This picture is a drawing made to represent Jehovah’s beautiful dwelling place, the temple built by Solomon, the King, on Mount Moriah, on the very place where Abraham offered up Isaac. Later on it was here that the Lord Jesus was offered up upon the cross. The temple, therefore, stood on the place of sacrifice, just where every sinner must stand, in order to be saved and become a temple for God to dwell in. God says to those whom He has redeemed, “Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you.” 1 Corinthians 6:1919What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? (1 Corinthians 6:19).
ITS FOUNDATION (1 Kings 5:1717And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house. (1 Kings 5:17)): The foundation was laid with “great stones and costly,” all brought up from the deep quarries, like sinners at conversion. Christ is Himself the Rock upon which the Church is built; all who are built upon Him are safe forever.
ITS CEDAR WALLS WERE ONCE GREAT TREES GRONG ON MOUNT LEBANON (1 Kings 6:1515And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir. (1 Kings 6:15)). But they were cut down, floated down to sea, and brought up to Jerusalem. I know some who are like them—cut down by the truth, “for all have sinned,” laid low by God’s judgment upon man at the cross of Christ, but now raised up by grace, and soon to be brought to glory.
GOLD: Those cedar timbers were covered with gold. Gold speaks of divine glory and righteousness.
That glorious temple is just a type of what those will be who have been redeemed by the blood of Christ, built on Christ, raised with Christ. They shall be filled with the glory of God, and have God dwelling among them forever. Dear reader, will you be there? Are you redeemed by the blood of Christ, and built upon Him, the blest Rock of Ages?
ML 01/31/1965