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The Jerusalem Connection
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| Why is God so obsessed with Jerusalem? | |
| Well, I kind of obsessed with it. | |
| I think several reasons. | |
| I think God just, when he sees people attack the city and come against the city, number one, tradition says that it was where he created the heaven and the earth, that the what we call the cornerstone of the temple or the stone, the foundation stone on the temple mount, was the place that when God said to Job, where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth and laid the cornerstone thereof? | |
| That that was the area of the rock of the temple mount. | |
| Not just the rock where the dome is, the dome of the rock, that rock that's there, but that whole area. | |
| And it is the center of the earth, number two, according to Ezekiel. | |
| So if you laid out a flat map, not a globe, but a flat map, which I did see one time in a rest area, and I noticed that the continents kind of had corners or four corners, as the Bible talks about. | |
| Jerusalem actually becomes the center of it. | |
| Number three, I have a teaching that would take forever to teach, that I do believe by symbolism, by pattern, and actually by looking at the rivers of the Garden of Eden, four rivers in Eden, and squaring them out, that Jerusalem was the center of the Garden of Eden, probably was where the tree of life was, and where God would come down with the cool of the day and talk to Adam. | |
| And when Adam was expelled, the Bible says he went east of Eden, and that would be the Judean wilderness. | |
| And there was a city that's thousands of years old that no longer exists called the city of Adam, which the Bible mentions that was located at the Jordan River near the Dead Sea, believed to be, according to Rabbi Goetz, the city that Adam lived in and was named after him after he was expelled from the garden. | |
| I think the fourth reason is, and this is many reasons, is that the two temples, the temple of Solomon and the second temple that Christ was at, were on that temple mount in Jerusalem, and it became known as the city of God or the holy place of God or the house of God. | |
| Number five, it is called the gate of heaven because Jacob, when he had the vision of the ladder in Genesis, where the top of the ladder was in heaven, the bottom of the ladder was on earth, he said, this is the house of God. | |
| In Hebrew, it's Bethel. | |
| This is the gate of heaven. | |
| And again, Rabbi Goetz, and according to Jewish historical writings, will tell you that was the Temple Mount where that ladder was situated. | |
| Another important part, aspect of the city of Jerusalem is in the book of Deuteronomy in about three to six references. | |
| You have to look throughout the book and the Torah to find them. | |
| God says, I will take you to a place where I will put my name there. | |
| I'm going to do a YouTube video. | |
| I think I've already done it in which I show a map of Jerusalem. | |
| And the mountains of Jerusalem, and we're talking about where the old city is and where the Temple Mount is, is shaped like the letter Shein, like this, which is the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet representing God's name. | |
| The Temple Mount itself is shaped like a Yud. | |
| And actually, I'm talking about the topography of the mountain itself. | |
| And that's the first letter of God's sacred name, Yud, He Vav, Hei, Yave. | |
| In the book of Hebrew, it's the first letter of Yaakov, the name Jacob. | |
| It's the first letter in Hebrew for Yerushalaim, which is Jerusalem. | |
| It's the first letter in Judah or Yudah, as the Jews pronounce it. | |
| It's the smallest letter of the Hebrew alphabet, indicating that God would take a small nation and raise them up to be a great nation. | |
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The Third Holiest City
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| Also, I think the ultimate thing about Jerusalem is that it is the place where the redemption of all mankind took place. | |
| The blood of Jesus is somewhere. | |
| Of course, we know that 2,000 years changes typography and ground, but somewhere the blood of Jesus is in the ground in Jerusalem. | |
| It is also the birthplace of the church on the day of Pentecost. | |
| And so it is the city of God. | |
| That 27 to 35 acres, we call the Temple Mount, is the most sacred spot in the world to Jews because of Abraham offering Isaac. | |
| It is the most sacred spot in the world to Christians because of Mount Moriah, the crucifixion, resurrection, ascension of Jesus on the Mount of Olives. | |
| It is holy also to Muslims. | |
| It happens to be the third holiest place to Muslims because the Muslims have Mecca, Medina, and Saudi Arabia. | |
| But the third spot, and they'll tell you this, is the city of Jerusalem. | |
| And you're talking about the apple of God's eye. | |
| So God always predicted, He said, there will be destructions to nations who try to take out my city. | |