Zion

Monday, August 24, 2009

2 Samuel 5:7 (NKJV) Capture of the stronghold of Zion

Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion (that is, the City of David).

Take a guess what ‘nevertheless’ meant. The Jebusites, whose stronghold was Zion, a walled city, boasted that their lame and blind would defeat David’s army.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

1 Kings 8:1 (NKJV) The Ark of the Covenant is brought into the Temple

Now Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the City of David, which is Zion.

Was not the Ark already in Zion or Jerusalem? Part of Jerusalem was Zion, the city of David: the Ark was placed in the holiest of the temple, the largest structure in Zion.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Psalm 2:6–7 (NKJV) Prophecy of The Anointed Son of God

“Yet I have set My King

On My holy hill of Zion.”

“I will declare the decree:

The Lord has said to Me,

‘You are My Son,

Today I have begotten You.

What could ‘set My King on the hill of Zion’ mean? With hindsight, we can say that there Christ, the only begotten Son of God, was crucified.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Zechariah 9:9 (NKJV) The King is coming

“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!

Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem!

Behold, your King is coming to you;

He is just and having salvation,

Lowly and riding on a donkey,

A colt, the foal of a donkey.

Did a King ride a donkey? No, a King rode a decked-out horse, but never brought salvation.

Friday, August 28, 2009

Hebrews 12:22–24 (NKJV) Mount Zion, the heavenly Jerusalem

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.

Where is the real Mount Zion? It is the heavenly Jerusalem, prepared for believers.

Extra - a mystery

Revelation 14:1 (NKJV) The Lamb with 144,000

Then I looked, and behold, a Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father’s name written on their foreheads.

This number has many interpretations. Please let me know your ideas.