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Lead:

Jerusalem…getting rocked in today’s passage and historically/futuristically significant.

Intro:

Hey all, welcome to day 17 of the recording-from-the-road roadshow!

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Bible segment (read along with The Bible Project):

Passage: Jeremiah 4-6
Translation: NIV (New International Version)
Words: ~2687

Apologetics/reflections segment:

The Heavenly Jerusalem. New Testament Christians held the view that there was a city with foundations whose architect and builder was God (Heb. 11:10). Further, this was a heavenly Jerusalem “Mount Zion, … the city of the living God” (12:22). The population would consist of those whose names are written in heaven. The eschatological view of Jerusalem that developed among Christians, aside from that of Judaism (cf. Isa. 60:14), looked forward to the fulfillment of the promise of the kingdom in the establishment of a New Jerusalem that would come “down out of heaven from God” (Rev. 21:2). This city is described in contrast to the city allegorically called Sodom and Egypt, that is, the earthly Jerusalem, “where also their Lord was crucified” (Rev. 11:8).
The Bible begins with a bucolic setting in the Garden of Eden; it closes on an urban scene, and that city is the New Jerusalem. For Christians, the identification of earthly Jerusalem as the dwelling place of God, which figures so frequently in the Old Testament, has been transformed into a heavenly Jerusalem, the true sanctuary of the Lord (cf. Gal. 4:26; Heb. 12:22–29). Nevertheless, Christians have always been drawn to the earthly Jerusalem, as have Jews and Muslims, for it has retained through the centuries its role as the center of the three monotheistic religions. (1)
Keith N. Schoville

Wisdom segment:

Passage: Psalm 14
Translation: NIV (New International Version)
Words: ~115

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Sources and resources:

(1) Keith N. Schoville, “Jerusalem,” in Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, electronic ed., Baker Reference Library (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1996), 395.

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#795: Jeremiah 4-6 || The heavenly Jerusalem || Psalm 14