erusalem: God’s Eternal City

Jerusalem is an Eternal City and will soon be the capital of the One Thousand Year Kingdom of Jesus Christ. It is a simple matter to understand all this hoopla over this breathtaking city. Presently it is simply a place of different religions and different claims of possession. It is like a diamond in the rough and being cast about by political forces.

But in God’s plan, it is His city and He has His angels keeping watch. “I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence.” (Isaiah 62:6) We are reminded to keep this matter on our hearts and continuously in our conversations with God. You have nothing to fear that somehow this city will be obliterated. It can no more happen than for the sun to fall. Trouble is ahead, but very soon God will step out of His Heavenly Jerusalem and take possession of His earthly Jerusalem.

An honest and Biblically sound evaluation of Jerusalem’s immediate future can be quite unnerving. For someone that loves Jerusalem as deeply as I do, it is not easy to accept the truth. Praying for the peace of the “chosen city” has been a commitment of my life for many years. The Bible commands every believing individual, Jew or Gentile, to be deeply committed to this responsibility. It is easy once we accept this challenge to then fail to see the prophetic facts of what must occur to accomplish the answer. When we pray for the “Peace of Jerusalem,” we also are praying for the perfect fulfillment of all acts of judgment and prophecies that will ultimately assure the “peace.” Actually, when you pray for peace, you are praying for the Biblical process, which is terrifying to discover