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FRAGMENTS

John 3.31-36: The witness of John the Baptist:

"The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit. The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him.

Isaiah 19.19-25.
In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the heart of Egypt, and a monument to the Lord at its border. It will be a sign and witness to the Lord Almighty in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the Lord because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and he will rescue them. So the Lord will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge the Lord. They will worship with sacrificies and grain offerings; they will make vows to the Lord and keep them. The Lord will strike Egypt with a plague; he will strike them and heal them. They will turn to the Lord, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them. In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together. In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing on the earth. The Lord Almighty will bless them, saying, "Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria my handiwork, and Israel my inheritance.

Psalm 87
He has set his foundation on the holy mountain;
the Lord loves the gates of Zion
more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Glorious things are said of you,
O City of God:
"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.'"
Indeed of Zion it will be said,
"This one and that one were born in her,
and the Most High himself will establish her."
The Lord will write in the register of the peoples:
"This one was born in Zion."
As they make music they will sing,
"All my fountains [sources] are in you."

The great hymn of John Newton [Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, City of Our God, is based on Psalm 87 above. It represents the heart of the ancient love of Zion, before the advent of Herzl, the love of the City of God in its present transcendent reality, the City of those who love God. The banner of our city is Yeshua our king. By the hand of Yeshua, and by his hand alone, the day will come when our transcendent city will be reunited with the geographical city.

Isaiah 11.10
In that day the Root of Jesse [Yeshua our king] will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him and his place of rest will be glorious. In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush, from Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath and from the islands of the sea. He will raise a banner for the nations [Yeshua our king] and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth.

Isaiah 44.3,5
I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring,
and my blessing on your descendants....
One will say, "I belong to the Lord";
another will call himself by the name of Jacob;
still another will write on his hand,
"The Lord's,"
and will take the name Israel."

Isaiah 56.3,6,7,8
Let no foreigner who has bound himself to the Lord say,
"The Lord will surely exclude me from his people."
And let not any eunuch complain,
"I am only a dry tree."
...And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord
to serve him,
to love the name of the Lord,
and to worship him,
all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it
and who hold fast to my covenant--
these I will bring to my holy mountain
and give them joy in my house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and sacrifices
will be accepted on my altar;
for my house will be called
a house of prayer for all nations.
The Sovereign Lord declares --
he who gathers the exiles of Israel:
"I will gather still others to them
besides those already gathered."

Isaiah 66, excerpts:
"This is the one I esteem:
he who is humble and contrite in spirit,
and trembles at my word....
Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her,
all you who love her;
rejoice greatly with her,
all you who mourn over her.
For you will nurse and be satisfied
at her comforting breasts;
you will drink deeply
and delight in her overflowing abundance....
"I will extend peace to her like a river,
and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream;
...See, the Lord is coming with fire,
and his chariots are like a whirlwind;
For with fire and with his sword
the Lord will execute judgment upon all men,...
And I,...am about to come and gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see my glory.
I will set a sign among them, [Yeshua our king] and I will send some of those who survive to the nations -- to Tarshish, to the Libyans and Lydians...to Tubal and Greece, and to the distant islands that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory. They will proclaim my glory among the nations. And they will bring all your brothers, from all the nations, to my holy mountain in Jerusalem..

Daniel 7.13,14
In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man [Yeshua our king], coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all peoples, nations and men of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.

Daniel 4.34,35,37
AT the end of that time, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven...Then I praised the Most High; I honored and glorified him who lives forever.
His dominion is an eternal dominion;
his kingdom endures from generation to generation.
All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing.
He does as he pleases
with the powers of heaven
and the peoples of the earth.
No one can hold back his hand
or say to him: "What have you done?"
...Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, because everything he does is right and all his ways are just. And those who walk in pride he is able to humble.

Jerusalem Graffiti

~ The person & politics of Yeshua my king

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