The City of the Great King
The City of Righteousness
The Zion of the Holy One of Israel
Salem (Gen. 14:18), jebns
Its walls, gates, and bulwarks
Its wealth, population, industry
Its idolatry, wickedness, religion
Its geographical situation
Its people saved and righteous
Universal center of blessing
Characterized by holiness
The Gentiles build its walls
Served by nations and kingdoms
The Queen in gold of Ophir
A place of perfect security
Jehovah its rest and glory
Longevity of its inhabitants
Jerusalem's future is the special testimony of the Hebrew Prophet's (see especially that magnificent millennial description, Isaiah 60).
By Shishak, king of Egypt
By Jehoash, king of Israel
[History records no less than thirty-four instances of Jerusalem being besieged. Besides the foregoing, Jerusalem has been attacked by the Grecians, Syrians, Egyptians, Parthians, Romans, and Europeans.]
ITS DESOLATION.
Not one stone left upon another
A wilderness and desolation
RESTORED JERUSALEM.
Jerusalem, when reconstructed anew, will cover the site of the old and present city, but will be greatly enlarged, probably occupying with its suburbs and gardens an area of about fifty miles (Ezek. 48), and lying between the portions assigned to Judah and Benjamin. The city proper, will probably be about thirty-six miles in circumference. The millennial temple will be built anew from its foundation, and according to Divine patterns and measurements-not on the site of the old one, nor on that to be erected and afterward destroyed, upon the removal of the church to heaven. Zechariah 14, also the prophets Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel, supply particulars of deep and abiding interest as to the Jewish future.
"Joy to His ancient people!
Your bonds He comes to sever-
And now, 'tis done! the Lord hath won,
And ye are free forever."