Life and immortality is brought to light. And then shall be fulfilled that which is written, Look what they did unto Lebanon shall be done unto them (Oba 15; Eze 35:14, 15). MOUNT HERMAN TOWERS ABOVE THE LANDSCAPE IN THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE COUNTRY. Why, when the terrible one is brought low and the scorner is consumed, &c. What can be more plain than this to prove that Lebanon, even the house in the forest of Lebanon, for that is here intended, was a figure of the church in the wilderness, or in a tempted and persecuted state. In fact, it was a whole complex of buildings, with many different functions. It is yet further evident that this house of the forest of Lebanon was a type of the church in the wilderness:-.
He made several porches, as one for the temple, one for the house which he dwelt in, one for the throne of the kingdom, and this that was for the house of the forest of Lebanon, of all which this last is that mentioned. And so die by the sword of the Spirit. Always when Antichrist made his inroads upon the church in the wilderness, to slay, to cut off, and to kill, yet some of the pillars stood, they were not all burnt in the fire, nor cut down. How he must wonder at our want of gratitude, and love, and zeal, in return for such mercies. "Thus, " saith he, "do we resemble Christ our Head, which said that the disciple cannot be above his master, nor the servant about his Lord. "Now then, if to die in the Lord be not to die but live most joyfully, where is this wretched worldly rebel, which blameth us of folly, for giving away our lives to death? Being expert in handling spear and shield. True, and that perhaps to show us that the war that the church makes with Antichrist is rather defensive than offensive. And I say again, in that he particularly mentions Lebanon, he intends that house which Solomon built there, the which was built as a fortification to defend the religion of the temple, as the saints now in the wilderness of the people are set for the defence of the gospel. Wherefore the beauty of the house of the forest of Lebanon, as well as the fortitude thereof, was a temptation to the enemy to come to take it into their possession; especially since it stood, as it were, on the borders of Israel, and so faced the enemy's country. But if seasonable counsel will not go down, if hardness of heart and blindness of mind, and so perishing from the way, shall overtake you, it is but what you of old have been cautioned of. It was a no-go zone for any males other than the king. You know that a kingdom flourishes not so long as it is the seat of war, but when that is over peace and prosperity flourishes. Walls built by Solomon north of David's Palace of Cedar (2 Samuel 5:11) and Solomon's Palace of the Forest of Lebanon (1 Kings 7:2), on the Ophel just south of the Temple Mount on Mount Moriah.
Consult Bunyan's admirable treatise, Of Antichrist and his Ruin. The saints will be called to share in His reign and to judge the world with Christ (1 Cor. The apostle says, "Evil communication corrupts good manners" (1 Cor 15:33). They abounded much more. And Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one (Isa 10:15, 34). The damp unwholesome dungeon, intended for his destruction, crowned him with peculiar honour, because, as in his Patmos, he there wrote his immortal book. They also used the resin in their mummification process. Witness the jars, the oppositions, the contentions, emulations, strifes, debates, whisperings, tumults, and condemnations that, like cannon-shot, have so frequently on all sides been let fly against one another. "Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it [that is, redeemed his servant Jacob from his sins and from the hand of the enemy]: shout, ye lower parts of the earth [or church once trampled under feet]: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein [here is comfort for the church under the name of a forest, that in which the house we have been speaking of was built]: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel" (Isa 44:23). "Be wise now therefore, O ye kings; be instructed, ye judges of the earth. God has his time to return the evil that the enemies do to his church, and he will do it when his time is come upon their own head; and this return is called the covering of them with the violence of Lebanon, or that violence showed to her in the day of her distress. Great strength was associated with the cedars of Lebanon, as illustrated by a passage from Psalms 29:5. A special palace for the daughter of Pharaoh, Solomon's most high-born wife.
Rejoice, rejoice, my dear brethren and fellow-servants, and be of good comfort, when ye fail into sundry temptations; let your patience be perfect in all parts. But this is not the state of the church in the wilderness; she has her windows in three rows, to wit, the light of the face of the Father, the light of the face of the Son, and the light of the face of the Holy Ghost; all shining through the windows or glass of the Word, to her comfort and consolation, though now in the forest of Lebanon. Thou hast made summer and winter. Naturally, women of higher rank and greater wealth got the best quarters. This also is that which Christ intends when he says, "buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich" (Rev 3:18). "I have likened, " says God, "The daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman" (Jer 6:2). The book of 1 Kings also records Solomon rebuilding this northern wall which would have included him extending the wall further to. Had he not also now hold of the shield of faith? 1 Corinthians 6:2); Psa.
The Palermo Stone speaks of cedar from Lebanon being imported to Egypt in the reign of King Sneferu, the 4th dynasty Pharaoh (ca. "And he opened the bottomless pit, and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened, by reason of the smoke of the pit" (Rev 9:1, 2). "Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitary in the wood, " &c. (Micah 7:14). It too was garnished with a colonnade and had an entablature or flight of steps by which one reached the house. And this is a comely feature in the church, that her nose stands like a tower, or as he says in another place, like a fenced brazen wall against Damascus, the metropolitan of her enemy: "for the head of Syria is Damascus" (Isa 7:8).
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