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The City of God in Psalm 87
Could you make the case that they wrote the song to celebrate Jerusalem as not just a symbol, but as the actual city of God? Up, who knows? I mean, I think there we're asking a similar question of like, did the biblical authors think the world was a flat disk with edges? Or did they think the stars were actually spiritual beings or just symbols of spiritual beings? All right, it's just they imagined the world as such that heaven had these touch points with earth and that they described Jerusalem in their poetry.