2 Chronicles 3

June 6, 2022

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Reading along with us in 2 Chronicles? Here’s today’s reading:

2 Chronicles 3 (NIV)

Solomon Builds the Temple
1 Then Solomon began to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, the place provided by David. 2 He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
3 The foundation Solomon laid for building the temple of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide(using the cubit of the old standard)........Continue Reading

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  1. Just like when we read in 1 Kings I am struck by how magnificent this temple must have been. How ornate and detailed each part was. How the finest materials and craftsmen were used. Fitting that if you are going to build something for God, Creator of the universe it should be something wonderful.
    I think of the times in the Bible we are reminded that our bodies are temples to the Lord. How much more that should inspire us to care for ourself as a temple and how much beauty He sees in us even when we don’t see it in ourselves.

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  3. 2 Chronicles 3 – the description of this temple just gives you this picture of splendor with all of that gold and the details he describes its unbelievable.

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  6. Solomon used the best and most valuable earthly items to build God’s temple:
    Cypress wood, precious gems, gold and silver, artistic carvings of palm trees, chainwork, and spiritual beings.

    Just a symbol of the real tabernacle in heaven (my emphasis in caps:

    ..”the Holy Spirit indicating this, that the way into the Holiest of All was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing. 9 It was SYMBOLIC FOR THE PRESENT TIME in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make him who performed the service perfect in regard to the conscience— 10 concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.

    11 But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the GREATER AND MORE PERFECT TABERNACLE NOT MADE WITH HANDS, that is, not of this creation. 12 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 15 And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.”

    It is interesting that these pillars are so magnificent, they are named:
    “Then he set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand and the other on the left; he called the name of the one on the right hand Jachin, and the name of the one on the left Boaz.
    Jachin: He shall establish Boaz: in strength

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  7. How beautiful and majestic this temple was showing we should always give our best to God. I measured it out once and the foot print of Living Hope is pretty close to the footprint of the temple. That’s not to say our building holds the same significance, but to give an idea of the size. What a privilege it was to live in this time and see it first hand and understand the presence of God resided there, to show both His closeness and His separateness. It’s an important balance for us to maintain in our relationship with God as well. And naturally we are even more blessed naturally to have God’s presence in us….now the tis something to be In awe of….

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