“Jerusalem / founded on or for peace…the city which I have chosen me to put my name there…for all the earth is mine.“ (Ezekiel 24:2, I Kings 11:36, Exodus 19:5)
In Hebrew the noun identifying a person, place, or thing is the conversion of the verb describing the actions associated with that entity.
In the word Jeru-salam, (reverting the recent English letter J back to its original Hebrew Y), we find that
- the forms ירה (yrh) and ירא (yr’) …reflect an exchange of energy from a higher, dispensing level to a lower, receiving level. The form ירה (yrh) mostly describes the sending of the energy while the form ירא (yr’) appears to deal mostly with the receiving of the energy.
- The general meaning of the verb שלם (shalem) is that of wholeness, completeness or “unbrokenness”. It’s opposite is the verb רעע,ra’a)./ broken, used as the definition of evil.
The derivatives of this verb are:
- שלום (shalom), meaning peace (Isaiah 32:17) as a state of completeness and harmony including prosperity (Genesis 43:27), health and safety (Psalm 38:4).
- שלם (shelem) peace offering or a sacrifice for alliance or friendship (Amos 5:22, Exodus 24:5).
- שלם (shalam), being in a covenant of peace (Job 22:21, Isaiah 42:19).
In the Hebrew language it’s quite simple to indicate not only a condition (like shalem), but also the means to get there (to “shalemize”). Wholeness is achieved or restored most often by some kind of restitution. Since in Hebrew the verb ידע, yada’, means know intimately, become one with, even applied to sexual union, the command to “love your enemy” (Matthew 5:44) means understanding his behaviors and motives instead of simply demonizing him. Jesus’ definition of a “peace-maker” (Matthew 5:9) is one who starts by making a relationship with their enemy.
This all makes perfect sense when we recognize that Jerusalem is where YHVH established the means by which Adam’s family / humanity was able to be restored to an unbroken relationship with him through substitutionary atonement – a life for a life.
From Genesis 3:
“Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.”
Not documented until later as part of this atonement – YHVH had to kill the animals first, and taught the now-mortal humans to eat the flesh of the animals to replace the life they lost when they rejected YHVH’s – “For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls.” (Leviticus 17:11)
And the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
As detailed in a previous post, Eden itself was submerged by Noah’s flood, but the entrance to the garden, being “east” of Eden, is still accessible on higher ground at the mountain of the LORD / Jerusalem.
When Cain rejected YHVH’s blood sacrifice means of restoring a relationship with him, he lost access to the site as well, allowing us to extrapolate that the site itself is sacred.
The Hebrew word “paneh’ / פָנִי ” is translated into multiple English words in the same passage. This dictionary function allows us to grasp the abstract as well as literal meanings.
“And Cain said unto the LORD…Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from
- the [sur]face פָנִי of the earth [boundary above which is the sky.]; and from
- thy face / פָנִי [favor, oversight, protection] shall I be hid…every one that findeth me shall slay me. And Cain went out from
- the presence / פָנִי / access to authority, power of the LORD. (Genesis 4:13-16)
The thousands of uses of this word in the Old Testament variously translated as “face, surface, countenance, presence, before me, in front of, under the oversight of, stand before” can be summed us as expressing a boundary to “this being”, projecting the concept that physical location on the earth facing the presence of the LORD on his throne in heaven is a hyperdimensional portal between the earth and heaven.
“the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem…the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain...Then did the cherubims lift up /above the earth their wings…and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above / in heaven. (Ezekiel 8:3-4, 11:22)
After the flood the Canaanites immediately staked their claim to this hyperdimensional portal and its “suburbs” – supportive territory – surrounding Eden,
This totally makes sense because the objective is to seize Melchizedek’s territory, beginning with Cain vs Abel. Jerusalem has been fought over more than any other place.
“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass…and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be…to the ends of the earth.” (Zechariah 9:9-10)
In 2026 Jerusalem’s king is Jesus the Christ, NOT Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu nor President Donald Trump. Biblical principles inform us that this war is not going to turn out well for anyone who supports either Anti-Christs.
This also clues us in to the mimicry by the abomination of desolation , spoken of by Daniel the prophet, who “as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.” This involves much more than a human sitting in a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem. He first rises up from the sea [of outer space].
In September 2026 the United States has confirmed for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space, a remarkable revelation after long agreed treaties that space was to be used for only peaceful purposes. The U.S. has fielded “on-orbit space control weapons. Meink did not detail what the weapons were, how they work. Since November 2000 there has been a continuous human presence on NASA’s International Space Station.
