Hi Pilgrimshope,
So glad we agree that we will be where Jesus is ruling from.
Good scripture there. Notice that there is Mount Zion AND the city. Mount Zion on earth was where king David ruled from and the city was further down. Then in the third heaven Mount Zion is where the King rules over all and we are with Him.
The city , however (the other part of the heavenly Jerusalem) comes down out of heaven FROM God.
You see there are TWO parts to the heavenly Jerusalem - Mount Zion AND the city.
1. Mount Zion - the King`s seat of power and those who rule with Him.
2. The City - which comes down and near the earth with those who rule there.
So glad we agree that we will be where Jesus is ruling from.
Good scripture there. Notice that there is Mount Zion AND the city. Mount Zion on earth was where king David ruled from and the city was further down. Then in the third heaven Mount Zion is where the King rules over all and we are with Him.
The city , however (the other part of the heavenly Jerusalem) comes down out of heaven FROM God.
You see there are TWO parts to the heavenly Jerusalem - Mount Zion AND the city.
1. Mount Zion - the King`s seat of power and those who rule with Him.
2. The City - which comes down and near the earth with those who rule there.
“Therefore ( David ) being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.”
Acts 2:30, 32-33 KJV
Mount Zion is the heavenly mount where the city of God is
“Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
….But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.”
Galatians 4:24-26 KJV
“but ye are come unto mount Zion . and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.”
Hebrews 12:22-24 KJV