1 King 6:1-10

       April 24, 2021

 Solomon Builds the Temple

In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord.   The house that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.   The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house.   And he made for the house windows with recessed frames.   He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers all around.   The lowest story was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad. For around the outside of the house, he made offsets on the wall in order that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.

 When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.

The entrance for the lowest story was on the south side of the house, and one went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third.   So, he built the house and finished it, and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar.   He built the structure against the whole house, five cubits high, and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar.

 

Do you understand that the Ark of the Lord was always in a tent from the time God instructed Moses to build it and put the ten commandments in it?   King David wanted to build a house for it and for God but was not allowed to do so, but God said your son will build the House for me.

 

We visited Israel many years ago almost 15 now and were told by our guide that all the items for the temple have been made the priest have been trained and on the day it is built they will once more have sacrifices.  The guide told us they were ready, and it would not take long to build the Temple.  I do believe that is in keeping with the Scriptures, that a Temple will be built, and the world will not what this to happen.

 

As we see the darkness of evil enclosing this world, I am looking forward to the Temple being rebuilt and Jesus soon returning.

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice