HYMN: GLORIOUS THINGS OF THEE ARE SPOKEN

(Message by Tanny Keng)

Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken

Hymn writer (lyrics): John Newton Music composer: Franz Joseph Haydn Notes  View short article about Amazing Grace and its writer John Newton. Austrian composer Haydn, whose work spanned six decades, is known as the  "father" of the symphony.

Mount Zion (Sion) a) Zion (Sion) is a hill in the city of Jerusalem on which God's Temple was built. It was part of the original land David conquered from the Jebusites around 1003 B.C. that soon was called the 'city of David' (2Samuel 5:7, 9; 6:12, 16; 1Kings 8:1; 1Chronicles 11:5, 7; 15:1, 29; 2Chronicles 5:2 ). Zion can also refer to the place where the ark of the covenant was located (2Samuel 6:12, 16; 1Kings 8:1; 1Chronicles 15:1, 29; 2Chronicles 5:2). b) The word Zion (Sion) is also used symbolically in the Bible to refer to the city itself, its role as a religious or spiritual center, or to the heavenly Jerusalem that will come down from heaven to the earth and be the place where converted, resurrected believers live. Revelation's 144,000, who come out of the great tribulation, are specially mentioned as being with Christ on Mount Zion (Revelation 14:1). i) 18. For you have not come to the mount that could be touched and that burned with fire, nor to gloominess, and fearful darkness, and the whirlwind; 22. But you have come to Mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, heavenly Jerusalem; and to an innumerable company of angels; (Hebrews 12:18, 22)

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