The Hill Of The LORD

Here, then, is “the hill of the Lord”. We have to identify that hill, first literally and then spiritually.

It does not take very long to do that because the Psalms almost opens with the identity of the hill of the Lord. “Yet I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion” (Ps. 2:6). 

My holy hill of Zion is, historically and literally, the hill of the Lord.

What, then, is Zion spiritually? 

Do you remember that that second Psalm was quoted right at the beginning of the church’s history?

When the earthly forces set themselves in array against the Lord and against His anointed ones, the latter met in prayer and quoted that Psalm, and the place where they were assembled was shaken (Acts 4).

The very shaking of heaven came into that place. What did it say? You have touched the holy hill of Zion! 

Where is that?

The Lord Jesus is ascended to the right hand of the Majesty in the heavens.

It is the place of absolute ascendency, victory, power.

Who is Lord now? “The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed…Yet I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion”. 

Zion, then, is not a place on the earth: Zion has now resolved itself into the absolute lordship of Jesus Christ at God’s right hand.

Thus the apostle writes, “Ye are come unto mount Zion…the heavenly Jerusalem…the church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven” (Heb. 12:22-23).

It is no longer a place, it is a spiritual position. That is Zion, and we have identified the holy hill.

Who shall ascend? Who shall stand? You see, this is a present question.

While the consummation of this lies at the end of the way, it is something which has a present bearing upon the life of the Lord’s people.

Let me say in fuller definition that Zion, or the holy hill of the Lord, spiritually embodies all that divine thought which the people of God will express when He has them, as He will have them, wholly according to His will.

In other words when God gets a people where He has ever determined to have them, He will have them in what is the spiritual counterpart of Zion absolute ascendancy over all other powers.

~T. Austin Sparks~