House

2 Samuel 7:3-7 – And Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart, for the Lord is with you.” But that same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: Would you build me a house to dwell in? I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent for my dwelling. In all places where I have moved with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”’

1 Kings 5:5 – 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.’

Exodus 40:34 – Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

1 Kings 8:27 – “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

Isaiah 66:1 – Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest?

Application:

• ·         “Name” signifies God’s revealed character or self-revelation as a person.
• ·         The Israelites marched through the desert, and now through history, with the Lord tenting among them and leading them to the land of fulfilled promises.
• ·         Solomon confessed that even though God had chosen to dwell among His people in a special and localized way, he far transcended containment by anything in all creation.
• ·         Solomon realized that God could not be localized in a man-made temple, magnificent though it may be.

All Scripture verses taken from ESV