This song of Solomon is classed as a song of Ascents that pilgrims traditionally recited going up to the city of Jerusalem. The Spirit is exhorting us to look beyond the superficials and we are to be fitly framed together as holy temple. "Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged."(Is. 51:1)
"Except theLordkeep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain."
The city of habitation is a heavenly city. Zion to give it a name.("Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation"-Is.28:16;102:16). The Lord God is the maker of heaven and the earth. When He sent his only begotten Son to the world it was not to found any new city or keep a city already founded by man, than the one which He already had. It is to this Jesus referred,"In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.... that where I am, there ye may be also."( John 14:2).
Preparation of this house has been set in motion from the moment a day was decreed for the Son. It a city which is his inheritance by right. "Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession." The psalm refers it as uttermost parts, from one end to another and the house that can accommodate such a company, 'and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him' to give it a number, -and it is what Daniel reckoned Dan.7:10, . In the literal temple of Solomon the priests could not enter because the glory "of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord."(1 Ki.8:11).
In the Isaiah quote mentioned at the outset has a sure foundation and it was for which God sent his sent his Son. His death and resurrection delineate the way, "For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ."(1 Co.3:11)
This song of Solomon is classed as a song of Ascents that pilgrims traditionally recited going up to the city of Jerusalem. The Spirit is exhorting us to look beyond the superficials and we are to be fitly framed together as holy temple. "Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged."(Is. 51:1)
"Except theLordkeep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain."
The city of habitation is a heavenly city. Zion to give it a name.("Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation"-Is.28:16;102:16). The Lord God is the maker of heaven and the earth. When He sent his only begotten Son to the world it was not to found any new city or keep a city already founded by man, than the one which He already had. It is to this Jesus referred,"In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.... that where I am, there ye may be also."( John 14:2).
Preparation of this house has been set in motion from the moment a day was decreed for the Son. It a city which is his inheritance by right. "Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession." The psalm refers it as uttermost parts, from one end to another and the house that can accommodate such a company, 'and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him' to give it a number, -and it is what Daniel reckoned Dan.7:10, . In the literal temple of Solomon the priests could not enter because the glory "of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord."(1 Ki.8:11).
In the Isaiah quote mentioned at the outset has a sure foundation and it was for which God sent his sent his Son. His death and resurrection delineate the way, "For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ."(1 Co.3:11)
Good explanation. I can't wait to possess fully what Jesus has prepared for us in glory!
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