Hand picked by God to build His house

 

April 27, 2021

 

1 Kings 6:23-38

 

 For the inner sanctuary, he made a pair of cherubim out of olive wood, each ten cubits high.   One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing five cubits—ten cubits from wingtip to wingtip.   The second cherub also measured ten cubits, for the two cherubim were identical in size and shape.  The height of each cherub was ten cubits.   He placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple, with their wings spread out. The wing of one cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the other touched the other wall, and their wings touched each other in the middle of the room.   He overlaid the cherubim with gold.

On the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms, he carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.   He also covered the floors of both the inner and outer rooms of the temple with gold.

For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, he made doors out of olive wood that were one-fifth of the width of the sanctuary.   And on the two olive-wood doors he carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.   In the same way, for the entrance to the main hall, he made doorframes out of olive wood that were one-fourth of the width of the hall.   He also made two doors out of juniper wood, each having two leaves that turned in sockets.   He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers on them and overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.  And he built the inner courtyard of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams.

The foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv.   In the eleventh year in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in all its details according to its specifications. He had spent seven years building it.

Our builder often sent us invitations to a new home he had built that was in the parade of homes, I refer to that as a want creator.  My wife saw some things she liked in one of the homes Kyle had built and told him how much she would have liked to have those features in our house.  Kyle's reply was “Jan when you enter the candy store you must have the money to buy.”  That home cost about double the one he had built for us and had many features that were out of our price range, but it did not come close to the Temple Solomon built for the LORD.  Can you imagine walking into a home where all the floors were covered with gold, and the builder and the men in charge were hand-picked by God, to build His house?

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice