1 John 3:16


"By this we perceive the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren."

Monday 26 July 2010

The Temple

Go and tell My servant David, Thus says the Lord, Shall you build Me a house for Me to dwell in? Whereas I have not dwelt in any house…but have walked in a tent in the wilderness…did I ever speak with any of the tribes of Israel…saying, Why have you not built Me a house of cedar? (2 Sam 7:5-7).

Here we see what the temple is in God’s heart. He wanted a mobile tabernacle, not one of stone. This tabernacle represents a living (mobile) body, a church. God never asked for and never wanted a temple.

Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me. (Heb 10:5).

It is clear therefore that the temple that Solomon built was not the fulfilment of God’s promise to David. The house God promised to David was the house of his Seed Christ, the church.

In whom (Christ) you are also built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit. (Eph 2:22).

And you also as living stones are built into a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ…which in times past were not a people…(1 Pet 2:5-10).

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