LOVE - A thought!
(By Jesus of Zion)
Such a short word.
Such a massive substance.
Nothing, save LOVE, can bring as much pleasure…
…Nothing , but LOVE, can create as much pain.
Nothing ,save LOVE, can offer so much satisfaction…
…Nothing, but LOVE, can cut as deep.
Nothing, except LOVE , can build up as completely…
Nor can anything, except LOVE , tear down so fully.
LOVE destroys… LOVE heals.
LOVE calls… LOVE answers.
LOVE completes …yet is never finished.
LOVE gives all you can give…
… and costs all that you are…
…Yet…
…No matter the cost.
…No matter the result.
…No matter who.
…No matter why.
I shall BE LOVE!
I shall Become LOVE!
I shall LOVE all that is and in seeking Love…
…I will find truth.
…I will find peace.
…I will find joy.
…I will find unity, companionship and oneness with all that is LOVE!
…I will find gladness and satisfaction that Being LOVE brings!!!
…I will thus find GOD …
…for since “GOD IS LOVE“ then in the seeking of “LOVE ”…
…There is where I will find the “ GOD”…
…That IS “GOD“ …
… THAT IS “LOVE“…
“AMEN!”
BE LOVE & BE LOVED!...........joz........................................................
Saturday, July 5, 2008
10 MAIDENS..of ZION?
THE PARABLE OF THE 10 MAIDENS (of Zion):
The “Parable of the 10 Maidens” is one of the best parables in the Bible regarding “ZION” and who shall enter and who shall not.
Parables are stories told on a simple physical level and intended to teach an important spiritual lesson to those who are wise enough to “get it”.
Usually such stories can have multiple meanings if you examine them deeply… because the spirit is a deeper thinker than the mind… yet the mind is the path through which the spirit receives information and input.
The first telling here is as exactly as it appears in the book of Matthew:
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Matthew 25:1-13 (AS WRITTEN)
"Then the kingdom of heaven shall be compared to ten maidens who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them; but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. But at midnight there was a cry, 'Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.' Then all those maidens rose and trimmed their lamps.
And the foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.' But the wise replied, 'Perhaps there will not be enough for us and for you; go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.' And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast; and the door was shut. Afterward the other maidens came also, saying, 'Lord, lord, open to us.' But he replied, 'Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.' Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour."
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Now this is followed with a story regarding “the good and bad servants”, which brings even further understanding (to the wise), and, after that, some other more specific information regarding how the “division” of the righteous from the unrighteous shall take place.
Matthew 25:40 makes it very clear regarding what specifically shall be the basis of true judgment .
Imagine now that you are a confused disciple and you are now alone with Yahashua (Jesus) sitting comfortably with the other disciples and you ask him (as though it were this very day) to make clear the meaning of this “Maiden story”.
Allow me now to take the role to which I serve and provide a more clear meaning (I will allow the reader to decide if what I say has merit but please carefully consider this as it applies to the story).____________________________________________________________________________________
Matthew 25:1-13 (Paraphrased Commentary By JoZ)
"Then those who are to enter Zion shall be followers of YHWH (GOD) who maintained the fires of Love and Faith in their spirit and WENT to meet the one who they believed in. Some of them were foolish (had religion but no love or faith ), and some were wise (Realized that it is Love and not religion on which men shall be judged… action. Not just words). For when the foolish heard the inner call of YHWH, they doubted for they had no real love, nor faith; but the wise realized that Love and Faith is the oil that fills the lamp of the Spirit. As the Calling was delayed, they all came to fall away from what was the real truth. But at the proper time there was an inner calling, 'Behold, the Christ has come and we must go unto Zion now! Come and see for the time has arrived.' Then all those who believed the call woke up and realized they had to make their Love and Faith real in order and realize the truth.
And the foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your understanding and love, for our faith is weak.' But the wise replied, 'We must go by the faith we have and no longer have time to teach it for if you don’t understand go and quickly learn what you are lacking in' And while they wondered about looking for some way to get their love and faith back, the “gates of Zion“ were opened, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast; and the door to Zion was shut. Afterward the other weak and doubting believers came also, saying, 'Lord, lord, open to us.' But he replied, 'Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.' (not out of spite but because once the doors are closed they cannot be reopened until all is safe) Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour."(But I say this…IT COMES SOON).
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Shall you be a wise or foolish one on that day? I pray you see the wisdom and truth in what I say here for again Scripture shall always conform to truth. “Dogma” and “Doctrines” shall one day pass away… All men have a lamp (spirit) but “Love” and “Faith” are the “oil” that shall allow men to see truth, survive what comes and gladly enter the gates of Zion.
Do you think that you shall enter the Kingdom by simply stating a name? What is faith if it has nothing to support it by your actions? No, it is not by claiming a name that men shall enter the Kingdom of YHWH (ZION) but by judging yourself by your ability to simply…
…BE LOVE & BE LOVED! (Matthew 25:40.. Read it yet again).
The “Parable of the 10 Maidens” is one of the best parables in the Bible regarding “ZION” and who shall enter and who shall not.
Parables are stories told on a simple physical level and intended to teach an important spiritual lesson to those who are wise enough to “get it”.
Usually such stories can have multiple meanings if you examine them deeply… because the spirit is a deeper thinker than the mind… yet the mind is the path through which the spirit receives information and input.
The first telling here is as exactly as it appears in the book of Matthew:
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Matthew 25:1-13 (AS WRITTEN)
"Then the kingdom of heaven shall be compared to ten maidens who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them; but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. But at midnight there was a cry, 'Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.' Then all those maidens rose and trimmed their lamps.
And the foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.' But the wise replied, 'Perhaps there will not be enough for us and for you; go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.' And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast; and the door was shut. Afterward the other maidens came also, saying, 'Lord, lord, open to us.' But he replied, 'Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.' Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour."
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Now this is followed with a story regarding “the good and bad servants”, which brings even further understanding (to the wise), and, after that, some other more specific information regarding how the “division” of the righteous from the unrighteous shall take place.
Matthew 25:40 makes it very clear regarding what specifically shall be the basis of true judgment .
Imagine now that you are a confused disciple and you are now alone with Yahashua (Jesus) sitting comfortably with the other disciples and you ask him (as though it were this very day) to make clear the meaning of this “Maiden story”.
Allow me now to take the role to which I serve and provide a more clear meaning (I will allow the reader to decide if what I say has merit but please carefully consider this as it applies to the story).____________________________________________________________________________________
Matthew 25:1-13 (Paraphrased Commentary By JoZ)
"Then those who are to enter Zion shall be followers of YHWH (GOD) who maintained the fires of Love and Faith in their spirit and WENT to meet the one who they believed in. Some of them were foolish (had religion but no love or faith ), and some were wise (Realized that it is Love and not religion on which men shall be judged… action. Not just words). For when the foolish heard the inner call of YHWH, they doubted for they had no real love, nor faith; but the wise realized that Love and Faith is the oil that fills the lamp of the Spirit. As the Calling was delayed, they all came to fall away from what was the real truth. But at the proper time there was an inner calling, 'Behold, the Christ has come and we must go unto Zion now! Come and see for the time has arrived.' Then all those who believed the call woke up and realized they had to make their Love and Faith real in order and realize the truth.
And the foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your understanding and love, for our faith is weak.' But the wise replied, 'We must go by the faith we have and no longer have time to teach it for if you don’t understand go and quickly learn what you are lacking in' And while they wondered about looking for some way to get their love and faith back, the “gates of Zion“ were opened, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast; and the door to Zion was shut. Afterward the other weak and doubting believers came also, saying, 'Lord, lord, open to us.' But he replied, 'Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.' (not out of spite but because once the doors are closed they cannot be reopened until all is safe) Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour."(But I say this…IT COMES SOON).
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Shall you be a wise or foolish one on that day? I pray you see the wisdom and truth in what I say here for again Scripture shall always conform to truth. “Dogma” and “Doctrines” shall one day pass away… All men have a lamp (spirit) but “Love” and “Faith” are the “oil” that shall allow men to see truth, survive what comes and gladly enter the gates of Zion.
Do you think that you shall enter the Kingdom by simply stating a name? What is faith if it has nothing to support it by your actions? No, it is not by claiming a name that men shall enter the Kingdom of YHWH (ZION) but by judging yourself by your ability to simply…
…BE LOVE & BE LOVED! (Matthew 25:40.. Read it yet again).
Is Verichip Going Away? (NEWS)
Just as it was launching its consumer campaign VeriChip seems to be going away.
The company launched its ad campaign under the name HealthLink in April, but just three weeks later sold its Canadian unit, Xmark, to Stanley Works for $45 million and put itself on the block.
An executive told RFID Update simply it couldn’t stand the “cash burn” of consumer marketing. This just three weeks after launching its program. The Xmark deal enabled the company to get out from under its bills.
CEO Scott Silverman was then bounced and replaced by Joseph J. Grillo, who runs another RFID company in the same town, Digital Angel. That company lost $4.8 million on sales of $22.4 million in its most recent quarter.
While VeriChip released a study just yesterday claiming its technology saved emergency care patients $685.67 per day, it has been dogged by critics like CASPIAN, which yesterday released a new report linking the chips with cancerous tumors.
The chips only contained 16-digit identification numbers, but from here both they, and the company endorsing them, look to be on the way to the dustbin. That famous picture above, showing the chip next to a penny, may soon represent its stock price.
Dana Blankenhorn has been a business journalist since 1978, and has covered technology since 1982. He launched the Interactive Age Daily, the first daily coverage of the Internet to launch with a magazine, in September 1994.
ORIG.LINK: http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=1027
The company launched its ad campaign under the name HealthLink in April, but just three weeks later sold its Canadian unit, Xmark, to Stanley Works for $45 million and put itself on the block.
An executive told RFID Update simply it couldn’t stand the “cash burn” of consumer marketing. This just three weeks after launching its program. The Xmark deal enabled the company to get out from under its bills.
CEO Scott Silverman was then bounced and replaced by Joseph J. Grillo, who runs another RFID company in the same town, Digital Angel. That company lost $4.8 million on sales of $22.4 million in its most recent quarter.
While VeriChip released a study just yesterday claiming its technology saved emergency care patients $685.67 per day, it has been dogged by critics like CASPIAN, which yesterday released a new report linking the chips with cancerous tumors.
The chips only contained 16-digit identification numbers, but from here both they, and the company endorsing them, look to be on the way to the dustbin. That famous picture above, showing the chip next to a penny, may soon represent its stock price.
Dana Blankenhorn has been a business journalist since 1978, and has covered technology since 1982. He launched the Interactive Age Daily, the first daily coverage of the Internet to launch with a magazine, in September 1994.
ORIG.LINK: http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=1027
IS YOUTUBE WATCHING YOU? (NEWS)
YouTube privacy fears - what you watched, when and your IP Address
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0329430120080704
A U.S. judge's order to Google Inc to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom Inc sparked an outcry on Thursday from privacy advocates in the midst of a legal showdown over video piracy.Viacom, owner of movie studio Paramount and MTV Networks, requested the information as part of its $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against the popular online video service and its deep-pocketed parent, Google.Judge Louis Stanton of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered Google on Tuesday to turn over as evidence a database with usernames of YouTube viewers, what videos they watched when, and users' computer addresses.Privacy activists from the Electronic Frontier Foundation said in a blog post the order "threatens to expose deeply private information" and violated the Video Privacy Protection Act, a 1988 federal law passed after Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork's video rental habits were revealed.Representatives of both companies said they were looking to work out how to comply with the court order to share video data while ensuring personally identifiable information is secure.Viacom responded in a statement that it needs the data to demonstrate video piracy patterns that are the heart of its case against YouTube. But it sought to diffuse privacy fears, saying it had no interest in identifying individual users."Viacom has not asked for and will not be obtaining any personally identifiable information of any user," Viacom said."Any information that we or our outside advisors obtain ... will be used exclusively for the purpose of proving our case against YouTube and Google (and) will be handled subject to a court protective order and in a highly confidential manner."Google senior litigation counsel Catherine Lacavera said her company was looking to resolve the issue quickly in a way that balanced Viacom and other plaintiffs' need for evidence in the case while "carving out some space for user privacy."Lacavera said her company was pleased the court's decision had put limits on evidence discovery, including refusing to allow Viacom access to YouTube's search technology or to users' private videos on the site.But the Google attorney called on Viacom to allow YouTube to anonymize user data -- in other words, redact rows of data containing usernames or unique computer Internet addresses.In closed-door hearings ahead of the ruling, Google attorneys had argued against turning over such data without eliminating personally identifiable information."We are disappointed the court granted Viacom's overreaching demand for viewing history," she said. "We will ask Viacom to respect users' privacy and allow us to anonymize the logs before producing them under the court's order."
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0329430120080704
A U.S. judge's order to Google Inc to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom Inc sparked an outcry on Thursday from privacy advocates in the midst of a legal showdown over video piracy.Viacom, owner of movie studio Paramount and MTV Networks, requested the information as part of its $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against the popular online video service and its deep-pocketed parent, Google.Judge Louis Stanton of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered Google on Tuesday to turn over as evidence a database with usernames of YouTube viewers, what videos they watched when, and users' computer addresses.Privacy activists from the Electronic Frontier Foundation said in a blog post the order "threatens to expose deeply private information" and violated the Video Privacy Protection Act, a 1988 federal law passed after Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork's video rental habits were revealed.Representatives of both companies said they were looking to work out how to comply with the court order to share video data while ensuring personally identifiable information is secure.Viacom responded in a statement that it needs the data to demonstrate video piracy patterns that are the heart of its case against YouTube. But it sought to diffuse privacy fears, saying it had no interest in identifying individual users."Viacom has not asked for and will not be obtaining any personally identifiable information of any user," Viacom said."Any information that we or our outside advisors obtain ... will be used exclusively for the purpose of proving our case against YouTube and Google (and) will be handled subject to a court protective order and in a highly confidential manner."Google senior litigation counsel Catherine Lacavera said her company was looking to resolve the issue quickly in a way that balanced Viacom and other plaintiffs' need for evidence in the case while "carving out some space for user privacy."Lacavera said her company was pleased the court's decision had put limits on evidence discovery, including refusing to allow Viacom access to YouTube's search technology or to users' private videos on the site.But the Google attorney called on Viacom to allow YouTube to anonymize user data -- in other words, redact rows of data containing usernames or unique computer Internet addresses.In closed-door hearings ahead of the ruling, Google attorneys had argued against turning over such data without eliminating personally identifiable information."We are disappointed the court granted Viacom's overreaching demand for viewing history," she said. "We will ask Viacom to respect users' privacy and allow us to anonymize the logs before producing them under the court's order."
ZION HAS MANY NAMES (From Myth, Legend and Culture)
THE MANY NAMES OF ZION
From Myth, Legend and Culture
(Compiled by: Jesus of Zion)
The following list is a continuous project and contains many names which may (or may not) be relevant concerning the biblical concept of Zion. Many hours of research have gone into composing this list and there are very likely some which could be added and others that could easily be omitted.
The idea was primarily to look through thousands of documented ideas, legends , stories, myths and cultural ideas to support the contention that Zion is currently located “within the planet Earth” and is a place of goodness and safety which the Lord God YHWH intends to use as a refuge for man at a future date.
The reader is invited to use their own research and apply their own knowledge to decide which have merit and which do not but just as there are many legends concerning a flood and in each the name of the “hero” and the details may change what should be noted overall is this pervasive question: With so many stories regarding some type of wonderful and mystical underground kingdom should it not be assumed that perhaps something indeed exists?
Where possible a spiritual and/or cultural reference given in parenthesis. The list is in no particular order.
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1) Zion (Hebrew/Christian)
2) New Jerusalem (Hebrew/Christian)
3) Temple of YHWH/God (Hebrew/Christian)
4) House of YHWH/God (Hebrew/Christian)
5) Hades/Sheol (Hebrew/Christian/Greek)
6)Paradise (multi-faith)
7)Underworld (Multi-faith/Native American/Aztec/Mayan)
8) Shambhala (Eastern/Hindu)
9) Meru (Hindu)
10) Saptarshi “Place of 7 Rishi’s” (Hindu)
11) “7-gated” Nippor (Ur/Chaldian)
12) Hyperboria (Greek)
13) Agharti (Celt)
14) Avalon (Celt)
15) Annwn (Celt)
16) Chicomoztoc (Meso-American)
17) Eldorado (Meso-American/ Spanish)
18) Tartarus (Greek)
19) Ithaka (Greek)
20) Bear’s Tipi (Native American)
21) Place of Birth (Native American)
22) Lodge of the Dawn (Native American)
23) Cave of Treasures (Hebrew/Native American)
24) Arcadia (Celt)
25) Holy Mountain/Place (Many Cultures/Native American)
26) Sacred “Secret” Places of the Lion (Multi-cultural)
27) Vessel of God (Hebrew)
28) Qianfutong “Cave of the 1000 Buddhas” (Buddhist)
29) Temple of Enoch (Hebrew/ Enochian)
30) Telaga Tujuh “7 Wells” (Pacific Island Tribal)
31) Kivas “Caves of the Underworld” (Hopi)
32) Eurodise (Greek)
33) Agartha (Buddhist/Tibet)
34) Shangra-La (Buddhist)
35) Thule
36) Arktos
37) Valhalla
38) King Soloman’s Mines
39) Shingwa (Chinese Buddhist)
40) Imperishable Sacred Land (India/Hindi)
41) Forbidden Land (Hindi)
42) Land of White Waters (Hindi)
43) Land of Radiant Spirits (Hindi)
44) Land of Living Fire (Hindi)
45) Land of Living Gods (Hindi)
46) Land of Wonders (Hindi)
47) Aryavarsha (Hindi)
48) Hsi Tien (Buddhist/China)
49) Western Paradise
50) Hsiwang Mu (Buddhist)
51) Royal Mother of the West
52) Belovedye (Russian)
53) Janaidar (Tribal)
54) Place of Peace
55) Land of Tranquility (Sanscrit)
56) Tebu Land (Chinese Taoist)
57) Luz (Hebrew)
58) Avestan (Iranian)
59) Cradleland
60) Agarti
61) Azatlan (Aztec)
62) 7 Cities of Gold
63) Chamat (Malaysian)
64) Patala (India)
65) Duat (Egyptian)
66) Fields of Peace
67) Elysian Fields (Greek)
68) Otherworld (Celt)
69) Abyss of Aker (Egyptian)
70) Land of the Dead (Celt)
71) Land of the Living (Celt)
72) Land of Many Colors (Celt)
73) Promised Land (Hebrew/Celt)
74) Delightful Plain (Celt)
75) Land of Youth (Celt)
76) Land of Eternal Summer (Celt)
77) Land Under the Wave (Celt)
78) Pleasant Land (Celt)
79) Holy Habitation of Zeus (Greek/Plato)
80) Wonderful Regions in the Earth (Greek)
81) Beautiful Eternal Kingdom
82) Deepest Hiding Places (Roman)
83) Midgard (Scadi-German)
84) Great Below (Legend of Gilgamesh)
NOTE: If you have found other names of “Underground Worlds or Kingdoms” legends, myths, etc… Please feel free to add them (By Comment) Below.
Friday, July 4, 2008
ZION: The Final Refuge?
My Dear Friends,
Because I call myself Jesus of ZION I often get people who misunderstand and think that somehow my use of this word means that I might be a ZIONIST… When asked I say “No, I am a ZionITE.. Not a ZionIST .”
(see: Zionism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia )
My view on Zion is quite different than the Zionist view and frankly I teach that Zionism is a dangerous political movement which promotes racism, elitism and the idea that God somehow favors one group of individuals because they were born into the Hebrew bloodline and gives them the right to take control by force of land they claim was given them by God.
In 1967 I was a mere 6 years old yet I still recall my parents getting all excited that the 6-day war (see: Six-Day War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ) resulted in what they saw as the fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecy of the Jews being restored to Israel in preparation for Christ’s return.
Years later I would be in Churches as a preacher (I began preaching in churches at the age of 14) teaching the very same thing without researching anything of the history. I had been taught it and surely somebody authoritative must have checked it out and if they said it was the way it was.. Well then …who was I to question it?
I was taught the Zion was merely a single hill in Israel and that Zionism was just another word for being a Jew and thus All Jews = Israel = Zion(ism) = The Chosen People.
I was taught (and then spread and defended) this idea because I was told it was correct by Pastors, Teachers, Books and all the other religious media. I had never questioned it or explored the alternative ideas of Zion until I was in my Late 30’s and what God revealed to me eventually not only rocked my world but put me up against the entire Evangelical Christian Community.
But before you go and read what God revealed to me (at http://www.wwjsnl.com/ ) the first thing I need to do is educate you as to why Zionism (Both Nationalistic & it’s offshoot “Christian Zionism”) is absolutely 100% wrong.
Those who have been raised in traditionalist conservative Christian Evangelical faiths were, like I was, trained incorrectly and I plead with you to realize I am not asking you to deny your entire faith.. Just deny the parts that turn out to be untrue.
Yes, I know change is hard but if I am right YOU NEED THIS INFORMATION so you don’t lose your faith entirely later.. Because I will tell you right now what will happen all too soon will not jive with the “Dispensationalist” theologies you have often blindly accepted.
I wrote a Blog back some time ago regarding why Dispensationalism has dubious beginnings and was promoted by a man whose history and character is quite questionable named Cyrus Scofield .
(see: Scofield: The Man Behind The Myth )
C.I. Scofield was the man behind the “Scofield Reference Bible” and his notes became the unquestioned beliefs of many (including myself for most of my life.. Until I actually bothered to do the homework required to find out the facts.)
Now some of you are saying “I don’t have a clue what you are talking about.. I’m not a dispensationalist.. I’m a Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist…etc!”.. Well, guess what… If you are in any Church that is listed there or claims any association to Evangelical Conservative Christianity… You were taught Dispensational Theology and need to get some education about it’s history as soon as possible.
(see: Dispensationalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia )
Realize that most Dispensational Teachings include the idea and philosophy of “Christian Zionism”.. which, by the way is why our own country aligns itself with Nationalistic Israel and why John Hagee ( a rich and popular evangelical leader) had a huge conference and started a whole organization in support of Zionist Israel (usually ONLY referred to as “Israel”.)
Israel is NOT a country or a land .. It is a “People“.. TRUE ISRAEL is not at all related to race or Blood. It means literally “People of EL (God)” and is inclusive to all who believe in the God who is Love.
Most people do not even realize that there are Jews who are NOT ZIONISTS.. In Fact many Hebrew Rabbi’s denounce Zionism as being “satanic” and I fear I must agree.
The very idea that a single race of people can claim they are have a divine right to own a small piece of overpopulated desert real estate and then run out the residents because “God said it’s ours” is beyond ludicrous.. It’s just plain EVIL.. And if God worked that way I would actively oppose such a god.
I admit at one time I might have disbelieved what I am presenting.. But I cannot deny what I have learned after God gave me a vision to “SEEK THE TRUTH OF ZION for in ZION is hope of all mankind” (in this vision I was likewise informed that all that is popular regarding “Zion” in today’s conventional faiths is errant and I myself have been utterly blown away to find out this vision is showing itself thus far correct).
Nothing new is ever widely accepted.. Nor popular ..but please read all I present here and do the research yourself . See if perhaps you were following as blindly as I was taught to.. Because once again I cannot overemphasize that if man cannot learn how to LOVE then ZION will truly be our only real hope.. And soon we will be witnessing something that will cause the old view to be provably wrong which is sure to lead many to a huge crises in faith.. (SO.. Hear me now.. believe me later)
The History of Zionism & Judaism
This text is from an article called "An Open Letter" published in the Jewish magazine, "Hachoma". We think it provides a good historical overview of the history of Zionism and why the Zionist ideology is opposed by religious Orthodox Jews.
The Jewish people, from its inception, has been unique by its identity as a religious entity. Through the centuries its religious character had been a premise agreed upon by Jews and non-Jews alike. Our faith demands as the fundamental condition for recognition as a Jew, belief and adherence to the word of G-d, as was revealed to our forefathers on Mount Sinai. This is in itself, according to the tenets of the Jewish religion, sufficient to fulfill the definition of a Jew. Our religious and traditional history bears no aspect of racism.
Hence, one of non-Jewish origin is capable of being proselytized and attaining the same status as a born Jew. Conversely, one of Jewish birth who does not recognize his being bound to the Jewish Torah, is by Jewish law a heretic, and therefore forfeits his spiritual birthrights as a Jew.
The purpose of the Jew is to bear witness to the existence of G-d, through his adherence to the Torah. The Al-mighty granted the Jews the land of Israel as the particular setting which would serve as the most conducive atmosphere to their performance of their duties to G-d.
The Jews in ancient times were banished from the land of Israel because they had failed to fulfill their obligations to the Al-mighty. Every Jew acknowledges this in his prayers (Umipnei Chatoeinu Golinu Meiartzeinu). They accepted the penalty of exile and were at that time expressed sworn by the Al-mighty not to accelerate their redemption on their own, and especially not to rebel against the nations under whose rule they were found. To the contrary, every Jew is commanded to pray for the peace and well being of the government of which he is the subject.
Through all the years of exile, pious Jews as individuals were attracted to reside in the Holy Land because of its innate holy character and the opportunity it offered for the observance of various precepts bound in the land. Jews as a whole continue to pray that the Al-mighty return his Divine presence to the Land of Israel, by the coming of the Messiah, who will build His Temple, from whence will emanate Divine Wisdom and ultimate spiritual fulfillment of the entire human race.
Through the many years that Jews resided in the Holy Land for this purpose, they enjoyed tranquil and cordial relations with the non-Jewish population there.
The Zionist movement which was formed at the latter part of the last century, sought to endow the Jews with a nationalistic character which was heretofore strange to them. It sought to deprive them of their historically religious character and offered in substitution of faith in G-d and adherence to the Torah, and belief in their ultimate redemption by the coming of the Messiah, a nationalistic ideology and the possibility of establishing through political media, a Jewish national homeland.
During the period of the British Mandate, the Balfour Declaration, which recognized the eventual possibility of founding a Jewish national homeland, in Palestine, was affirmed to be the British government. The Jewish Agency, who then was the Chief representative of Zionist interests in the Holy Land, was entrusted with the issuance of visas to the Holy Land, thus resulting in an increased Zionist immigration from various parts of the world, which ultimately succeeded in superceding in numbers, the veteran Orthodox dwellers.
Orthodox Jewry all over the world and the Orthodox Community in the Holy Land in particular, immediately sensed in this stage of Zionist success, the threat of grave danger for the religious future of Jews. The Arab inhabitants began to exhibit open hostility to their Jewish neighbors. The British government failed to distinguish between the Orthodox community, who for generations in habited the Holy Land, and the newly arrived Zionist immigrants.
With the acquisition by the Zionist nationalists of the power to organize communities in Palestine, they formed the Vaad Haleumi Leknesset Yisroel (National Jewish Council Committee). This committee ignored the rights of the Orthodox veteran dwellers who did not recognize this validity of Jewish nationality, and whose identification as Jews was solely with their loyalty to their religious heritage. The religious inhabitants, on the other hand, shuddered at the prospects of spiritual disintegration of World Jewry, with the new rise to power of the Zionist nationalists.
The Orthodox inhabitants actively objected to being subject to the authority of the secularists. They appealed their cause to the League of Nations, who consequently granted them a "Right of exclusion" to the subjugation to the Vaad Haleumi, which rights provided that any Jew wishing not to be incorporated into the Vaad Haleumi, may remain lawfully independent if he so stated his wish in writing. Thousands of Jews did so.
Such was the case until November 1948, when the United Nations finally sanctioned the establishment of a Zionist State. We do not doubt that their success in finally realizing their goal was due in great measure to their having misled the world into viewing the
Zionist cause as the Jewish cause. The formation of the Zionist state resulted in the automatic deprivation of the autonomy heretofore possessed by the Orthodox inhabitants of the Holy Land.
The Zionists grasped in the acquisition of their new powers, the opportunity to openly disassociate themselves from any identification with Jews as a religion. They systematically began to orient the minds of their generations according to the tenets of Zionist nationalism. Through the Ministry of Religions they employed part of the Rabbinate to assist them in their aims.
The religious Jews who by virtue of their faith, clearly contradicted Zionist nationalism, and who had lived peacefully with their Arab neighbors for generations, became unwillingly identified with the Zionist cause and their struggle with the Arabs. They requested the United Nations that Jerusalem be designated as a defacto international city. They appealed to the diplomatic corps assigned to Jerusalem -- but to no avail. They were hence confronted with the choice of either becoming a part of the Zionist State, which diametrically opposed the interests of Jews as a religion, or abandoning the land of which their forefathers were the first Jewish settlers.
We find it of supreme importance to emphasize that we are fearful of the consequences of the Zionist rebellion against the Creator, as stated expressly in Jeremiah, "For it is bad and bitter your renunciation of G-d..." We wish not to be affected by the behavior of this government who in the name of Israel, persist in their renunciation and utter disregard of religious Judaism such as is clearly attested by their laws expressly permitting wanton autopsies (Law of Anatomy and Pathology, 1953), forcible desecration of the Sabbath (Law of Emergency Labor Draft 1967: PPS 1, 19; 27, 36), profanation of Holy Sites by retaining non-religious custodians, desecration of Holy Cemeteries by Safed, Beth Shearim and elsewhere, and countless more examples, proof of which is readily available.
Insofar as all human being find necessary the protection of their rights as human beings, we hereby request all those that find it within their power, to aid us in reacquiring the rights we possessed prior to the formation of the Zionist State*, to remain lawfully independent of the Zionist authority.
_____________* The Laws of Palestine -- Robert Drayton -- Volume 3, Page 213B -- Chapter 126, Paragraph 17(4) -- January 1, 1928.Any person who desires his name to be struck off the register shall, within one month of the publication or the relevant portion thereof, give notice, either personally or by an agent duly authorized in writing, to the General Council (Vaad Leumi) which shall acknowledge the receipt of the notice and strike off his name accordingly; he may send a copy of such notice to the office of the district commissioner. _____________
Historical Progression of Zionism
18th century: The German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn initiates a Jewish secularism, which focused on Jewish national identity.
1862: The German Jew Moses Hess publishes the book Rome and Jerusalem where he called for a return of Jews to Palestine. He also said that Jews would never succeed by assimilating into European societies.
1881: Pogroms of Russia result in heavy emigration to USA. Some few Jews even emigrates to Palestine, as they are motivated by religious ideas of Palestine as Jewish homeland.
1893: Nathan Birnbaum introduces the term 'Zionism'.
1896: The Austrian Jew Theodor Herzl publishes the book The Jewish State, where he declares that the cure for anti-semitism was the establishment of a Jewish state. As he saw it, the best place to establish this state was in Palestine, but this geography was no precondition.
1897: The 1st Zionist Congress is held in Basel in Switzerland. 200 delegates participates. The Basel Program is formulated, which calls for the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, where Jews could live safely under public law. The World Zionist organization is also established, and establishes its head quarters in Vienna, Austria.
1903: Britain offers an area of 15,500 km² in Uganda in Africa, an area of virgin land to the Jews of the world, where a Jewish homeland could be established.
1905: 7th Zionist Congress refuses Britain's Uganda proposal. Israel Zangwill forms the Jewish Territorial organization, which sought to find territory for a Jewish state, no matter where this would be. His organization got only few supporters. — After the Russian revolution is defeated, many young Jews emigrate from Russia.
1917: The Balfour Declaration, issued by the British foreign secretary, gives official British support to the work on establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
1922: Britain gives The World Zionist organization the mandate to administer Jewish immigration and settlement in Palestine. This immigration and settlement was funded by American Jews.
1939: The British 'White Paper' gives the Arabs of Palestine de facto control over Jewish immigration.
1942: A call is issued from Zionist leaders for the establishment of a Jewish state in all of western Palestine, when World War II ends.
1948 May 14: The State of Israel is founded. The World Zionist organization continues to back Jewish immigration to Israel.
1970s: The World Zionist organization puts its muscles into helping Jews in the Soviet Union to emigrate to Israel.
1975 November 10: UN General Assembly passes Resolution 3379, in which Zionism is declared "racist", with 72 votes to 35 (32 abstentions).
1991 December 16: UN General Assembly revokes Resolution 3379, with 111 votes to 25 (13 abstentions).
"Zionism" by Tore Kjeilen, article in the Encyclopaedia of the Orient, Oslo, Norway. Last modified Aug. 22, 2004.http://lexicorient.com/cgi-bin/eo-direct.pl?zionism.htm
SOURCE: http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/zionism/history.cfm
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The Following is an Article from a Jewish Source regarding CHRISTIAN ZIONISM:
LINK: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Zionism/christianzionism.html
Christian Zionism can be defined as Christian support for the Zionist cause — the return of the Jewish people to its biblical homeland in Israel. It is a belief among some Christians that the return of Jews to Israel is in line with a biblical prophecy, and is necessary for Jesus to return to Earth as its king. These Christians are partly motivated by the writings of the Bible and the words of the prophets. However, they are also driven to support Israel because they wish to “repay the debt of gratitude to the Jewish people for providing Christ and the other fundamentals of their faith,” and to support a political ally, according to David Brog, author Standing With Israel: Why Christians Support the Jewish State.
Christian Zionists interpret both the Torah and the New Testament as prophetic texts that describe future events of how the world will one day end with the return of Jesus from Heaven to rule on Earth. Israel and its people are central to their vision. They interpret passages from the books of Ezekiel, Daniel, and Isaiah as foreshadowing the coming Christian era. The New Testament Book of Revelation is read by many Christians as a prophetic text of how the world will be in the End Times.
Christian support for Israel is not a recent development. Its political roots reach as far back to the 1880s, when a man named William Hechler formed a committee of Christian Zionists to help move Russian Jewish refugees to Palestine after a series of pogroms. In 1884, Hechler wrote a pamphlet called “The Restoration of Jews to Palestine According to the Prophets.” A few years later, he befriended Theodor Herzl after reading Herzl’s book The Jewish State, and joined Herzl to drum up support for Zionism. Hechler even arranged a meeting between Herzl and Kaiser Wilhelm II to discuss Herzl’s proposal to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. The two men remained close friends up until Herzl’s death in 1904.
An important milestone in the history of Christian Zionism occurred in 1979, almost a century after William Hechler approached Herzl and offered to mobilize Christian support for a Jewish state: the founding of the Moral Majority. Founded by Rev. Jerry Falwell, the Moral Majority was an organization made up of conservative Christian political action committees that succeeded in mobilizing like-minded individuals to register and vote for conservative candidates. With nearly six million members, it became a powerful voting bloc during the 1980s and was credited for giving Ronald Reagan the winning edge in the 1980 elections. One of the Moral Majority’s four founding principles was “support for Israel and Jewish people everywhere.”
In 1980, Falwell, who ran a television ministry that reached millions of viewers, said of Israel: “I firmly believe God has blessed America because America has blessed the Jew. If this nation wants her fields to remain white with grain, her scientific achievements to remain notable, and her freedom to remain intact, America must continue to stand with Israel.” Falwell disbanded the Moral Majority in 1989, but conservative Christians have remained vocal supporters of Israel though they lacked a strong formal structure for pro-Israel political action.
Christian Zionists, through their volunteer work, political support, and financial assistance to Israel and Jewish causes, have shown that they are stalwart friends of Israel. They have donated large sums of money to support Israel, including to charities that pay the costs of bringing Jews from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia to Israel. For example, Pastor John Hagee has raised more than $4.7 million for the United Jewish Communities. Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to help poor Jews across the world move to Israel.
When Israel’s tourism industry was at a low point between 2000 and 2003 due to the Palestinian War and terrorism, Christian tourists visited Israel in numbers that were sometimes greater than that of the Jewish community. Televangelists such as Pat Robertson and Benny Hinn visited Israel during this period and used their broadcasts to tell their millions of viewers it was safe to visit Israel. Another pro-Israel group, the Christians’ Israel Public Action Campaign, sponsored four missions to Israel. Christians also helped the Israeli tourism industry and economy from home by attending “Shop Israel” days where Israeli merchants would come to America and sell their products.
Despite their support for Israel, many Jews however, are uncomfortable with Christian Zionists. This discomfort is fed by Christian anti-Semitism, Christian replacement theology, evangelical proselytizing, and disagreements over domestic and political issues.
Dispensationalist Christianity, an interpretive or narrative framework for understanding the overall flow of the Bible, teaches that Christianity did not replace Judaism, but that it restored lost elements of it. The dispensationalist view of the Bible is that the Old Testament is foreshadowing for what will occur in the New Testament and, at the end, Jesus returns to reign on Earth after an epic battle between good and evil. Israel plays a central role in the dispensationalist view of the end of the world. The establishment of Israel in 1948 was seen as a milestone to many dispensationalists on the path toward Jesus’ return. In their minds, now that the Jews again had regained their homeland, all Jews were able to return to Israel, just as had been prophesied in the Bible. As described in the Book of Revelation, there is an epic battle that will take place in Israel after it is reestablished — Armageddon — in which it is prophesied that good will finally triumph over evil. However, in the process, two-thirds of the Jews in Israel die and the other third are converted to Christianity. Jesus then returns to Earth to rule for 1,000 years as king.
Although these Christians do hope for a Messianic age, the majority of them do not wish for the deaths of thousands of Jews during Armageddon. Dispensationalist Christians believe that the Jewish people, not Christians, are the ones who were promised Israel in the Bible. In their view, Christianity did not come into existence to replace Judaism, but to restore it. This view has surpassed replacement theology as the dominant form of Christian thought regarding Israel in America today. Jews who are suspicious of Christian Zionist motives are usually unaware that many Christian supporters of Israel have abandoned replacement theology.
Aside from anti-Semitism and Christian replacement theology, many Jews are wary of the fact that many evangelical Christians simply want to convert them to Christianity or speed up the Second Coming of Christ. David Brog refutes this claim:
“Evangelicals who support Israel most certainly do want to convert people. Evangelicals who don’t support Israel also want to convert people. The mission of sharing the ‘good news’ of Jesus Christ is central to being an evangelical. But it is important to note that this is not about converting just the Jews — Christians want to share their faith with Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and their Christian friends and neighbors who have yet to be born again. The important question is this: Is evangelical support for Israel merely a tool in the effort to convert the Jews? Is this merely some scheme to soften the Jews up so that they can better sell Jesus to them? And the answer to this question is absolutely not. If anything, the opposite it true.
Christian Zionists say Jews have no reason to distrust their motives for supporting Israel because they do not believe they can speed up the Second Coming of Christ. In the Gospel of Matthew, it is written that Jesus said about his return, “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.”
Pastor John Hagee, a longtime supporter of Israel, based at the Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, heads Christians United for Israel (CUFI), a pro-Israel group established in 2006. Hagee has denounced replacement theology, and says of Israel: “We believe in the promise of Genesis 12:3 regarding the Jewish people and the nation of Israel. We believe that this is an eternal covenant between God and the seed of Abraham to which God is faithful.” Evangelical leader Pat Robertson echoed this statement while on his tour of Israel during the Israel-Hezbollah war, saying, “The Jews are God’s chosen people. Israel is a special nation that has a special place in God’s heart. He will defend this nation. So Evangelical Christians stand with Israel. That is one of the reasons I am here.”
Pastor Hagee claims that he and other Christian Zionists support Israel because they owe a debt of gratitude to the Jewish people, and not because they want Jews to convert to Christianity. The Jewish people gave the world Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the prophets, of whom there were “not a Baptist in the bunch...The Jewish people do not need Christianity to explain their existence. But Christians cannot explain our existence without Judaism. The roots of Christianity are Jewish.”
Jews are also uncomfortable with Christian Zionists because most have few other common political interests besides their support for Israel. The majority of American Jews are politically and socially liberal. Christian Zionists are on the whole politically conservative Republicans who, for example, oppose abortion and gay marriage, and support prayer in public schools. Most Jews are particularly concerned over what they see as the Christian Right’s efforts to weaken the separation between church and state. The Anti-Defamation League’s director, Abe Foxman, has been particularly outspoken and has said that if the domestic agenda of the Christian Right ever materializes, it will turn American Jews into “second-class citizens in our own country.”
Christian Zionists are also more conservative on Israel than many Jews. They favor Israel maintaining all of its settlements in the West Bank, and were opposed to the Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip. Some prominent Christian Zionists have been highly critical of Israeli government policy of giving over parts of Israel to the Palestinian people. Christian Zionists, like followers of the Israeli Right, believe that Israel should never cede any section of Israel to the Palestinians because Israel was given to the Jews by God. After former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon implemented the disengagement plan from the Gaza Strip and then fell ill a few months later, Pat Robertson claimed that his illness was divine retribution for giving up part of biblical Israel. When asked about Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s convergence plan to evacuate settlements in the West Bank, Robertson said, “It’s an absolute disaster...I don't think the holy God is going to be happy about someone giving up his land.”
Conservative Christians, in general, are viewed as particularly influential with the Bush Administration and Republican Congress, and Christian Zionists are consequently viewed as also having greater access to decision makers. It is not clear, however, that pro-Israel Christians have exerted decisive influence on any significant decisions and their clout is expected to decline if Democrats regain the White House and/or the majority in Congress.
Sources: Brog, David. Standing With Israel: Why Christians Support the Jewish State. FL: Frontline, 2006.; Wikipedia; David Brog; International Fellowship of Christians and Jews; Christians United for Israel; JTA; Q and A with Kathryn Jean Lopez, “Jews And Evangelicals Together: Why some Christians are pro-Israel,” National Review Online, (May 22, 2006); Tovah Lazaroff, “‘Evangelicals the world over are praying for Israel,’” The Jerusalem Post, (August 9, 2006).
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Please Check, Study, Cross Reference and Fact Check .. Because Before you will ever believe the next step of what ZION really is you first need to dispel the many errors that have resulted from false teachings so ingrained in the popular religious culture. Remember POPULAR is a WIDE PATH and rarely is the WIDE PATH the RIGHT PATH.. Right?
(MORE TO COME on this and for even more go to all the tabs marked “Zion” at: www.wwjsnl.com)
I know this was super long but if I am right then it’s important and I pray you recall at the proper time where you read it.. As I said earlier.. “hear me now.. Believe me later”
BE LOVE & BE LOVED!
JoZ
Because I call myself Jesus of ZION I often get people who misunderstand and think that somehow my use of this word means that I might be a ZIONIST… When asked I say “No, I am a ZionITE.. Not a ZionIST .”
(see: Zionism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia )
My view on Zion is quite different than the Zionist view and frankly I teach that Zionism is a dangerous political movement which promotes racism, elitism and the idea that God somehow favors one group of individuals because they were born into the Hebrew bloodline and gives them the right to take control by force of land they claim was given them by God.
In 1967 I was a mere 6 years old yet I still recall my parents getting all excited that the 6-day war (see: Six-Day War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ) resulted in what they saw as the fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecy of the Jews being restored to Israel in preparation for Christ’s return.
Years later I would be in Churches as a preacher (I began preaching in churches at the age of 14) teaching the very same thing without researching anything of the history. I had been taught it and surely somebody authoritative must have checked it out and if they said it was the way it was.. Well then …who was I to question it?
I was taught the Zion was merely a single hill in Israel and that Zionism was just another word for being a Jew and thus All Jews = Israel = Zion(ism) = The Chosen People.
I was taught (and then spread and defended) this idea because I was told it was correct by Pastors, Teachers, Books and all the other religious media. I had never questioned it or explored the alternative ideas of Zion until I was in my Late 30’s and what God revealed to me eventually not only rocked my world but put me up against the entire Evangelical Christian Community.
But before you go and read what God revealed to me (at http://www.wwjsnl.com/ ) the first thing I need to do is educate you as to why Zionism (Both Nationalistic & it’s offshoot “Christian Zionism”) is absolutely 100% wrong.
Those who have been raised in traditionalist conservative Christian Evangelical faiths were, like I was, trained incorrectly and I plead with you to realize I am not asking you to deny your entire faith.. Just deny the parts that turn out to be untrue.
Yes, I know change is hard but if I am right YOU NEED THIS INFORMATION so you don’t lose your faith entirely later.. Because I will tell you right now what will happen all too soon will not jive with the “Dispensationalist” theologies you have often blindly accepted.
I wrote a Blog back some time ago regarding why Dispensationalism has dubious beginnings and was promoted by a man whose history and character is quite questionable named Cyrus Scofield .
(see: Scofield: The Man Behind The Myth )
C.I. Scofield was the man behind the “Scofield Reference Bible” and his notes became the unquestioned beliefs of many (including myself for most of my life.. Until I actually bothered to do the homework required to find out the facts.)
Now some of you are saying “I don’t have a clue what you are talking about.. I’m not a dispensationalist.. I’m a Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist…etc!”.. Well, guess what… If you are in any Church that is listed there or claims any association to Evangelical Conservative Christianity… You were taught Dispensational Theology and need to get some education about it’s history as soon as possible.
(see: Dispensationalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia )
Realize that most Dispensational Teachings include the idea and philosophy of “Christian Zionism”.. which, by the way is why our own country aligns itself with Nationalistic Israel and why John Hagee ( a rich and popular evangelical leader) had a huge conference and started a whole organization in support of Zionist Israel (usually ONLY referred to as “Israel”.)
Israel is NOT a country or a land .. It is a “People“.. TRUE ISRAEL is not at all related to race or Blood. It means literally “People of EL (God)” and is inclusive to all who believe in the God who is Love.
Most people do not even realize that there are Jews who are NOT ZIONISTS.. In Fact many Hebrew Rabbi’s denounce Zionism as being “satanic” and I fear I must agree.
The very idea that a single race of people can claim they are have a divine right to own a small piece of overpopulated desert real estate and then run out the residents because “God said it’s ours” is beyond ludicrous.. It’s just plain EVIL.. And if God worked that way I would actively oppose such a god.
I admit at one time I might have disbelieved what I am presenting.. But I cannot deny what I have learned after God gave me a vision to “SEEK THE TRUTH OF ZION for in ZION is hope of all mankind” (in this vision I was likewise informed that all that is popular regarding “Zion” in today’s conventional faiths is errant and I myself have been utterly blown away to find out this vision is showing itself thus far correct).
Nothing new is ever widely accepted.. Nor popular ..but please read all I present here and do the research yourself . See if perhaps you were following as blindly as I was taught to.. Because once again I cannot overemphasize that if man cannot learn how to LOVE then ZION will truly be our only real hope.. And soon we will be witnessing something that will cause the old view to be provably wrong which is sure to lead many to a huge crises in faith.. (SO.. Hear me now.. believe me later)
The History of Zionism & Judaism
This text is from an article called "An Open Letter" published in the Jewish magazine, "Hachoma". We think it provides a good historical overview of the history of Zionism and why the Zionist ideology is opposed by religious Orthodox Jews.
The Jewish people, from its inception, has been unique by its identity as a religious entity. Through the centuries its religious character had been a premise agreed upon by Jews and non-Jews alike. Our faith demands as the fundamental condition for recognition as a Jew, belief and adherence to the word of G-d, as was revealed to our forefathers on Mount Sinai. This is in itself, according to the tenets of the Jewish religion, sufficient to fulfill the definition of a Jew. Our religious and traditional history bears no aspect of racism.
Hence, one of non-Jewish origin is capable of being proselytized and attaining the same status as a born Jew. Conversely, one of Jewish birth who does not recognize his being bound to the Jewish Torah, is by Jewish law a heretic, and therefore forfeits his spiritual birthrights as a Jew.
The purpose of the Jew is to bear witness to the existence of G-d, through his adherence to the Torah. The Al-mighty granted the Jews the land of Israel as the particular setting which would serve as the most conducive atmosphere to their performance of their duties to G-d.
The Jews in ancient times were banished from the land of Israel because they had failed to fulfill their obligations to the Al-mighty. Every Jew acknowledges this in his prayers (Umipnei Chatoeinu Golinu Meiartzeinu). They accepted the penalty of exile and were at that time expressed sworn by the Al-mighty not to accelerate their redemption on their own, and especially not to rebel against the nations under whose rule they were found. To the contrary, every Jew is commanded to pray for the peace and well being of the government of which he is the subject.
Through all the years of exile, pious Jews as individuals were attracted to reside in the Holy Land because of its innate holy character and the opportunity it offered for the observance of various precepts bound in the land. Jews as a whole continue to pray that the Al-mighty return his Divine presence to the Land of Israel, by the coming of the Messiah, who will build His Temple, from whence will emanate Divine Wisdom and ultimate spiritual fulfillment of the entire human race.
Through the many years that Jews resided in the Holy Land for this purpose, they enjoyed tranquil and cordial relations with the non-Jewish population there.
The Zionist movement which was formed at the latter part of the last century, sought to endow the Jews with a nationalistic character which was heretofore strange to them. It sought to deprive them of their historically religious character and offered in substitution of faith in G-d and adherence to the Torah, and belief in their ultimate redemption by the coming of the Messiah, a nationalistic ideology and the possibility of establishing through political media, a Jewish national homeland.
During the period of the British Mandate, the Balfour Declaration, which recognized the eventual possibility of founding a Jewish national homeland, in Palestine, was affirmed to be the British government. The Jewish Agency, who then was the Chief representative of Zionist interests in the Holy Land, was entrusted with the issuance of visas to the Holy Land, thus resulting in an increased Zionist immigration from various parts of the world, which ultimately succeeded in superceding in numbers, the veteran Orthodox dwellers.
Orthodox Jewry all over the world and the Orthodox Community in the Holy Land in particular, immediately sensed in this stage of Zionist success, the threat of grave danger for the religious future of Jews. The Arab inhabitants began to exhibit open hostility to their Jewish neighbors. The British government failed to distinguish between the Orthodox community, who for generations in habited the Holy Land, and the newly arrived Zionist immigrants.
With the acquisition by the Zionist nationalists of the power to organize communities in Palestine, they formed the Vaad Haleumi Leknesset Yisroel (National Jewish Council Committee). This committee ignored the rights of the Orthodox veteran dwellers who did not recognize this validity of Jewish nationality, and whose identification as Jews was solely with their loyalty to their religious heritage. The religious inhabitants, on the other hand, shuddered at the prospects of spiritual disintegration of World Jewry, with the new rise to power of the Zionist nationalists.
The Orthodox inhabitants actively objected to being subject to the authority of the secularists. They appealed their cause to the League of Nations, who consequently granted them a "Right of exclusion" to the subjugation to the Vaad Haleumi, which rights provided that any Jew wishing not to be incorporated into the Vaad Haleumi, may remain lawfully independent if he so stated his wish in writing. Thousands of Jews did so.
Such was the case until November 1948, when the United Nations finally sanctioned the establishment of a Zionist State. We do not doubt that their success in finally realizing their goal was due in great measure to their having misled the world into viewing the
Zionist cause as the Jewish cause. The formation of the Zionist state resulted in the automatic deprivation of the autonomy heretofore possessed by the Orthodox inhabitants of the Holy Land.
The Zionists grasped in the acquisition of their new powers, the opportunity to openly disassociate themselves from any identification with Jews as a religion. They systematically began to orient the minds of their generations according to the tenets of Zionist nationalism. Through the Ministry of Religions they employed part of the Rabbinate to assist them in their aims.
The religious Jews who by virtue of their faith, clearly contradicted Zionist nationalism, and who had lived peacefully with their Arab neighbors for generations, became unwillingly identified with the Zionist cause and their struggle with the Arabs. They requested the United Nations that Jerusalem be designated as a defacto international city. They appealed to the diplomatic corps assigned to Jerusalem -- but to no avail. They were hence confronted with the choice of either becoming a part of the Zionist State, which diametrically opposed the interests of Jews as a religion, or abandoning the land of which their forefathers were the first Jewish settlers.
We find it of supreme importance to emphasize that we are fearful of the consequences of the Zionist rebellion against the Creator, as stated expressly in Jeremiah, "For it is bad and bitter your renunciation of G-d..." We wish not to be affected by the behavior of this government who in the name of Israel, persist in their renunciation and utter disregard of religious Judaism such as is clearly attested by their laws expressly permitting wanton autopsies (Law of Anatomy and Pathology, 1953), forcible desecration of the Sabbath (Law of Emergency Labor Draft 1967: PPS 1, 19; 27, 36), profanation of Holy Sites by retaining non-religious custodians, desecration of Holy Cemeteries by Safed, Beth Shearim and elsewhere, and countless more examples, proof of which is readily available.
Insofar as all human being find necessary the protection of their rights as human beings, we hereby request all those that find it within their power, to aid us in reacquiring the rights we possessed prior to the formation of the Zionist State*, to remain lawfully independent of the Zionist authority.
_____________* The Laws of Palestine -- Robert Drayton -- Volume 3, Page 213B -- Chapter 126, Paragraph 17(4) -- January 1, 1928.Any person who desires his name to be struck off the register shall, within one month of the publication or the relevant portion thereof, give notice, either personally or by an agent duly authorized in writing, to the General Council (Vaad Leumi) which shall acknowledge the receipt of the notice and strike off his name accordingly; he may send a copy of such notice to the office of the district commissioner. _____________
Historical Progression of Zionism
18th century: The German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn initiates a Jewish secularism, which focused on Jewish national identity.
1862: The German Jew Moses Hess publishes the book Rome and Jerusalem where he called for a return of Jews to Palestine. He also said that Jews would never succeed by assimilating into European societies.
1881: Pogroms of Russia result in heavy emigration to USA. Some few Jews even emigrates to Palestine, as they are motivated by religious ideas of Palestine as Jewish homeland.
1893: Nathan Birnbaum introduces the term 'Zionism'.
1896: The Austrian Jew Theodor Herzl publishes the book The Jewish State, where he declares that the cure for anti-semitism was the establishment of a Jewish state. As he saw it, the best place to establish this state was in Palestine, but this geography was no precondition.
1897: The 1st Zionist Congress is held in Basel in Switzerland. 200 delegates participates. The Basel Program is formulated, which calls for the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, where Jews could live safely under public law. The World Zionist organization is also established, and establishes its head quarters in Vienna, Austria.
1903: Britain offers an area of 15,500 km² in Uganda in Africa, an area of virgin land to the Jews of the world, where a Jewish homeland could be established.
1905: 7th Zionist Congress refuses Britain's Uganda proposal. Israel Zangwill forms the Jewish Territorial organization, which sought to find territory for a Jewish state, no matter where this would be. His organization got only few supporters. — After the Russian revolution is defeated, many young Jews emigrate from Russia.
1917: The Balfour Declaration, issued by the British foreign secretary, gives official British support to the work on establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
1922: Britain gives The World Zionist organization the mandate to administer Jewish immigration and settlement in Palestine. This immigration and settlement was funded by American Jews.
1939: The British 'White Paper' gives the Arabs of Palestine de facto control over Jewish immigration.
1942: A call is issued from Zionist leaders for the establishment of a Jewish state in all of western Palestine, when World War II ends.
1948 May 14: The State of Israel is founded. The World Zionist organization continues to back Jewish immigration to Israel.
1970s: The World Zionist organization puts its muscles into helping Jews in the Soviet Union to emigrate to Israel.
1975 November 10: UN General Assembly passes Resolution 3379, in which Zionism is declared "racist", with 72 votes to 35 (32 abstentions).
1991 December 16: UN General Assembly revokes Resolution 3379, with 111 votes to 25 (13 abstentions).
"Zionism" by Tore Kjeilen, article in the Encyclopaedia of the Orient, Oslo, Norway. Last modified Aug. 22, 2004.http://lexicorient.com/cgi-bin/eo-direct.pl?zionism.htm
SOURCE: http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/zionism/history.cfm
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Also Read This when you have time:
Jewish leaders wake up to dangers of campaign to delegitimize Israel
http://zionism-israel.com/israel_news/2007/07/jewish-leaders-wake-up-to-dangers-of.html
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The Following is an Article from a Jewish Source regarding CHRISTIAN ZIONISM:
LINK: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Zionism/christianzionism.html
Christian Zionism can be defined as Christian support for the Zionist cause — the return of the Jewish people to its biblical homeland in Israel. It is a belief among some Christians that the return of Jews to Israel is in line with a biblical prophecy, and is necessary for Jesus to return to Earth as its king. These Christians are partly motivated by the writings of the Bible and the words of the prophets. However, they are also driven to support Israel because they wish to “repay the debt of gratitude to the Jewish people for providing Christ and the other fundamentals of their faith,” and to support a political ally, according to David Brog, author Standing With Israel: Why Christians Support the Jewish State.
Christian Zionists interpret both the Torah and the New Testament as prophetic texts that describe future events of how the world will one day end with the return of Jesus from Heaven to rule on Earth. Israel and its people are central to their vision. They interpret passages from the books of Ezekiel, Daniel, and Isaiah as foreshadowing the coming Christian era. The New Testament Book of Revelation is read by many Christians as a prophetic text of how the world will be in the End Times.
Christian support for Israel is not a recent development. Its political roots reach as far back to the 1880s, when a man named William Hechler formed a committee of Christian Zionists to help move Russian Jewish refugees to Palestine after a series of pogroms. In 1884, Hechler wrote a pamphlet called “The Restoration of Jews to Palestine According to the Prophets.” A few years later, he befriended Theodor Herzl after reading Herzl’s book The Jewish State, and joined Herzl to drum up support for Zionism. Hechler even arranged a meeting between Herzl and Kaiser Wilhelm II to discuss Herzl’s proposal to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. The two men remained close friends up until Herzl’s death in 1904.
An important milestone in the history of Christian Zionism occurred in 1979, almost a century after William Hechler approached Herzl and offered to mobilize Christian support for a Jewish state: the founding of the Moral Majority. Founded by Rev. Jerry Falwell, the Moral Majority was an organization made up of conservative Christian political action committees that succeeded in mobilizing like-minded individuals to register and vote for conservative candidates. With nearly six million members, it became a powerful voting bloc during the 1980s and was credited for giving Ronald Reagan the winning edge in the 1980 elections. One of the Moral Majority’s four founding principles was “support for Israel and Jewish people everywhere.”
In 1980, Falwell, who ran a television ministry that reached millions of viewers, said of Israel: “I firmly believe God has blessed America because America has blessed the Jew. If this nation wants her fields to remain white with grain, her scientific achievements to remain notable, and her freedom to remain intact, America must continue to stand with Israel.” Falwell disbanded the Moral Majority in 1989, but conservative Christians have remained vocal supporters of Israel though they lacked a strong formal structure for pro-Israel political action.
Christian Zionists, through their volunteer work, political support, and financial assistance to Israel and Jewish causes, have shown that they are stalwart friends of Israel. They have donated large sums of money to support Israel, including to charities that pay the costs of bringing Jews from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia to Israel. For example, Pastor John Hagee has raised more than $4.7 million for the United Jewish Communities. Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to help poor Jews across the world move to Israel.
When Israel’s tourism industry was at a low point between 2000 and 2003 due to the Palestinian War and terrorism, Christian tourists visited Israel in numbers that were sometimes greater than that of the Jewish community. Televangelists such as Pat Robertson and Benny Hinn visited Israel during this period and used their broadcasts to tell their millions of viewers it was safe to visit Israel. Another pro-Israel group, the Christians’ Israel Public Action Campaign, sponsored four missions to Israel. Christians also helped the Israeli tourism industry and economy from home by attending “Shop Israel” days where Israeli merchants would come to America and sell their products.
Despite their support for Israel, many Jews however, are uncomfortable with Christian Zionists. This discomfort is fed by Christian anti-Semitism, Christian replacement theology, evangelical proselytizing, and disagreements over domestic and political issues.
Dispensationalist Christianity, an interpretive or narrative framework for understanding the overall flow of the Bible, teaches that Christianity did not replace Judaism, but that it restored lost elements of it. The dispensationalist view of the Bible is that the Old Testament is foreshadowing for what will occur in the New Testament and, at the end, Jesus returns to reign on Earth after an epic battle between good and evil. Israel plays a central role in the dispensationalist view of the end of the world. The establishment of Israel in 1948 was seen as a milestone to many dispensationalists on the path toward Jesus’ return. In their minds, now that the Jews again had regained their homeland, all Jews were able to return to Israel, just as had been prophesied in the Bible. As described in the Book of Revelation, there is an epic battle that will take place in Israel after it is reestablished — Armageddon — in which it is prophesied that good will finally triumph over evil. However, in the process, two-thirds of the Jews in Israel die and the other third are converted to Christianity. Jesus then returns to Earth to rule for 1,000 years as king.
Although these Christians do hope for a Messianic age, the majority of them do not wish for the deaths of thousands of Jews during Armageddon. Dispensationalist Christians believe that the Jewish people, not Christians, are the ones who were promised Israel in the Bible. In their view, Christianity did not come into existence to replace Judaism, but to restore it. This view has surpassed replacement theology as the dominant form of Christian thought regarding Israel in America today. Jews who are suspicious of Christian Zionist motives are usually unaware that many Christian supporters of Israel have abandoned replacement theology.
Aside from anti-Semitism and Christian replacement theology, many Jews are wary of the fact that many evangelical Christians simply want to convert them to Christianity or speed up the Second Coming of Christ. David Brog refutes this claim:
“Evangelicals who support Israel most certainly do want to convert people. Evangelicals who don’t support Israel also want to convert people. The mission of sharing the ‘good news’ of Jesus Christ is central to being an evangelical. But it is important to note that this is not about converting just the Jews — Christians want to share their faith with Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and their Christian friends and neighbors who have yet to be born again. The important question is this: Is evangelical support for Israel merely a tool in the effort to convert the Jews? Is this merely some scheme to soften the Jews up so that they can better sell Jesus to them? And the answer to this question is absolutely not. If anything, the opposite it true.
Christian Zionists say Jews have no reason to distrust their motives for supporting Israel because they do not believe they can speed up the Second Coming of Christ. In the Gospel of Matthew, it is written that Jesus said about his return, “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.”
Pastor John Hagee, a longtime supporter of Israel, based at the Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, heads Christians United for Israel (CUFI), a pro-Israel group established in 2006. Hagee has denounced replacement theology, and says of Israel: “We believe in the promise of Genesis 12:3 regarding the Jewish people and the nation of Israel. We believe that this is an eternal covenant between God and the seed of Abraham to which God is faithful.” Evangelical leader Pat Robertson echoed this statement while on his tour of Israel during the Israel-Hezbollah war, saying, “The Jews are God’s chosen people. Israel is a special nation that has a special place in God’s heart. He will defend this nation. So Evangelical Christians stand with Israel. That is one of the reasons I am here.”
Pastor Hagee claims that he and other Christian Zionists support Israel because they owe a debt of gratitude to the Jewish people, and not because they want Jews to convert to Christianity. The Jewish people gave the world Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the prophets, of whom there were “not a Baptist in the bunch...The Jewish people do not need Christianity to explain their existence. But Christians cannot explain our existence without Judaism. The roots of Christianity are Jewish.”
Jews are also uncomfortable with Christian Zionists because most have few other common political interests besides their support for Israel. The majority of American Jews are politically and socially liberal. Christian Zionists are on the whole politically conservative Republicans who, for example, oppose abortion and gay marriage, and support prayer in public schools. Most Jews are particularly concerned over what they see as the Christian Right’s efforts to weaken the separation between church and state. The Anti-Defamation League’s director, Abe Foxman, has been particularly outspoken and has said that if the domestic agenda of the Christian Right ever materializes, it will turn American Jews into “second-class citizens in our own country.”
Christian Zionists are also more conservative on Israel than many Jews. They favor Israel maintaining all of its settlements in the West Bank, and were opposed to the Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip. Some prominent Christian Zionists have been highly critical of Israeli government policy of giving over parts of Israel to the Palestinian people. Christian Zionists, like followers of the Israeli Right, believe that Israel should never cede any section of Israel to the Palestinians because Israel was given to the Jews by God. After former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon implemented the disengagement plan from the Gaza Strip and then fell ill a few months later, Pat Robertson claimed that his illness was divine retribution for giving up part of biblical Israel. When asked about Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s convergence plan to evacuate settlements in the West Bank, Robertson said, “It’s an absolute disaster...I don't think the holy God is going to be happy about someone giving up his land.”
Conservative Christians, in general, are viewed as particularly influential with the Bush Administration and Republican Congress, and Christian Zionists are consequently viewed as also having greater access to decision makers. It is not clear, however, that pro-Israel Christians have exerted decisive influence on any significant decisions and their clout is expected to decline if Democrats regain the White House and/or the majority in Congress.
Sources: Brog, David. Standing With Israel: Why Christians Support the Jewish State. FL: Frontline, 2006.; Wikipedia; David Brog; International Fellowship of Christians and Jews; Christians United for Israel; JTA; Q and A with Kathryn Jean Lopez, “Jews And Evangelicals Together: Why some Christians are pro-Israel,” National Review Online, (May 22, 2006); Tovah Lazaroff, “‘Evangelicals the world over are praying for Israel,’” The Jerusalem Post, (August 9, 2006).
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Please Check, Study, Cross Reference and Fact Check .. Because Before you will ever believe the next step of what ZION really is you first need to dispel the many errors that have resulted from false teachings so ingrained in the popular religious culture. Remember POPULAR is a WIDE PATH and rarely is the WIDE PATH the RIGHT PATH.. Right?
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BE LOVE & BE LOVED!
JoZ
Thursday, July 3, 2008
NOT ALL JEWISH PERSONS ARE "ZionIST" (link)
For those who think all Jews are ZionIST.. check this site out:
http://www.nkusa.org/
This is presented with great respect and is not intended to support racial hate or anti-semitism. It is ONLY intended to supply some proof that the traditionally accepted view of ZION may not be quite so "cut and dried" as many might think.
BE LOVE & BE LOVED!
HAPPY "DAY OF ZION 2008"
JoZ
http://www.nkusa.org/
This is presented with great respect and is not intended to support racial hate or anti-semitism. It is ONLY intended to supply some proof that the traditionally accepted view of ZION may not be quite so "cut and dried" as many might think.
BE LOVE & BE LOVED!
HAPPY "DAY OF ZION 2008"
JoZ
ZION VERSES FROM THE BIBLE
It is acknowledged that in some cases "Zion" only refers to a location in the Middle East. However a careful reading of many verses will show clearly that this cannot be true for all references and in some cases there are dual symbolic meanings.
OLD TESTAMENT:
2 Samuel 5:7Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion, the City of David.
2 Samuel 5:6-8 (in Context) 2 Samuel 5 (Whole Chapter)
1 Kings 8:1[ The Ark Brought to the Temple ] Then King Solomon summoned into his presence at Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the LORD's covenant from Zion, the City of David.
1 Kings 8:1-3 (in Context) 1 Kings 8 (Whole Chapter)
2 Kings 19:21This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: " 'The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you. The Daughter of Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee.
2 Kings 19:20-22 (in Context) 2 Kings 19 (Whole Chapter)
2 Kings 19:31For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.
2 Kings 19:30-32 (in Context) 2 Kings 19 (Whole Chapter)
1 Chronicles 11:5said to David, "You will not get in here." Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion, the City of David.
1 Chronicles 11:4-6 (in Context) 1 Chronicles 11 (Whole Chapter)
2 Chronicles 5:2[ The Ark Brought to the Temple ] Then Solomon summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the LORD's covenant from Zion, the City of David.
2 Chronicles 5:1-3 (in Context) 2 Chronicles 5 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 2:6"I have installed my King on Zion, my holy hill."
Psalm 2:5-7 (in Context) Psalm 2 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 9:11Sing praises to the LORD, enthroned in Zion; proclaim among the nations what he has done.
Psalm 9:10-12 (in Context) Psalm 9 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 9:14that I may declare your praises in the gates of the Daughter of Zion and there rejoice in your salvation.
Psalm 9:13-15 (in Context) Psalm 9 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 14:7Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the LORD restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!Psalm 14:6-7 (in Context) Psalm 14 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 20:2May he send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion.
Psalm 20:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 20 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 48:2It is beautiful in its loftiness, the joy of the whole earth. Like the utmost heights of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the Great King.
Psalm 48:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 48 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 48:11Mount Zion rejoices, the villages of Judah are glad because of your judgments.
Psalm 48:10-12 (in Context) Psalm 48 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 48:12Walk about Zion, go around her, count her towers,
Psalm 48:11-13 (in Context) Psalm 48 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 50:2From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
Psalm 50:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 50 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 51:18In your good pleasure make Zion prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.
Psalm 51:17-19 (in Context) Psalm 51 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 53:6Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!
Psalm 53:5-6 (in Context) Psalm 53 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 65:1[ For the director of music. A psalm of David. A song. ] Praise awaits you, O God, in Zion; to you our vows will be fulfilled.
Psalm 65:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 65 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 69:35for God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah. Then people will settle there and possess it;
Psalm 69:34-36 (in Context) Psalm 69 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 74:2Remember the people you purchased of old, the tribe of your inheritance, whom you redeemed— Mount Zion, where you dwelt.
Psalm 74:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 74 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 76:2His tent is in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion.
Psalm 76:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 76 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 78:68but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved.
Psalm 78:67-69 (in Context) Psalm 78 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 84:7They go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion.
Psalm 84:6-8 (in Context) Psalm 84 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 87:2the LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Psalm 87:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 87 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 87:4"I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me— Philistia too, and Tyre, along with Cush — and will say, 'This one was born in Zion.' "
Psalm 87:3-5 (in Context) Psalm 87 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 87:5Indeed, of Zion it will be said, "This one and that one were born in her, and the Most High himself will establish her."
Psalm 87:4-6 (in Context) Psalm 87 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 87:6The LORD will write in the register of the peoples: "This one was born in Zion." Selah
Psalm 87:5-7 (in Context) Psalm 87 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 97:8Zion hears and rejoices and the villages of Judah are glad because of your judgments, O LORD.
Psalm 97:7-9 (in Context) Psalm 97 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 99:2Great is the LORD in Zion; he is exalted over all the nations.
Psalm 99:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 99 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 102:13You will arise and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show favor to her; the appointed time has come.
Psalm 102:12-14 (in Context) Psalm 102 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 102:16For the LORD will rebuild Zion and appear in his glory.
Psalm 102:15-17 (in Context) Psalm 102 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 102:21So the name of the LORD will be declared in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem
Psalm 102:20-22 (in Context) Psalm 102 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 110:2The LORD will extend your mighty scepter from Zion; you will rule in the midst of your enemies.
Psalm 110:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 110 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 125:1[ A song of ascents. ] Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken but endures forever.
Psalm 125:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 125 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 126:1[ A song of ascents. ] When the LORD brought back the captives to Zion, we were like men who dreamed.
Psalm 126:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 126 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 128:5May the LORD bless you from Zion all the days of your life; may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem,
Psalm 128:4-6 (in Context) Psalm 128 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 129:5May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame.
Psalm 129:4-6 (in Context) Psalm 129 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 132:13For the LORD has chosen Zion, he has desired it for his dwelling:
Psalm 132:12-14 (in Context) Psalm 132 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 133:3It is as if the dew of Hermon were falling on Mount Zion. For there the LORD bestows his blessing, even life forevermore.
Psalm 133:2-3 (in Context) Psalm 133 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 134:3May the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth, bless you from Zion.
Psalm 134:2-3 (in Context) Psalm 134 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 135:21Praise be to the LORD from Zion, to him who dwells in Jerusalem. Praise the LORD.
Psalm 135:20-21 (in Context) Psalm 135 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 137:1By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
Psalm 137:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 137 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 137:3for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
Psalm 137:2-4 (in Context) Psalm 137 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 146:10The LORD reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Praise the LORD.
Psalm 146:9-10 (in Context) Psalm 146 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 147:12Extol the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion,
Psalm 147:11-13 (in Context) Psalm 147 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 149:2Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; let the people of Zion be glad in their King.
Psalm 149:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 149 (Whole Chapter)
Song of Solomon 3:11Come out, you daughters of Zion, and look at King Solomon wearing the crown, the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, the day his heart rejoiced.
Song of Solomon 3:10-11 (in Context) Song of Solomon 3 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 1:8The Daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a city under siege.
Isaiah 1:7-9 (in Context) Isaiah 1 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 1:27Zion will be redeemed with justice, her penitent ones with righteousness.
Isaiah 1:26-28 (in Context) Isaiah 1 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 2:3Many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths." The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Isaiah 2:2-4 (in Context) Isaiah 2 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 3:16The LORD says, "The women of Zion are haughty, walking along with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, tripping along with mincing steps, with ornaments jingling on their ankles.
Isaiah 3:15-17 (in Context) Isaiah 3 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 3:17Therefore the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the women of Zion; the LORD will make their scalps bald."
Isaiah 3:16-18 (in Context) Isaiah 3 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 3:26The gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
Isaiah 3:25-26 (in Context) Isaiah 3 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 4:3Those who are left in Zion, who remain in Jerusalem, will be called holy, all who are recorded among the living in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 4:2-4 (in Context) Isaiah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 4:4The Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion; he will cleanse the bloodstains from Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.
Isaiah 4:3-5 (in Context) Isaiah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 4:5Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night; over all the glory will be a canopy.
Isaiah 4:4-6 (in Context) Isaiah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 8:18Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.
Isaiah 8:17-19 (in Context) Isaiah 8 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 10:12When the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will say, "I will punish the king of Assyria for the willful pride of his heart and the haughty look in his eyes.
Isaiah 10:11-13 (in Context) Isaiah 10 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 10:24Therefore, this is what the Lord, the LORD Almighty, says: "O my people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrians, who beat you with a rod and lift up a club against you, as Egypt did.
Isaiah 10:23-25 (in Context) Isaiah 10 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 10:32This day they will halt at Nob; they will shake their fist at the mount of the Daughter of Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.
Isaiah 10:31-33 (in Context) Isaiah 10 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 12:6Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you."
Isaiah 12:5-6 (in Context) Isaiah 12 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 14:32What answer shall be given to the envoys of that nation? "The LORD has established Zion, and in her his afflicted people will find refuge."
Isaiah 14:31-32 (in Context) Isaiah 14 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 16:1Send lambs as tribute to the ruler of the land, from Sela, across the desert, to the mount of the Daughter of Zion.
Isaiah 16:1-3 (in Context) Isaiah 16 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 18:7At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD Almighty from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers— the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD Almighty.
Isaiah 18:6-7 (in Context) Isaiah 18 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 24:23The moon will be abashed, the sun ashamed; for the LORD Almighty will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before its elders, gloriously.
Isaiah 24:22-23 (in Context) Isaiah 24 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 28:16So this is what the Sovereign LORD says: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who trusts will never be dismayed.
Isaiah 28:15-17 (in Context) Isaiah 28 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 29:8as when a hungry man dreams that he is eating, but he awakens, and his hunger remains; as when a thirsty man dreams that he is drinking, but he awakens faint, with his thirst unquenched. So will it be with the hordes of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion.
Isaiah 29:7-9 (in Context) Isaiah 29 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 30:19O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you.
Isaiah 30:18-20 (in Context) Isaiah 30 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 31:4This is what the LORD says to me: "As a lion growls, a great lion over his prey— and though a whole band of shepherds is called together against him, he is not frightened by their shouts or disturbed by their clamor— so the LORD Almighty will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and on its heights.
Isaiah 31:3-5 (in Context) Isaiah 31 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 31:9Their stronghold will fall because of terror; at sight of the battle standard their commanders will panic," declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 31:8-9 (in Context) Isaiah 31 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 33:5The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness.
Isaiah 33:4-6 (in Context) Isaiah 33 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 33:14The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling grips the godless: "Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?"
Isaiah 33:13-15 (in Context) Isaiah 33 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 33:20Look upon Zion, the city of our festivals; your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful abode, a tent that will not be moved; its stakes will never be pulled up, nor any of its ropes broken.
Isaiah 33:19-21 (in Context) Isaiah 33 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 33:24No one living in Zion will say, "I am ill"; and the sins of those who dwell there will be forgiven.
Isaiah 33:23-24 (in Context) Isaiah 33 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 34:8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution, to uphold Zion's cause.
Isaiah 34:7-9 (in Context) Isaiah 34 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 35:10and the ransomed of the LORD will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Isaiah 35:9-10 (in Context) Isaiah 35 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 37:22this is the word the LORD has spoken against him: "The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises and mocks you. The Daughter of Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee.
Isaiah 37:21-23 (in Context) Isaiah 37 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 37:32For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.
Isaiah 37:31-33 (in Context) Isaiah 37 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 40:9You who bring good tidings to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who bring good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with a shout, lift it up, do not be afraid; say to the towns of Judah, "Here is your God!"
Isaiah 40:8-10 (in Context) Isaiah 40 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 41:27I was the first to tell Zion, 'Look, here they are!' I gave to Jerusalem a messenger of good tidings.
Isaiah 41:26-28 (in Context) Isaiah 41 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 46:13I am bringing my righteousness near, it is not far away; and my salvation will not be delayed. I will grant salvation to Zion, my splendor to Israel.
Isaiah 46:12-13 (in Context) Isaiah 46 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 49:14But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me."
Isaiah 49:13-15 (in Context) Isaiah 49 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 51:1[ Everlasting Salvation for Zion ] "Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the LORD : Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn;
Isaiah 51:1-3 (in Context) Isaiah 51 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 51:3The LORD will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing.
Isaiah 51:2-4 (in Context) Isaiah 51 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 51:11The ransomed of the LORD will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Isaiah 51:10-12 (in Context) Isaiah 51 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 51:16I have put my words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of my hand— I who set the heavens in place, who laid the foundations of the earth, and who say to Zion, 'You are my people.' "
Isaiah 51:15-17 (in Context) Isaiah 51 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 52:1Awake, awake, O Zion, clothe yourself with strength. Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, the holy city. The uncircumcised and defiled will not enter you again.
Isaiah 52:1-3 (in Context) Isaiah 52 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 52:2Shake off your dust; rise up, sit enthroned, O Jerusalem. Free yourself from the chains on your neck, O captive Daughter of Zion.
Isaiah 52:1-3 (in Context) Isaiah 52 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 52:7How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, "Your God reigns!"
Isaiah 52:6-8 (in Context) Isaiah 52 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 52:8Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices; together they shout for joy. When the LORD returns to Zion, they will see it with their own eyes.
Isaiah 52:7-9 (in Context) Isaiah 52 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 54:1[ The Future Glory of Zion ] "Sing, O barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband," says the LORD.
Isaiah 54:1-3 (in Context) Isaiah 54 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 59:20"The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who repent of their sins," declares the LORD.
Isaiah 59:19-21 (in Context) Isaiah 59 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 60:1[ The Glory of Zion ] "Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
Isaiah 60:1-3 (in Context) Isaiah 60 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 60:14The sons of your oppressors will come bowing before you; all who despise you will bow down at your feet and will call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 60:13-15 (in Context) Isaiah 60 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 61:3and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display of his splendor.
Isaiah 61:2-4 (in Context) Isaiah 61 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 62:1[ Zion's New Name ] For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem's sake I will not remain quiet, till her righteousness shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch.
Isaiah 62:1-3 (in Context) Isaiah 62 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 62:11The LORD has made proclamation to the ends of the earth: "Say to the Daughter of Zion, 'See, your Savior comes! See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him.' "
Isaiah 62:10-12 (in Context) Isaiah 62 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 64:10Your sacred cities have become a desert; even Zion is a desert, Jerusalem a desolation.Isaiah 64:9-11 (in Context) Isaiah 64 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 66:8Who has ever heard of such a thing? Who has ever seen such things? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment? Yet no sooner is Zion in labor than she gives birth to her children.
Isaiah 66:7-9 (in Context) Isaiah 66 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 3:14"Return, faithless people," declares the LORD, "for I am your husband. I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion.Jeremiah 3:13-15 (in Context) Jeremiah 3 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 4:6Raise the signal to go to Zion! Flee for safety without delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, even terrible destruction."Jeremiah 4:5-7 (in Context) Jeremiah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 4:31I hear a cry as of a woman in labor, a groan as of one bearing her first child— the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands and saying, "Alas! I am fainting; my life is given over to murderers."
Jeremiah 4:30-31 (in Context) Jeremiah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 6:2I will destroy the Daughter of Zion, so beautiful and delicate.
Jeremiah 6:1-3 (in Context) Jeremiah 6 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 6:23They are armed with bow and spear; they are cruel and show no mercy. They sound like the roaring sea as they ride on their horses; they come like men in battle formation to attack you, O Daughter of Zion."
Jeremiah 6:22-24 (in Context) Jeremiah 6 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 8:19Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: "Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?" "Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?"
Jeremiah 8:18-20 (in Context) Jeremiah 8 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 9:19The sound of wailing is heard from Zion: 'How ruined we are! How great is our shame! We must leave our land because our houses are in ruins.' "
Jeremiah 9:18-20 (in Context) Jeremiah 9 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 14:19Have you rejected Judah completely? Do you despise Zion? Why have you afflicted us so that we cannot be healed? We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there is only terror.
Jeremiah 14:18-20 (in Context) Jeremiah 14 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 26:18"Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. He told all the people of Judah, 'This is what the LORD Almighty says: " 'Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.'
Jeremiah 26:17-19 (in Context) Jeremiah 26 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 30:17But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds,' declares the LORD, 'because you are called an outcast, Zion for whom no one cares.'
Jeremiah 30:16-18 (in Context) Jeremiah 30 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 31:6There will be a day when watchmen cry out on the hills of Ephraim, 'Come, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God.' "
Jeremiah 31:5-7 (in Context) Jeremiah 31 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 31:12They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will rejoice in the bounty of the LORD— the grain, the new wine and the oil, the young of the flocks and herds. They will be like a well-watered garden, and they will sorrow no more.
Jeremiah 31:11-13 (in Context) Jeremiah 31 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 50:5They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and bind themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.
Jeremiah 50:4-6 (in Context) Jeremiah 50 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 50:28Listen to the fugitives and refugees from Babylon declaring in Zion how the LORD our God has taken vengeance, vengeance for his temple.
Jeremiah 50:27-29 (in Context) Jeremiah 50 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 51:10" 'The LORD has vindicated us; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has done.'
Jeremiah 51:9-11 (in Context) Jeremiah 51 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 51:24"Before your eyes I will repay Babylon and all who live in Babylonia for all the wrong they have done in Zion," declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:23-25 (in Context) Jeremiah 51 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 51:35May the violence done to our flesh be upon Babylon," say the inhabitants of Zion. "May our blood be on those who live in Babylonia," says Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 51:34-36 (in Context) Jeremiah 51 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 1:4The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gateways are desolate, her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she is in bitter anguish.
Lamentations 1:3-5 (in Context) Lamentations 1 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 1:6All the splendor has departed from the Daughter of Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; in weakness they have fled before the pursuer.
Lamentations 1:5-7 (in Context) Lamentations 1 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 1:17Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed for Jacob that his neighbors become his foes; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.
Lamentations 1:16-18 (in Context) Lamentations 1 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 2:1How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of his anger ! He has hurled down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
Lamentations 2:1-3 (in Context) Lamentations 2 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 2:4Like an enemy he has strung his bow; his right hand is ready. Like a foe he has slain all who were pleasing to the eye; he has poured out his wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.
Lamentations 2:3-5 (in Context) Lamentations 2 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 2:6He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden; he has destroyed his place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and her Sabbaths; in his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest.
Lamentations 2:5-7 (in Context) Lamentations 2 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 2:8The LORD determined to tear down the wall around the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withhold his hand from destroying. He made ramparts and walls lament; together they wasted away.
Lamentations 2:7-9 (in Context) Lamentations 2 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 2:10The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have sprinkled dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
Lamentations 2:9-11 (in Context) Lamentations 2 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 2:13What can I say for you? With what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may comfort you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? Your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can heal you?
Lamentations 2:12-14 (in Context) Lamentations 2 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 2:18The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears flow like a river day and night; give yourself no relief, your eyes no rest.
Lamentations 2:17-19 (in Context) Lamentations 2 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 4:2How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in gold, are now considered as pots of clay, the work of a potter's hands!
Lamentations 4:1-3 (in Context) Lamentations 4 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 4:11The LORD has given full vent to his wrath; he has poured out his fierce anger. He kindled a fire in Zion that consumed her foundations.
Lamentations 4:10-12 (in Context) Lamentations 4 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 4:22O Daughter of Zion, your punishment will end; he will not prolong your exile. But, O Daughter of Edom, he will punish your sin and expose your wickedness.
Lamentations 4:21-22 (in Context) Lamentations 4 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 5:11Women have been ravished in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.
Lamentations 5:10-12 (in Context) Lamentations 5 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 5:18for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, with jackals prowling over it.
Lamentations 5:17-19 (in Context) Lamentations 5 (Whole Chapter)
Joel 2:1[ An Army of Locusts ] Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming. It is close at hand-
Joel 2:1-3 (in Context) Joel 2 (Whole Chapter)
Joel 2:15Blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly.
Joel 2:14-16 (in Context) Joel 2 (Whole Chapter)
Joel 2:23Be glad, O people of Zion, rejoice in the LORD your God, for he has given you the autumn rains in righteousness. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
Joel 2:22-24 (in Context) Joel 2 (Whole Chapter)
Joel 2:32And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has said, among the survivors whom the LORD calls.
Joel 2:31-32 (in Context) Joel 2 (Whole Chapter)
Joel 3:16The LORD will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem; the earth and the sky will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
Joel 3:15-17 (in Context) Joel 3 (Whole Chapter)
Joel 3:17[ Blessings for God's People ] "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.
Joel 3:16-18 (in Context) Joel 3 (Whole Chapter)
Joel 3:21Their bloodguilt, which I have not pardoned, I will pardon." The LORD dwells in Zion!
Joel 3:20-21 (in Context) Joel 3 (Whole Chapter)
Amos 1:2He said: "The LORD roars from Zion and thunders from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds dry up, and the top of Carmel withers."
Amos 1:1-3 (in Context) Amos 1 (Whole Chapter)
Amos 6:1[ Woe to the Complacent ] Woe to you who are complacent in Zion, and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria, you notable men of the foremost nation, to whom the people of Israel come!
Amos 6:1-3 (in Context) Amos 6 (Whole Chapter)
Obadiah 1:17But on Mount Zion will be deliverance; it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will possess its inheritance.
Obadiah 1:16-18 (in Context) Obadiah 1 (Whole Chapter)
Obadiah 1:21Deliverers will go up on Mount Zion to govern the mountains of Esau. And the kingdom will be the LORD's.
Obadiah 1:20-21 (in Context) Obadiah 1 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 1:13You who live in Lachish, harness the team to the chariot. You were the beginning of sin to the Daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.
Micah 1:12-14 (in Context) Micah 1 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 3:10who build Zion with bloodshed, and Jerusalem with wickedness.
Micah 3:9-11 (in Context) Micah 3 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 3:12Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.
Micah 3:11-12 (in Context) Micah 3 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 4:2Many nations will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths." The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Micah 4:1-3 (in Context) Micah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 4:7I will make the lame a remnant, those driven away a strong nation. The LORD will rule over them in Mount Zion from that day and forever.
Micah 4:6-8 (in Context) Micah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 4:8As for you, O watchtower of the flock, O stronghold of the Daughter of Zion, the former dominion will be restored to you; kingship will come to the Daughter of Jerusalem."
Micah 4:7-9 (in Context) Micah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 4:10Writhe in agony, O Daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor, for now you must leave the city to camp in the open field. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued. There the LORD will redeem you out of the hand of your enemies.
Micah 4:9-11 (in Context) Micah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 4:11But now many nations are gathered against you. They say, "Let her be defiled, let our eyes gloat over Zion!"
Micah 4:10-12 (in Context) Micah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 4:13"Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron; I will give you hoofs of bronze and you will break to pieces many nations." You will devote their ill-gotten gains to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.
Micah 4:12-13 (in Context) Micah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Zephaniah 3:14Sing, O Daughter of Zion; shout aloud, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O Daughter of Jerusalem!
Zephaniah 3:13-15 (in Context) Zephaniah 3 (Whole Chapter)
Zephaniah 3:16On that day they will say to Jerusalem, "Do not fear, O Zion; do not let your hands hang limp.
Zephaniah 3:15-17 (in Context) Zephaniah 3 (Whole Chapter)
Zechariah 1:14Then the angel who was speaking to me said, "Proclaim this word: This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion,
Zechariah 1:13-15 (in Context) Zechariah 1 (Whole Chapter)
Zechariah 1:17"Proclaim further: This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'My towns will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.' "
Zechariah 1:16-18 (in Context) Zechariah 1 (Whole Chapter)
Zechariah 2:7"Come, O Zion! Escape, you who live in the Daughter of Babylon!"
Zechariah 2:6-8 (in Context) Zechariah 2 (Whole Chapter)
Zechariah 2:10"Shout and be glad, O Daughter of Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you," declares the LORD.
Zechariah 2:9-11 (in Context) Zechariah 2 (Whole Chapter)
Zechariah 8:2This is what the LORD Almighty says: "I am very jealous for Zion; I am burning with jealousy for her."
Zechariah 8:1-3 (in Context) Zechariah 8 (Whole Chapter)
Zechariah 8:3This is what the LORD says: "I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD Almighty will be called the Holy Mountain."
Zechariah 8:2-4 (in Context) Zechariah 8 (Whole Chapter)
Zechariah 9:9[ The Coming of Zion's King ] Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Zechariah 9:8-10 (in Context) Zechariah 9 (Whole Chapter)
Zechariah 9:13I will bend Judah as I bend my bow and fill it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and make you like a warrior's sword.
Zechariah 9:12-14 (in Context) Zechariah 9 (Whole Chapter)
NEW TESTAMENT:
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Matthew 21:5"Say to the Daughter of Zion, 'See, your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.' "
Matthew 21:4-6 (in Context) Matthew 21 (Whole Chapter)
John 12:15"Do not be afraid, O Daughter of Zion; see, your king is coming, seated on a donkey's colt."
John 12:14-16 (in Context) John 12 (Whole Chapter)
Romans 9:33As it is written: "See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."
Romans 9:32-33 (in Context) Romans 9 (Whole Chapter)
Romans 11:26And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
Romans 11:25-27 (in Context) Romans 11 (Whole Chapter)
Hebrews 12:22But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly,
Hebrews 12:21-23 (in Context) Hebrews 12 (Whole Chapter)
1 Peter 2:6For in Scripture it says: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."
1 Peter 2:5-7 (in Context) 1 Peter 2 (Whole Chapter)
Revelation 14:1[ The Lamb and the 144,000 ] Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.
Revelation 14:1-3 (in Context) Revelation 14 (Whole Chapter)
NEW JERUSALEM REFERENCES:
Revelation 3:12Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Revelation 3:11-13 (in Context) Revelation 3 (Whole Chapter)
Revelation 21:2And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Revelation 21:1-3 (in Context) Revelation 21 (Whole Chapter)
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OLD TESTAMENT:
2 Samuel 5:7Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion, the City of David.
2 Samuel 5:6-8 (in Context) 2 Samuel 5 (Whole Chapter)
1 Kings 8:1[ The Ark Brought to the Temple ] Then King Solomon summoned into his presence at Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the LORD's covenant from Zion, the City of David.
1 Kings 8:1-3 (in Context) 1 Kings 8 (Whole Chapter)
2 Kings 19:21This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: " 'The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you. The Daughter of Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee.
2 Kings 19:20-22 (in Context) 2 Kings 19 (Whole Chapter)
2 Kings 19:31For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.
2 Kings 19:30-32 (in Context) 2 Kings 19 (Whole Chapter)
1 Chronicles 11:5said to David, "You will not get in here." Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion, the City of David.
1 Chronicles 11:4-6 (in Context) 1 Chronicles 11 (Whole Chapter)
2 Chronicles 5:2[ The Ark Brought to the Temple ] Then Solomon summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the LORD's covenant from Zion, the City of David.
2 Chronicles 5:1-3 (in Context) 2 Chronicles 5 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 2:6"I have installed my King on Zion, my holy hill."
Psalm 2:5-7 (in Context) Psalm 2 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 9:11Sing praises to the LORD, enthroned in Zion; proclaim among the nations what he has done.
Psalm 9:10-12 (in Context) Psalm 9 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 9:14that I may declare your praises in the gates of the Daughter of Zion and there rejoice in your salvation.
Psalm 9:13-15 (in Context) Psalm 9 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 14:7Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the LORD restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!Psalm 14:6-7 (in Context) Psalm 14 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 20:2May he send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion.
Psalm 20:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 20 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 48:2It is beautiful in its loftiness, the joy of the whole earth. Like the utmost heights of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the Great King.
Psalm 48:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 48 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 48:11Mount Zion rejoices, the villages of Judah are glad because of your judgments.
Psalm 48:10-12 (in Context) Psalm 48 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 48:12Walk about Zion, go around her, count her towers,
Psalm 48:11-13 (in Context) Psalm 48 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 50:2From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
Psalm 50:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 50 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 51:18In your good pleasure make Zion prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.
Psalm 51:17-19 (in Context) Psalm 51 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 53:6Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!
Psalm 53:5-6 (in Context) Psalm 53 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 65:1[ For the director of music. A psalm of David. A song. ] Praise awaits you, O God, in Zion; to you our vows will be fulfilled.
Psalm 65:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 65 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 69:35for God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah. Then people will settle there and possess it;
Psalm 69:34-36 (in Context) Psalm 69 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 74:2Remember the people you purchased of old, the tribe of your inheritance, whom you redeemed— Mount Zion, where you dwelt.
Psalm 74:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 74 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 76:2His tent is in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion.
Psalm 76:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 76 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 78:68but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved.
Psalm 78:67-69 (in Context) Psalm 78 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 84:7They go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion.
Psalm 84:6-8 (in Context) Psalm 84 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 87:2the LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Psalm 87:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 87 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 87:4"I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me— Philistia too, and Tyre, along with Cush — and will say, 'This one was born in Zion.' "
Psalm 87:3-5 (in Context) Psalm 87 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 87:5Indeed, of Zion it will be said, "This one and that one were born in her, and the Most High himself will establish her."
Psalm 87:4-6 (in Context) Psalm 87 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 87:6The LORD will write in the register of the peoples: "This one was born in Zion." Selah
Psalm 87:5-7 (in Context) Psalm 87 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 97:8Zion hears and rejoices and the villages of Judah are glad because of your judgments, O LORD.
Psalm 97:7-9 (in Context) Psalm 97 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 99:2Great is the LORD in Zion; he is exalted over all the nations.
Psalm 99:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 99 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 102:13You will arise and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show favor to her; the appointed time has come.
Psalm 102:12-14 (in Context) Psalm 102 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 102:16For the LORD will rebuild Zion and appear in his glory.
Psalm 102:15-17 (in Context) Psalm 102 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 102:21So the name of the LORD will be declared in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem
Psalm 102:20-22 (in Context) Psalm 102 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 110:2The LORD will extend your mighty scepter from Zion; you will rule in the midst of your enemies.
Psalm 110:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 110 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 125:1[ A song of ascents. ] Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken but endures forever.
Psalm 125:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 125 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 126:1[ A song of ascents. ] When the LORD brought back the captives to Zion, we were like men who dreamed.
Psalm 126:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 126 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 128:5May the LORD bless you from Zion all the days of your life; may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem,
Psalm 128:4-6 (in Context) Psalm 128 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 129:5May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame.
Psalm 129:4-6 (in Context) Psalm 129 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 132:13For the LORD has chosen Zion, he has desired it for his dwelling:
Psalm 132:12-14 (in Context) Psalm 132 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 133:3It is as if the dew of Hermon were falling on Mount Zion. For there the LORD bestows his blessing, even life forevermore.
Psalm 133:2-3 (in Context) Psalm 133 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 134:3May the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth, bless you from Zion.
Psalm 134:2-3 (in Context) Psalm 134 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 135:21Praise be to the LORD from Zion, to him who dwells in Jerusalem. Praise the LORD.
Psalm 135:20-21 (in Context) Psalm 135 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 137:1By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
Psalm 137:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 137 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 137:3for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
Psalm 137:2-4 (in Context) Psalm 137 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 146:10The LORD reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Praise the LORD.
Psalm 146:9-10 (in Context) Psalm 146 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 147:12Extol the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion,
Psalm 147:11-13 (in Context) Psalm 147 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 149:2Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; let the people of Zion be glad in their King.
Psalm 149:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 149 (Whole Chapter)
Song of Solomon 3:11Come out, you daughters of Zion, and look at King Solomon wearing the crown, the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, the day his heart rejoiced.
Song of Solomon 3:10-11 (in Context) Song of Solomon 3 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 1:8The Daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a city under siege.
Isaiah 1:7-9 (in Context) Isaiah 1 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 1:27Zion will be redeemed with justice, her penitent ones with righteousness.
Isaiah 1:26-28 (in Context) Isaiah 1 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 2:3Many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths." The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Isaiah 2:2-4 (in Context) Isaiah 2 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 3:16The LORD says, "The women of Zion are haughty, walking along with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, tripping along with mincing steps, with ornaments jingling on their ankles.
Isaiah 3:15-17 (in Context) Isaiah 3 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 3:17Therefore the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the women of Zion; the LORD will make their scalps bald."
Isaiah 3:16-18 (in Context) Isaiah 3 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 3:26The gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
Isaiah 3:25-26 (in Context) Isaiah 3 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 4:3Those who are left in Zion, who remain in Jerusalem, will be called holy, all who are recorded among the living in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 4:2-4 (in Context) Isaiah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 4:4The Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion; he will cleanse the bloodstains from Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.
Isaiah 4:3-5 (in Context) Isaiah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 4:5Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night; over all the glory will be a canopy.
Isaiah 4:4-6 (in Context) Isaiah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 8:18Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.
Isaiah 8:17-19 (in Context) Isaiah 8 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 10:12When the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will say, "I will punish the king of Assyria for the willful pride of his heart and the haughty look in his eyes.
Isaiah 10:11-13 (in Context) Isaiah 10 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 10:24Therefore, this is what the Lord, the LORD Almighty, says: "O my people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrians, who beat you with a rod and lift up a club against you, as Egypt did.
Isaiah 10:23-25 (in Context) Isaiah 10 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 10:32This day they will halt at Nob; they will shake their fist at the mount of the Daughter of Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.
Isaiah 10:31-33 (in Context) Isaiah 10 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 12:6Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you."
Isaiah 12:5-6 (in Context) Isaiah 12 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 14:32What answer shall be given to the envoys of that nation? "The LORD has established Zion, and in her his afflicted people will find refuge."
Isaiah 14:31-32 (in Context) Isaiah 14 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 16:1Send lambs as tribute to the ruler of the land, from Sela, across the desert, to the mount of the Daughter of Zion.
Isaiah 16:1-3 (in Context) Isaiah 16 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 18:7At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD Almighty from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers— the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD Almighty.
Isaiah 18:6-7 (in Context) Isaiah 18 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 24:23The moon will be abashed, the sun ashamed; for the LORD Almighty will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before its elders, gloriously.
Isaiah 24:22-23 (in Context) Isaiah 24 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 28:16So this is what the Sovereign LORD says: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who trusts will never be dismayed.
Isaiah 28:15-17 (in Context) Isaiah 28 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 29:8as when a hungry man dreams that he is eating, but he awakens, and his hunger remains; as when a thirsty man dreams that he is drinking, but he awakens faint, with his thirst unquenched. So will it be with the hordes of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion.
Isaiah 29:7-9 (in Context) Isaiah 29 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 30:19O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you.
Isaiah 30:18-20 (in Context) Isaiah 30 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 31:4This is what the LORD says to me: "As a lion growls, a great lion over his prey— and though a whole band of shepherds is called together against him, he is not frightened by their shouts or disturbed by their clamor— so the LORD Almighty will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and on its heights.
Isaiah 31:3-5 (in Context) Isaiah 31 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 31:9Their stronghold will fall because of terror; at sight of the battle standard their commanders will panic," declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 31:8-9 (in Context) Isaiah 31 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 33:5The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness.
Isaiah 33:4-6 (in Context) Isaiah 33 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 33:14The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling grips the godless: "Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?"
Isaiah 33:13-15 (in Context) Isaiah 33 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 33:20Look upon Zion, the city of our festivals; your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful abode, a tent that will not be moved; its stakes will never be pulled up, nor any of its ropes broken.
Isaiah 33:19-21 (in Context) Isaiah 33 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 33:24No one living in Zion will say, "I am ill"; and the sins of those who dwell there will be forgiven.
Isaiah 33:23-24 (in Context) Isaiah 33 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 34:8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution, to uphold Zion's cause.
Isaiah 34:7-9 (in Context) Isaiah 34 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 35:10and the ransomed of the LORD will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Isaiah 35:9-10 (in Context) Isaiah 35 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 37:22this is the word the LORD has spoken against him: "The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises and mocks you. The Daughter of Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee.
Isaiah 37:21-23 (in Context) Isaiah 37 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 37:32For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.
Isaiah 37:31-33 (in Context) Isaiah 37 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 40:9You who bring good tidings to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who bring good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with a shout, lift it up, do not be afraid; say to the towns of Judah, "Here is your God!"
Isaiah 40:8-10 (in Context) Isaiah 40 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 41:27I was the first to tell Zion, 'Look, here they are!' I gave to Jerusalem a messenger of good tidings.
Isaiah 41:26-28 (in Context) Isaiah 41 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 46:13I am bringing my righteousness near, it is not far away; and my salvation will not be delayed. I will grant salvation to Zion, my splendor to Israel.
Isaiah 46:12-13 (in Context) Isaiah 46 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 49:14But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me."
Isaiah 49:13-15 (in Context) Isaiah 49 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 51:1[ Everlasting Salvation for Zion ] "Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the LORD : Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn;
Isaiah 51:1-3 (in Context) Isaiah 51 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 51:3The LORD will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing.
Isaiah 51:2-4 (in Context) Isaiah 51 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 51:11The ransomed of the LORD will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Isaiah 51:10-12 (in Context) Isaiah 51 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 51:16I have put my words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of my hand— I who set the heavens in place, who laid the foundations of the earth, and who say to Zion, 'You are my people.' "
Isaiah 51:15-17 (in Context) Isaiah 51 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 52:1Awake, awake, O Zion, clothe yourself with strength. Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, the holy city. The uncircumcised and defiled will not enter you again.
Isaiah 52:1-3 (in Context) Isaiah 52 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 52:2Shake off your dust; rise up, sit enthroned, O Jerusalem. Free yourself from the chains on your neck, O captive Daughter of Zion.
Isaiah 52:1-3 (in Context) Isaiah 52 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 52:7How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, "Your God reigns!"
Isaiah 52:6-8 (in Context) Isaiah 52 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 52:8Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices; together they shout for joy. When the LORD returns to Zion, they will see it with their own eyes.
Isaiah 52:7-9 (in Context) Isaiah 52 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 54:1[ The Future Glory of Zion ] "Sing, O barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband," says the LORD.
Isaiah 54:1-3 (in Context) Isaiah 54 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 59:20"The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who repent of their sins," declares the LORD.
Isaiah 59:19-21 (in Context) Isaiah 59 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 60:1[ The Glory of Zion ] "Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
Isaiah 60:1-3 (in Context) Isaiah 60 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 60:14The sons of your oppressors will come bowing before you; all who despise you will bow down at your feet and will call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 60:13-15 (in Context) Isaiah 60 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 61:3and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display of his splendor.
Isaiah 61:2-4 (in Context) Isaiah 61 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 62:1[ Zion's New Name ] For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem's sake I will not remain quiet, till her righteousness shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch.
Isaiah 62:1-3 (in Context) Isaiah 62 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 62:11The LORD has made proclamation to the ends of the earth: "Say to the Daughter of Zion, 'See, your Savior comes! See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him.' "
Isaiah 62:10-12 (in Context) Isaiah 62 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 64:10Your sacred cities have become a desert; even Zion is a desert, Jerusalem a desolation.Isaiah 64:9-11 (in Context) Isaiah 64 (Whole Chapter)
Isaiah 66:8Who has ever heard of such a thing? Who has ever seen such things? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment? Yet no sooner is Zion in labor than she gives birth to her children.
Isaiah 66:7-9 (in Context) Isaiah 66 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 3:14"Return, faithless people," declares the LORD, "for I am your husband. I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion.Jeremiah 3:13-15 (in Context) Jeremiah 3 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 4:6Raise the signal to go to Zion! Flee for safety without delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, even terrible destruction."Jeremiah 4:5-7 (in Context) Jeremiah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 4:31I hear a cry as of a woman in labor, a groan as of one bearing her first child— the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands and saying, "Alas! I am fainting; my life is given over to murderers."
Jeremiah 4:30-31 (in Context) Jeremiah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 6:2I will destroy the Daughter of Zion, so beautiful and delicate.
Jeremiah 6:1-3 (in Context) Jeremiah 6 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 6:23They are armed with bow and spear; they are cruel and show no mercy. They sound like the roaring sea as they ride on their horses; they come like men in battle formation to attack you, O Daughter of Zion."
Jeremiah 6:22-24 (in Context) Jeremiah 6 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 8:19Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: "Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?" "Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?"
Jeremiah 8:18-20 (in Context) Jeremiah 8 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 9:19The sound of wailing is heard from Zion: 'How ruined we are! How great is our shame! We must leave our land because our houses are in ruins.' "
Jeremiah 9:18-20 (in Context) Jeremiah 9 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 14:19Have you rejected Judah completely? Do you despise Zion? Why have you afflicted us so that we cannot be healed? We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there is only terror.
Jeremiah 14:18-20 (in Context) Jeremiah 14 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 26:18"Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. He told all the people of Judah, 'This is what the LORD Almighty says: " 'Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.'
Jeremiah 26:17-19 (in Context) Jeremiah 26 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 30:17But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds,' declares the LORD, 'because you are called an outcast, Zion for whom no one cares.'
Jeremiah 30:16-18 (in Context) Jeremiah 30 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 31:6There will be a day when watchmen cry out on the hills of Ephraim, 'Come, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God.' "
Jeremiah 31:5-7 (in Context) Jeremiah 31 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 31:12They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will rejoice in the bounty of the LORD— the grain, the new wine and the oil, the young of the flocks and herds. They will be like a well-watered garden, and they will sorrow no more.
Jeremiah 31:11-13 (in Context) Jeremiah 31 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 50:5They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and bind themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.
Jeremiah 50:4-6 (in Context) Jeremiah 50 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 50:28Listen to the fugitives and refugees from Babylon declaring in Zion how the LORD our God has taken vengeance, vengeance for his temple.
Jeremiah 50:27-29 (in Context) Jeremiah 50 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 51:10" 'The LORD has vindicated us; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has done.'
Jeremiah 51:9-11 (in Context) Jeremiah 51 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 51:24"Before your eyes I will repay Babylon and all who live in Babylonia for all the wrong they have done in Zion," declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:23-25 (in Context) Jeremiah 51 (Whole Chapter)
Jeremiah 51:35May the violence done to our flesh be upon Babylon," say the inhabitants of Zion. "May our blood be on those who live in Babylonia," says Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 51:34-36 (in Context) Jeremiah 51 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 1:4The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gateways are desolate, her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she is in bitter anguish.
Lamentations 1:3-5 (in Context) Lamentations 1 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 1:6All the splendor has departed from the Daughter of Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; in weakness they have fled before the pursuer.
Lamentations 1:5-7 (in Context) Lamentations 1 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 1:17Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed for Jacob that his neighbors become his foes; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.
Lamentations 1:16-18 (in Context) Lamentations 1 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 2:1How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of his anger ! He has hurled down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
Lamentations 2:1-3 (in Context) Lamentations 2 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 2:4Like an enemy he has strung his bow; his right hand is ready. Like a foe he has slain all who were pleasing to the eye; he has poured out his wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.
Lamentations 2:3-5 (in Context) Lamentations 2 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 2:6He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden; he has destroyed his place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and her Sabbaths; in his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest.
Lamentations 2:5-7 (in Context) Lamentations 2 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 2:8The LORD determined to tear down the wall around the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withhold his hand from destroying. He made ramparts and walls lament; together they wasted away.
Lamentations 2:7-9 (in Context) Lamentations 2 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 2:10The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have sprinkled dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
Lamentations 2:9-11 (in Context) Lamentations 2 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 2:13What can I say for you? With what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may comfort you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? Your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can heal you?
Lamentations 2:12-14 (in Context) Lamentations 2 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 2:18The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears flow like a river day and night; give yourself no relief, your eyes no rest.
Lamentations 2:17-19 (in Context) Lamentations 2 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 4:2How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in gold, are now considered as pots of clay, the work of a potter's hands!
Lamentations 4:1-3 (in Context) Lamentations 4 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 4:11The LORD has given full vent to his wrath; he has poured out his fierce anger. He kindled a fire in Zion that consumed her foundations.
Lamentations 4:10-12 (in Context) Lamentations 4 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 4:22O Daughter of Zion, your punishment will end; he will not prolong your exile. But, O Daughter of Edom, he will punish your sin and expose your wickedness.
Lamentations 4:21-22 (in Context) Lamentations 4 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 5:11Women have been ravished in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.
Lamentations 5:10-12 (in Context) Lamentations 5 (Whole Chapter)
Lamentations 5:18for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, with jackals prowling over it.
Lamentations 5:17-19 (in Context) Lamentations 5 (Whole Chapter)
Joel 2:1[ An Army of Locusts ] Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming. It is close at hand-
Joel 2:1-3 (in Context) Joel 2 (Whole Chapter)
Joel 2:15Blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly.
Joel 2:14-16 (in Context) Joel 2 (Whole Chapter)
Joel 2:23Be glad, O people of Zion, rejoice in the LORD your God, for he has given you the autumn rains in righteousness. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
Joel 2:22-24 (in Context) Joel 2 (Whole Chapter)
Joel 2:32And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has said, among the survivors whom the LORD calls.
Joel 2:31-32 (in Context) Joel 2 (Whole Chapter)
Joel 3:16The LORD will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem; the earth and the sky will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
Joel 3:15-17 (in Context) Joel 3 (Whole Chapter)
Joel 3:17[ Blessings for God's People ] "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.
Joel 3:16-18 (in Context) Joel 3 (Whole Chapter)
Joel 3:21Their bloodguilt, which I have not pardoned, I will pardon." The LORD dwells in Zion!
Joel 3:20-21 (in Context) Joel 3 (Whole Chapter)
Amos 1:2He said: "The LORD roars from Zion and thunders from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds dry up, and the top of Carmel withers."
Amos 1:1-3 (in Context) Amos 1 (Whole Chapter)
Amos 6:1[ Woe to the Complacent ] Woe to you who are complacent in Zion, and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria, you notable men of the foremost nation, to whom the people of Israel come!
Amos 6:1-3 (in Context) Amos 6 (Whole Chapter)
Obadiah 1:17But on Mount Zion will be deliverance; it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will possess its inheritance.
Obadiah 1:16-18 (in Context) Obadiah 1 (Whole Chapter)
Obadiah 1:21Deliverers will go up on Mount Zion to govern the mountains of Esau. And the kingdom will be the LORD's.
Obadiah 1:20-21 (in Context) Obadiah 1 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 1:13You who live in Lachish, harness the team to the chariot. You were the beginning of sin to the Daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.
Micah 1:12-14 (in Context) Micah 1 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 3:10who build Zion with bloodshed, and Jerusalem with wickedness.
Micah 3:9-11 (in Context) Micah 3 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 3:12Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.
Micah 3:11-12 (in Context) Micah 3 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 4:2Many nations will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths." The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Micah 4:1-3 (in Context) Micah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 4:7I will make the lame a remnant, those driven away a strong nation. The LORD will rule over them in Mount Zion from that day and forever.
Micah 4:6-8 (in Context) Micah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 4:8As for you, O watchtower of the flock, O stronghold of the Daughter of Zion, the former dominion will be restored to you; kingship will come to the Daughter of Jerusalem."
Micah 4:7-9 (in Context) Micah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 4:10Writhe in agony, O Daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor, for now you must leave the city to camp in the open field. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued. There the LORD will redeem you out of the hand of your enemies.
Micah 4:9-11 (in Context) Micah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 4:11But now many nations are gathered against you. They say, "Let her be defiled, let our eyes gloat over Zion!"
Micah 4:10-12 (in Context) Micah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Micah 4:13"Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron; I will give you hoofs of bronze and you will break to pieces many nations." You will devote their ill-gotten gains to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.
Micah 4:12-13 (in Context) Micah 4 (Whole Chapter)
Zephaniah 3:14Sing, O Daughter of Zion; shout aloud, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O Daughter of Jerusalem!
Zephaniah 3:13-15 (in Context) Zephaniah 3 (Whole Chapter)
Zephaniah 3:16On that day they will say to Jerusalem, "Do not fear, O Zion; do not let your hands hang limp.
Zephaniah 3:15-17 (in Context) Zephaniah 3 (Whole Chapter)
Zechariah 1:14Then the angel who was speaking to me said, "Proclaim this word: This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion,
Zechariah 1:13-15 (in Context) Zechariah 1 (Whole Chapter)
Zechariah 1:17"Proclaim further: This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'My towns will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.' "
Zechariah 1:16-18 (in Context) Zechariah 1 (Whole Chapter)
Zechariah 2:7"Come, O Zion! Escape, you who live in the Daughter of Babylon!"
Zechariah 2:6-8 (in Context) Zechariah 2 (Whole Chapter)
Zechariah 2:10"Shout and be glad, O Daughter of Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you," declares the LORD.
Zechariah 2:9-11 (in Context) Zechariah 2 (Whole Chapter)
Zechariah 8:2This is what the LORD Almighty says: "I am very jealous for Zion; I am burning with jealousy for her."
Zechariah 8:1-3 (in Context) Zechariah 8 (Whole Chapter)
Zechariah 8:3This is what the LORD says: "I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD Almighty will be called the Holy Mountain."
Zechariah 8:2-4 (in Context) Zechariah 8 (Whole Chapter)
Zechariah 9:9[ The Coming of Zion's King ] Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Zechariah 9:8-10 (in Context) Zechariah 9 (Whole Chapter)
Zechariah 9:13I will bend Judah as I bend my bow and fill it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and make you like a warrior's sword.
Zechariah 9:12-14 (in Context) Zechariah 9 (Whole Chapter)
NEW TESTAMENT:
(also see "NEW JERUSALEM")
Matthew 21:5"Say to the Daughter of Zion, 'See, your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.' "
Matthew 21:4-6 (in Context) Matthew 21 (Whole Chapter)
John 12:15"Do not be afraid, O Daughter of Zion; see, your king is coming, seated on a donkey's colt."
John 12:14-16 (in Context) John 12 (Whole Chapter)
Romans 9:33As it is written: "See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."
Romans 9:32-33 (in Context) Romans 9 (Whole Chapter)
Romans 11:26And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
Romans 11:25-27 (in Context) Romans 11 (Whole Chapter)
Hebrews 12:22But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly,
Hebrews 12:21-23 (in Context) Hebrews 12 (Whole Chapter)
1 Peter 2:6For in Scripture it says: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."
1 Peter 2:5-7 (in Context) 1 Peter 2 (Whole Chapter)
Revelation 14:1[ The Lamb and the 144,000 ] Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.
Revelation 14:1-3 (in Context) Revelation 14 (Whole Chapter)
NEW JERUSALEM REFERENCES:
Revelation 3:12Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Revelation 3:11-13 (in Context) Revelation 3 (Whole Chapter)
Revelation 21:2And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Revelation 21:1-3 (in Context) Revelation 21 (Whole Chapter)
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008
ZION, ZIONISM & THE MATRIX
Some have asked me because I express a belief in Zion if I am a “Zionist” or believe in “Zionism” and I just wanted to clarify a few things in today’s blog regarding my beliefs over those held as traditional.
I really do not agree with almost any kind of “ism”. Zionism is no exception.
Lets take a look at what people think of “Zion“. All of my sources today come from “Wicapedia”.
Zion, or Sion "Height" standard Hebrew Tziyyon, Tiberian Hebrew Tsiyyôn) is an archaic term that originally referred to a specific mountain near Jerusalem (Mount Zion), on which stood a Jebusite fortress of the same name that was conquered by David "Zion" came to be applied to the section of Jerusalem where the fortress stood, and later became synonymous with Jerusalem. "Zion" is also a metonym for Solomon’s Temple Today, "Zion" is often used metaphorically, to symbolize Jerusalem and the Promised Land to come, in which God dwells among his chosen people.
Now let’s see what is said of “Zionism”:
Zionism is a political movement and ideology that supports a homeland for the Jewish People in the Land of Israel. where the Jewish nation originated over 3200 years ago and where Jewish Kingdoms and self-governing states existed at various times in history. While Zionism is based in part upon religious tradition linking the Jewish people to the Land of Israel, the modern movement was originally secular, beginning largely as a response to rampant anti-Semitism in Europe and parts of the Muslim World during the 19th Century. After a number of advances and setbacks, and after the Holocaust had destroyed Jewish society in Europe, the Zionist movement culminated in the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.
So, Zionism could be said to have a race related belief system. It speaks mostly of a view that “ISRAEL” (the country) is the only true Zion. It is political and does not account for many of the prophetic truths expressed in the Bible (See the Prophets).
Yes, many of the prophets did believe that Zion was only Israel and most of them do state in in a way that might lead one to think of the current Hebrew nationalism. But this does not take into account some important deviations that were brought in by Christianity.
Christians believe themselves to be the true spiritual “Israel”. Not by RACE but by BELIEF. I share in this belief. We live in the “Last Days“… also called the “End of The Age”. Careful examination of prophecy will show that when referring to this time period that Zion is also called “New Jerusalem” (as opposed to Jerusalem) and Babylon seems to be called MYSTERY BABYLON or “Daughter of Babylon”.
Places and peoples have changed through time. As new things happen old references are often used more as “points of reference” for a future time. Foe example, I believe that the “Daughter of Babylon” is not what was the known Babylon of the east… Rather it refers to the “Americas” and in particular the U.S.A..
I have many reasons why I believe this true and I shall merely point to one since my emphasis in this blog is to discuss Zion. It is written that the “Daughter (or Whore) of Babylon rises from the sea. How could current Babylon in Iraq rise from a sea that is not there… why also is it a “Mystery” when at the time prophecy was written there was no mystery where and what Babylon was.
Now as for Zion. Let me say that I believe a time is coming that the world will encounter a major war… I believe that war has already begun but it has yet to take on the full impact of what will happen VERY SOON.
Allow me for a moment to give you a vision regarding what I believe will soon happen in world history.
Over 2 ½ years ago I had a vision. It is mentioned in an earlier Blog called “The Vision All Can See” but here is a bit more detail. In my vision I saw the world was politically chaotic. I saw the names of several Nations written on a stone that contained many words. Largest among them was the word “WAR”.. Above that “Atomic bombs”.
Then there were countries mentioned “Syria, China, Israel, France, and IRAN” were among several others. As I read the stone I saw more and more detail and it might be interesting to note that this vision occurred BEFORE any of these nations were in the news. Three cities of the West Coast were there also. Many numbers were also present as well as a specific date.
I have had many other visions since and I believe based on all of these visions that the following scenario will result in WWIII/Armageddon:
Sometime not too far in the future Israel (the Nation) will launch a Nuclear Strike (Backed by the U.S.) against IRANIAN based Nuclear Plants that are currently manufacturing nuclear weapons themselves (under pretence that they are seeking nuclear power only).
Many Nations will threaten Israel for it’s actions and IRAN will counterattack almost immediately.
China (along with Russia) will take fairly immediate action by making a nuclear strike against 3 Major West Coast Cities and this shall be the beginning of true Armageddon.
Now God is fair, kind and loving. He knows what is coming and has provided shelter for His people. The Bible calls it New Jerusalem or ZION. It is like a “Holy Bomb Shelter”. A place of Rest. A cleft in the rocks to hide from the storm. I believe this place is currently not somewhere in outer space or hidden in another space or time. I believe that is currently located within the earth itself.
Where?… Well, that is an interesting question… as is how it somehow later returns in the sky.
I will let you ponder there things on your own but I offer one last interesting thing regarding the concept of Zion. The movie “THE MATRIX”.
I love these films… not because they ARE truth… They are just a movie…HOWEVER, there is some interesting symbolism throughout this film series and I found their concept that “Zion was in the earth” as quite fascinating since I already believed this before the first films release.
Symbolically I felt a great and almost mystical unity to the films main character NEO and for those who think perhaps I simply saw the film and then formed my path… quite the opposite is true. In effect I would go through a series of experiences and was then shocked to see each release as I saw Neo go though “symbolically” what I had ALREADY experience.
These films often gave me the chills and might be called yet another “sign” of what I was called to do.
I believe my main objective is to teach and warn people about the end of days and the coming of Zion.
Now my Idea of Zion is a bit brighter and more amazing than what is presented in the Matrix but let me let you read what Wicapedia says regarding the Matrix version of “Zion” .
In the MATRIX films, Zion was the last human city on the planet Earth and existed deep underground for both concealment from its enemies as well as warmth. In this future Earth, the surface was too cold and dangerous for humans to live after a cataclysmic nuclear war between sentient Machines and Man hundreds of years before left the artificial beings with control over the surface.
Other than occasional trips for reconnaissance or warfare, the only humans left on the surface were confined to the Matrix -- a virtual computer world operated by the machines to keep humans docile, provide electrical power for the machine population, and the computer processing power that kept the Matrix running.
In The Matrix Revolutions, considering the distance to the Machine City (that is located within the area of Southern Iraq or Saudi Arabia) and the relatively short amount of time it takes the Hammer to go to Zion and the Logos to the Machine City from the same start point; one could postulate that Zion is in fact underneath the historical Mt Zion near Jerusalem or within the vicinity of the Holy Land. This is possible considering the timescale involved and geographic locations that the Matrix series exhibits.
The Last Stand for Humanity
Zion was cylindrical in design, composed of many different levels. The Docks comprise the top level of the city, which contained ports for Zion hovercraft such as the Nebuchadnezzar as well as the city's primary defenses. The city's living quarters, temples, and gathering spaces comprised the intermediate areas. The bottom level contained vital life support machinery such as that which supplied water to Zion's inhabitants. By the final days of the war the knowledge to repair these systems had been lost, though that also have been part of the scenario set up by the Machines every time the city was "reset" following an appearance of The One. Unbeknownst to its human inhabitants, Zion was actually far older than they realized by about five times.
Zion was led by a Council that made all administrative decisions. As shown in the last two movies, there were other officials that report to the Council, such as Commander Lock, supreme commander of the Zion defensive forces. The captains of the various hovercraft also had some political bearing, and their crews accompanied their captains to Council forums.
The Architect, creator of the Matrix, used Zion as a control for the survival of the program in two ways. Firstly, the Machines allowed humans who did not accept the Matrix to live in the physical world at Zion without attempting to recapture them or otherwise destroy the city (which was well within their power). This had the effect of reducing dissent within the Matrix and preventing an exponentially-growing rejection of the artificial universe by its prisoners. For the second control, the Architect periodically destroyed Zion and its inhabitants as part of a deal coercing The One to reinsert the programming code he carried back into the source. The alternative was a systemic failure that would crash the entire system and kill the overwhelming majority of the human population, so up until Neo's appearance, each incarnation of The One chose the smaller loss of Zion rather than be responsible for the extinction of his species.
Over time, the Matrix gradually destabilized due to the side-effects of the programming provided by The Oracle. The One ostensibly contained the 'Prime Program," the key choice-programming code needed by the Architect. Because of the Oracle's contribution, a reloading of the Matrix code was needed approximately every 100 years. After Zion's destruction, the Architect allowed The One a small number of humans who were freed from the Matrix to repopulate Zion and start the cycle again. It is unknown if the city was physically rebuilt by Man each time or if they were given a measure of help, as evidenced by the fact that technology existed in Zion that cannot be replicated by its inhabitants.
Zion had been destroyed and rebuilt five times by the time of the Matrix films. In the video game Enter the Matrix, the Trainman, a henchmen of the Merovingian, told the Logos captain Niobe that it took the Machines 72 hours to destroy Zion. As Neo, the 6th One, deduced in his conversation with the Architect, there were no survivors of the previously destroyed Zions that knew of the city's repeated destruction, except for the previous Ones themselves. They evidently chose not to share that information before their prerequisite deaths (which served to foretell the coming of the next One).
Despite good planning, Zion's defenses have never been sufficient to resist the juggernaut Machine army. The city was nearly razed a sixth time as shown in The Matrix Revolutions but Neo saved it from destruction by creating a truce with the Machines which halted the attack. Zion's defense was comprised of the hovercraft fleet, the APU Corps (Armored Personnel Unit), and a bloc of infantry that carried plasma rifles. Unlike their hovercraft, Zion defenses do not possess an EMP device, as the use of it would not only disable any Machine attackers such as Sentinels, but the Zion defense grid and the city's APU fighters as well.
After the Truce
After large numbers of humans were freed from the Matrix (a point which marked the beginning of the online multiplayer game The Matrix Online), overpopulation became a potential problem. New recruits were sent into the tunnels on hoverbarges instead - the tunnels had become safe thanks to the new Truce with the Machines. The Zion Council also had a leader for the Zion Offensive, but that position is now obsolete with the Truce.
Very Interesting… Very SYMBOLIC!
I will let you come to your own opinions and would be interested in you leaving a comment of your impressions of what YOU think Zion is.
Only time will tell if my visions are correct but I encourage you to dust off your Bible and read what the Prophets of the Old Testament had to say.
I am not a “Zionist” but I do believe in ZION!
BE LOVE & BE LOVED!
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