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  • Bennymkje - 1 year ago
    "City on a Hill"

    The Spirit lays down in the Scriptures certain statements as undeniable as axiomatic as the holiness of God and is the glory of the Word. He is the Word. The Spirit calls these affirmations as 'pure words' because it is tried seven times. "The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times."(Ps.12:6) So Jesus sets it as the doctrine of God. Because these words are minted in heaven it shall be thus on earth. According to the principle of Similitude it is also a parable comparing the foundation of Zion is already laid in heaven to which kingdom building of God shall be according to the body God has already prepared. (Ps.40:8;12:6)

    "Ye are the light of the world" Matt.5:14. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid." Here Jesus was presenting the Gospel of God and he was there to prove by example. This kingdom building therefore puts both heaven and earth as one and there are no works other than faith. It is his abiding life.

    New birth that was enjoined upon man and how he ran the gauntlet of the disbelieving world in the world of the flesh has its own parallel as saints redeemed from the earth are rendering the House of Wisdom with seven pillars as glorious as the city on a hill. This city is called New Jerusalem. "And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,/ Having the glory of God.(Re.21:10-11).

    The angel led him to a great and high mountain and it represents what Daniel referred in interpreting the king's dream.( Dan 2:44-45). The city on this hill is the stone cut of it but not with hands. Glory of God as the Father of lights is a mountain against which the body of Christ is the city and it cannot be hid.



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