What Is the Significance of the Mount of Olives — Meaning Explained
The Mount of Olives is a ridge east of Jerusalem deeply tied to Jesus' final week, His ascension, and His promised return.
The Mount of Olives is a ridge east of Jerusalem deeply tied to Jesus' final week, His ascension, and His promised return.
"And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it." — Luke 19:41 (KJV)
What "What Is the Significance of the Mount of Olives?" Actually Means
The Mount of Olives rises about 2,700 feet east of the Old City of Jerusalem, separated from the temple mount by the Kidron Valley. David crossed it weeping when fleeing Absalom. Ezekiel saw the glory of the LORD depart over it. But it is most associated with Jesus. He wept over Jerusalem from its slope, delivered the Olivet Discourse about end times on its summit, prayed in agony in the Garden of Gethsemane at its base, and ascended to heaven from its top with the promise that He would return 'in like manner.' Zechariah prophesied that in the day of the LORD, His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, and it shall split in two. Few places on earth carry such weight in redemption history.
Anchor Verses (KJV)
Luke 19:41
"And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it."
Acts 1:11-12
"This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet."
Zechariah 14:4
"And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof."
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