Bible Discussion Thread

Ze.12:1-3

Jerusalem

The burden of the word of theLordfor Israel, saith theLord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him./Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

3And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it."(vv.1-3)

Here we have the prophecy concerning the Roman army under Trajan laying siege, 'both against Judah and against Jerusalem.'

V.3 Jerusalem is shown as a burden for 'all people'. It is not about a geographical label we know but the heavenly city of God. It is the culmination of the Latter temple on the making. It is founded on the holy hill the stone cut not with hands. It shall become a mountain in place of the old earth where the world governments one after the other collapsed because they were building up their own glory which they called many names,, individualism, collectivization and what not. They were all heathens, unmitigated disasters who spared not their own kind. "Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?/The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against theLord, and against his anointed, saying,/Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

4He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: theLordshall have them in derision./Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure./Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion."(Ps.2:1-6) The prophet says, "All that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it."(vv.1-3)

"And the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure."(Dan.2:45)