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Identifying Some Types, Part 5 of 9

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Israel was passing out of the Egypt of this world,
through desolate places, to a
promised land.

Implied in 1Cor 10:1-12 is that the promised land they were headed to was symbolic of heaven. That symbolism is much more explicit in the book of Hebrews. Previous posts have also discussed “The Wilderness Wanderings as a Type.”

Now God had promised them “rest”
in the promised land.

But Israel often focused on their immediate problems rather than the “land” that they were to inherit “forever.” So an entire generation perished in the wilderness, rather than reach the promised land.

Some rebelled against God’s authority
in the wilderness.

God did and does have authority to put whoever He wants in charge. He did put Moses in overall charge of the people, and He put Aaron and his sons as priests to approach God in behalf of the people. So much authority was centralized and it was male dominated (as also had been the family, even since the beginning).

A true prophetess, in Exodus 15 Miriam led the women in a public celebration of the victory over Pharaoh’s army in the Red Sea. You may remember some of the words of this song.

“Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously:
The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”
Ex 15:21 WEB

But in Numbers 12 Aaron and Miriam wanted
the same authority as Moses.

“They said, Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn’t he spoken also with us? Yahweh heard it.”
Num 12:2 WEB

The Lord Himself answered for Moses, and temporarily struck Miriam with leprosy.

Today we have problems with those who do not like God’s order of things in the world, in society and in the church, and would put aside the ordinances of Christ’s Law, to order things as they please. Christ is the great prophet of whom God said, if they don’t listen Christ, “I will require it of him.” That is still pertinent today.

Then Korah organized a democratic style rebellion
against what God had set in place.

They said,

“… You take too much on you, seeing all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them: why then lift yourselves up above the assembly of Yahweh?”
Num 16:3 WEB

Partly true, but also God Himself had put Moses in charge. The end of it was that the earth itself opened up, and Korah went down alive into Sheol.

“So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.”
Num 16:33 WEB

Korah tried to take Moses role, and Moses was a type of the Christ. Korah is evidently a type of later rebels (the beast and the false prophet), at the end of time, who will try to take Christ’s place, of whom it says they “were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.” Rev 19:20 WEB

Understanding types is essential for understanding prophecy. This is some practice.

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Identifying Some Types, Part 4 of 9

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Some practice with types.

In 1Cor 10:1-12 Paul points out that the experience of Israel in coming out of Egypt has parallels to the Christian life. As has been discussed, passing through the Red Sea is a type or our being baptized into Jesus Christ, 1Cor 10:1-4.

The experience in the wilderness then is symbolic
of the Christian life in this world!

We are now separated from Egypt, but have not yet reached the promised land.

Egypt civilization advanced for that day. At the time of the exodus from Egypt there was no parallel to the level of civilization in Egypt. Their expertise in mathematics, architecture, astronomy, and so on, was unparalleled.

But the Sinai peninsula, where Israel came into,
was literally a desert … a desolation.

Israel now had very little meat to eat. God was feeding them with a wafer sort of thing which settled on the earth, and which they could eat. But this was nothing compared to luxurious eating in Egypt, even for a slave! The Israelites complained,

“5 We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic: 6 but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all save this manna to look on.”
Num 11:5 WEB

They were missing the fact that now they were free from a very harsh slavery in Egypt, which they had called out to God for deliverance (Ex 3:7). And they were forgetting that they were being promised a very rich “promised land,” a land of milk and honey.

We as new Christians are increasingly isolated from
the pleasures and riches of this world.

We are warned,

“Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.”
1Jn 2:15 WEB

If you are used to partying, drunkenness, drugs, abundant sexual pleasures without restraint, it is quite a shift. It is like a shift from the riches of Egypt (with some bondage, yes!), all the way to the desolation of a desert, with food yes, but not all the pleasures of excess and indulgence.

It is a situation where we may be tempted to
rebel against the training with
which God attempts to
reform us.

“He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD. ”
Deut 8:3 WEB

There is no promised land in Egypt

And no promised land for us unless we submit under the Lord’s hand, and do not rebel against the commands which are designed to deliver us.

It is ironic that sometimes “scholarly” men can teach and instruct on the Exodus and miss so many of the rich spiritual lessons.

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Identifying Some Types, Part 3 of 9

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The examples in 1 Corinthians 10 reach much further than what Paul explicitly outlined. For instance, if the passage through the Red Sea represents baptism, it would seem that bondage in Egypt represents our bondage to sin before we came to Jesus the Christ. The entire analogy is rich with lessons for the Christian.

The Red Sea was a very physical separation from Egyptian slavery. The fact that baptism “seems” physical, “seems” something that “we” “do,” can obscure the spiritual nature of baptism.

But the key to baptism is the work of
the Holy Spirit.

Paul says,

“For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, …”
1Cor 12:13 KJV

That would make the key to true Christian baptism, not who baptized us, or where, or all the details of what we were thinking, but the actions of God’s Spirit on our spirit in the act of baptism. Similarly, Paul compares baptism to one of the signs of the Old Covenant, circumcision.

“11 in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ; 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.”
Col 2:11-12 WEB

Once again, baptism is not something you do, but something done to you. In this case it is described as something “not made with hands.” You and I do NOT “do” baptism (the One Spirit does), rather we “are baptized” by someone else: the Spirit of God. Baptism, true baptism (not just a dunking) then is not a work of man, but a work of God on the spirit/soul of man.

This also parallels the passage through the Red Sea. Israel did not baptize herself “under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,” but God who baptized them through the sea and under the cloud.

This is not contrary to grace, this is grace!

So if the Red Sea separated Israel from
Egyptian bondage,

then that would imply that our being baptized into Jesus is what separates us from bondage to sin. So after Paul came to believe in Jesus on the road to Damascus, he was told, “But rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” Acts 9:6 WEB. And what was he told?

“’Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’”
Acts 22:16 WEB

That would imply Peter was right, that we need to,

“… “Repent, and be baptized, everyone of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, …”
Acts 2:38 WEB

It is shameful how some belittle the work of God in baptism. Others have called baptism our initial test of faith.. God is the only one who can truly separate us from our sins, and that is grace.

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Identifying Some Types, Part 2 of 9

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Some practice with types.

Paul indicates the trials of Israel in Egypt and in the wilderness “were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.” 1Cor 10:6

Israel went in for evil partying.

“… As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.””
1Cor 10:7 WEB

The events in the wilderness are types/ examples for the Christian, that they should not be involved in fornication, as Israel was and twenty-three thousand of the them died in one day, 1Cor 10:8. Now Yahweh tests His people, but His people are NOT to put their Lord to the test. This was explicitly pointed out in Moses Law.

“You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.”
Deut 6:16 WEB

Paul notices what can happen if we are not thankful.

It is fine to ask for things, but it is not right
to despise what we are given.

The number of Scriptures, Old Testament and New Testament, along this line are too many to mention.

“Oh give thanks to Yahweh, call on his name;
Make known his doings among the peoples. ”
1Chron 16:8 WEB

“I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness …”
Psa 7:17 WEB

Or again,

“In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.”
Phil 4:6 WEB

The opposite of a thankful attitude would be grumbling
and complaining against God.

“10 Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.”
1Cor 10:10 WEB

Indeed, we need to count our blessings, and not discount all the good with which we are supplied. Israel was not the last nation that through despising what was right, and bitterly complaining about what was thought wrong, neither gained what they wanted, nor kept what they had! The Russians being baited into the Bolshevik Revolution by dissatisfaction with the Tsars is an example. They ended up with a tyranny much worse that they ever imaged under Communism. It was an evil system that has left Russia prostrate and in recovery mode to this very day.

“these things happened to them by way of examples …”
1Cor 10:11 WEB

The Greek word translated as “example” in 1Cor 10:11 is tupikos, a adverbial form of the word tupos or type. Paul statement says in effect that God had these things happen and recorded for us, so that we can learn from their tragically bad examples.

“… and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.”
1Cor 10:11 WEB

All of this indicates God’s fine-grained over-ruling
in history.

And the purpose? What would be the purpose? That men,

“… should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.”
Acts 17:27 WEB

Further, all of this lab work in types should help us deal more intelligently with types in prophecy.

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Identifying Some Types, Part 1 of 9

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Some practice with types.

“I don’t want you to be ignorant,” Paul says, 1Cor 10:1

Paul goes on to say that

“1 … that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;”
1Cor 10:1-2 WEB

It has been discussed that Moses was indeed a type, a shadow, symbolic of Jesus the Christ. Here Paul takes the subject further. If we analyze what is said here and in other places, it paints a picture of God as having things happen that are meant to be symbolic of future things. The symbolic people, things or events often come very near in time to the prophecy. The ultimate fulfillment of the prophecy is often in the distant future, sometimes even thousands of years into the future.

So Paul talks about ancient Israel as being
baptized into Moses,

as we are baptized into Christ. As was discussed in the post “Multiple Types of the Christ: Moses,” God announced Moses as being a type, symbolic of the Christ. God will send “a prophet … like you,” that is to say, like Moses. Here Paul continues that analogy and says that the children of Israel passing through the Red Sea with the cloud of God’s presence over them, was like our being submerged in water into Jesus Christ.

Further Paul says that the analogy is not accidental. Jesus said we must feed on him to have life in us.

“Jesus therefore said to them, “Most assuredly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves.””
Jn 6:53

Then astonishingly, Paul tells us that ancient Israel ate of the same spiritual food that Christians eat.

“3 and all ate the same spiritual food; 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.”
1Cor 10:3-4 WEB

Christian eat of the Christ who came before them. Ancient Israel ate of the Christ who followed them! All of us in the Lord our God have all along eaten of the same spiritual food. We are not under Moses Law, but contrary to many false teachers, the Old Testament and the New Testament are a unity.

Paul then points out that Yahweh, the Lord our God, was not pleased with most of them, and they died in their sins. Paul essentially says that the full history in the wilderness was intended to be a parallel to the Christian life.

“Now these things were our examples,”
1Cor 10:6

The word that is here translated “examples” is the Greek word tupos or type. The Greek word means a blow or impression, an example, an image of something, a model, a pattern, a type. Or as I say, a prototype of something.

The dark failures of Israel in the wilderness
are warnings to the Christian.

We should not lust after evil things, as they did, or be idolaters, 1Cor 10:6-7.

Understanding types is essential for understanding prophecy. This is some practice.

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Multiple Types of the Christ: King David

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David’s kingdom was to last forever, 2Sam 7:16.

Also it was by a “seed”/ son of David that the temple of the Lord would be built, and David’s kingdom continued (2Sam 7:12), “and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever,” 2Sam 7:13 WEB. This was all discussed in the posts on “The Two Sons of David.”

David was a specially chosen king, a man after God’s own heart, 1Sam 13:14. It was by David that Israel was at last freed from all of their enemies, and given peace all around. He was exemplary in so many ways: In courage in battle based on faith in the Lord, In being so sensitive of his own failings and shortcomings as shown in psalm after heart felt psalm. Even though very richly blessed by the Lord, and clearly an inspired prophet of God, still a man though, and capable of great and grievous failures, as indeed we all are.

Still, many verses bear witness to the
promises as still valid.

“He gives great deliverance to his king,
And shows loving kindness to his anointed,
To David and to his seed, forevermore.”
Psa 18:50 WEB

“3 I have made a covenant with my chosen one,
I have sworn to David, my servant,
4 ‘I will establish your seed forever,
And build up your throne to all generations.’”
Psa. 89:3-4 WEB

There are even pleas for these promises to be fulfilled.

“10 For your servant David’s sake,
Don’t turn away the face of your anointed one.
11 Yahweh has sworn to David in truth.
He will not turn from it:
“I will set the fruit of your body on your throne”.
Psa. 132:10-11 WEB

After over 400 years the first promise was confirmed by Isaiah.

“Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, …”
Isa 9:7 WEB

This ultimate of David’s descendants will give the ultimate decisions.

“The key of the house of David will I lay on his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.”
Isa 22:22 WEB

This future king is even symbolically
called “David.”

“Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.”
Hos 3:5 WEB

At the last it seemed all of this was doomed to fail.

But the prophets affirmed that God will again raise up the dilapidated tent of David.

“In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;”
Amos 9:11 WEB

A hero, a conquering king, a mighty man of God. So David is indeed one of the key types of the Christ. And the things which were missing, like David’s kingdom nevery failing, only show that David was only a type, a shadow of the Christ.

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Multiple Types of the Christ: Moses

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There are many types/ symbols of the Christ in Scripture. One of them is great lawgiver Moses. The symbolism is very explicit. There is someone all Israel, and everyone will have to listen to

A Special Prophet Will Come.

“Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me; to him you shall listen;”
Deut 18:15 WEB

So Moses says explicitly that his word would be superseded by someone “like me,” “to him you shall listen.” So there were things which were to be told men later.

There are many ways the Christ is
like Moses.

You might says Moses primary trait is that he was a lawmaker and brought a new law. If this special prophet was to be like Moses, and to be listened to, it would seem that this new prophet would bring a new law. And so He does. As Paul says,

“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”
Gal 6:2 WEB

So there is a law which Jesus brings, “the law of Christ.” The center of it is a new commandment.

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.”
Jn 13:34 WEB

It includes instructions for daily life, for prayer, for the meetings and government of the church, instructions for how what we would call formal worship should be conducted, relations to civil government, sex, family relations and on and on.

Further, there were attempts to kill both Moses
and Jesus at birth.

The baby Moses came under the edicts of the Pharaoh that all male children were to be killed at birth, and he was delivered by being given to an Egyptian princess. Herod feared that this new “king of the Jews who had been born, was a baby to be groomed to take over his throne, so he killed all the infant males in Bethlehem (Mtt 2:16-18) trying to make sure he got this would be ruler. Both attempts failed.

Both Moses and Jesus were initially rejected
by the Jews.

Moses had to flee to the land of Midian for forty years, and was later accepted by the Jews. Jesus is overall still rejected by the Jews to this day, but one day the new covenant of Jer 31:31-34 (which Jesus brought) will be accepted, and it say,

“At that time, says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.”
Jer 31:1 WEB

Moses prayed to be sacrificed
for God’s people.

““Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin— and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.””
Ex 32:32 WEB

God declined Moses offer, Ex 32:33.

But Jesus WAS sacrificed for God’s people.

“… even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.”
Eph 5:2 WEB

There are many other parallels, but this is a start.

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Men, Angels and the Christ in Prophecy, Part 9 of 9

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The author of Hebrews concludes that the purpose of angels is to serve those who will inherit eternal life, Heb 1:14. Then he turns to the subject of men in chapter two. He quotes part of Psalm 8 by David about “man,” and “the world to come,” Heb 2:5.

“6 … “What is man, that you think of him?
Or the son of man, that you care for him?
7 You made him a little lower than the angels;
You crowned him with glory and honor.
8 You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” …”
Heb 2:6-8a WEB

This is man made in the very image of God, for now a little lower than the angels, and ordained for great things.

So mankind is SUPPOSED TO HAVE dominance
over ALL.

Then comes those things which we all run into in prophecy. Those things which seem odd or out of place. The author notes it appears nothing is left out of man’s control.

“… For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. …”
Heb 2:8b WEB

Indeed this is the fabric of much of our lives here on earth. We work at this function or that function in managing this earth, and bringing to usefulness its many resources. Those functions may range from killing flies in the kitchen, to managing water resources, to making useful tools and machines for using these resources.

But then there is that part which just does not fit the facts.

“But now we don’t see all things subjected to him, yet.”
Heb 2:8c

Man does not yet have all of this power. There are things missing. There are holes in man’s dominance. We would like to have control of this or that, but, frustratingly, despite great progress in many arenas, much remains outside our control, just as Heb 2:8c says so clearly!

As my books note, such gaps between what is often prophesied, and what is seen in reality, is often the sign of symbolism in the prophecy, of a “type” or a “prototype”.

So man does not have the mastery he should have, yet.

“But we see him who has been made a little
lower than the angels, Jesus,

“because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone. ”
Heb 2:9 WEB

So Hebrews sees man’s dominance as always to be accomplished through Jesus! Through Jesus man recovers his position before God, and achieves his rightful position over creation. So it is not Satan and his angels, or even angels overall, who will dominate the world to come. It is man.

“Don’t you know that we will judge angels?” 1Cor 6:3.

Permanent punishment is prepared for those that oppose God, whether in heaven or in earth.

“Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;”
Mtt 25:14 WEB

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Which Jerusalem? Part III of III

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I think it is fair to say that most of the references in Scripture to Jerusalem are about Jerusalem of this present earth. That is to say,

“Jerusalem that exists now,” Gal 4:25 WEB

But when you read prophecy you must ask,
“Of which Jerusalem does
the prophet speak?”

Some are obvious, while others are not as clear.

It is true that there are some incredible things yet to happen with Jerusalem that now exists. Zechariah prophesied during the first return from exile (around 520 BC, Zech 1:1), in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah. Seemingly speaking of what Paul calls “Jerusalem that now exists,” Zechariah sees a day when,

““… ‘Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and Yahweh will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.”’””
Zech 1:17 WEB

In context he seems to speak of present Jerusalem. He speaks of it as an abundantly prosperous city, Zech 2:4, and a city faithful to God,

“I will strengthen them in Yahweh;
And they will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh.”
Zech 10:12 WEB

That clearly has not happened YET! Zechariah clearly pictures ALL the families of Israel (Zech 12:14) being converted to “ to me whom they have pierced;” Zech 12:10 WEB, and in Zechariah 13. This is spoken in Scripture as bringing a world revolution of righteousness (something Mystery Babylon deeply dreads). Paul says of those times.

“Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness? ”
Rom 11:12 WEB

So some incredible good things are yet to happen with present Jerusalem.

But Peter says this present universe will vanish.

“… the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth … will be burned up.”
2Pe 3:10

He goes on to say “we look for new heavens and a new earth in which dwells righteousness.” 2Pe 3:13 WEB.

So when it says in Isaiah 65,

“17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. 18 But be you glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.”
Isa 65:17-18 WEB

… in context, the “Jerusalem” in Isa 65:17 is part of that “Jerusalem that is above” of Gal 4:26, and part of the new universe, the “new heavens and a new earth” of 2Pe 3:13.

The “never again”/ “no more” / “neither … any more,” and
all the “forever” sort of passages

are all about “Jerusalem” above, and what we call “heaven.”

So when the prophet David says of Jerusalem, “I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they … be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as at the first,”
2Sam 7:10 WEB

The prophet really speaks of heaven here. Only heaven is “forever.”

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Which Jerusalem? Part II of III

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Many Great Claims were made for Jerusalem.

“Blessed be Yahweh from Zion,
Who dwells at Jerusalem.
Praise Yah!”
Psa 135 WEB

Or,

“As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
So Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forth and forevermore.”
Psa 125:2 WEB

And again,

“For David said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever: ”
1Chr. 23:25 WEB

But this make you wonder. A mere 400 and something years later God rejected His people Israel because of their sins, and had Jerusalem destroyed, in 586 BC. Then there was a return to Jerusalem in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah. But a little over 600 years later there was another expulsion from Jerusalem, again as prophesied by God’s prophets (Zech 10:9-10 for example, which was spoken after the first return from captivity). The second fall of Jerusalem was also prophesied by Jesus in Matthew 24, etc., and happened in 70 AD.

The Jews were a rebellious people and unfaithful to God, and it did not make Jerusalem a place of peace, all seemingly very contrary to many prophecies.

But Paul says there are two Jerusalems.

Paul says that two women Sarah and Hagar are an allegory of two covenants

“These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.”
Gal 4:24 WEB

So Paul is saying that Hagar is symbolic of Moses law.

“For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.”
Gal 4:25 WEB

Ouch! But there is another Jerusalem. Jerusalem above.

“But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.”
Gal 4:26 WEB

So there are TWO Jerusalems!

Present Jerusalem is in bondage with her children. Sad but true. But Jerusalem above is the mother of all true believers in Yahweh and His Christ, Jesus of Nazareth. Jerusalem above is seen coming down out of heaven in Revelation 21.

“1 I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. 2 I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband. 3 I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 4 He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.””
Rev 21:1-4 WEB

Again, there are TWO Jerusalems

And one of them is not of this world (Jn 18:36), that is, not of this creation. Sorting out which is which is often a major task.

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