“Go and tell my servant David, ‘This is what the LORD says: Are you the one to build me a house to dwell in?"
{2 Samuel 7:5} (NIV)
David loved the LORD and desired to honour Him always. As he sat in his palace and thought about the manifest Presence of the Almighty God, resting in a tent, he decided to build a temple. This chapter is so full of beauty! There are expressions of love, there are amazing prophecies, and there are these poignant moments; a reminder of Saul’s rejection, a prophecy of Solomon’s future disobedience, and a promise to treat him differently than Saul and a rejection of David himself as being unworthy to build the temple. (1 Chron 22:6-8)
The most precious of all is the LORD’s declaration that He will build an everlasting house for David. This prophecy is none other than the prophecy of our Lord Jesus Christ who is the Root and Offspring of David (Rev 22:16), and the Builder of the great temple of the LORD Almighty. A temple not built by human hands, but by the LORD Jesus Himself. A temple not built by bricks made of earth, but built out of living stones, chosen by the Father, placed by the Carpenter and held together by the bond of the Holy Spirit. Somehow David knew that the LORD desired a house, but David only saw this precious building from a distance through a prophetic haze. We however are his house! IF indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory. (Heb 3:6)
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