“So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, ‘If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.’ They answered him, ‘We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, “You will become...
This is Jesus Christ speaking to his 11 disciples, for by this time Judas Iscariot had already departed to betray Jesus to the authorities. And Jesus was speaking during the time period when the Jews were still under the Old Covenant, for Jesus had not yet died and had not been resurrected and...
If we apply this to today then we have to acknowledge that “Jerusalem,” spiritually speaking, is no longer a physical city in a physical country. So the physical city of Jerusalem in physical Israel is no longer the Holy City of God, but she, representing the Jewish nation, is of Hagar, the...