Today, I am reading and commenting on 1 Chronicles 17-19.

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When David thought to build a temple for God in Jerusalem, God sent Nathan to tell him not to do so.  Further God told David that his offspring would build a temple to God.  The traditional interpretation of this is that God was referring to Solomon when He told that to David.  However, God also said that He would establish the throne of the son of David who would build God’s house would be established forever.  God took the northern portion of the kingdom of Israel from Solomon’s son, and eventually all of Israel was taken into exile.  So, this prophecy tells of the coming of God’s Anointed One.  It tells us of the coming of Jesus, who built the Church as a House for God, as a temple to worship Him.  When Solomon later built a temple for God, he was not truly fulfilling this prophecy.  Instead, Solomon was foreshadowing its fulfillment in Jesus Christ.

I am struggling to find the words to sum up what this tells us about what we should do in response to this.  Jesus came and made us a house for God to live in.  We should respond to this in the same way that David responded to God’s promise to establish his house.  Who are we that God has brought us thus far?  Through Israel, God brought forth Himself in Jesus, and through Jesus God redeemed all of the people of the earth.  All who are willing to be with God have been brought into fellowship with Him.  There is no one and nothing which is like God.  God uses us to make His name great and awesome.  Let us strive to live our lives so that God may use us to make His name known throughout the earth.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.