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The Bible's Most Famous City – The City E7

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The City Is the Mother

The poem is a digest of Genesis 1 through 11 using this imagery to describe the Jerusalem above that God will build, to give birth to a new humanity. So, for the biblical authors, Jerusalem was both historically a place where God took up residence among his people but in their eyes, it was also compromised from the beginning. And the ultimate hope for biblical authors is not actually in the... In earthly city, the Israelites built, but that earthly city was a pointer to the city of God. The city is the mother. That's what we're going to learn here. This whole thing is like the flood. These are like the days of Noah, says Isaiah 54.

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