Jerusalem: God's Chosen City!!
Jerusalem would be one of the most loved
cities in the world if the Jewish people could be eliminated. Yet
Jerusalem without the Jews would cease to be anything more than just
another city. It is “Israel and Jerusalem” together that creates love or
hatred. Jerusalem was never called the Zion of God until it was taken by
David and made the capitol of the Jewish nation. God actually called
Abraham out of Ur of the Chaldeans/Babylonians to make Him a Nation and
to establish that nation in the Promise Land and Jerusalem as its
center. God chose Jerusalem before Abraham or David was born and
ordained it to become His beloved city and then called His chosen to
establish it for His glory in the earth.
Anyone who attacks the Jewish people or
the city of Jerusalem is sealing their fate to be judged by the Heavenly
Father. What God has chosen or called Holy let no man despise. The
earthly Jerusalem is named after the City of God in the sides of the
North where the Mighty Creator sits on His Throne. His Son, glorified
and exalted, sits on His Right Hand while the Holy Spirit manifests His
glory in all His universe. The Lord Jesus promised that He would
“prepare a place for us and come again to
receive us unto Himself” (St. John 14:1-2). The place He has
prepared is finished because John the Revelator saw it and gave us its
name. It is called “New Jerusalem” and its glory will liberally outshine
the sun. So, we have three cities all called Jerusalem--the City of God,
the earthly city, and New City soon to descend down to the earth.
The name Jerusalem is so special and fixed
in the Heart of God that even His invisible Church is called by that
name. Apostle Paul said of the Saints of God,
“But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God,
the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To 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, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood
of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel” (Hebrews
12:22-24). His saints washed in the sacred Blood of His Son are His
spiritual Jerusalem, rejoicing in all His favour while we wait His
appearing to take us to His Heavenly Jerusalem. The city of Jersualem is
still in bondage with her children the Je ws but will soon be free. “For
this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now
is, and is in bondage with her children” (Galations 4:25). Yet
please remember that while we await for the city and her inhabitants to
believe and receive the “returning King of Kings” we are already free. “But
Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all”
(Galations 4:26).
Joseph R. Chambers
jrc@pawcreek.org
