Two Different Future Visions of Jerusalem – God’s and Man’s
July 3, 2006
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It is interesting to compare God’s future vision of the City of Jerusalem in the Scriptures, with man’s future vision of it in the Jerusalem Post article, which follows the Scriptures.
God’s Vision of Future Jerusalem
Ezekiel 40:2-4 – In the visions of God brought he me
into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of A CITY on the south. [3] And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in t
he gate. [4] And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 48:30 – And these are the goings out of THE CITY on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.
Ezekiel 48:35 – It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of THE CITY from THAT DAY shall be, The Lord is there.
Zechariah 14:8,9 – And it shall be in THAT DAY, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. [9] And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
Zechariah 14:11 – And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
Zechariah 14:20,21 – In THAT DAY shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the Lord’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar. [21] Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.
Man’s Vision of Future Jerusalem
Begin Excerpts from Jerusalem Post
2020 Vision
By Leah Granof, THE JERUSALEM POST
June 20, 2006
Imagine what Jerusalem might look like in the year 2020.
Will 40-story skyscrapers adorn the horizon, foreigners and retirees inhabiting the luxury penthouses and young sabra families residing in the apartments below
? Will the city’s borders have expanded westwards to Tel Aviv, as sprawl encroaches upon the surrounding peripheral “green space” to create an affordable suburbia?
Such issues dealing with the direction and growth of Jerusalem were the main items on the agenda at the Second Annual Jerusalem Business Conference held this week at the International Conference Center.
The classy networking event was sponsored by Globes, The Municipality of Jerusalem, the Jerusalem Development Authority and The Jewish Agency, but also present were such hi-tech notables like NDS, IDT and the non-profit Jerusalem Foundation.
Operating under the slogan, “Dream, Renewal and Hope,” the event attracted a few thousand representatives of businesses interested in forming connections with each other and listening to government agencies and private entrepreneurs debate plans for City’s future.
Participating in the opening panel, the private contractors, developers and Deputy Mayor Yehoshua Pollack, agreed on two points: that planners must find a means of providing affordable housing to young couples, students and soldiers, and that foreign investments (already a well-established trend) are an essential component to growing Jerusalem.
Biran argued that Jerusalem must start to see itself as an “international city similar to Paris and New York” and employ comparable planning models to capitalize on its wealth within its borders without expanding westward.
“We must create the right content to turn Jerusalem into a regional and global command center,” he said.
Noting that Jerusalem has 123,000 square meters of space available for development within its borders – the same volume as Paris – Biran lamented the fact that Jerusalem currently fits only 180,000 individual apartment units into the space, while Paris can boast of three times the amount of available living space.
Calling urban sprawl a “destructive process all over the world” he advocated inward development to tighten and strengthen the city’s center while preserving the land around Jerusalem’s tactical borders.
End Excerpts from Jerusalem Post
And this is my favorite part of the future New City of Jerusalem in the vision Ezekiel received from God – The Millennial Temple where Christ himself will dwell and reign from Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 43:1-7 – Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east: [2] And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory. [3] And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face. [4] And the glory of the Lord came into THE HOUSE by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. [5] So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled THE HOUSE. [6] And I heard him speaking unto me out of THE HOUSE; and the man stood by me. [7] And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, WHERE I WILL DWELL in the midst of the children of Israel for ever,
I am well aware that no man can know the time of the Lord’s coming for his saints, but I don’t believe it is wrong for me to speculate that by 2020 he will be on this earth in Jerusalem.
I guesstimate that the war, which terminates some three and one-half years after it begins with the final great battle of Armageddon, will begin at a point in time between 2008 and 2012. The events of the last six years in Israel have led me to that guesstimate.
It is a guesstimate, no more and no less.
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