Apr 11, 2025 Recent post

Building God’s Temple: A Magnificent Project

“And so I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord said to David my father, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.” In 1 Kings 5-7, we see the construction of Solomon’s temple in Jerusalem. The temple was 90 feet long (a standard MLB baseball field). It was 30 feet wide (a full-size school bus) and 45 feet high (a four-story building). It took Solomon 7 years to build this temple and over 180.000 laborers. Once the temple was completed, the Ark of the Lord, which represented God’s presence