087 Scripture Information Respecting Jerusale
Scripture Information Respecting Jerusalem
ITS NAMES. | |
The City of the Great King | |
The City of God | |
The City of the LORD | |
A City of Truth | |
The City of Righteousness | |
The Faithful City | |
The Holy City | |
The City of Judah | |
The City of David | |
The City of Solemnities | |
The Throne of the LORD | |
The LORD is there | |
The Zion of the Holy One of Israel | |
Salem (Genesis 14:18), jebns |
DESCRIBED. | |
Its palaces and towers | |
Its walls, gates, and bulwarks | |
Its wealth, population, industry | |
Its idolatry, wickedness, religion | |
Its geographical situation |
ITS FUTURE. |
Greatly enlarged |
Greatly beautified |
Largely populated |
The earth’s metropolis |
Its people saved and righteous |
Universal center of blessing |
Its riches and wealth |
Characterized by holiness |
The Gentiles build its walls |
Its gates ever open |
Served by nations and kingdoms |
An eternal excellency |
Joy of many generations |
The Queen in gold of Ophir |
A place of perfect security |
Jehovah its rest and glory |
Longevity of its inhabitants |
Peace within its borders |
No more weeping |
No more sickness |
No more idolatry |
No more death |
Jerusalem’s future is the special testimony of the Hebrew Prophet’s (see especially that magnificent millennial description, Isaiah 60:1-22).
BESIEGED. | |
By Shishak, king of Egypt | |
By Jehoash, king of Israel | |
By Rezin and Pekah | |
By Sennacherib | |
By Pharaoh-Necho | |
By Nebuchadnezzar once | |
By Nebuchadnezzar twice | |
By Nebuchadnezzar three | |
By Titus |
[History records no less than thirty-four instances of Jerusalem being besieged. Besides the foregoing, Jerusalem has been attacked by the Grecians, Syrians, Egyptians, Parthians, Romans, and Europeans.] ITS DESOLATION.
Trodden down | |
Plowed as a field | |
Reduced to ruins | |
Not one stone left upon another | |
A wilderness and desolation | |
Forsaken and hated | |
Under Divine judgment |
RESTORED JERUSALEM.
Jerusalem, when reconstructed anew, will cover the site of the old and present city, but will be greatly enlarged, probably occupying with its suburbs and gardens an area of about fifty miles (Ezekiel 48:1-35), and lying between the portions assigned to Judah and Benjamin. The city proper, will probably be about thirty-six miles in circumference. The millennial temple will be built anew from its foundation, and according to Divine patterns and measurements-not on the site of the old one, nor on that to be erected and afterward destroyed, upon the removal of the church to heaven. Zechariah 14:1-21, also the prophets Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel, supply particulars of deep and abiding interest as to the Jewish future.
"Joy to His ancient people! Your bonds He comes to sever- And now, ’tis done! the Lord hath won, And ye are free forever."