[Uncle Chip]

Mat 5:34-35 But I say to you, Do not swear at all! Not by Heaven, because it is God's throne; not by the earth, for it is the footstool of His feet; not by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King

Thank you for the scripture --- it one more time refutes the preterist position. Read it carefully. It says that heaven is God's [the Father's] throne and Jerusalem is the city of the great King.

Bingo ----

"At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord, and all nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem, neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart."[Jeremiah 3:18]

[HarleyD]

Bingo ----

??? Did I miss something???

I assume you are equating the Jews with Jerusalem and somehow are trying to suggest that God loves the rebellious Jews? That is not what the text states.

[TomSmedley]

It says that heaven is God's [the Father's] throne and Jerusalem is the city of the great King.

Bingo ----

"At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord, and all nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem, neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart."[Jeremiah 3:18]

We are citizens of the heavenly Jerusalem, the true, faithful, and loyal Jerusalem, the Jerusalem that recognizes God's anointed King, the Lord Jesus Christ. The false Jerusalem, the one that denies Jesus, is in bondage with all of her children.