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According to the NT, Christ was crucified outside of Jerusalem to signify he died for the world, not just for the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.The Lord was crucified in Jerusalem. Jerusalem being called Sodom and Egypt is nothing new, read Ezekiel.
Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. (Hebrews 13:-8-9)
Christ’s mediation commenced with presenting himself before the heavenly sanctuary. His mediation ended the Old Covenant, according to Hebews,
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance… For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us. (Hebrews 9:15, 24)
Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. (Hebrews 10:9)
Under Christ’s mediation, Jerusalem is interpreted as the city of the New Covenant, not the city under the Old.
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. (Matthew 5:14)
For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. (Galatians 4:25-26)
According to the New Testament, the “Church” is the great city throughout Revelation, and it becomes the place where Christ is crucified again when it apostatizes,
For it is impossible for those who… were made partakers of the Holy Ghost… If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. (Hebrews 6:4, 6)
Revelation is Christ’s mediation over the New Covenant, and the great city is not ancient Jerusalem.
The merchants of the earth were not made rich by Ancient Jerusalem, which is written about the great city of Babylon in Revelation.
Ancient Jerusalem did not make “all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication,” which is written about the great city of Babylon in Revelation.
Ancient Jerusalem did not reign “over the kings of the earth,” which is written about the great city of Babylon in Revelation.
And the kings and rich merchants of the earth certainly did not wail and weep over the destruction of Ancient Jerusalem, which is written about the great city of Babylon in Revelation.
The futurist and preterist beliefs about Revelation are entirely exposed by the historicist paradigm when it is wielded by those who know the true history of the Church.
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