Psalm 87:1-7

... in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.  Amen.  Through the prayers of our holy Fathers, Lord Jesus Christ our God, have mercy on us and save us.  Amen.  Glory to You, our God, Glory to You.

O Heavenly King, the Comforter, the Spirit of truth, You are everywhere and fill all things, Treasury of blessings, and Giver of life: come and abide in us, and cleanse us from every impurity, and save our souls, O Good One.

Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us (three times).

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, as it is now, was in the beginning, and ever shall be, world without end.  Amen.

Psalm 87:1-7[1]

A Psalm [or] Song for the Sons of Korah.

His foundation [is] in the holy mountains.  The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.  Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God.  Consider.

I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to those who know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia.  This [man] was born there.  And of Zion it shall be said, “This and that man was born in her.”  The highest Himself shall establish her.  The Lord shall count, when He writes up the people.  This [man] was born there.  Consider.

As well the singers as the players on instruments [shall be there].  All my springs [are] in you.[2]

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[1] The Sons of Korah may be the name of a group of chanters in existence around 516 BC.  They sing with great hope for the restoration of Jerusalem to its former glory under Solomon.  They likely lived to see the return from Babylon, the rebuilding of Jerusalem and the temple, and the reestablishment of the Jewish priesthood, all in difficult times.  Jerusalem and the temple were the heart of their worship.  They may have lost sight of the fact that these things were merely icons of the heavenly realities.  They look for the return of the Presence of Yahweh, the Sh^ekinah, but He never comes, and He will not come for over 500 years.

Jerusalem was so central to their concept of Orthodox worship, the iconography so potent in their minds, that being born in Jerusalem was considered the most fortunate of circumstances.  Did they realize that the Glory would first appear in Bethlehem, not in Jerusalem?

In any case Jerusalem was as if it were the heavenly city.  The Holy Ghost is sourced in and flows from the heavenly city, both in Eden (Genesis 2) and as seen and reported by John (Revelation 22).  It is Jesus Who teaches us that the rivers, the springs, the water are icons of the Holy Ghost, Who will come to flood the earth with God’s Glory.  On the day of Pentecost, that Glory comes to rest on the heads of all believers present, thus signifying that they are all the new bearers of the Glory, they have received the gift of Moses’ glowing.

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