Thursday, November 7, 2019

Getting ready to build temple for the Name of the Lord

2 Chronicles 2:1-18
Solomon gave orders to build a temple for the Name of the Lord and a royal palace for himself. He conscripted 70,000 men as carriers and 80,000 as stonecutters in the hills and 3,600 as foremen over them.
Solomon sent this message to Hiram king of Tyre: Send me cedar logs as you did for my father David when you sent him cedar to build a palace to live in. Now I am about to build a temple for the Name of the Lord my God and to dedicate it to him for burning fragrant incense before him, for setting out the consecrated bread regularly, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening and on the Sabbaths, at the New Moons and at the appointed festivals of the Lord our God. This is a lasting ordinance for Israel.
I am sending you Huram-Abi, a man of great skill. 
Now let my lord send his servants the wheat and barley and the olive oil and wine he promised, and we will cut all the logs from Lebanon that you need and will float them as rafts by sea down to Joppa. You can then take them up to Jerusalem.
Why?
Building Temple of the Lord needs people and skilled craft men. So Solomon gave orders to many people and material to build Temple.
Solomon asked help from Hiram king of Tyre for the cedar logs and skill craft man Huran-Abi to work with craft men of Israel in Jerusalem.
There was grain and timber exchange between Israel and Tyre.
建殿工人主要是寄居在以色列的外邦人,所以建殿不是以色列單一民族所建的,是萬國來建造的。
給推羅的信中,顯示兩國關係良好,信中指出兩點,一、他沒有什麼,神是超過一切的。在外邦人中宣揚耶和華的名。推羅王也稱頌讚美神!在外交場合中,神的名被高舉。耶和華與萬國萬民有關係。鼓勵回歸的以色列人,聖殿關乎萬國。二、推羅王也知道所羅門王建殿是神的心意。
How?
There are efforts to build Temple of the Lord, manpower and skilled man and time. So as to buildur spiritual life in our heart.


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