What is Zion ACTUALLY? (Dan McClellan and Dan Beecher; Data Over Dogma podcast on YouTube)

It's a word you've heard your whole life, on hymn sheets, on maps, and in some very heated arguments — but what is Zion?

This week, we trace the meaning from a rocky outcropping the Jebusites held in 2 Samuel to God's holy mountain, then watch what happens to a "this city cannot fall" theology after the city falls.

Along the way: the City of David, the steps Jesus may have been dragged up, why Zion had to become portable, and why Dan M will talk about Christian Zionism but stays firmly out of his lane on everything else. 

Chapters:

0:00 What is Zion?
1:34 How do you even say it?
2:53 An etymology of dryness
3:42 The stronghold in 2 Samuel 5
4:38 The City of David
6:08 A name older than Israel?
6:34 Ark, temple, holy mountain
7:37 Zion theology
8:42 When Jerusalem fell anyway
10:52 Zion expands and moves
11:38 The steps up Mount Zion
12:28 Zion in Latter-day Saint tradition
15:37 Zion and Jerusalem
17:22 Daughter of Zion
18:28 The word nobody wants to touch
19:16 On Christian Zionism
22:08 Zion in the New Testament
24:12 Thanks for listening

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/3obKhKGoSEs?si=U8pzMBPpo_1hUgce