C. The Crusaders and Turkish Ottomans further altered it, with the present walls and gates dating from 1537-1541 (Strubbe, 1998)
[These] Puritans were nonconformists as were the Pilgrims, both of which refusing to accept an authority beyond that of the revealed word. But where with the Pilgrims this had translated into something closer to an egalitarian mode," later leaders were more often "highly trained scholars, whose education tended to translate into positions that were often authoritarian (Atkins, 2008)
The power of all Religion and Ordinances lies in their purity: their purity in their simplicity: then are mixtures pernicious. I lived in a City, where a Papist preached in one Church, a Lutheran in another, a Calvinist in a third - a Lutheran one part of the day, a Calvinist the other, in the same Pulpit: the Religion of that place was but motley and meagre, their affections Leopard-like" (Ward, 1647:393)
.our own countrymen, too, have wantoned in blood, and exterminated whole nations; plainly proving thereby what spirit it is that dwells and works in the children of disobedience" (Wesley, 1872)
Solomon eventually grabbed the throne. Solomon's reign and his policies and practices enacted within it helped establish Jerusalem as the Israelite capital (Barnavi 2002:16)
Yet, even in the modern context, this struggle continues. After the Jewish state was returned to its people at the conclusion of World War II, there has been a dire battle for territory between the nation of Israel and the Palestinians, who also lay claim to a major piece of territory near Jerusalem, the West Bank (Gold 2007)
The establishment of a permanent temple was fundamental in the formation of Jerusalem as the center of Jewish life. Before such an action, there were only small temples and traveling tabernacles that represented the nomadic existence of the Jewish people before the establishment of Israel and Jerusalem as its center (Laughlin 2006)
Christ forgives sins because He is God -- which is the point he sees the Jews as needing to accept. In this sense, Christ becomes the Divine sacrificial lamb -- the Real Paschal Lamb, the fulfillment of the Passover Promise (Brown)
When God said that David's son would be King, He was making a two-fold reference, to both Solomon and to Christ. The dwelling place of the Holy of Holies was to be both the tabernacle of the church of Christ, where Christ becomes bread and wine, and the temple that Solomon built, which prefigured the Christian temple (Sheen 577)
Christ should rightly be called the King of Jerusalem -- as the placard above His head on the cross read "King of the Jews" -- but going back to before Christ, one finds that God chose Saul, song of Kish, to be king of the region and after him David. Solomon followed, who finished the Temple, but after Solomon, the region was split and a number of kings reigned over Jerusalem, from Rehoboam to Abijam to Asa to Jehoshaphat to Jehoram and on from 1000 BC to the 6th century BC when the dynasty of the House of David ended in Babylonian captivity (Nir)
The religious significance of Jerusalem is evident in the fact that it served as the focal point of Jesus' ministry. According to the Gospel of Matthew, which was written for the Jews of the Palestine region (modern-day Israel), Jesus acts in the capacity of a Teacher for the Jews in Jerusalem during the time of his life (Powell 76)