If so, then inside Jerusalem’s walls were light and life; outside the city walls were the smoldering fires of the local dump, burning the rubble as the sun went down into the night. If this tradition is right, then when Jesus says God is coming to cast sin outside his city and into the Valley of Hinnom, he is saying God will take sin out with the rest of the trash. Even if this tradition is not right, however, the same general implications apply from its Old Testament history.
