Saturday, June 22
Read 2 Chronicles 3
Think About It:
- “Now Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORDhad appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite” (2 Chronicles 3:1). This place had been previously identified as the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. Here it is specifically located as Mount Moriah. This was the same hill where Abraham offered Isaac (Genesis 22:2), and the same set of hills where Jesus would later die on the cross (Genesis 22:14). The crucifixion of Jesus took place in that same “region of Moriah” where over 2000 years before Abraham had stood prepared to offer to God his only son, his innocent son, at God’s command. But this time as Jesus was led to the Cross carrying the wood upon which he would be offered, there was no ram caught in the bushes to take his place. The ancient prophecy was also a promise. God told Abraham that someday “in the mountain of the LORD — it will be provided”. And now it was provided, in the person of Jesus Christ. Do you see the site of Abraham’s sacrifice, the location of the Temple and the location of Christ’s sacrifice as a coincidence or the intricate workings of God’s plan of salvation, which He has directed over thousands of years?
- If God miraculously worked this way in the Bible, what situations and events are you allowing Him to work out in your life?
- Do you think that God inspired David and Solomon in the planning of the temple and directed Solomon in the building of the temple, or were David and Solomon working under their own creativity and vision?
Family Time:
- Where did Solomon build the temple? (verse 1)
- What did Solomon have sculpted to place in the Most Holy Place? (verse 10)
