But Zion Said (49)
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But Zion Said
But Zion Said
14 But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, And the Lord has forgotten me.”
But this salvation is far off, it is long away, Zion doesn’t have confidence in God. This change, this glorious day of salvation, Zion is dispondent and dejected, and has no confidence in God.
Zion/Jerusalem, “as the captial of Israel, the center of true releigion, the earthly residence of God Himself, and therefore an appropriate and natural emblen of His chosen people or the anctient church.”
illustration: the way we may speak of the tryanny of Rome, “meaning not the city, but the great ecclesiastical society or corporation which it represents, and of which it is the center.”
This is the city of God. The city of the elect. The true city of God’s children.
This is not just Zion in one expressed time, but eternal Zion, the eternal city, the city of God. Thi s is the city of God’s elect, which has representation on earth in the old dispensaiton, but was a reflection of the eternal city of God, which comes into fuller expression in the New Covenant revelation.
26 But the Jerusalem above is free; she is our mother.
27 For it is written, “Rejoice, barren woman who does not give birth; Break forth and shout, you who are not in labor; For more numerous are the children of the desolate one Than of the one who has a husband.”
28 And you brothers, in accordance with Isaac, are children of promise.
And that quotation, we will see in Isa 54, is the same Zion.
But God says,
15 “Can a woman forget her infant And have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you.
Will you ladies just happen to forget your baby? Like you forget your car keys? Like you may leave something behind?
God says, even mom’s may forget their babies! but I won’t forget you!
So ladies, the love you feel for those bubbies, doesn’t even touch the love of God for Zion.
16 “Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Your walls are continually before Me.
Her name is written on His palms. The is the name of Zion, of His bride, is on the palm of His hands.
Christ bought Zion by receiving NAILS through His hands. Scars that He retains in His glorified body!
27 Then He said to Thomas, “Bring your finger here, and see My hands; and bring your hand here and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing.”
The Lord Yahweh expresses His love towards His bride Zion. I’m not making that figure up, we see it in Isa 54:5
5 “For your husband is your Maker, Whose name is Yahweh of hosts; And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, Who is called the God of all the earth.
The Lord’s hands have the name of the elect written on them for eternity!
His scares are the sign of His love toward her.
He says to the city of God, His holy elect people,
Her walls are forever before Him. He remembers them all times.
18 “Lift up your eyes and look around; All of them gather together; they come to you. As I live,” declares Yahweh, “You will surely put on all of them as jewels and bind them on as a bride.
Look around Zion, they are pouring in, from far off! your children, your sons and daughters, your inheritence.
You will put them on as a bride adorns herself for a wedding, as a woman in her glory in her marriage,
so you, will receive the fat of the earth. Kings will rise, and princes wlil bow down.
They pour in. In all riecteions they comes.
Zion, God’s city, His people on earth.
19 “For your devastated and desolate places and your destroyed land— Surely now you will be too cramped for the inhabitants, And those who swallowed you will be far away.
Those destroyers from vs. 17, they will flee. Those who trouble you will flee away.
And you will be too cramped in your little corner of the world. There will be so many of you, you will have to EXPAND!
20 “The children of whom you were bereaved will yet say in your ears, ‘The place is too cramped for me; Make room for me that I may live here.’
The barren woman, the one who had no children, her children will say, it’s too small! Make room for me, so that I may live here.
21 “Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has borne these for me? Indeed, I have been bereaved of my children And am barren, an exile and a wanderer. And who has reared these? Behold, I remained alone; From where did these come?’”
Where will they come from?
