Mountains have always been an important part of God’s story of redemption.
When waters of the flood receded and the ark descended, it came to rest upon the mountains of Ararat.
Abraham was provided with a sacrificial lamb in place of his own son on the mountains of Moriah.
Moses first met with God at the feet of Mount Horeb; he later climbed Mount Sinai where he was given the law and saw God’s glory, and finally from Mount Pisgah he glimpsed the Promised Land.
Jerusalem itself, along with the temple, was built on Mount Zion.
But the true fulfillment of all these shadows and types occurred on Calvary, which is also called Golgotha. On that dreadful place, the place of a skull, was the saying made forever true:
“On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”
It was there that the rock that Daniel saw, a stone cut out by no human hand, smashed every evil regime and became a great mountain that fills the whole earth. Of Him it is said,
“Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep.”
Jesus is the Rock of Ages, the great mountain of God, and He will endure forever.
He is lifted up on the heights like a city on a hill, and thus will draw all men to Himself:
“It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.’ For out of Zion shall go the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”