THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD


If you've never read about ancient temples and have a few minutes, This page at FAIR is a interesting read whether you've been to the LDS temple or not.

In the Psalms, you have Psalms 120 through 134, known as Songs of Ascent, or Songs of Degrees in the King James Bible. It's the so-called Pilgrim Psalter. These were songs that were sung by people who were coming up to the mountain of the Lord's house into Jerusalem. Jerusalem is literally on a mountain ridge. If you're coming up from Jericho or from the seacoast over on the Mediterranean, you're climbing up to Jerusalem, and it's a pretty steep climb in some places. The temple itself was thought to be the Lord's Mountain in the tops of the mountains. So they would sing these Songs of Ascent. If you read these psalms with that in mind, they make a lot sense. Jerusalem is literally 2,500 feet above sea level. That may not seem like much, but if you're coming up from the seacoast of the Mediterranean, it's a climb, and a climb in a fairly short order.

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