Midgie asked...WHO are the merchants of this earth who will weep and mourn over the destruction of Vatican City?

2Co 5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

The reference to city relates to people of the city and not the literal city. All of the cities of this world will be destroyed on the last day. Those who look to the elements, as rudiments of this world  that are described in that passage you offered, that I have noted below, are metaphors used in various parables according to ceremonial laws. They as that seen are, the temporal which God has designed to be used in the parables. They of themselves afford no way of knowing Christ as the hope of one who does practice sacramental-ism. For Christians walk by the faith of Christ and not after the temporal element, as rudiment of this world that are used to point to certain aspects of the gospel, as that not seen the eternal. They will be burned up seeing they served the  purpose God intended for them and disappear forever, never again to come to mind.

gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,  And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men...

 

For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. Heb 13:14 

The destruction of Vatican City will do NOTHING to the Church for the Church will go on no differently than it did when the Church was ruled from Avignon.

 

The true, invisible church recognized as the New Jerusalem, the mother of us all, also referred to the bride of Christ the spiritual house made up of many lively stones is made up of the elect from many denominations. It will go on past this generation or beginning, called the generation of Adam… to the new generation, the generation of Christ forever more.

 

That work of creating Cities, the temporal as that seen, and the eternal as that not seen  , in regard to beginnings or generations (plural), as in two creations (plural) to include the old that will be destroyed and the new creation that will not. And as all work it was performed in the six 24 hour days God did work to create.

 

The word generations (plural) in verse four indicates it was God’s purpose from the beginning. And not an after thought as if thing went array and He had to do more work than that of the first six days

 

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. Gen 2:1-3

 

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, Gen 2:4


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