The Holy Spirit in organising the narrative of the fellowship of God with Man gives us ordinances of heaven. So in order to understand the first verse we shall look at this verse from the book of Job. "When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" Here we have a standard with which we may relate the joy we experience in our hearts. We call it joy of salvation. Harmony of sons with their Father in heaven is one. Similarly peace first had found place in heaven surely?
In the vision of Zechariah we have four chariots to which the prophets asks an angel and "And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth." (Zech.6.5) God appoints four spirits to patrol His kingdom and on receivng their report God refers to Zion, "Then cried he upon me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold, these that go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.
What is special about mount Zion? "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King."Psa.48.2-3;Isa.28.16). The writer to the Hebrews refers to it,"But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels," So God has made Zion as synonymous with peace, so heavenly Jerusalem we are to look for.
Another point is in the horses colour-coded here but they are to walk them and not ride them. Besides significance of colours are not what are assigned to the four horsemen in the book of the Revelation. ch.6."The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country."(vv6-7) Law of the Spirit assures how to enter the God's rest, "Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
The Holy Spirit in organising the narrative of the fellowship of God with Man gives us ordinances of heaven. So in order to understand the first verse we shall look at this verse from the book of Job. "When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" Here we have a standard with which we may relate the joy we experience in our hearts. We call it joy of salvation. Harmony of sons with their Father in heaven is one. Similarly peace first had found place in heaven surely?
In the vision of Zechariah we have four chariots to which the prophets asks an angel and "And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth." (Zech.6.5) God appoints four spirits to patrol His kingdom and on receivng their report God refers to Zion, "Then cried he upon me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold, these that go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.
What is special about mount Zion? "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King."Psa.48.2-3;Isa.28.16). The writer to the Hebrews refers to it,"But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels," So God has made Zion as synonymous with peace, so heavenly Jerusalem we are to look for.
Another point is in the horses colour-coded here but they are to walk them and not ride them. Besides significance of colours are not what are assigned to the four horsemen in the book of the Revelation. ch.6."The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country."(vv6-7) Law of the Spirit assures how to enter the God's rest, "Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
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