Sept 8, 2024 … Zion Forever

Sept 8, 2024 … Zion Forever

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    to hear Sandra McKracken with music and lyrics, singing We Will Feast In the House of Zion,  declaring that all who believe in Christ as Messiah will dwell together forever with The Lord in the House of God, which is in Zion    

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Highlight Passage: … Psalms 87:6 [NLT] … 

6 When the Lord registers the Nations, He will say, “They have all become citizens of Jerusalem.”  

…God’s promise, in song, singing that The Lord will ultimately gather all His promised children, together in Jerusalem, the City of Zion.   

    

Highlight Passage (in context): …  Psalms 87  NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

 God’s chorus sings of God bringing all His chosen people TOGETHER in Jerusalem, the City of Zion.                                                                                                                                                 

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 132:13-14 … [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

…  God’s Psalmist singing of God choosing Zion, the City of David, i.e., Jerusalem, as His final … and eternal … resting place.                    

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 59:20-21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

… God’s prophetic promise, thru Isaiah, taht God will ultimately gather all His faithful believers in Jerusalem, the City of David, . Zion, … as The Lord’s final, eternal, resting place.  

Reference Passage: …  John  14:1-4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

… Jesus shares with His disciples (and us) that He will go ahead of them (us) and prepare a home for them (and us) in Zion (i.e., glory).        

Reference Passage: … Romans 11:25-32 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

… The Apostle Paul quotes from Isaiah, telling ALL faithful Christians that God, in the final days, will gather all His faithful disciples in Zion, The City of David, … the New Jerusalem.     

Reference Passage: … Hebrews 12:22-23 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …   

… God’s word, thru the Author of Hebrews, of the New Jerusalem, Zion, the glorious and final gathering place for all who believe in Christ as Messiah.  .   

Reference Passage: … Revelation 14:1 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …   

… God reveals His final resting place on Mount Zion, in the New Jerusalem.  

 

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Tim Gustafson  -  AT THIS LINK  -  wrote of the controversy surrounding the meaning of Otto Preminger’s allegorical film in 1960 titled “Exodus,” which ended with a young murdered couple buried together in the same grave, … one a Jew and another an Arab.  The controversy was whether the burial symbolized God burying the dream of God’s final eating place or a hopeful symbol of God bring all believers, Jews and Gentile, TOGETHER. in God’s final resting.  

     

Personally, taking in the linked song and the Scriptures above, I believe that Preminger symbolized the ultimate reality …  that God will rest forever in glory in The Lord’s final abode in the heavenly glory of Zion, The New Jerusalem, in heaven.  And for my fellow believers and readers, . do you join me in this optimism?  Will you be with me there in Zion? 

My THANKFULNESS:... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for calling me to go Home to be with You in glory, Lord.      

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I’m praying that those who read with me here will join me to follow You, Lord, all the way to be with You in the glorious home You’re preparing for us in Zion.    …  Amen

 

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