"God's Radiance" -2

"Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined." (Psalms 50:2) Actually these ten words do say a lot, and I think most of you know that based upon that closing Scripture from Isaiah; and if you did not get the connection, then let me see if I can enlighten you. Although Zion was known as the City of David, and latter became the place known as Jerusalem; this is not where it's name came from, for the name actually means "parched place", and was called Zion because it referred to the Jebusite fortress conquered by David. The Jebusites were an interesting fixture among the people of Israel, because they could never drive them out because of their mountainous position, so they ended up dwelling among the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. The tunnel just keeps going deeper and deeper, because the Babylonian name for that region was 'Salem', and we know who was the king of Salem, it was Melchizedek, the priest of the most high God (Genesis 14:18). The point that I am trying to make has to do with God's dwelling place, and that any place or person that God dwells within is "the perfection of beauty", because God's light shines in that place or person in which He dwells. In other words, the place could be a place which was previously a fortress for the Heathens, but when God shows up, it is a 'Shinning City on a Hill'; the person could have been the most evil person alive, but when God enters into their heart, they are a Saint and a testimony of God's glory. "The perfection of beauty" is not just what God wants it to be, it is what God makes it to be; which means, in case you were not paying attention, that the ugliness and the sinfulness, and the ungodliness and the unrighteousness, and any other 'ness' that is opposed to God becomes holiness and righteousness when God shows up... "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and His glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising." (Isaiah 60:1-3)