THE TEMPLEPart 7: Herod’s Temple

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Now Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. II Chronicles 3: 1, 2

SOLOMON’S TEMPLE BUILT 1014 - 1007 BCSECOND TEMPLE BUILT 589 - 585 BC

Herod the Great73 BC -- 4 BC

Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. Matthew 17: 20

[Abraham] did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. Romans 4: 20, 21

By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed.Hebrews 11: 11

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13 [We] are kept by the power of God, through faith for salvation. I Peter 1: 5

Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. Matthew 17: 20

“I think I need not speak to you, my countrymen, about such other works as I have done since I came to the kingdom, although I may say … that, with God's assistance, I have advanced the nation of the Jews to a degree of happiness which they never had before; and … [the] undertaking which I have a mind to set about at present, and which will be a work of the greatest piety and excellence that can possibly be undertaken by us, I will now declare to you.

“Our fathers, indeed, when they were returned from Babylon, built this temple to God Almighty, yet does it want sixty cubits of its largeness … for so much did that first temple which Solomon built exceed this temple… But since I am now, by God's will, your governor, and I have had peace a long time, and have gained great riches and large revenues, and, what is the principal filing of all, I am in goodwill and well regarded by the Romans, who, if I may so say, are the rulers of the whole world, I will do my endeavor to correct that imperfection … by rendering His temple as complete as I am able.”APPLAUSEAPPLAUSE

N0 FOREIGNER IS TO N0 FOREIGNER IS TO ENTER WITHIN THE ENTER WITHIN THE BARRIER AND BARRIER AND EMBANKMENT AROUND EMBANKMENT AROUND THE SANCTUARY. THE SANCTUARY. WHOEVER IS CAUGHT WHOEVER IS CAUGHT WILL HAVE HIMSELF TO WILL HAVE HIMSELF TO BLAME FOR HIS DEATH BLAME FOR HIS DEATH WHICH FOLLOWS. WHICH FOLLOWS.

This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, the law, and this place; and furthermore he also brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place. … and the people ran together, seized Paul, and dragged him out of the temple; and immediately the doors were shut. Acts 21: 28 - 30

THE MIDDLE WALL OF SEPARATION

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 3: 27 – 28

“having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets”

Ephesians 2: 19

JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF BEING THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE

The whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

Ephesians 2: 21

Then as He went out of the temple, one of His disciples said to Him, “Teacher, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!” And Jesus answered and said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone shall be left upon another, that shall not be thrown down.” Mark 13: 1, 2

THE TEMPLEPart 8: Jesus at the Temple