SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/13/2015
11:32 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
Jerusalem A Holy City
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Joel 3:17
Message of the
verse: In today’s SD we will begin the last main point from Dr. Wiersbe’s
outline on the book of Joel which has four sub-points in it and once we are
done with those four sub-points we will then be done with our study of Joel and
move on to the next Minor Prophet which is Amos. He entitles this last main-point “After That
Day: Blessing Poured Out” and it covers
the remaining verses in Joel, 3:17-21.
When the Lord Jesus Christ, the King comes back at the
end of the Tribulation Period everything will change and we will look at a
sample of what will change in our next sour Spiritual Diaries from the book of
Joel. What goes on during the Millennial
Kingdom is spoken of in different books of the Old and New Testaments and when
we go through the different prophets, where most of this information is found
we will point it out.
A Holy City: Joel 3:17:
“17 Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, Dwelling in Zion, My
holy mountain. So Jerusalem will be holy, And strangers will pass through it no
more.” 17 “Then you will know that I,
the LORD your God, dwell in Zion, my holy hill. Jerusalem will be holy; never again
will foreigners invade her (NIV).”
As we studied through the different books of the Old
Testament, and we have began in the book of Genesis on December 30, 2005 and
have proceeded through the Old Testament where we are today almost ten years
later, and what we find is that God chose Israel years after sin entered
mankind which is seen in the 3rd chapter of Genesis. From chapter 3-12 of Genesis many things
happened including Noah’s flood which changed our planet drastically to what we
have today. In the 12th
chapter of Genesis God calls an idol worshiper named Abram who was 75 years old
to begin a family, which did not happen until he was 100 years old and his wife
was 90 years old, a miracle for sure. As
the family grew and made its way to Egypt God changed the family into a nation
and Moses led the nation out of Egypt which is seen from the books of Exodus through
Deuteronomy. God would call a tribe from
the nation of Israel to be the one that the Messiah would come through and then
a family within that tribe where He would come through. The tribe was Judah and the family was David’s
family and it was his son Solomon who built the temple in Jerusalem and the
Lord filled that temple with His glory. Years later the temple was destroyed and
another one built in its place then in 70 AD that one was also destroyed and
now there is a mosque standing where that temple once stood. God will surely remove that mosque in His own
time so that the Tribulation Temple can be built and then when the Lord Jesus
Christ returns the Millennial temple will take its place and once again the
city of Jerusalem will be God’s holy city, but this time as Joel writes there
will never again be a Gentile nation to attack Jerusalem. Jesus said that there would be a times of the
Gentiles and then that time would be complete.
Dr. Wiersbe writes “Jerusalem is called ‘the Holy City’
at least eight times in Scripture (Neh. 11:1, 18; Isa. 48:2 and 52:1; Dan.
9:24; Matt. 4:5 and 27:53; Rev. 11:2), and we will call it ‘the Holy City
today. Like every other city in this
world Jerusalem is inhabited by sinners who do sinful things. But the day will come when Jerusalem shall be
cleansed (Zech. 13:1) and truly become a holy city dedicated to the Lord (Isa.
4:1-6).
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