What these Jews, jealous of their
land and of the promises of our Elohim, are not seeing, is that, as when the
Messiah came the first time, they did not understand that the war we
must fight is not won with weapons, nor with politics for a physical nation,
but on the Cross, for the salvation of the soul and for the coming of the
new Jerusalem, Zion, but not the one that we can build as men, but the one
that the Lord builds in our souls, and the one He will give us and will establish in His sobering plan. If the
people of G-d don't accept the plan of G-d and want to impose their own;
What will G-d say? In the times when Yahshua came, there was the
zealots, and the people
proffered Barabbas even though he was an asinine, what we now call
terrorist, in stead of the Messiah, because they wanted to win the battle
their way, killing those who opposed the domain of Rome; against the plan of
the Lord, which was an eternal victory, not political, not temporary. It
cannot be defended that the plan of G-d is for us to kill the people that think
different to you, even though what they think is diabolic, what we have to
do is preach them the Gospel, in case G-d, who weighs people's hearts,
gives them faith in His plan of salvation to obey Him. The war against the
enemy is won by G-d, not by man, but for this, man must obey G-d. The zeal of
the Zionists for their nation, home land, Torah and Elohim is admirable and,
give their lives for it, but need to be born again which they will do the
last day, although already many Messianic have done; let's pray for their
evangelistic ministry inside their own people. The true Messiah of G-d is
not only for the nation of Israel, but universal, and G-d is, of the entire
humanity, and does not show partiality
with people, nor of nationalities, nor of races, but who believes in
the Son has everlasting life. G-d has already won the war, and will come to
establish His Kingdom.
But the real meaning of Zion can be
found in two places, one is physical in the mount of it's name, the other is
spiritual in our soul, because in both places the King of kings, the Son of God
must come to establish His eternal kingdom. In deed, if the
Son of God reigns in our soul, His kingdom has been established in our lives, the same way as it
will do universally. Therefore this is a Bible study that will take us through
an important historical, prophetic and spiritual journey to the place of
encounter with our spiritual Husband and savior of our souls, Jesus of Nazareth,
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Yahshua the Messiah.
One of the recently fulfilled
prophecies about Zion was the resurrection of the estate of Israel in 1948 by
approval of the United Nations, as well as the return to the use of the Hebrew
language and the continuance of the Jewish calendar, where as I write, the date
is the month of Adar of the year 5767,
which you may check in any Israeli news paper in Internet. Later they conquered
the Golan Heights next to Hermon, in the 6 days war, to dominate the zone
that borders with Syria and to be next to the north limits of the land that
Moses gave them, as well as to control water supply form the snowed mountains.
Another one of the prophecies is being
fulfilled, see Isaiah 4, again from the recently re-established estate of
Israel, is the anti-Jew spirit of a majority of nations, that in the Middle East
conflict, in principle, act in favour of the Palestinian people and of the cause
of the, now past away, Arafat, now
inherited by the current convulse estate, governed by terrorists, who kill each
other, like in Iraq. These extremist factions are the defenders of the mosques
in the square of the Temple Mount. But in this matter there is a vital
clarification that needs to be made: The lack of spiritual and prophetic vision,
make many international governments, influenced by principalities and spiritual
powers, only see in Israel the behaviour of it's government and the politics of
the cruel war, and cannot differentiate between their sins, and the promises of
God in the Bible for this nation and land.
The Lord is very clear in his promises:
...Blessed is he who blesses you, and cursed is he who curses you... Numbers 24.
Then, many wonder why their inseparable allies, whom I will not defend in their
actions, but in deed in their spiritual support and prayers, are the most blessed
nations on Earth and the first world powers, and instead, others who are their
enemies are the list blessed, I mean their citizens, who suffer poverty while
their leaders live in opulence. Don't forget that the governments are not the
countries, or their citizens, but the spiritual powers that rule temporarily,
because in all these countries there are some who pray for the peace of
Jerusalem and for the conversion of the Jews to the Messiah. China is an
unquestionable case of a nation in which we count over
300 million Christians
evangelized, who together with the allies, also pray that Israel receives
Yahshua, because they now know the prophecies and the promises of God, and see
where it is as world power, as an economic and space power as well as church. On
the other hand they keep exploding their citizens, who we must pray for and
support the missioners who give their lives for them.
The countries with a catholic origin are
remaining in a dead tradition, of dead cults, to images of the dead saints and
virgins, they don't flow the joy of Christ, their cults are in their majority
anti-Biblical and anti-Christian, based on a multitude of mediators and of idols
and of images, which is abomination before the living God, instead of preaching
the true Gospel of Christ, and Christ alive without mediators, as the only Way to
the Father, as He himself teaches. These countries have very limited the
preaching of the Bible by these churches, because in their traditions and books
of man made commandments are thier own guides; finally a kind of church that is dyeing
and drying the souls of their blind and sinning followers who use them for their
celebrations, whom their leaders receive for money, who are decreasing
rapidly; then these countries want blessings, they ask themselves why their
country is under decadence. The answer of God is that they must see their
spiritual adultery and abomination by rising immoral and anti-Christian
governments who are approving immoral laws which are the mirror of their
religious traditions. Either the Christians of these countries convert in a true
Church according to the Word of God, and obey in all matters, and then pray to
God for their salvation and also so that He raises good governors, or they will
only have destruction and ruin, as they are already experiencing.
All this political, terrorist and
religious alliance is what the prophecies of the
Bible call the persecution of the dragon, the beast
and the phase prophet, who battle for the domain of
Jerusalem, and to dominate Zion, that is why the
Middle East is always in war. War that will not
cease, not even when they say "...pace and safety,
then sudden destruction comes upon them..."
1Tesalonians 5, because there is an undercover peace
plan which is not of God, but that the antichrist
will emplace to the world, deceiving Jews and
Gentiles as this verse of Paul.
On the other hand of the prophecies
we have the situation of the planetary destruction in
two ways:
one by climatic change, subject that many
politicians use in a hypocrite way, because they use
the pollutant energy more than the rest, but preach
a saving message, only to cauterize the consciences
of those spiritually dead. Yes, the planet is injured
for its age and especially by our destructor and
egoist hand, because the ones that use the resources
are equally as responsible as the ones who make
profit from them, governments and companies. The
other threat is meteorites, which begin to become
uncomfortable in the scientific field and therefore
in the political, as we are threatened for the year
2036 by the asteroid called Apophis, "destructor"
name of a demon. After the announcement, in the UN
they have ordered the creation of a department of
security for impacts on Earth. Would Zion be
threatened by the destruction of the Earth? Of
course not, because Zion will come from Heaven.
But the prophecy which is close to
become fulfilled is that all nations will leave
Israel aside so that it can find itself alone and
encounter with its, and our Messiah, the one they
trespassed and hated as a nation, like all nations,
and that precisely He will come to reign eternally
from Mount Zion, Israel, Jerusalem. In this
situation, like the Scripture says, the Lord will
poor His Spirit and they shall believe truly in
their hearts and will cry for Him, but before they
will see themselves threatened by all nations and
with no escape in Armageddon. Note that the
majority countries are
embracing
immoral forms of governments that only seek power
and don't care for people, nor obey God. The global
panorama and specially for Zion is coming to an end.
What will happen in 2008 with a planetary political change
that follows the destructive political lines I just
mentioned, not forgetting the increase of terrorist
violence and of nuclear proliferation in which we
are immerse already. Where will Christianity remain
and where will Israel without partners? The Bible
calls this coming situation the Battle of
Armageddon.
If we look at the
spiritual vision of Zion, we see, as I mentioned at
the beginning, that mount Hermon is the first place
mentioned as Zion by Moses in the promised land as
the north limits, which he mentions when he
recaps
the Law. After that was the
Jebusites mount that David took and where he carried the Ark
of the Covenant; once Solomon built the Temple on
mount Moriah
and
moved the Ark there, this place became Zion. Later
the entire Jerusalem, and after the nation of
Israel. However after Christ and His redemption work
as Messiah, the Church of Yahshua is Zion
spiritually, who belongs to the nationality and
citizenship of the Jerusalem of Above, the new
Jerusalem called Zion, place of the throne of God.
Hermon, Zion,
Moriah,
Jerusalem, Israel, Church, New Jerusalem, are seven
concepts and seven spiritual steps for the spiritual
history of the people of God and for the man of God
in Christ Yahshua that we'll see developed as
follows.
First, Zion in
Hermon. Man receives, not only the knowledge of his
sin before God, given to him in Sinai, which
symbolizes his personal height with which he
presents himself before God, but when entering the
promised land, the Law is recapped in Deuteronomy,
and Hermon is called Zion, the high mount, 2800mts
height, when man climes to the highest on his
solitude to face God, but this tame with a sincere
heart to find that his own merits have found him
wanting, but his heart has, in deed, been touched by
God. In the first announcement of the Law, man is
set to wander in his life. In Hermon transfiguration
took place, as after being in Betsaida they walked
up the high mount which is near. This symbolizes
when man hears the voice of God who tells him to
hear His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased,
Luke 9 and others, because he comes to His presence
humble and with spirit of reconciliation with God.
Second, the
stronghold of Zion that David took. After repenting,
man conquers Zion the high city, this means a
spiritual state so called in the Bible "the first
love" when man, just born in Christ wants to conquer
the world, not realizing he must be part of God's
plan, and that his life is in the hands of God. Man
in this spiritual state and with all the zeal of God
he has, and that he must maintain lit up in
fire of the Spirit all his life, must learn
humbleness in the promise of the faith, to be able
to conquer the promised land and the city of the
Lord in the new birth of our neighbour. At this
point the soul of the born again, man or woman,
converts in king, like David, but has only began his
walk by the hand of God.
Mount Zion was the palace
of David and today it contains his tomb a few metres
from the Upper Room of the Holy Supper. This
nearness means the change of kingdom, from king
David, changing from a kingdom of conquers through
the military and physical power, and of the mind, to
the spiritual kingdom of the so called, Son of David,
the "Messiah King" who conquers our soul for
eternity by the death on the Cross and resurrection.
David dies in us and Jesus Christ, Yahshua is born.
This allows that in our new kingdom we conquer
souls for Christ through the Gospel of the love of
God, in His works of preaching and prayer.
Third, Zion in
Moriah. Moriah has two spiritual meanings, to ways
of approaching God, one with the inner temple of the
soul and another with the temple of religion. The
first one is the way Abraham took Isaac to sacrifice
him by commandment of God in the land of Moriah, in
one of its mounts, this is spiritual Zion, which
represents the sacrifice, not of the son of Abraham,
but of the Son of God Who was crucified in the land
of Moriah in one of the mounts. A mount in front of
the other, one outside the temple, outside religion
for love, the other inside the temple by act of
religion.
Man begins to build his inner temple by the
hand of the Lord. This is Moriah, the concept of
religion, the commandments, church's tradition in
which he was born, all that the new man of God is
going to have to filter thanks to the Holy Spirit.
Disgracefully many stay here and stop growing,
imposing burdens, like the Pharisees which even they
cannot carry, or putting first their tradition to
the Word of God, invalidating the commandment, as
the Master denounces. The Lord said to His disciples
that there would not remain stone over stone, as it
happens today to those who follow this level, and as
it occurred historically and prophetically: ...6Ho,
ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the
four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD. 7Deliver
thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of
Babylon. 8For thus saith the LORD of
hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the
nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you
toucheth the apple of his eye. 9For, behold, I will
shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil
to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD
of hosts hath sent me. 10Sing and rejoice, O
daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell
in the midst of thee, saith the LORD. 11And many
nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and
shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of
thee, and thou shalt know that
the LORD of hosts hath sent me
unto thee.
Zechariah 2.
Deliver, come out of Babylon, Zion
leave from her. This is what the Lord commands us in
Revelation18: ...And I heard another voice from
heaven, saying: Come out of her, my people, that you
be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive
not of her plagues...
Yahweh has sent Yahshua to you.
The Mount of the temple and the
"Sancta Santorum" were in the physical temple, but
once the veil was torn, Yahshua opened the door to
the Father's heart where we have access to offer
spiritual sacrifices, whether of prayer,
intersection, or of our own lives daily. Therefore
this level leads us to follow the way of the
spiritual Zion, leaving behind, as well as Hermon,
the stronghold and now the daughter of Zion, to go
to the next mount.
Fourth, Zion, Jerusalem,
Yerushalayim. The braid of the Lamb, our soul, where
Yahshua has come is Zion, and also for this reason
we can identify Zion as the soul of the disciples of
Christ, in its body. Its in our soul where all
spiritual historic events of the Bible, from
creation through the new birth, the knowing of sin,
the reception of the Law, the prophecies, the coming
of Christ, the suffering for the Cross of Christ for
us, for our guilt, the joy for His resurrection, the
faith, the daily life in our relation with our
neighbour and especially with our families and with
the brethren of the Church by the hand of the Holy
Spirit, as well as the hope of seeing Him come to
mount Zion at the end of time. Jerusalem is the
centre of attention of the world's peace, peace that
cannot come until its inhabitants proclaim that
Yahshua, Jesus Christ is the Messiah Who came 2000
years ago and died for all of us, from all nations.
Today Jerusalem is divided in three
parts, the Jew, the Christian and the Muslim. Two of
them are physical sons of Abraham, but is the
Christianity of the first disciples, that still
exists today and in which we must remain, the spiritual
son of Abraham. But the hope is that they come from
the same father Abraham, and only in Abraham they
will find reconciliation by the faith in the promise
that God Himself provides, not the one we may
achieve by our own merits, so this is a call to the
sons of Ishmael and to the sons of Israel to embrace
their saviour, Yahshua, the fountain of peace.
Zechariah received a prophecy in
Chap.12 that also fulfilled in 1948: ...Jerusalem
shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in
Jerusalem... But the Text before this is even more
relevant ...And in that day will I make Jerusalem a
burdensome stone for all people: all that burden
themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though
all the people of the earth be gathered together
against it... Finally read the complete chapter 12
because its of great relevance.
Zechariah also received another
prophecy in Chap.14: ...I will gather all nations
against Jerusalem to battle...
Physical Jerusalem and her character
was already denounced by the Messiah in Mathew 23:
...O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the
prophets, and stones those who are sent to her, how
often would I wanted to gather your children
together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her
wings, and you would not! Behold, your house is left
to you desolate. For I say to you, you shall not see
Me till you say, Blessed is He who comes in the name
of the Lord... This is how many still are in
Jerusalem, but the Messianic are changing this, and
the time is near, and the prophecy fulfilling,
preparing the soul of those who will face the threat
in Armageddon. This attitude is found today in many
churches who don't receive those sent to them in the
name of the Lord to exhort them about their
character and doctrinal error, for which their
spiritual houses, churches and souls are being left
desolate, without Yahshua, without the presence and
the unction of the Holy Spirit, as we have denounced
in many countries, in their dead churches.
In the spiritual dimension we are
announced another Jerusalem, the Jerusalem of
above, who is mother of all, in Galatians 4. So if
we are Zion and Jerusalem, we must accept the plan of God
for our lives, and of the brethren, for the holiness
of the body of Christ, and be alert working in the
works of God awaiting the celestial Jerusalem, the
spiritual Zion, and announce it to its residents,
the literal Israel, supporting and praying for them,
and for those of their nation that have embraced the
Messiah.
Fifth, Zion, Israel. We face the
belonging to Israel, being part of Zion which is
very attractive for Bible believers, I don't mean
the literal nation, which is also jealous of it, but
the Israel of God, which includes Messianic Jews and
Christian Gentiles, which once in heaven will mean
the same. The belonging is a focusing in which even
today many remain completely blind. I mean the
belonging to the different denominations, churches,
cults, and sects, concept this from which they must
all come out, for in one same Spirit and in one same
body we were all baptized in Yahshua, Jesus Christ
alive, whether Gentiles or Jews. If we are body of
Christ, we all need each other, as said in the
Scripture in 1Corinthians 12, the eye cannot tell
the ear that it doesn't need it, nor vice verse. This is
an important spiritual step forward, which is to
understand that we are body of Christ and live in
this way, being able to share the marvels of the
Lord with brothers of different assemblies and of
different countries without discussions, only if
they follow the sound doctrine, obviously, because
the gifts of the Church are different and different
are the ministries that the Lord put in His own
power, and who organizes all this project is the
Holy Spirit for the growth of all in all times and
circumstances that only He knows. I can assure by my
own experience that is of great joy to find friends
in Christ from so may parts of the world.
Ecumenism is not the same thing as
cleanness and doctrine holiness and heart
circumcision, which is what I mean, because by no
means we can accept the false doctrines that are
preached in the world by may preachers and by many
churches who call themselves Christian. The cult to
images condemned by God once and for all, is still
alive in so many churches that also foment praying
to the dead, saints, and virgins, against the Gospel
of Jesus Christ, following man traditions inherited
from the Roman, Greek and pagan world. Others preach
all kind of doctrines against the Gospel, they
proclaim to be the only witness of Jesus Christ,
others accept sexual abominations inside their
churches, not to mention the psychological mistreat
which many others teach, driven by false prophets,
false masters, full of deceiving spirits.
...Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the
spirits whether they are of God: because many false
prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye
the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that
Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And
every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is
come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that
spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it
should come; and even now already is it in the
world. Ye are of God, little children, and have
overcome them: because greater is he that is in you,
than he that is in the world. They are of the world:
therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. We are of God: he that knoweth God
heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us.
Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit
of error... recommends us 1John 4. Or, Seek the
Scriptures! the Lord recommended, that we are not
deceived. Now, in many churches, as well as in non
Christian religions, they speak of the world, and of
course the world hears them.
Nor ecumenism inside Christianity nor
ecumenism between religions is what God is
requiring. The ecumenism that accepts it all, is the
same as adultery or spiritual fornication, or the
same as its done by the grate spiritual harlot of
Babylon, denounced in Revelation 17 and that God
hates and destroys, making His people aware, again
in vs. 4 of Chap.18: ...come out of her my people,
that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you
receive not of her plagues... The merchandising this
one does, as priority, as well as the world
government of destruction, is of souls of men, as
its said in vs. 13 & 24 of Chap. 18.
Israel called Zion is the body of
Christ, but the historical Israel was, and it will
also be of God because they will be blessed with the
faith in the Messiah who they heated before, when
they repent and God will sanctify them in the Blood
of the Messiah-Lamb. In Egypt they were slaves; like
we all are in the world today as we work to survive
under the yoke of the spiritual Pharaoh of the world
government of the powers and principalities of the
heavenly places. We must come out, I refer to
humanity, of slavery, and seek the presence of God,
and call Him that He might descend to reign over us
that He may take away the current kingdom of
destruction and abomination. We will recuperate the
lost paradise, the personal friendship relation that
Adam enjoyed at the beginning, but of course, now in the
second Adam, which is Christ. Of this paradise we
already enjoy partially, because again: ...the
kingdom of God is
within
you... Israel has a predominant prophetic roll, and
they are part of God's clock, they, the Jews, their
government, their nation, their people, here I refer
to the physical and literal, they are implicit in
the events of the Lord, as they have always been,
now together with the Church. ...And it shall come
to pass afterward, I will pour
out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream
dreams, your young men shall see visions...
Joel 2. Therefore even if they don't want to, or to
put it this way, even if they haven't received eyes
that they might see nor ears that they might hear,
are fulfilling the prophecies. In the same way the
Church, the spiritual Israel, is fulfilling the
prophecies about its development in the Bible.
Sixth, Zion, the Church. To be part
of the Church occurs when one is born again from
above, from the Spirit of God, by faith, by the
baptism of the Holy Spirit. We have no merits to
achieve salvation, nor the belonging to Zion, nor
resurrection for eternity. Is the King of Zion,
Yahshua, who has come and overcome for us in the war
of sin and of death and has given us everlasting
life. Church, then, is not arrogant belonging, in
what one could fall easily, because we are to
remember that we are not better than the other
sinners, and that without the mercy of God, and the
gift of the faith in His Son Yahshua, we would not be
saved, nor be part of His Church, of the spiritual
Israel of the new Zion.
...You shall know them by their
fruits... Matthew 7. ...But the fruit of the Spirit
is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, 23Meekness, temperance: against
such there is no law. Galatians 5.
Do you recognize yourself in these 9
qualities and abound in them? I believe that we must
all work hard on them every day, and be humble
hearted and trust God's might to make us like Him,
because the flesh and the environment of the enemy in the
spiritual battle in the world fights
against us. Why not dedicate the next nine days to
pray for each of these qualities, not only for each
one of us, but for all those who are sons of God to
receive them? Remember the Menorah of 9 arms and 9 oil
lamps. Is then, the brotherly love, non feigned,
between all the sons of God; those who follow the
Scriptures and Christ where ever He goes, in a
personal relation with the Holy Spirit, the living
proof that we indeed are sons of God. Sons as
described in John 1, not that we come to the world
already being so, which is against the sound
doctrine. If you don't believe this, read John 1.
Many brothers complain that they
cannot have friendship with brothers of different
churches, or even in their own, because doctrines
preached there have become the center of their
message and way of life, as sect, not remaining as
Christ centric congregations. For us to be Church,
Israel, Spiritual Zion, these nine are useful
requirements, as well as the ones that go with the
virtue,
taught by Peter, so lets make the effort for the
joints of the Body of Christ for which our Lord
died. Have you seen the current estate of the Church
world wide, in its different cults? See
Yahshua.net/links.htm
Be ready for the fall of
Babylon, come out of her!, and build the living
Church, between which, is the Kingdom of the living
God. If you are a son of God, battle for your
friends in Christ, because they are a jewel that we
have here on earth, as we are told in 1John 14.
A key to be part and to build Zion,
the Church, is to understand that there are many
brothers, but friends in Christ not so many, we must
love these and those, but the ones who are real
friends are our joints in the body of Christ, if
they obey the Truth; and this is a danger that the
enemy uses to insert false doctrines and enmities,
taking advantage of our friendship to divert us from
the Way through a friend. As you can see the fight
is not easy, but prayer, obeying God and patience
are the best weapons of the love that God provides
us with, that between all of us we remain in
salvation until the coming of the Lord to the next
mount, the seventh, the New Jerusalem, Zion of the
Heavens.
Seventh, Zion, the new Jerusalem that
descends from the heavens, mentioned in Revelation
21. Have you read it lately? I invite you to open
your Bible now and read it, and then carry on
reading. Also in another Scripture, Paul calls the
New Jerusalem Zion in Hebrews 12, that we'll read
near the end. So, this new Jerusalem, this new and
last Zion is, not only the new city that comes from
the Heavens, but here, city, must be understood as
dimension, new and spiritual in which God lives with
us in eternity. At last, this is my thinking in Christ, Zion is and will be, the relation that we have
with God, the presence of God and the marriage of
God with each of us for eternity, as its also
mentioned in the Text of Revelation when we are called
the Lambs wife. In this same way is the relation
between the brothers in Christ. There is an
important point to remark, this is that, it specifies,
that in her, you see no temple, because the Lord God
Almighty is the Temple of her and the Lamb. This
also occurs in our soul, the Lord is our inner
temple of the soul, through His living Spirit in us,
Who loves us and makes intercession for us with
groaning which cannot be uttered. Romans 8:26.
The new Jerusalem has several
attributes, as it is to descend from the Heavens
having the glory of God. To have the Lord God
Almighty and the Lamb as temple. Without moon,
without son to shine in her, because it will have
the light of God and of the Lamb as the more
relevant of Revelation 21.
Yahshua has fulfilled historically
the part of the prophecy in which he would come to
Zion Moriah, to die for us and rise. For this reason
He will fulfill physically the second part, coming
to Zion for Zion, from the Heavenly Zion. Although
there has been speculations about the location of
Calvary, Golgotha, is not Zion,
also, the Lord
was crucified outside the city, hated and rejected
went to His sacrifice; but those who chose religion
and tradition could not imagine that the Messiah and
his message of salvation according to God, contrary
to what they use to do, in the same way as its done
today, many Jews and Christians, is that His death
would have so much effect inside the physical Temple
of Moriah, Zion, as it was that the veil torn, in an
inaccessible place, only accessible for the high
priest, and obviously, by God himself. This way God
was returning them the torn of the cloths in a
supernatural way so they could have no excuse. We
will see that Zion, in which the Messiah will put
his foot in His second coming is in the same place
where He pour His soul for ours, in Olive Mount,
which covers Gethsemane as prophet Zechariah says in
the last chapter, 14 which you can read with it's
comment further on, because in it we will find all
the prophecies about Zion in a same Text. In
principal outside Zion, also outside the Temple, in
Olive Mount, where Yahshua ascended to heaven, He
will come.
COMMENTED BIBLE TEXTS
DEUTERONOMY 4
This is the law
which Moses set before the children of Israel:
45These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and
the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children
of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,...
...48From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river
Arnon, even unto mount Sion,
which is Hermon.
This is where we
began the history of Zion. The first time the word
"elevated" is mentioned, Zion. Curiously there are
three
peaks in Hermon, so called the Hermons, but
there are also three hills in Olive Mount. None of
these mounts is normally related to Zion, but
however there are two events of great impact which
occur in them, in these Zions or elevated. In Hermon
the transfiguration and in Olive Mount the
Ascension. To this elevated mount links the last
prophecy of the return of the King of kings that
we'll see in the next Texts.
2SAMUEL 5
And the king and
his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the
inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David,
saying, Except thou take away the blind and the
lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David
cannot come in hither. 7Nevertheless
David took the strong hold of
Zion: the same is the city of David.
This is the
beginning of the history of Zion in Jerusalem
territory, then called Jebus. Since the delivery of
the land by Joshua to the twelve tribes, until the
conquer of this city, 200 years would go by, after
the judges and until this one, the second king. Zion
converted into the city of David. Now 3000 years
later still keeps his tomb. The psalmist would
declare that for him the stronghold of his people
was the Lord Himself. In this same way we must also
think, not in physical strongholds, or of the world,
of economy, intellectual or material, but in our
strength and trust in our Lord Jesus Christ, our
King.
PSALM
14
Oh
that the salvation of Israel
were come out of Zion! when the LORD
bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob
shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
From Zion,
salvation came and will come for the nation called
Israel, inherit of Abraham by the faith in God's
plan, in other words, in His Son Yahshua, as for the
Jews than for the Gentiles. Yahweh made the captive
of His people return in 1948 and Jacob rejoiced and
also Israel. But spiritually the return that God
seeks in the literal Israel is that they come back
to the faith in His Word, in His Salvation plan, not
the one they may want, the same way as all other
nations, each soul and specially every soul. ... He
who has the Son, has life; he who does not have the
Son of God does not have life... 1John 5.
PSALM
110
The LORD said unto
my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make
thine enemies thy footstool. 2The
LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion:
rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. 3Thy
people shall be willing in the day of thy power,
in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the
morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. 4The LORD
hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a
priest for ever after
the order of Melchizedek.
This is a key Text
for the Jews to comprehend that David declares that
Yahweh talks to the Lord of David, and sits Him by
the right hand of Yahweh. The eternity of Yahshua
the Messiah cannot be ignored. Our eternal priest,
the only one that can intercede for us always,
Melquisedec is an immortal priesthood, and I don't
mean it has to be continuously done but the
contrary, because the Lamb of God that takes away
the sin of the world, Hi Son Yahshua, died once and
for all for our sins, so there is no need for Him to
die more times, and those who believe in Him are
cleaned of sin and saved for eternity, it is then
not necessary the Levitic priesthood that they want
to establish again in the third temple, which would
be an antichrist priesthood.
PSALM
133
Behold, how good
and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell
together in unity! 2It is like the precious ointment
upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even
Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his
garments; 3As the dew of
Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the
mountains of Zion: for there the LORD
commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
In this precious
psalm we have a key about Zion in Hermon. The dew of
the high mount north of the sea in Galilee descends
over the mount"s" of Zion. This plural confirms the
existence in the knowledge of the people of God, of
several mounts called Zion. Is is known that the
three cumbers of the range of Hermon where called
the mounts of Zion, as I mentioned earlier, the
Hermons. But we must remember again at this point
the three hills of Olive Mount. Three "Elevated"
that may spiritually symbolize the Father, the Son
and the Holy Spirit, as three are the ones that bare
witness; the Spirit, the water and the Blood, and
these three agree as one. 1John 5.
As between His
people that live together in harmony, the Lord sends
His unction over our heads in His revelation and in
the priesthood of Galatians 6 and 1John 3, which is
the elderliness of the bead of Aaron, because is the
maturity of the priesthood, changing from the one in
the Mosaic Law to the one of the Law of Christ, and
the unction descends down to the edge of our
cloths, of our salvation, cover, armor, garment and
coat, between the friends in Christ.
ISAIAH 60
1Arise, shine; for
thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is
risen upon thee. 2For, behold, the darkness shall
cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but
the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall
be seen upon thee. 3And the Gentiles shall come to
thy light, and kings to the
brightness of thy rising... ...6The
multitude of camels shall cover thee, the
dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba
shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and
they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD.
7All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together
unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto
thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine
altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory. 8Who
are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to
their windows? 9Surely the isles shall
wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to
bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold
with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to
the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified
thee. 10And the sons of
strangers shall build up thy walls, and
their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my
wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had
mercy on thee. 11Therefore thy gates shall be open
continually; they shall not be shut day nor night;
that men may bring unto thee the forces of the
Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought. 12For
the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee
shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly
wasted. 13The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee,
the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together,
to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will
make the place of my feet glorious. 14The sons also
of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto
thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow
themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they
shall call thee, The city
of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
15Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated,
so that no man went through
thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy
of many generations. 16Thou shalt also
suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the
breast of kings: and thou shalt know that
I the LORD am thy Saviour and
thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
The famous "wise
men" from the east, from Madian, with their camels,
came to the lightning of the birth of the child
Jesus bringing gold, incense and myrrh.
The ones who fly
like doves to their windows, are the multitude of
spiritual hosts of the Lord, the angles that
appeared to the sheppard when the Messiah was born,
the King of Israel. Luke 2:13.
Your open doors,
symbolizes the entrance to the presence of God; the
richness of the nations and their kings are we the
sons of God, for we are a nation of kings and
priests and our richness is our fruit of the Spirit,
in worship and adoration, intercession of love for
God and our neighbours.
The glory of
Lebanon came when the Temple of Solomon was built,
and foreigners from Lebanon, experts in
construction, built the walls together with the
priests. This means that the spiritual temple is
built by Gentiles and Jews that believe in the
Messiah.
The ones that
afflicted you were we who were under sin, whether
Jews or Gentiles, because the alliance between both,
the Sanhedrin and Rome, were, and here we all form
part of as the entire humanity who pierced the
Messiah, and bend before the steps of His feet, down
to His Gospel of Salvation and of holiness, and we
call the Lord City of Yahweh, Zion of the Holy of
Israel.
JEREMIAH 3
Turn, O
backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am
married unto you: and I will take you one of a city,
and two of a family, and I
will bring you to Zion: 15And I will give you
pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed
you with knowledge and understanding.
16And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied
and increased in the land, in those days, saith the
LORD, they shall say no
more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither
shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember
it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that
be done any more. 17At that time they
shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all
the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name
of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk
any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
I shall introduce
you in Zion, is similar to be inserted in the good
olive, the same way as the Jews without Yahshua the
Messiah are cut out, but as they believe in Him the
are re-inserted back. For this the Lord sends
pastors according to His heart. A pastor of God must
speak the Truth according to the Bible, because is
the only way to sheppard and feed, with science and
intelligence, not ours but of God, which is the one
that provides Salvation.
No more it will be
said Ark of the covenant, nor they will think about
it, nor miss it, nor build another. This is how a
son of God who knows the Lord lives, having the
temple, the Holy of Holiest and the Ark in his soul,
by the Holy Spirit, but instead those who want to
build the temple again, say they have an Ark or are
looking for the original. However the Word of Yahweh
very clear.
ZECHARIAHS 9
Rejoice greatly, O
daughter of Zion; shout, O
daughter of Jerusalem: behold,
thy King cometh unto
thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and
riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an
ass. 10And I will cut off
the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from
Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off:
and he shall speak
peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be
from sea even to sea, and
from the river even to the ends of the earth. 11As
for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have
sent forth...
Being this
prophecy fulfilled in Matthew 21 and John 12 by
Jesus as we all know, the King of the daughter of
Zion, in other words, the King of the Temple came
that they could shout joyfully and all of His people
did as the Apostles and the foreigners who believed
the Lord.
Spoke "my
peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I
give to you", Yes, His peace is spiritual, eternal and
universal, but humanity in its majority has not
realized this yet and keep "learning the war". His
Lordliness is already from sea even to sea, until the ends
of the earth, and it will be, in His kingdom.
Zion is saved, by
the Blood of the Messiah.
ZECHARIAH 14
1Behold, the
day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be
divided in the midst of thee. 2For I will gather
all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the
city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the
women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth
into captivity, and the residue of the people shall
not be cut off from the city. 3Then shall the
LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as
when he fought in the day of battle. 4And
his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of
Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and
the mount of Olives shall cleave in
the midst thereof toward the east and toward the
west, and there shall be a very great valley; and
half of the mountain shall remove toward the north,
and half of it toward the south. 5And ye shall
flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley
of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye
shall flee, like as ye fled from before the
earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah:
and the LORD my God shall
come, and all the saints with thee. 6And
it shall come to pass in that day, that the light
shall not be clear, nor dark: 7But it shall be one
day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor
night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening
time it shall be light. 8And it shall be in that
day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem;
half of them toward the former sea, and half of them
toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall
it be. 9And the LORD shall
be king over all the earth: in that day shall there
be one LORD, and his name one. 10All the
land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon
south of Jerusalem: and it
shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from
Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate,
unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel
unto the king’s winepresses. 11And men shall dwell
in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction;
but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
Olive Mount, where the Lord, after raising,
ascended, 40 days after the Passover, to Heaven, and
this same way He did it in the clouds, visibly, He
will do visibly in the clouds in His return,
Revelation 1, in the same Olive Mount. In deed, you
will have realized that the prophecy links this
mount, (where the orchard of Gethsemane, the mount
of prayers and of suet of the Blood of Christ, where
the Father sent an angle to strengthen Him, after
accepting the cup of our sins, as the Zion of His
ascension and of His return), with the last mount
Zion, where the Messiah will come, mount that
dominates the elevation of the Temple mount and also
the city of Jerusalem and also the stronghold of
Zion.
HEBREWS 12
For ye are not come unto the
mount that might be touched, and that burned with
fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and
tempest, 19And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice
of words; which voice they that heard intreated that
the word should not be spoken to them any more:
20(For they could not endure that which was
commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the
mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with
a dart: 21And so terrible was the sight, that Moses
said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) 22But
ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of
the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to
an innumerable company of angels, 23To the general
assembly and church of the firstborn, which are
written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and
to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24And to
Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the
blood of sprinkling, that speaketh
better things than that of Abel.
If we realize, in
this Text, when we come close to Zion we enjoy a
series of blessings which is the company of
thousands of angles, being part of the assembly of
the firstborn, attribute which is obtained when we
are born again from Above, being inscribed in the
heavens by the faith in Christ, for being inscribed
in His soul, being before the presence of God the
Judge, our spirits are counted as just, justified in
Yahshua who made us perfect, and we are with Jesus
the Mediator of the new covenant in His blood.
1PETER 2
To whom
coming, as unto a living
stone, disallowed indeed of men, but
chosen of God, and precious, 5Ye
also, as lively stones, are built up a
spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up
spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus
Christ. 6Wherefore also it is contained in the
scripture, Behold, I lay in
Zion a chief corner stone, elect,
precious: and he that
believeth on him shall not be confounded.
7Unto you therefore which believe he is precious:
but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which
the builders disallowed, the same is made the head
of the corner, 8And a stone of stumbling, and a rock
of offence, even to them which stumble at the
word, being disobedient: whereunto also they
were appointed.
The key for those who want to enter Zion is to place Yahshua as
the main stone, angle stone in their lives to built a life of blessing in Christ
Jesus, because who believes in Him will not be deceived, because although here
on the earth and in time we suffer persecution, this cannot be compared with the
glory that will come for eternity which we will be part off by the hand of our
God Yahweh in His Son Yahshua.
Let us be, like Peter shows us, living stones to be built as
spiritual house, Zion, and holy priesthood that through Jesus we may offer or
lives in a daily sacrifice in the love of God, so we may transmit the faith in
the Main Stone which is the Son of God to those alive around us who don't know
Him.
REVELATION 14
And I looked, and,
lo, a Lamb stood on the
mount Zion, and with him an hundred forty and
four thousand, having his Father’s name written in
their foreheads... ...3And
they sung as it were a new
song before the throne, and before the
four beasts, and the elders: and no man could
learn that song but the hundred and forty and four
thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
This is the last
prophecy, the second coming of Christ on Mont Zion.
The Church, we the Israel of God have written in our
foreheads the name of the Father and of the Lamb,
the same name YHWH written in our minds.
The new song that
can only be learned by the 144.000 redeemed, is
nothing else but the worship to God that comes out
of the heart of a son of God when he has been born
again, as proven in the following Texts of who as
well opens its significance, king David himself in
his psalms, he who conquered Zion, and who realized
that without the Lord he was not saved nor
victorious, and who worships the Lord of his Lord,
because he already saw the Son of God in his spirit;
therefore before the conclusion, we will finish the
Texts about Zion with the New Song in these 7
references of worship:
...Sing
unto him a new song; play skilfully
with a loud noise...
Psalm 33.
...And he hath put
a new song in my mouth,
even praise unto our God:
many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust Yahweh...
Psalm
40.
...Sing
unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the
LORD, all the earth. 2Sing unto the LORD, bless his
name; shew forth his salvation
from day to day. 3Declare his glory among
the heathen, his wonders among all people... Psalm 96.
...Sing
unto the LORD a new song; for he hath
done marvellous things: his right hand, and his
holy arm, hath gotten him the victory. 2The
LORD hath made known his salvation: his
righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of
the heathen. 3He hath remembered his mercy and his
truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of
the earth have seen the salvation of our God. 4Make
a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the
earth: make a loud noise,
and rejoice, and sing praise. 5Sing unto
the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice
of a psalm. 6With trumpets and sound of cornet make
a joyful noise before the
LORD, the King... Psalm 98.
...Sing unto
the LORD a new song, and his praise in
the congregation of saints. 2Let Israel rejoice
in him that made him: let the
children of Zion be joyful in their King.
3Let them praise his name in the dance: let
them sing praises unto him
with the timbrel and harp. 4For the LORD
taketh pleasure in his people: he
will beautify the meek with salvation...
Psalm 149.
...fell down before the Lamb, having
every one of them harps, and golden vials full of
odours, which are the prayers of saints. 9And
they sung a new song,
saying, Thou art worthy to take the book,
and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain,
and hast redeemed us to God
by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and
people, and nation; 10And hast made us
unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign
on the earth... Revelation 5.
...The seventh
New Song has to be added by the reader from
the heart, from Zion, towards Zion...
CONCLUSION:
The prophecy
concludes in the following way: While the Jewish
people battle for the construction of the third
temple, for which they have to demolish the mosques
of the square, Al-Aqsa and the Copula of the Rock;
the Church keeps advancing in winning souls for God.
Being the Temple established, the antichrist would
sit to rule from it offering a universal peace plan,
that will be a deceit, because his only target is
that he is adored in the Temple of God. But his
kingdom is a divided kingdom against itself, because
his allies, all the other demons want to rule
themselves too. The opposite of the people of God,
in which His people and His angels, we all adore God
and love Him.
When the
destruction of the Temple and of Jerusalem come over
them they will understand that in reality Zion that
they thought was not Zion in which the Messiah will
come, instead He will come to Olive Mount
prophesized in Zechariah 14, and will do so with all
His saints. The next Text of Paul in his 2 latter to
the Thessalonians 2, is the one that gives light
about this:
...Now we beseech you,
brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and by our gathering together unto him, 2That ye be
not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by
spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as
that the day of Christ is at hand. 3Let no man
deceive you by any means: for that day shall not
come, except there come a falling away first, and
that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is
called God, or that is worshipped;
so that he as God sitteth in
the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
5Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I
told you these things? 6And now ye know what
withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only
he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out
of the way. 8And then shall
that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume
with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with
the brightness of his coming: 9Even
him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with
all power and signs and lying wonders, 10And with
all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that
perish; because they received not the love of the
truth, that they might be saved. 11And for this
cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they
should believe a lie: 12That they all might be
damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure
in unrighteousness.
We may realize after reading this
impacting but real Text, that in all these places
so-called Zion there is great persecution, for in
them along history, whether literal or spiritual,
has been and is in the presence of God, of the
living God and of His people, Israel and the Church.
Therefore as we are already in Zion, when the Lord
comes physically in the end of time, we'll also be
with Him in Zion. Mean while lets make an effort in
prayer and obedience to God that we remain in His
Spirit for salvation.
The spiritual conclusion is that Zion is the
presence of God, Yahshua himself, the Holy Spirit.
Zion manifests wherever there are two or three "in
My name, I will be there" says the Lord, between any
assembly that loves Him, and from a soul of a man,
His temple, until the biggest assembly, for the
Kingdom of God is within us. Israel and Church.
People and Country. Soul and Nation. Our soul, our
family, our houses, our assemblies, our churches are
Zion, spiritually.
When we read Zion we must remember
its meaning, "elevated" Zion of the Lord is Elevated
of the Lord, which is, who God has placed elevated
over all, the King of kings, His Son Jesus Christ,
Yahshua. Welcome to Zion. Amen.