Gino (24
Mar 2019)
"Is it possible that
mount Zion and mount Moriah are not the same?"
Is it possible that mount Zion and mount Moriah are not the
same?
When Abram rescued Lot, the king of Salem came out to meet him.
Genesis 14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread
and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
Salem is Zion:
Psalms 76:2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling
place in Zion.
Then when Abraham was called to sacrifice Isaac, it was mount
Moriah, not in Salem/Zion.
Genesis 22:2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son
Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah;
and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the
mountains which I will tell thee of.
As soon as David was anointed king over all Israel, the first
thing he did was to take Zion:
II Samuel 5:7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion:
the same is the city of David.
Then David the ark brought into the city of David, the
stronghold of Zion.
David a pitched a tent/tabernacle in Zion for the ark:
I Chronicles 15:1 And David made him houses in the city of
David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for
it a tent.
:3 And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem,
to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had
prepared for it.
28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of
the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with
trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and
harps.
29 And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the
LORD came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul
looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and
she despised him in her heart.
I Chronicles 16:1 So they brought the ark of God, and set it in
the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they
offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God.
II Samuel 6:17 And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set
it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had
pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace
offerings before the LORD.
The LORD between the cherubims, upon the ark, in Zion:
Psalms 9:11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion:
declare among the people his doings.
I Chronicles 17:5 For I have not dwelt in an house since the day
that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent
to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.
Apparently David built out from there, to include the greater
Jerusalem area.
Then, when David numbered Israel, the angel of the LORD, was
killing people in Jerusalem.
The LORD stopped the killing when the angel was at the threshing
floor of Ornan the Jebusite:
I Chronicles 21:15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to
destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he
repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed,
It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD
stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the
LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn
sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and
the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon
their faces.
Later, Solomon built the temple on the threshing floor of Ornan,
called mount Moriah:
II Chronicles 3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the
LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto
David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the
threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Mount Moriah was outside of Zion, the city of David, where the
ark still was:
I Kings 8:1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all
the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the
children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they
might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the
city of David, which is Zion.
So, later, when Jesus will reign upon the earth, will it be from
mount Moriah, or mount Zion?
Psalms 2:6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
Micah 4:7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her
that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign
over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.
At that time, will the tabernacle of David, which was in Zion,
be raised back up?
Isaiah 16:5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he
shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging,
and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
Amos 9:11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David
that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will
raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
Acts 15:16 After this I will return, and will build again the
tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build
again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
So, is it possible that mount Zion and mount Moriah are not the
same?