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.
(Izinkomba: Arcana Coelestia 4539, 8938; The Apocalypse Explained 365 [35-38])
耶利米书 8:6-22
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我留心听,听见他们说不正直的话。无人悔改恶行,说:我做的是甚麽呢?他们各人转奔己路,如马直闯战场。
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空中的鹳鸟知道来去的定期;斑鸠燕子与白鹤也守候当来的时令;我的百姓却不知道耶和华的法则。
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你们怎麽说:我们有智慧,耶和华的律法在我们这里?看哪,文士的假笔舞弄虚假。
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智慧人惭愧,惊惶,被擒拿;他们弃掉耶和华的话,心里还有甚麽智慧呢?
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所以我必将他们的妻子给别人,将他们的田地给别人为业;因为他们从最小的到至大的都一味地贪婪,从先知到祭司都行事虚谎。
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他们轻轻忽忽地医治我百姓的损伤,说:平安了!平安了!其实没有平安。
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他们行可憎的事知道惭愧麽?不然,他们毫不惭愧,也不知羞耻。因此他们必在仆倒的人中仆倒;我向他们讨罪的时候,他们必致跌倒。这是耶和华说的。
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耶和华说:我必使他们全然灭绝;葡萄树上必没有葡萄,无花果树上必没有果子,叶子也必枯乾。我所赐给他们的,必离开他们过去。
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我们为何静坐不动呢?我们当聚集,进入坚固城,在那里静默不言;因为耶和华─我们的神使我们静默不言,又将苦胆水给我们喝,都因我们得罪了耶和华。
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我们指望平安,却得不着好处;指望痊愈的时候,不料,受了惊惶。
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听见从但那里敌人的马喷鼻气,他的壮马发嘶声,全地就都震动;因为他们来吞灭这地和其上所有的,吞灭这城与其中的居民。
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看哪,我必使毒蛇到你们中间,是不服法术的,必咬你们。这是耶和华说的。
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听啊,是我百姓的哀声从极远之地而来,说:耶和华不在锡安麽?锡安的王不在其中麽?耶和华说:他们为甚麽以雕刻的偶像和外邦虚无的神惹我发怒呢?
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先知说:因我百姓的损伤,我也受了损伤。我哀痛,惊惶将我抓住。
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在基列岂没有乳香呢?在那着岂没有医生呢?我百姓为何不得痊愈呢?