Solomon's Temple, David's Vision

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1 Chronicles 28:
11 Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the vestibule, its houses, its
treasuries, its upper chambers, its inner chambers, and the place of the mercy seat;
12 and the plans for all that he had by the Spirit, of the courts of the house of the Lord,
of all the chambers all around, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries
for the dedicated things;
13 also for the division of the priests and the Levites, for all the work of the service of the house of the Lord, and for all the articles of service in the house of the Lord.

Solomon built the Temple in accordance with David’s vision, and ordered the
Temple Worship in accordance with David’s instructions.

2 Chronicles 8:14. And, according to the order of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, the Levites for their duties (to praise and serve before the priests) as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers by their divisions at each gate; for so David the man of God had commanded.

A new revelation from that shown to Moses on the Mount for the tabernacle in the wilderness.
Exodus 25:9. According to all that I show you, that is, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings, just so you shall make it.
 

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Solomon went astray and made the Temple a place of pagan worship. In modern day terms, multi-religious (all faiths (man) trying to come to God through their own intellectual method's). They should have came through the sacrificial lamb (Christ). It was only when Solomon was old he seen the errors of his worldly wisdom. The book of Ecclesiastes is a wonderful book in the bible, seek Christ in earnest, never seek worldly wisdom.
 
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2 Chronicles 30 King Hezekiah made it his job when he became King to serve the true and only God and bring the Israelites back from their fallen ways. Very good sermon below. The Gospel of Christ (the new Testament) is in the Old Testament. Praise the Lord.

Assembled Then Revival Came
 
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2 Chronicles 30 King Hezekiah made it his job when he became King to serve the true and only God and bring the Israelites back from their fallen ways. Very good sermon below. The Gospel of Christ (the new Testament) is in the Old Testament. Praise the Lord.

Assembled Then Revival Came

Hezekiah's reforms have long been recognized as a blueprint for revival! Amen!
Even though he had the faith to destroy the brass serpent from the wilderness, Hezekiah
overlooked the abominations of Solomon, which were removed by Josiah. Josiah is often
overlooked as too little, too late; but the truth is that it was just too late.

2 Kings 23:16. And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

Although Josiah's revival was even greater than Hezekiah's, Manasseh's sins were too great,
the fate of Jerusalem had been sealed.

Josiah Restores True Worship
2 Kings 23: (scroll to bottom)
1 Now the king sent them to gather all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem to him.
2 The king went up to the house of the Lord with all the men of Judah, and with him all the inhabitants of Jerusalem—the priests and the prophets and all the people, both small and great. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant which had been found in the house of the Lord.
3 Then the king stood by a pillar and made a covenant before the Lord, to follow the Lord and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people took a stand for the covenant.
4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the articles that were made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.
5 Then he removed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem, and those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.
6 And he brought out the wooden image from the house of the Lord, to the Brook Kidron outside Jerusalem, burned it at the Brook Kidron and ground it to ashes, and threw its ashes on the graves of the common people. 7 Then he tore down the ritual booths of the perverted persons that were in the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the wooden image. 8 And he brought all the priests from the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; also he broke down the high places at the gates which were at the entrance of the Gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were to the left of the city gate.
9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brethren.
10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter pass through the fire to Molech.
11 Then he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-Melech, the officer who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
12 The altars that were on the roof, the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, the king broke down and pulverized there, and threw their dust into the Brook Kidron.
13 Then the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, which were on the south of the Mount of Corruption, which Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the people of Ammon.
14 And he broke in pieces the sacred pillars and cut down the wooden images, and filled their places with the bones of men.
15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and crushed it to powder, and burned the wooden image.
16 As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs that were there on the mountain. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar, and defiled it according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
17 Then he said, “What gravestone is this that I see?” So the men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you have done against the
altar of Bethel.”
18 And he said, “Let him alone; let no one move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.
19 Now Josiah also took away all the shrines of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger; and he did to them according to all the deeds he had done in Bethel.
20 He executed all the priests of the high places who were there, on the altars, and burned men’s bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.
21 Then the king commanded all the people, saying, “Keep the Passover to the Lord your God,
as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.

22 Such a Passover surely had never been held since the days of the judges who judged
Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah.

23 But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah this Passover was held before the Lord in Jerusalem.
24 Moreover Josiah put away those who consulted mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.
25 Now before him there was no king like him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses; nor after him did any arise like him.

Impending Judgment on Judah
26 Nevertheless the Lord did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath, with which His anger was aroused against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him.
27 And the Lord said, “I will also remove Judah from My sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’ ”
 
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I was reading a passage of scripture today. Romans 8. A few verses spoke to me Romans 8:2-28

v 2-4 The Mosaic law was powerless to provide righeous standing before God. It remains a quide for how believers should live, yet Paul introduces a new life, the law of the holy spirit of life. The OT law could define and prohibit sin, bit it could never eliminate it. Our human nature could never empower us to live up to the law's standards.
v 15-16 As long as people cling to selfish desires and exclude God, they are unable to experience the relationship that he intends for them. But those who respond to the Spirit are led into an intimate relationship, one of the Father and Child. Jesus had addressed God as Abba "Father" in his prayers (Mark 14:36). Prior to that, not Jewish person would have addresses God with such a familiar term. Yet here Paul extends the privilege to all believers.
v 19-22 Creation itself is suffering. Just as Adam, Eve, and the serpent were recipients of the curse after he fall (Genesis 3:14-19), so was the earth.. Rather than remaining the perfect paradise that God intended, creation is now in bondage.
v 23-25 Believers groan as well, waiting for the time when God will redeem them fully. God's plan is in action. The agreement has been made, and the initial stages have already begun, but the full significance won't be realized until resurrection. So the anticipation and assurance of this reality are believers' hope in the meantime.
v 26-27 The presence of the holy spirit in the life of the believer is the first of all the signs that God has begun his work. In addition, the spirit acts on behalf of the believer, interceding to bring God and the believer closer together.
v 28 the world can be an evil place at time, yet God works in all things for good. This is not to suggest that God creates sin or evil, he works in spite of them. When tragedy befalls a believer, the church should not infer that God was responsible for the pain and confusion. Yet he can see his children through such times and teach them valuable lessons about his love and faithfulness.
 
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I was reading a passage of scripture today. Romans 8. A few verses spoke to me Romans 8:2-28

v 2-4 The Mosaic law was powerless to provide righeous standing before God. It remains a quide for how believers should live, yet Paul introduces a new life, the law of the holy spirit of life. The OT law could define and rhibit sin, bit it could never elininate it. Our human nature could never empower us to live up to the law's standards.
v 15-16 As long as people cling to selfish desires and exclude God, they are unable to experience the relationship that he intends for them. But those who respond to the Spirit are led into an intimate relationship, one of the Father and Child. Jesus had addressed God as Abba "Father" in his prayers (Mark 14:36). Prior to that, not Jewish person would have addresses God with such a familiar term. Yet here Paul extends the privilege to all believers.
v 19-22 Creation itself is suffering. Just as Adam, Eve, and the serpent were recipients of the curse after he fall (Genesis 3:14-19), so was the earth.. Rather than remaining the perfect paradise that God intended, creation is now in bondage.
v 23-25 Believers groan as well, waiting for the time when God will redeem them fully. God's plan is in action. The agreement has been made, and the initial stages have already begun, but the full significance won't be realized until resurrection. So the anticipation and assurance of this reality are believers' hope in the meantime.
v 26-27 The presence of the holy spirit in the life of the believer is the first of all the signs that God has begun his work. In addition, the spirit acts on behalf of the believer, interceding to bring God and the believer closer together.
v 28 the world can be an evil place at time, yet God works in all things for good. This is not to suggest that God creates sin or evil, he works in spite of them. When tragedy befalls a believer, the church should not infer that God was responsible for the pain and confusion. Yet he can see his children through such times and teach them valuable lessons about his love and faithfulness.
Romans 8 is the solution to the dilemma posed in Romans 7. The Promise of the Holy Spirit!
 
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Two more great wonderful verses i read this morning, which are connected with the OT scriptures you started this thread with. God bless

John 7:37-38

On the last day of the feast Jesus gives Israel the call to faith that the entire OT was longing for. The last day was the high point of the feast of tabernacles, a celebration of Gods provision for the Israelites during their 40 years of desert wandering. On the last day, a golden chalice was filled with water from the pool of Siloam and carried in a procession by the high priests back to the Temple. As the procession approached the Water Gate (the door in the temple wall that gave access to the water hole) three blasts from the shofar, a special trumpet were sounded. The water, offered to God at the time of the morning sacrifice, was an image of the Lords provision of water in the desert and promised pouring out of the spirit in the last days, that is the Messianic age of the Apostles and one we still now life in. don't forget that Christian. It is on this day that Jesus proclaims himself the source of water for thirsty people.

Christ is the blood of the lamb for our sin, the lilly of the valley, the rose of sharon, the morning sacrifice, the bright and morning star, the manna from heaven, the water of life, the alpha and the omega.....The complete fulfilment of what the Patriarchs in the OT longed for and had faith in.

....and still today, people won't desire him or want to know him. May the Holy Spirit open their hearts.

 
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heard in a sermon yesterday. In the Old Testament the 'hand of God' is actually the Holy Spirit :D
That makes so much sense because:
Yeshua is seated at the right hand of power, and
He has the authority to send the Holy Spirit to those He chooses.
 
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That makes so much sense because:
Yeshua is seated at the right hand of power, and
He has the authority to send the Holy Spirit to those He chooses.

God is also a spirit according to scripture, thee ultimate creator which no man has seen or been with but Jesus Christ himself. 'The hand of God' is mentioned in the NT, Christ was of the real spirit (God), not the spirit of man, Satan, demons or his army.

Hallelujah Praise to our Lord and Saviour
 
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