God will appoint salvation for walls and bulwarks: The city of God, from beginning to end, is all about salvation. God’s supreme ideal is not an escape from all community and a private communion with nature the Kingdom of God will be realized in a strong city.Ĭ. But in the Kingdom of Jesus Christ on this earth, there will be cities – but redeemed cities, glorious communities organized under the strength and salvation and righteousness and truth of the LORD. We often disapprove of the idea of the city, and romanticize the idea of man in isolation, in a rural or primitive setting. This is an important and often neglected idea. The strong city is the Kingdom of God, the city of man is the world system. Speaking in Augustine’s terms, Isaiah wrote about the City of God when he said, we have a strong city. Augustine pointed out that though the fall of Rome was tragic for the city of man, it really only advanced the coming of the City of God.
In it, he tried to explain how the fall of the western Roman Empire related to the kingdom of God, and he made the contrast between the city of man (ultimately represented by Rome and the mighty Roman Empire) and the City of God (the kingdom of God). In this time of confusion, the greatest Christian theologian of the day wrote a book titled The City of God. In the west, the mighty Roman Empire was no more, and many blamed the fall of Rome on Christianity, the new religion she had officially embraced in the last 100 years. In the fifth century, the city of Rome was conquered by less civilized tribes from the north in Europe. In that day, all will know the strength and glory of the city of God. We have a strong city: Since cities came into being after the fall of man in Genesis 3, mankind has never known a truly godly city, the City of God on earth.
In that day, there will be a lot of joyful singing, such as this song that will be sung in the land of Judah.ī. In that day: The context from Isaiah 24-25 points to the day of the Messiah’s ultimate triumph, the day when the Messiah reigns over Israel, and over all the world. That the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in.Ī. God will appoint salvation for walls and bulwarks. In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
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