The Parable of the Two Sisters - Part 3

King Jesus, the new King of Israel, came to set free His wife from all bondages in this world (review Baptized in His Name, Given Power and Protection), redeeming her by making her new, whole, and healthy.

Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to the daughter of Zion, "Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him." And they shall be called The Holy People, The Redeemed of the LORD; and you shall be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken. (Isa 62:11-12 ESV)

Let Israel find joy in their creator. Let the people of Zion rejoice over their king.
(Psa 149:2 GW)

For there shall be peace for the seed: the vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these. And it shall be, as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Do not fear; let your hands be made strong. (Zec 8:12-13 LITV)

He is now preparing a new home for her, but just like Israel, the city of Jerusalem has once again been divided into two - heavenly and earthly. One is a house of freedom and the other is a house of bondage.

"Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great." (Luk 6:47-49 ESV)

It was the same way with us. While we were children, we were slaves to the basic principles of the world. But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as his children. Now because you are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts to cry out, "Abba! Father!" So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if you are a child, then you are also an heir through God. (Gal 4:3-7 ISV)

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and the other by a free woman. Now the son of the slave woman was conceived according to the flesh, but the son of the free woman was conceived through a promise. This is being said as an allegory, for these women represent two covenants. The one woman, Hagar, is from Mount Sinai, and her children are born into slavery. Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery along with her children. But the heavenly Jerusalem is the free woman, and she is our mother. For it is written, "Rejoice, you childless woman, who cannot give birth to any children! Break into song and shout, you who feel no pains of childbirth! For the children of the deserted woman are more numerous than the children of the woman who has a husband." So you, brothers, are children of the promise, like Isaac. But just as then the son who was conceived according to the flesh persecuted the son who was conceived according to the Spirit, so it is now. But what does the Scripture say? "Drive out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman must never share the inheritance with the son of the free woman." So then, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman but of the free woman. (Gal 4:22-31 ISV)

The New Testament clearly states in Galatians that there are two Jerusalem’s – one here on Earth and one above in Heaven. The one here on Earth is in bondage according to the flesh and the one in Heaven is free according to the Spirit. The Spiritual Jerusalem, or New Jerusalem, is in the process of being built in Heaven, and pieces of it are growing inside of believers. So, believers in Jesus should be citizens of the free Jerusalem, not the Jerusalem on Earth that is in bondage. Believers are also to rebuild their part of the New Jerusalem in their bodies while here on Earth with the power of the Holy Spirit. Citizens of New Jerusalem, the Bride of the King, have the task of rebuilding the house of the Lord on His holy mountain, Mount Zion.

And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah one who inherits My mountains; and My elect will inherit it, and My servants will dwell there. (Isa 65:9 MKJV)

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the first-born who are written in Heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. (Heb 12:22-24 MKJV)

That is why you are no longer strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises into a holy sanctuary in the Lord. You, too, are being built in him along with the others into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. (Eph 2:19-22 ISV)