• "…Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, To the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, And we shall walk in His paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem” (Isaiah 2;3) • “I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." (Genesis 12;3) • “…If I forget you, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget its skill! If I do not remember you, Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth--If I do not exalt Jerusalem Above my chief joy.”(Psalms 137;5-6) • “For Zion's sake I will not hold My peace, And for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest.. The Gentiles shall see your righteousness, And all kings your glory... • I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; They shall never hold their peace day or night…(Isaiah 62; 1-6) • “…If indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious. Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house…”(1 Peter 2;3-5) • "And He said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed." (Genesis 32;28) • “Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites.. • and to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your territory” (Joshua 1;3-4) • “Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” (Revelation 21;2) • “Let us go at once to entreat the Lord and seek the Lord Almighty. I myself am going.' And many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the Lord Almighty and to entreat him." (Zechariah 8:21-22) •