We have seen how God brought David to Hebron and Zion to enable him to recover all personal and national losses by following certain divine principles. After David had stayed in Hebron for seven years and six months, he came to Zion. God had first to prepare David in Hebron, where he learned the full meaning of fellowship. After Hebron David was brought to Zion. According to Deut.7 the Israelites had to drive out all the seven nations who were living in the land, and they had not to make any covenant with them, nor intermarry with them.
Because of their human wisdom, however they failed God; all the seven nations stayed there, and brought great loss to the whole nation of Israel. In 2 Sam. 5 we read how David took Zion from the Jebusites and established his throne in the city. Alas! In his sinful pride he insisted on numbering the people, for which God had to punish him. Then at the command of the prophet, David went to the threshing floor of Arunnah, and build there an alter to the Lord and in so doing found the site for God’s temple. That is the first divine principle about Zion: it is the site of God’s temple.
We must first be brought into God’s own way and secondly we must not depend upon our own knowledge, cleverness and qualification for His service. After God had revealed to David the site for His temple, He gave him next the pattern of the temple in writing. This is the second divine principle of Zion: the heavenly plan for our personal life, family life and church life. (1 Chron,28 : 11).
Today’s calendar’s Bible verse:
“Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering.Heb. 10:23.
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