Jerusalem

[Wayne222]

          Has anyone been to Jerusalem ? I always wanted to go. I bought a book today from a used book store. The title Jerusalem the living city. It's has the best photos of Jerusalem I have seen. Now I really want to go to where Abraham and David and Jesus have done great acts in the faith. 

[Kris]

Yes and highly recommend going if you ever get the chance. Unfortunately I was working at the time so didn't get to visit all those wonderful Biblical places like the sea of Galilee, Mount of Olives/Gethsemane et al. However, I did get to spend the day in the old city visiting the western wall and joining some tours that take you beneath the surface. You can actually follow the western wall below the surface and via a tunnel with a guide who provides running commentary, its an amazing tour!

Also visited the church of the Holy Sepulchre where its alleged our Lord was crucified and His tomb is located. The location is a bit contentious, some say the garden tomb and crucifixion actually took place outside the old city walls at skull hill, I intend to visit that location next trip.

The people are amazing and love sharing the history of the place with you. Spent some time with IDF soldiers as well along the border of Gaza, just young soldiers who love their country and are defending it with smiles on their faces and joy in their hearts.

Have every intention of going back some day to do the rest of the country, cant wait.

[HisFirst]

I haven't Wayne but want to very much!

[Psalms37:4]

22 hours ago, Wayne222 said:

          Has anyone been to Jerusalem ? I always wanted to go. I bought a book today from a used book store. The title Jerusalem the living city. It's has the best photos of Jerusalem I have seen. Now I really want to go to where Abraham and David and Jesus have done great acts in the faith. 

If you wanna see Jerusalem as it is now, you might wanna go soon before the start of the tribulation. During the second half of the tribulation, all of Jerusalem will be destroyed. The topography and landscape of the area will be completely altered after the nuclear war. Jerusalem will be lifted up high on a mountain. Should be high enough that Jerusalem will receive snow at times of the year when there's no snow in Israel so water can flow down stream all year round. All the surrounding valleys will be leveled and flatted. The city will also be expanded and larger. Everything will be rebuilt and won't look like what it is now.

But if you can't go, here a quick video. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoizSL-TEJQ

 

Zechariah 14:8-10 New King James Version (NKJV)

⁸ And in that day it shall be
That living waters shall flow from Jerusalem,
Half of them toward the eastern sea
And half of them toward the western sea;
In both summer and winter it shall occur.
⁹ And the Lord shall be King over all the earth.
In that day it shall be—
“The Lord is one,”
And His name one.

¹⁰ All the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be raised up and inhabited in her place from Benjamin’s Gate to the place of the First Gate and the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses.

 

Jeremiah 31:38-40 Good News Translation (GNT)

³⁸ “The time is coming,” says the Lord, “when all of Jerusalem will be rebuilt as my city, from Hananel Tower west to the Corner Gate. ³⁹ And the boundary line will continue from there on the west to the hill of Gareb and then around to Goah. ⁴⁰ The entire valley, where the dead are buried and garbage is dumped, and all the fields above Kidron Brook as far as the Horse Gate to the east, will be sacred to me. The city will never again be torn down or destroyed.”

 

Isaiah 40:1-5 New King James Version (NKJV)

40 “Comfort, yes, comfort My people!”
Says your God.
² “Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her,
That her warfare is ended,
That her iniquity is pardoned;
For she has received from the Lord’s hand
Double for all her sins.”

³ The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
“Prepare the way of the Lord;
Make straight in the desert
A highway for our God.
⁴ Every valley shall be exalted
And every mountain and hill brought low;
The crooked places shall be made straight
And the rough places smooth;
⁵ The glory of the Lord shall be revealed,
And all flesh shall see it together;
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

 

Isaiah 2:2-3 New King James Version (NKJV)

² Now it shall come to pass in the latter days
That the mountain of the Lord’s house
Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be exalted above the hills;
And all nations shall flow to it.
³ Many people shall come and say,
“Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
He will teach us His ways,
And we shall walk in His paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth the law,
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

 

Isaiah 66:19-23 New King James Version (NKJV)

¹⁹ I will set a sign among them; and those among them who escape I will send to the nations: to Tarshish and Pul and Lud, who draw the bow, and Tubal and Javan, to the coast lands afar off who have not heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles. ²⁰ Then they shall bring all your brethren for an offering to the Lord out of all nations, on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the Lord, “as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord. ²¹ And I will also take some of them for priests and Levites,” says the Lord.

²² “For as the new heavens and the new earth
Which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the Lord,
“So shall your descendants and your name remain.
²³ And it shall come to pass
That from one New Moon to another,
And from one Sabbath to another,
All flesh shall come to worship before Me,” says the Lord.

 

Isaiah 65:17-25 Good News Translation (GNT)

¹⁷ The Lord says, “I am making a new earth and new heavens. The events of the past will be completely forgotten. ¹⁸ Be glad and rejoice forever in what I create. The new Jerusalem I make will be full of joy, and her people will be happy. ¹⁹ I myself will be filled with joy because of Jerusalem and her people. There will be no weeping there, no calling for help. ²⁰ Babies will no longer die in infancy, and all people will live out their life span. Those who live to be a hundred will be considered young. To die before that would be a sign that I had punished them. ^21-22 People will build houses and get to live in them—they will not be used by someone else. They will plant vineyards and enjoy the wine—it will not be drunk by others. Like trees, my people will live long lives. They will fully enjoy the things that they have worked for. ²³ The work they do will be successful, and their children will not meet with disaster. I will bless them and their descendants for all time to come. ²⁴ Even before they finish praying to me, I will answer their prayers. ²⁵ Wolves and lambs will eat together; lions will eat straw, as cattle do, and snakes will no longer be dangerous. On Zion, my sacred hill, there will be nothing harmful or evil.”

 

Isaiah 11:6-9 New King James Version (NKJV)

⁶ “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,
The leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
The calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little child shall lead them.
⁷ The cow and the bear shall graze;
Their young ones shall lie down together;
And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
⁸ The nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole,
And the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper’s den.
⁹ They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,
For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord
As the waters cover the sea.

 

Isaiah 56:1-8 New King James Version (NKJV)

56 Thus says the Lord:

“Keep justice, and do righteousness,
For My salvation is about to come,
And My righteousness to be revealed.
² Blessed is the man who does this,
And the son of man who lays hold on it;
Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

³ Do not let the son of the foreigner
Who has joined himself to the Lord
Speak, saying,
“The Lord has utterly separated me from His people”;
Nor let the eunuch say,
“Here I am, a dry tree.”
⁴ For thus says the Lord:
“To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths,
And choose what pleases Me,
And hold fast My covenant,
⁵ Even to them I will give in My house
And within My walls a place and a name
Better than that of sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
That shall not be cut off.

⁶ “Also the sons of the foreigner
Who join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him,
And to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants—
Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And holds fast My covenant—
⁷ Even them I will bring to My holy mountain,
And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
Will be accepted on My altar;
For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.”
⁸ The Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says,
“Yet I will gather to him
Others besides those who are gathered to him.”

 

 

 

The new earthly Jerusalem might be similar to the heavenly Jerusalem high on a mountain that John saw when he was in heaven. This I'm not sure, just speculating.

Revelation 21:10 New King James Version (NKJV)

¹⁰ And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,