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O JERUSALEM,
JERUSALEM

37 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
38 "See! Your house is left to you desolate;
39 "for I say to you, you shall see Me no
more till you say, 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!'"
(Matthew23:37-39)

Jerusalem in the Scriptures is symbolic of the Church in general. The word "Jerusalem" means "city of peace".

Paul writing to the church at Galatia makes a
distinction between the two Jerusalems - the
natural one and the spiritual one. Both
Jerusalems are described symbolically as mothers
with children.

25 for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia,
and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is,
and is in bondage with her children;
26 but the Jerusalem above is free, which is
the mother of us all. (Galatians 4:25-26)

We see that when Jesus......

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