A Rose by Any Other Name - Jerusalem on the Lips of Jesus Christ is Its Truth of Its Establishment

Submitted by M. Tovey (United States), Nov 21, 2008 at 17:24

Let us suspend reality for a moment and realize that prior to Abraham being given the land we now know as Israel (‘Palestine', we must remember is a name given to the area by the Romans centuries before it became the name of the Arabic cause to keep Israel out), and among some of the names used in those days was Moriah, and its Mount(Genesis 22:2). It is now referred to by the Islamic Arabic nom d' plume al-Quds. We must remember that when promised to Abraham, there were no Jewish people yet, just Hebrews, of which Abraham and his clan were the first. So we can suppose that reality is not suspended, but established by its earlier references, no matter the name at the time.

The location we now know as Jerusalem was in the land of the Jebusites, and Jerusalem was known as Jebus. See the Judges, et sequiter, and follow when the Israelites moved the temple location from place to place while it was still a tabernacle. From then until King David's son Solomon built the first Temple on the land of Moriah, it had been pretty much located in the area referred to in the Holy Bible as Zion, or Mount Zion.

But, since the whole of the modern world is intent on following the delusion that Israel's claim to the land must be eradicated, they have been steadily following the Islamic course of remaining such things so as to eliminate the truth, that the land is that promised to Abraham, continued to his son Isaac and grandson Jacob (Israel), and continued in the promise today.

A rose by any other name is still a rose: Jerusalem by any other name is still Zion, and Jesus Christ is still LORD. It is interesting that in every effort to unconvincingly dispel the truth as found in the Holy Bible, the unbelief of those trying to use the Holy Bible for their proof of the WORD of the LORD does nothing to contradict its truth, but makes its truth clear. The same cannot be said of other attempts to rewrite history, for the truth of the Holy Bible still shines in the midst of darkness, and the light of Jesus Christ is the Spirit behind it all.

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