God seemingly loves practice runs and types,
Like
the Torah’s ceremonial archetypes, 1
Aspects
of ancient Jewish history,
That
foretell of things in world history.
But
practice runs and types are only as good,
As
to ‘watchers’ they are clearly
understood.
It
takes a patient and perceptive eye and mind,
To
decipher practice runs and types like God’s kind. 2
One
that I love is the ancient city, Jerusalem,
A
unique city that stirs passions deep in God’s bosom.
Literally,
from start to end, this city is featured.
World
history in this one city seems to be anchored.
Some
opine it was the center of earth’s land matrix,
Long
before continents were formed via ‘plate
tectonics’.
Some
believe it’s where God sowed His ‘garden
seed’,
His
seed to world peace that we all soon would need. 3
Though
it’s ‘teaching of peace’ that this
city’s name depicts, 4
Jerusalem
features in ‘extra-cosmic conflicts’.
That
ole war in Heaven that devil forces lost, 5
Now
plays out here on earth, and thus God’s peace is lost.
Since
God stated there The Prince of
Peace will be enthroned,
There
devils work to ensure God’s peace will be postponed.
God
has allotted them a ‘short time’ to exhaust,
Until
then, we and this city... must pay the
cost. 6
From
shuttle diplomacy to U.N. resolutions,
For
this city, we can’t seem to find lasting solutions!
From
trying to solve this city’s current saga,
The
world has gotten a ‘collective hernia’! 7
Jerusalem,
oh Jerusalem…
…Hill
God has desired, and has also chosen.
…His
‘garden peace seed’ planted in the
earth’s Zion.
…Barometer
of mounting conflict pressure.
…A
Gordian knot the world cannot cut through.
…A
heavy stone the nations cannot lift.
…Whose
deliverance one day shall be swift.
…Center
of a black hole around which nations swirl.
…Whose
soon future will be the center of the world.
…Thermometer
of earth’s spiritual health.
…Where
all nations will one day dispatch their wealth.
…All
nations will yearly flock to your destination,
…And
bow to worship God of Heav’n and creation. 8
Yesterday, the
promised seat of a final worldwide peace.
Today, to
the world, God’s ‘cup of drunkenness’.
Tomorrow, t’will
be His seat of ‘iron rod firmness’!
Forever, city
from which His presence shall never cease!
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1
Torah is the first 5 books of The Bible. The word means teaching.
2 It is good to study and discover typology
between the Old and New Testament events.
3 The
Garden of Eden, which many believe was intended to grow and cover the entire
earth
4 ‘Jeru’
also means teaching, and ‘salem’
means peace. See: Hebrew
Glossary.
‘Zion’
is the hill in Jerusalem on which Jewish temples were built, and is known today
as the Temple Mount.
5 See
Lucifer’s 5 prideful ‘I will…’ statements
in Isaiah 14:13-14, and the concluding result Jesus mentioned in Luke 10:18.
Lucifer became satan.
6 See:
Revelation 12:12, and 21:2-3
7
Could this give the nations an allegorical
hernia?!
‘Behold,
I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding
peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall happen
in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples;
all who would heave it away (out of
Jewish control?) will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth
are gathered against it.’ (Zechariah 12:2-3
)
8 See:
Isaiah 60:5, 11, and Zechariah 14:16
