👉🏾👉🏾👉🏾For the sake of #Zion I #will #not be #silent(#Isaiah 62:1)
(Part 3)
Dear followers of the Orthodox teachings shared on the website of John's Repentance , we greet you with the greetings of God. Today, based on the above topic, we share the following important teaching, and we encourage you to read and reflect on it:
4. Zion refers to the wooden cross on which Christ was crucified
👉🏾 “For he says, ‘I will reign on Zion, on the mountain of my inheritance’” (Psalm 2:6)
✍🏾 Christ made the cross a kingdom and fulfilled the work of the kingdom while crucified.
✍🏾 On the cross, He revealed His Lordship, His divinity, and His role as Savior.
✍🏾 The cross became our strength, our Savior, and our Redeemer.
✍🏾 The place where the cross was planted Debre Qeranyo, Debre Mekdes is a mountain of praise.
✍🏾 Before Christ’s crucifixion, angels came to Mount Qeranyo at noon to praise and sanctify Him. When they saw Him on the cross, they were amazed and scattered, declaring, “You deserve to be called powerful, strong, and courageous. Strength be to You!”
✍🏾 David, in another context, captured Mount Zion, the city of David, to bring up the Ark of God (2 Samuel 5:7, 6:12). This Mount Zion is the city of refuge where David reigned, not the heavenly Jerusalem.
✍🏾 The prophet Isaiah said, “The land is desolate, its walls are broken, and its people are taken captive…therefore you shall no longer say, ‘Forsaken,’ and your land shall no longer be called desolate” (Isaiah 62:4). In his vision, Isaiah declared, “I will not keep silent for Zion, nor will I be silent for Jerusalem.”
5. The Ark of the Covenant is called Zion
👉🏾 The Ark contained the Ten Commandments written by the finger of God and blessed the people.
👉🏾 It was the Ark that crossed the Jordan River with Joshua, blessed the house of Abidaran, and broke Dagon.
👉🏾 When David brought it from Abidaran to the city of David, the Ark rested on Mount Zion, hence it is called the Ark of Zion (2 Samuel 6:12; Exodus 3:18; Joshua 3:14-17).
6. Zion Stands for the City of David or Jerusalem
👉🏾 “O Lord, Zion has heard Your judgments and is glad” (Psalm 96:8)
✍🏾 In Scripture, Zion is exalted as the city of God, referring to Jerusalem and the city of David.
✍🏾 It is not the heavenly Jerusalem in this context; the mountain and city themselves do not experience joy or sorrow as humans do.
✍🏾 When Scripture says Zion rejoiced, it signifies the glory of God, the Virgin Mary, and the glorious cross.
May the name of the Holy God be praised forever and ever in every tongue that He has created, today and always.
May the blessings of God's mother, the virgin, and the cross be upon us.
Amen.
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