Isaiah 52:1  “Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.”

What is ‘Zionism’? Dennis Prager defines it for us in his Dec. 2023 article ‘Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism’: “Zionism is the name of the movement for the return of the Jews to their historic homeland. Over the past 3,000 years, there were only 2 independent states located in Israel. Both were Jewish states.” It is that simple: Zionism means recognizing Israel’s existence as a nation state in their historic, biblical homeland.

Zionism includes the Jewish peoples’ right to retain government authority over the nation of Israel, as promised to them in God’s covenant to Abram, especially as detailed in Genesis 15:18-20.

Zionism saw its fulfillment in 1948 when the United Nations granted Israel sovereignty as a nation.

Opponents to Zionism say it is simply a reaction of the Jewish people to WW1 and WW2 persecutions, when they created their own nation in their ancestral land since no nation wanted them.

Proponents of Zionism are mostly Christians and Jews who point to God’s promises in the Bible to make Zion – the city of David and land of Israel – their homeland and Jerusalem their capital. There are nearly 150 verses – from Genesis to Revelation – on Jerusalem and Zion, which are broken into 7 categories:

1) Jerusalem is God’s special city

2) Jerusalem is God’s dwelling place and worship center

3) Jerusalem is God’s holy city of Zion – the city of David

4) God promises to redeem Jerusalem

5) Jerusalem is where Jesus came to redeem (1st Coming = Messiah ben Joseph, the Suffering Servant)

6) Jerusalem is where Jesus will return (2nd Coming = Messiah ben David, the Conquering King)

7) Jerusalem is the center of the final battle during what is known as the ‘End Times’

In spite of the biblical justification for Jerusalem and the surrounding land as God’s promise to the Jewish people, Zionism is portrayed ideologically on America’s college campuses as something sinister.

The student organization ‘Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)’, with over 180 US university chapters across the country, said this in 2018: “Zionism aims to destroy Palestinian existence and culture. Zionism is ethnic cleansing, destruction, apartheid, and death. Zionism is a human ideology to be destroyed.”

The student organization ‘Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)’,with 40 US university chapters and 140,000 members worldwide, said this: “Zionism stands as a settler-colonial movement, establishing an apartheid state where Jews have more rights than others. Our own history teaches us how dangerous this can be.”

The student organization ‘Palestinian Youth Movement’, a Palestinian activist group that partners with SJP and JVP, said: “We recognize the poverty, dictatorship and violence in Arab countries is directly an outcome of Zionism. Our conviction in our pending triumph as Palestinians is the overthrow of Zionism.”

Dennis Prager explains why this ideology is so absurd: “Imagine a group of people who work to destroy Italy because, they claim, Italy’s origins are illegitimate. Imagine further that these people maintain that of all the countries in the world, only Italy doesn’t deserve to exist. Then imagine that these people vigorously deny that they are anti-Italian. Would you believe them?

Now substitute ‘Israel’ for ‘Italy,’ and you’ll understand the dishonesty and absurdity of the argument that one can be anti-Zionist – that is, against the existence of a Jewish state – but not be anti-Jew.

Yet, that is precisely what anti-Zionists say. They say that Israel’s existence is illegitimate. They don’t say this about any other country in the world, no matter how bloody its origins. And then they get offended when they’re accused of being anti-Jew. How can they make this argument?”

On May 14, 1948 the nation of Israel was born. The next day, the surrounding Arab countries declared war on Israel. The war ended that September with the creation of a Palestinian Arab State claiming Jerusalem as its capital. 19 years later, in 1967, the Arabs attacked Israel in the famous 6-day War. Against all odds, Israel won and once again Jerusalem became its capital.

Exactly 70 years later – May 14, 2018 – President Trump applied the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act to relocate the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

The US never actually implemented the 1995 JEA because of the Palestinian hatred toward Israel and the Arab mandate to destroy her, fearing that by declaring Jerusalem as Israel’s capital they would be delegitimizing the existence of the State of Palestine and its claim to Jerusalem.

So, while American law recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, no US Administration has had the courage to carry it out and move the US Embassy to Jerusalem. That is, until President Trump.

But now, with America’s backing, we see biblical prophecy come true: God’s holy city is Israel’s capital.

Jerusalem = God Chose as His Special City

Genesis 14:18 (1400 BC) “Melchizedek king of Salem (ancient Jerusalem) brought out bread and wine [for them]; he was the priest of God Most High.”

Psalm 48:1-2 (1000 BC) “Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God! His holy mountain, beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King.”

Psalm 122:6 (1000 BC) “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! May they be secure who love you!”

Psalm 125:2 (1000 BC) “As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people, from this time forth and forevermore.”

Psalm 137:5-6 (1000 BC) “If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill! Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy!”

1 Kings 8:16 (925 BC) “Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there, nor did I choose any man to be a leader over my people Israel; but I chose Jerusalem that my name may be there, and I chose David to be over my people Israel.”

1 Kings 11:13 (925 BC) “I the LORD will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”

1 Kings 11:32 (925 BC) “He shall have one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.”

1 Kings 11:36 (925 BC) “To his son will I the LORD give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen to put my name there.”

1 Kings 14:21 (925 BC) “Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was 41 years old when he began to reign; he reigned 17 years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.”

1 Kings 15:4 (925 BC) “Nevertheless for David’s sake did Yahweh his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem.”

Isaiah 62:7 (700 BC) “Give Him no rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth.”

Micah 4:2 (700 BC) “And many nations shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”

Ezekiel 5:5 (580 BC) “Thus says the Lord God: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.”

Nehemiah 11:1 (450 BC) “The leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem. The rest of the people cast lots to bring 1 out of 10 to live in Jerusalem the holy city, while 9 out of 10 remained in the other towns.”

Matthew 5:35 (65 AD) “Or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.”

Luke 2:41 (60 AD) “Now His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover.”

Jerusalem = God’s Holy City called Zion – the City of David

Psalm 48:2 (1000 BC) “Beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King.”

1 Kings 8:1 (925 BC) “Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ [houses] of the children of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion.”

2 Kings 9:28 (925 BC) “Then Ahaziah’s officers carried him to Jerusalem, and they buried him in his tomb with his ancestors in the city of David.”

2 Kings 14:20 (925 BC) “And they brought Amaziah on horses, and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers, in the city of David.”

Isaiah 40:9 (700 BC) “O Zion, you who bring good tidings, get up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, you who bring good tidings, lift up your voice with strength, lift it up, be not afraid; say to the cities of Judah, ‘Behold your God!’”

Isaiah 52:1-2 (700 BC) “Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake yourself from the dust and arise; be seated, O Jerusalem; loose the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.”

Isaiah 62:1-3 (700 BC) “For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning torch. The Gentiles shall see your (Jerusalem’s) righteousness, and all the kings your (Jerusalem’s) glory. You (Jerusalem) hall be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name. “You (Jerusalem) shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.”

Isaiah 66:8 (700 BC) “Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment? For as soon as Zion was in labor, she brought forth her children.”

Nehemiah 3:15 (450 BC) “And Shallum the son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it and covered it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars. And he built the wall of the Pool of Shelah of the king’s garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the city of David.”

Jerusalem = God’s Center of Worship

1 Kings 8:4 (925 BC) “And brought it, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy implements that were in the tent. The priests and descendants of Levi carried them up to Jerusalem.”

John 4:20 (90 AD) “Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”

Jerusalem = God’s Dwelling Place

Psalm 76:2 (1000 BC) “His abode is established in Salem (Jerusalem), His dwelling place in Zion.”

Psalm 122:1-5 (1000 BC) “I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord!” Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem! Jerusalem – built as a city that is bound firmly together, to which the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord. There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.”

1 Kings 3:15 (925 BC) “And Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt-offerings, and offered peace-offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.”

2 Samuel 15:29 (925 BC) “Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they tarried there.”

1 Kings 12:27 (925 BC) “If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem, then the heart of these people will turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”

2 Kings 12:18 (925 BC) “Jehoash king of Judah took all of the holy objects that Jehoshaphat, Joram, and Ahaziah his ancestors, the kings of Judah, had devoted, and all his holy objects and all of the gold found in the treasuries of the temple of Yahweh, and [in] the palace of the king, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram, so that he went up from Jerusalem.”

Joel 3:20-21 (835 BC) “But Judah shall be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem to all generations. For I will acquit them of bloodguilt, whom I have not acquitted. For the Lord dwells in Zion.”

Jeremiah 3:17 (600 BC) “At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the Lord, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the Lord in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart.”

Ezekiel 48:35 (580 BC) “The circumference of the city shall be 18,000 cubits. And the name of the city (Jerusalem) from that time on shall be, The Lord Is There.”

Zechariah 8:3 (520 BC) “I the LORD have returned to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain.”

Zechariah 12:6 (520 BC) “On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves. And they shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, while Jerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem.”

Ezra 1:1-4 (450 BC) “Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying, Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth the LORD God of heaven has given me.

And He has commanded me to build Him a house at Jerusalem which is in Judah. Who is among you of all His people? May his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel (He is God), which is in Jerusalem. And whoever is left in any place where he dwells, let the men of his place help him with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, besides the freewill offerings for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.”

Ezra 10:9 (450 BC) “Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the 3 days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. And all the people sat in the open square before the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain.”

2 Chronicles 3:1 (430 BC) “Now Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.”

2 Chronicles 6:6 (430 BC) “I have chosen Jerusalem that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.”

Matthew 24:15 (65 AD) “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (whoever reads, let him understand).”

Jerusalem = Dwelling Place of Israel’s Kings

2 Samuel 5:5, 1 Kings 2:11 (925 BC) “The days that David reigned over Israel were 40 years: 7 years he reigned in Hebron, and 33 years King David reigned in Jerusalem.”

1 Kings 11:42 (925 BC) “The time King Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was 40 years.”

1 Kings 15:10 (925 BC) “41 years King Asa reigned in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.”

1 Kings 22:42 (925 BC) “King Jehoshaphat was 35 years old when he began to reign; and he reigned 25 years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.”

2 Kings 8:17 (925 BC) “Jehoram was 32 years old when he became king, and he reigned 8 years in Jerusalem.”

2 Kings 8:26 (925 BC) “Ahaziah was 22 years old when he became king, and he reigned 1 year in Jerusalem. The name of his mother [was] Athaliah daughter of Omri, king of Israel.”

2 Kings 12:1 (925 BC) “In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king. He reigned in Jerusalem 40 years, and the name of his mother [was] Zibiah from Beersheba.”

2 Kings 14:2 (925 BC) “Amaziah was 25 years old when he began to reign, and he reigned 29 years in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother [was] Jehoaddin from Jerusalem.”

2 Kings 15:2 (925 BC) “Azariah was 16 years old when he became king, and he reigned 52 years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother [was] Jecoliah of Jerusalem.”

2 Kings 15:13 (925 BC) “Shallum son of Jabesh reigned in the thirtieth year and ninth year to Uzziah king of Judah; and he will reign a month of days in Jerusalem.”

2 Kings 15:33 (925 BC) “Jotham was 25 years old when he became king, and he reigned 16 years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.”

2 Kings 16:2 (925 BC) “Ahaz was 20 years old when he began to reign, and he reigned 16 years in Jerusalem.”

2 Kings 18:2 (925 BC) “Hezekiah was 25 years old when he became king, and he reigned 29 years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.”

Jerusalem = God Promises to Redeem

Isaiah 52:9 (700 BC) “Break forth together into singing, you waste places of Jerusalem, for the Lord has comforted his people; He has redeemed Jerusalem.”

Isaiah 62:1-7 (700 BC) “For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning torch. The nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the Lord will give. You shall be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate, but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her, and your land Married; for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married. For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.”

On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent. You who put the Lord in remembrance, do not keep silent. And give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.”

Jeremiah 30:17 (600 BC) “For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the Lord, because they have called you an outcast: ‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’”

Jeremiah 33:16 (600 BC) “In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely. And this is the name by which it will be called: ‘The Lord is our righteousness.’”

Zechariah 12:10 (520 BC) “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on Me, on Him whom they have pierced, they (Jerusalem) shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over Him, as one weeps over a firstborn.”

Hebrews 12:22 (65 AD) “But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering…”

Revelation 3:12 (90 AD) “The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.”

Revelation 21:2-3 (90 AD) “And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.’”

Revelation 21:10-27 (90 AD) “And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.

It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates 12 angels, and on the gates the names of the 12 tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed – on the east 3 gates, on the north 3 gates, on the south 3 gates, and on the west 3 gates. And the wall of the city had 12 foundations, and on them were the 12 names of the 12 apostles of the Lamb.”

Jerusalem = Whom Jesus Came to Redeem (1st Coming = Messiah ben Joseph, Suffering Servant)

Zechariah 9:9 (520 BC) “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is righteous and having salvation, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”

Romans 1:16 (57 AD) “I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.”

Romans 11:26 (57 AD) “In this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written, “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob.”

Matthew 23:37, Luke 13:34 (65 AD) “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!”

Luke 2:25, 30-32 (60 AD) “Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.”… “For my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the sight of all nations: a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.”

Luke 19:41-44 (60 AD) “And when he drew near and saw the city (Jerusalem), he wept over it, saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”

Luke 24:47 (60 AD) “And that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.”

Acts 1:8 (60 AD) “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Acts 13:23-24 (60 AD) “From this man’s (David) seed, according to the promise (i.e., Genesis 12:1-3), God raised up for Israel a Savior – Jesus – after John had first preached, before His coming, the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.”

Hebrews 8:8-13 (65 AD) “Finding fault with them, He says, ‘Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, When I will effect a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah; not like the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they did not continue in My covenant, and I did not care for them, says the Lord.

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their minds, and I will write them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”

Matthew 10:5-6 (65 AD) “These twelve Jesus sent out and commanded them, saying: ‘Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter a city of the Samaritans. But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.’”

Matthew 15:24 (65 AD) “He said, ‘I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.’”

Jerusalem = Where Jesus Will Return (2nd Coming = Messiah ben David, Conquering King)

Zechariah 12:2-3 (520 BC) “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it.”

Zechariah 14:2-4 (520 BC) “For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; the city shall be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity, but the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle. And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, from east to west, making a very large valley; Half of the mountain shall move toward the north and half of it toward the south.”

Daniel 9:2 (530 BC) “In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, 70 years.”

Jerusalem = Where the Final Battle Occurs

Joel 3:1-2 (835 BC) “For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.

And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land…”

Isaiah 34:8 (700 BC) “The Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.”

Daniel 9:2 (600 BC) “In the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of the LORD through Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish 70 years in the desolations of Jerusalem.”

Zechariah 12:9 (520 BC) “On that day I will destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.”

Zechariah 14:2 (520 BC) “I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.”

Matthew 24:15 (65 AD) “So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand).”

Luke 21:20-24 (60 AD) “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it, for these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written. Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress upon the earth and wrath against this people. They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.”

Revelation 11:2 (90 AD) “But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city underfoot for 42 months.”

Revelation 11:8 (90 AD) “And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.”

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