In ancient times people believed in gods of one kind or another and the gods lived in a different world, an unseen world, so they made idols. There’s a simple logic in this. Something bigger than us it seemed was in charge of what happened at a mega level of cosmic activity and design, the weather, the seasons, life and death, what appeared to be good fortune and bad fortune etc. So they did their best to manage the moods or whims of the unpredictable gods with a thousand superstitious rituals ranging f...
In ancient times people believed in gods of one kind or another and the gods lived in a different world, an unseen world, so they made idols. There’s a simple logic in this. Something bigger than us it seemed was in charge of what happened at a mega level of cosmic activity and design, the weather, the seasons, life and death, what appeared to be good fortune and bad fortune etc. So they did their best to manage the moods or whims of the unpredictable gods with a thousand superstitious rituals ranging from the trivial to the murderous. But our Creator God of the Bible did reveal himself to his beloved humanity to do them good, and he finally asked his people to make a home for him to dwell in upon Earth, where he would come and meet with them.
The man he asked was Solomon. Solomon’s prayer to dedicate the temple held within it this extraordinary idea of a meeting place on earth between man, and the God who lived in a world of his own. Their heart was to have heaven come to them upon the earth.
2Chronicles 6:18 But will God really live upon the earth with men? Why, even the heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain you--how much less this Temple I have built!
(Acts 7:48 AND 17:24) (Job 19:25 I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my body I will see God)
"O How I pray that you will heed my prayers, O Lord my God! Listen to my prayer that I am praying to you now! Look down with favor day and night upon this Temple--upon this place where you have said that you would put your name. May you always hear and answer the prayers I will pray to you as I face toward this place.
1. Prayer for God’s justice in oppression 2. Recovery from the blows of the enemy
3. Providing resources to prosper the work of our hands
4. Healing and remedy of the plight of one who knows their own burden and their own grief and spreads out their hands to God. 5. That a foreigner can pray to you and be heard so that all people who don’t know you will come to know your name and know your temple is called by your name 6. Victory when we enter into battle. 7. Supernatural release after being taken captive.
John 2:18 So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?” Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” But he was speaking about the temple of his body
The temple was destroyed 40 years later and was never rebuilt. It did not have to be rebuilt as now we are his temple, just as he was the temple.
1Cor 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought with a price;
John 14:23 We will come and make our home with you
How can we contain God?
Only by being an open vessel, always filled and overflowing..
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