Today’s reading is Psalm 87.
“On the holy mount stands the city he founded…”
Psalm 87:1 (ESV)
Jerusalem on Mt. Zion is the city whose foundations were laid, not by men, but by God. Oh, sure, a geo-political city was on that mountain before Israel came into the promised land. Melchizedek was a priest there. The Jebusites lived there. However, as far as Israel is concerned, it was one of those cities they didn’t have to build. God provided it for them. However, Jerusalem on Zion was something more than a geo-political entity. It was the dwelling place of God. This was God’s city. David didn’t make it that. Solomon didn’t make it that. God made it that.
But the ears of Christians everywhere should perk up as we read the first line of this psalm.
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.
Hebrews 11:8-10 (ESV)
When the author of Hebrews says this about Abraham, on the one hand, he is definitely looking back to this historical notion of God’s city (See also Isaiah 14:32; 28:16). However, when we keep reading in Hebrews, we discover that city was actually pointing to another one.
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem and to innumerable angles in festal gathering and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
Hebrews 12:22-24 (ESV)
When we come to Jesus Christ and to the assembly or church of the firstborn enrolled in heaven, we have come to Mt. Zion and the city of the living God. We have come to the heavenly Jerusalem. We have come to the city which literally was built completely by God. The foundation is Jesus Christ Himself and the apostles of Jesus (see Ephesians 2:20). The bricks and mortar are the people God has saved.
Yesterday we highlighted we have to be in God’s city if we want to be on the winning side. And now we know how to do that. We don’t have to travel to Israel. We need to come to Jesus and His church.
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