Study Article 21. This article will be studied during the week of July 28th through August 3rd.

Seek the city that will remain.

Theme text. We are earnestly seeking the city to come. Hebrews 1314. Song 21, Keep on seeking first the kingdom.

Focus. How Hebrews Chapter 13 can benefit us today and in the future.

Paragraph 1. Question.

What did Jesus foretell what happened to first century Jerusalem?

A few days before his death, Jesus Christ gave a detailed prophecy that had its first fulfillment

during the last days of the Jewish system of things.

He warned that the city of Jerusalem would one day be surrounded by encamped armies, Luke 2120. Jesus told his followers that as soon as

they saw those armies, which turned out to be the Roman armies, they were to leave the area immediately.

Paragraph 2. Question. What reminded did the Apostle Paul give the Hebrew Christians in Judea and

Jerusalem? Just a few years before the Roman army surrounded Jerusalem, the Apostle Paul wrote the powerful letter,

now known as the Book of Hebrews. In that letter, Paul gave Christians in Judea and Jerusalem

vital counsel that would help them prepare for what lay ahead. And what exactly lay ahead?

Jerusalem was going to be destroyed. If those Christians

hoped to survive, they would have to be ready to abandon their homes and businesses. So regarding

the city of Jerusalem, Paul wrote, We do not have here a city that remains.

Then he added,

but we are earnestly seeking the one to come.

Hebrews 1314.

Paragraph 3, question,

What is the city having real foundations,

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