Daniel 2:31
You, O king, saw, and behold a great image. This great image, whose
brightness was excellent, stood before you; and the form of it was
terrible. 32. This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his
arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, 33. His legs of iron,
his feet part of iron and part of clay. 34. You looked until that a
stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image upon his feet
that were of iron and clay, and broke them to pieces. 35. Then was the
iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces
together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and
the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the
stone that smote the image became a great
mountain, and filled the whole earth. 36. This is the dream; and
we will tell the interpretation of it before the king. 37. You, O king,
are a king of kings: for the God of heaven has given you a kingdom,
power, and strength, and glory. 38. And where ever the children of men
dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven has he given
into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all. You are this head
of gold. 39. And after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to you,
and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the
earth. 40. And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: for as much
as iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things: and as iron that breaks
all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. 41. And where as you saw
the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom
shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron,
for as much as you saw the iron mixed with miry clay. 42. And as the
toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom
shall be partly strong, and partly broken. 43. And where as you saw iron
mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men:
but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with
clay. 44. And in the days of these kings
shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be
destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it
will crush and bring to an end all these kingdoms, and it shall stand
for ever. 45. For as much as you saw that the stone was cut out of the
mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass,
the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the
king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and
the interpretation of it sure.
Revelation
21:9 And there came to me one of the seven angels which had the seven
vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come
here, I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife. 10 And he carried me
away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that
great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
(The New Jerusalem the wife of the lamb is an illustration of
Gods people.)
Here is
an example of a mountain illustrating a kingdom other than Gods.
Jeremiah 51:24 And I will render to Babylon and to all the
inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in
your sight, said the LORD. 25 Behold, I am against you,
O destroying mountain, said the LORD, which
destroy all the earth: and I will stretch out my hand on you, and roll
you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.
Here are some New Testament scriptures that show that things like Mount
Zion and Jerusalem were illustrations, types and shadows of the
realities that were to come when the Messiah came.
Galatians 4:21 Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not
aware of what the law says? 22. For it is written, that Abraham had two
sons, the one by a slave woman, the other by a free woman. 23. The son
of the slave woman was born by normal physical means; but the son of the
free woman as a result of Gods promise. 24.
These two woman are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the
one from the mount Sinai, which produces bondage, This is Hagar. 25. For
this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to (symbolizes)
Jerusalem which now is, and is a slave with her children. 26 But
Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
27 For it is written: "Be glad, O barren woman, who bears no children;
break forth and cry aloud, you who have no labor pains; because more are
the children of the childless woman than of her who has a husband." 28.
Now we, brothers, according to Isaac, are the children of promise.
Then John 4:19. The woman said
to him, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20. Our fathers
worshipped in this mountain; but you say, that Jerusalem is the place
where men ought to worship. 21. Jesus answered her,
Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when you
shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the
Father..... 23. But the hour comes, and now is, when the true
worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for
the Father seeks such to worship him.
Also Hebrews 12:18 For you are
not come to the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire,
nor to blackness, and darkness, and tempest, 19 And the sound of a
trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated
that the word should not be spoken to them any more: (Mount Sinai)
.......22 But you are come to mount Zion, and
to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an
innumerable company of angels, 23 To the general assembly and church of
the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all,
and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 And to Jesus the
mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that
speaks better things that that of Abel.
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