Halting Toward Zion

New Jerusalem

concept · 11 episodes
174In the Beginning... Again 4 Jan 2024 46:28¶ 154 “When we get to the end of the Bible, the garden has become a city. The city is filled with trees and rivers of…” 45:49¶ 152 “That’s why we need the earth. That’s why we need to develop a planet. Yes, because it’s beautiful, but also so that we can…” 39:44¶ 135 “So already there’s this, “Wow, that’s a great plan. The whole world is going to be a community that together is going to constitute…”
173Retrospective 21 Aug 2023 22:51¶ 75 “But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of…” 23:34¶ 77 “First, he calls it the city of the living God. The Psalms talk about the city of God. Then the heavenly Jerusalem. Paul had…” 23:58¶ 79 “To the general assembly and church of the firstborn which are written in heaven…” So it encompasses and includes the whole church.”
169Walls (Part 3) 17 Jul 2023 10:51¶ 29 “And it misses the whole point, because right up front when John sees the heavenly Jerusalem descending, the angel comes and says, “Let me…” 11:22¶ 30 “So as we go further into that chapter we need to realize that we’re not talking about a literal city, because we’ve already been…” 12:38¶ 33 “We saw them earlier in Revelation, the great multitude which no man can number, of every kindred, nation, people and tongue, so we get…”
168Walls (Part 2) 10 Jul 2023 8:27¶ 24 “We could spend a good deal of time in Hebrews 11 looking at, “These all died in faith, not having received the promise.” The…” 9:01¶ 25 “It's in this context now we come back to walls, because this city does have walls. We see it in the vision in Revelation…” 9:26¶ 26 “We’re told in the final warnings that there are those who are outside – dogs and whoremongers and idolators and murderers, whoever loves and…”
155The Lord is There 30 Jan 2023 35:21¶ 104 “It’s the city of God. We somehow lost the temple in the city. Well, surprise surprise. You get to Revelation 21 and we’re told…” 33:41¶ 100 “Another is that there is a fountain that flows out of the temple, and as it goes outward toward the Dead Sea it gets…” 36:57¶ 108 “This is more than just an image, it’s a movement in that direction, as God is preparing for the evangelization of the world. The…”
88A Mother in Israel (Part 4) - Jerusalem 18 Oct 2021 20:55¶ 63 “The big hint here from Isaiah is that this Jerusalem is someone/something that produces children to God, that in fact God calls his wife,…” 21:44¶ 65 “The Jerusalem which he calls above, or heavenly, is not contained in heaven, nor are we to seek for it out of this world,…” 22:59¶ 67 “There’s a lot there. He says that it’s not called heavenly because it’s in heaven. I would differ just a little bit with him.…”
79The Promised Land 16 Aug 2021 20:08¶ 68 “Over against the earthly Jerusalem is a heavenly Jerusalem, a new Jerusalem, which this podcast is kind of named after – Halting Toward Zion.…” 20:03¶ 67 “But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.”
72The Just Shall Live By Faith 20 Jun 2021 28:48¶ 97 “His inheritance is a token. He doesn’t even have a place to lay down a foundation for a house. “He looked for a city…” 29:17¶ 98 “They understood that it wasn’t over the next mountain or around the next hill, that it was something in the future, tied to the…” 35:28¶ 132 “Even then God was in the process of preparing the city, insofar as it’s eternal and heavenly. That work was in some sense done…”
19He Looked For a City 10 May 2020 34:38¶ 120 “Sorry. But when we reach the new Jerusalem, it is a city of immense size that holds a population that no man could number,…” 24:24¶ 88 “It’s odd that there are people who kind of think it is, that any attempt to anticipate the new Jerusalem is itself an act…” 24:42¶ 90 “My citizenship is in heaven, and we wait for the new Jerusalem to descend. If I try to do anything in that direction, I’m…”
16Of One Blood 19 Apr 2020 37:45¶ 108 “The new Jerusalem is not a white-washed cube. It’s a cube, but it’s a cube of immense size filled with gardens and jewels and…” 36:43¶ 105 “We’re going to come back to our ongoing theme of Zion, of the new Jerusalem. What we see and what we’ve been talking about…” 38:07¶ 109 “Any kind of deviation from that vision should catch our attention. We should wonder, “Wait, it seems like there’s some people you want to…”
9Dominion 1 Mar 2020 48:04¶ 128 “Thus the title of all of this – Halting Toward Zion. We’re headed toward this new Jerusalem, which the Bible everywhere describes and assumes.…” 48:19¶ 129 “No one ever explained that to me as a kid. I’d sit in chapel at a Christian school and I’d hear that and wonder,…” 48:34¶ 130 “We see pictures of it in the Psalms, Isaiah 60, Ezekiel’s prophecies, finally in the book of Revelation, and all the way along the…”