Why is a hill in Jerusalem more significant prophetically than the world’s tallest mountains? Let’s begin in Psalm 129.
A Song of Ascents. (WEB)
As this Psalm looks back on national woes that Israel has survived, do we look back on life’s storms that we have weathered? Did the Psalmist call severe national suffering being plowed by long furrows?
Since my youth they have often attacked me—let Israel say—Since my youth they have often attacked me, but they have not prevailed against me. Plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long. The Lord is righteous; He has cut the ropes of the wicked. (Ps 129:1-4 HCSB)
Did this Psalm pray that those who hate Zion wither like grass on a roof? Does it also picture the short term success of God’s enemies? Does such suffering bring hope of repentance and restoration? Does Zion picture God’s rule over the nations?
Let all who hate Zion be turned away and be ashamed. May they become like a tuft of grass on a roof top, that withers before it takes root—not enough to fill one’s hand or to bundle in one’s arms. And may those who pass by never tell them, “May the Lord’s blessing be upon you. We bless you in the name of the Lord.” (Ps 129:5-8 ISV)
If a lively stone is one easily worked by a master stone mason, are we malleable in God’s hands? Who is the cornerstone from whom all other stones in a building are laid?
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. (1 Pet 2:5-6 KJV)
When Jesus entered Jerusalem humbly on a donkey, what was proclaimed to Zion’s daughter?
And this took place in order that what was spoken through the prophet would be fulfilled, saying, “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold your King is coming to you, Lowly, and mounted on a donkey, And on a colt, the foal of a pack animal.’” (Mat 21:4-5 LSB)
What wonderful and mysterious future is prophesied about Mount Zion?
Then I looked, and behold, the Lamb was standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and the name of His Father written on their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven, like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder, and the voice which I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps. And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders; and no one was able to learn the song except the 144,000 who had been purchased from the earth. (Rev 14:1-3 NASB)
Why is a hill in Jerusalem more significant prophetically than the world’s tallest mountains? You decide!
