Page 89 - The Road from Babylon to Zion

What awesome prophecies and spiritual truths are revealed in these words. When
David went to capture Jerusalem, the stronghold of Zion, the Jebusites who
inhabited it said that the lame and the blind would be able to keep David out. David
in return said that his soul hated the lame and the blind, and the saying arose that
the blind and the lame would not come into the habitation of Zion (II Samuel 5:6-8).
The blind represent those without spiritual vision, and the lame those who fail in
obedience. Those who dwell in Zion must have spiritual vision and obedience.

It is quite striking that the manner in which historians and archaeologists have
identified Zion’s hill today is by finding the spring that feeds the water channel that
supplied water to Zion. This water channel was the path that David’s army took to
enter into Zion and wrest it from the Jebusites. Astonishingly, the spring of water
today is called the “Virgin’s Fount”.

What a picture this is of spiritual truth. One must battle to enter into Zion, and the
entrance is through the Virgin’s Fount. Water is for cleansing and all those who enter
Zion must be cleansed. What a perfect correlation this is to John’s words that the
144,000 are on Zion and they are all virgins, not having been defiled by women.

Revelation 14:1-5
Then I looked, and behold, the Lamb was standing on Mount Zion, and
with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His name and
the name of His Father written on their foreheads. And I heard a voice
from heaven, like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud
thunder, and the voice which I heard was like the sound of harpists
playing on their harps. And they sang a new song before the throne and
before the four living creatures and the elders; and no one could learn
the song except the one hundred and forty-four thousand who had been
purchased from the earth. These are the ones who have not been defiled
with women, for they have kept themselves chaste (virgins). These are
the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been
purchased from among men as first fruits to God and to the Lamb. And
no lie was found in their mouth; they are blameless.

It is certainly no coincidence that the spring that provides water to Zion is called the
Virgin’s Fount today. This depiction of those who inhabit Zion as virgins has nothing
to do with men or women who are physical virgins. The scriptures are speaking of
spiritual virgins. We see this symbolism used in Paul’s writings.

II Corinthians 11:2
For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one
husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin.