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.

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

3009. 其次: “弥赛亚”, “受膏者”, “王” 和神圣真理是一样的, 这从圣言中的许多经文明显看出来, 并且在前面解读中已频繁说明了 (如1672, 1728, 2015, 2069节). 主自己在约翰福音也是这样教导的:

彼拉多就对耶稣说, 那么你是王吗? 耶稣回答说, 你说我是王, 我就是王; 我为此而生, 也为此来到世间, 好给真理作见证. 凡属真理的人就听我的声音. (约翰福音 18:37)

由此明显可知, 主正是由于神圣真理本身才被称为 “王”. 王之所以被膏, 因而被称为受膏者, 是因为他们被膏所用的油表示良善 (886, 2832节). “王” 所表示的真理源于良善, 因而是良善的真理, 因此王的职份和王代表主源于神圣良善的神圣真理, 因而代表真理里面良善的神圣婚姻; 而祭司的职份则代表良善里面真理的神圣婚姻. 后者由 “耶稣” 来表示, 前者则由 “基督” 来表示.