谷建筑陀斐特的邱坛,好在火中焚烧自己的儿女。这并不是我所吩咐的,也不是我心所起的意。
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耶和华说:因此,日子将到,这地方不再称为陀斐特和欣嫩子谷,反倒称为杀戮谷。因为要在陀斐特葬埋尸首,甚至无处可葬;