Solomon’s Temple

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Short Summary

The discourse presents an overview of the symbolic significance of Solomon’s Temple as it relates to the experiences of the glorified church during the Messianic age, contrasting it with the temporary Tabernacle of the Gospel age. Key points include the preparation and construction of the Temple, the roles of various classes within its administration, and the differences between the Tabernacle and Temple, particularly in their representations of God’s relationship with humanity. The speaker emphasizes that the completion and actualization of this antitypical Temple reflect the ultimate fulfillment of God’s promise to dwell among His people, as described in Revelation 21.

Long Summary

### Summary of Solomon’s Temple Antitypical Lessons

Introduction
– The discourse focuses on the symbolic lessons derived from Solomon’s Temple, highlighting its significance as the antitype of the church during the Messianic age.
– The speaker appreciates Brother David’s presentation on the sanctuary, emphasizing the importance of prior teachings.

Temporary vs. Permanent Structures
– The Tabernacle symbolizes the experiences of the church during the Gospel age and was a temporary structure.
– Solomon’s Temple represents the glorified church, intended as a permanent meeting place between God and humanity.

Biblical Foundation
– As Paul states in 1 Corinthians 3:16, believers are the Temple of God.
– The discourse outlines eight key sections of antitypical lessons: inspiration, location, preparation, construction, administration, differentiation, dedication, and actualization.

Inspiration of the Temple
– The desire to build the temple arose with King David, as noted in 1 Chronicles 17:1-15.
– Key points from this scripture include:
– David was not permitted to build the temple due to his history as a warrior.
– God promised that Israel would no longer be moved, and the temple would be built by Solomon, a type of Jesus.
– David’s descendant would reign forever.

Location Significance
– The temple was built on the threshing floor of Araunah, symbolizing a site of sacrifice.
– This location is where Abraham offered Isaac, representing God’s sacrifice for humanity.
– Jerusalem, meaning “city of peace,” is prophesied in Jeremiah 3:16 to be the Lord’s throne, where nations will gather.

Preparation for the Temple
– The preparation for the temple’s construction occupied David’s entire reign, symbolizing the church’s spiritual preparation.
1 Chronicles 22:2-4 illustrates David overseeing the gathering of materials, paralleling Jesus preparing His church.
– Living stones (believers) are chiseled and polished through life experiences to become part of this spiritual temple.

Construction of the Temple
– The temple’s construction took seven years, mirroring the seven stages of the Gospel age church.
1 Kings 6:7 notes that no tools were heard during construction, symbolizing the quiet completion of God’s work.
– The faithful members, described as living stones, are resurrected beyond the veil, contributing to the temple’s glory.

Administration of the Temple
1 Chronicles 28:20-21 describes the four classes involved in temple administration:
– Priests (representing the Church),
– Levites (the Great Company),
– Officials (ancient worthies),
– Mankind (those under the new covenant).
– This hierarchy reflects the spiritual governance of the edifice.

Differentiation from the Tabernacle
– Three significant differences include:
– The two pillars (Joaquin and Boaz) representing establishment and strength.
– The Ark of the Covenant in the Temple contains only the two tablets of the Law, signifying the completion of the church.
– The standing cherubim in the Temple face outward, symbolizing blessings directed towards humanity.

Dedication of the Temple
1 Kings 8:62-64 records that Solomon, representing the glorified Christ, offered sacrifices during the dedication.
– Unlike the Tabernacle, this dedication involved freewill offerings, signifying the end of sin offerings and the new age of consecration unto life.

Actualization of the Temple
– Revelation 21:1-4 describes the ultimate realization of God’s temple among people, where there will be no sorrow or death.
– The speaker concludes with a reminder of God’s promise to make all things new, referencing Revelation 21:5.

Conclusion
– The antitypical lessons from Solomon’s Temple offer profound insights into the church’s role and destiny throughout the ages, emphasizing hope for a future where God dwells among His people.

Transcript

As was stated, our lesson this afternoon is a mini talk Solomon’s Temple Antitypical lessons Key points, but I must add, not exhaustive. There wouldn’t be time for that, and Brother David, I really enjoyed your presentation on the sanctuary, but believe me, it was impossible for you to step on my toes because I’m going to be standing on your shoulders. Brother David has a wonderful two part discourse on Solomon’s Temple. I highly recommend you listen to it on Christian Resources.

The Tabernacle pictured the experiences of the church and the better sacrifices of the Gospel age. It was a temporary structure. Solomon’s Temple, however, pictures the experiences of the glorified church in the Messianic age, which is to be the meeting place between God and men. As our convention theme related to it is a permanent structure. Do you know that you are the Temple of God?

This is why Solomon’s Temple is pictured symbolically as the Gospel Age church. As Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 3, verse 16, you, brethren are the Temple of God. We will be looking at some key antitypical lessons this afternoon and we’re going to divide it into eight sections. The antitypical lessons come to us through inspiration, location, preparation, construction, administration, differentiation, dedication, and finally its actualization inspiration. The desire to build a temple originated with King David as found in 1st Chronicles 17:1 15, and Brother David touched on this.

I will summarize this text into four parts. First of all, David was not allowed to build the temple. Secondly, God would in the future plan Israel to be moved no more. Thirdly, God would build David the temple through David’s son Solomon, representing antitypical Jesus, and fourthly, his descendant or seed would be established on his throne forever.

First Chronicles 28:2 3 tell us that David was not allowed to build a temple because he had been a man of war and had shed blood. King David’s reign of war over his enemies represented the Gospel age. We are soldiers of the cross, fighting against the world, the flesh and the devil. The temple was not to be associated with warfare but with peace and rest. In contrast, the reign of King Solomon was a reign of peace and rest, representing the Messianic ages of blessing, just as blessings came forth from the reign of King Solomon when the church, the royal priesthood, mediators of the new covenant, will be in glory.

The world will then be amazed at the reign of peace and rest as they walk up the highway of holiness.

In 1st Chronicles 22, verses 9 through 11, God tells David, a son shall be born to him, Solomon, who will be able to give peace and quietness in his day he will build the house, he will be my son and I will be his father. A type we see of Jehovah and Jesus. Even the name Solomon means peace. Location the location of the temple is quite significant. The site of the temple was originally the threshing floor of Araunah, the Jezebel on Mount Moriah which David purchased.

This threshing floor very well represents the harvest of the barley our Lord Jesus, as well as the Jewish and Gospel age harvest which separated the true wheat, Jesus and his body members which are the temple of God. More importantly, this site is also the location where Abraham offered Isaac a type of God the Father and his only begotten son, willingly sacrificed as a ransom for Adam and all his race.

Jerusalem, where the temple is located means city of peace, and Jeremiah 3:16 tells us that Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the Lord. It is going to be the capital city of the earthly phase of the kingdom where it says and the nations shall stream to it. So this throne or government of the antitypical Solomon will be established forever and ever over Israel and then the world. Preparation Preparations for acquiring all the raw materials for the construction of Solomon’s Temple took the entire reign of King David.

This pictures the preparation of the church in the Gospel age before their spiritual resurrection. First Chronicles 22 verses 2 to 4 tells us that King David supervised the preparation of the temple. This represents Jesus in the Gospel age preparing this temple or his bride. The temple stones were entrusted to the strangers or the Gentiles who chiseled shaped the temple stones before they were brought onto site. Now King Jesus is supervising the building of this antitypical temple through all of our experiences of the church in the flesh.

For we are the living stones of the temple who are being cut, shaped, chiseled and polished by the experiences which we have with mankind, representing a transformation of character to us. The Scriptures clearly teach the chiseling, shaping and polishing of consecrated believers in Christ’s atonement for sin progresses, and when the last of these living stones, elect and precious, shall have been made ready, the great master workmen will bring all together in the first resurrection, and the temple shall be filled with his glory and the meeting place between God and men throughout the millennium. To us the Scriptures clearly teach the present mission of the church is the perfecting of the saints for the future work of service to develop in her every grace, to be God’s witnesses to the world and to prepare to be the kings and priests according to the order of Melchizedek in the next age Construction the Scriptures clearly teach that the church is the temple of the living God.

Peculiarly his workmanship that its construction has been in progress throughout the Gospel age. Ever since Christ became the world’s Redeemer and chief cornerstone of this temple. Through which when finished, God’s blessings shall come to all people and they find access to Him.

Construction of the temple took seven years to build. Just as there are seven stages of the church of the gospel age. First Kings 6:7 says that no hammer or axe or tool of iron was heard in the house of the temple Temple while it was being constructed. As each faithful member of the little flock is resurrected beyond the veil during the presence and the harvest of the Lord, the construction of this temple continues, and at this convention we have heard that some living stones Brother Tim, Brother Leo, Brother David, Sister Gina, Sister Suzanne, without the sound of a hammer or an axe, they have been placed into that temple resurrected beyond the veil.

Those sin offering experiences were a preparation for fitting into that temple for a specific task. Beyond the veil as the sympathetic royal priesthood Trials Little Trials Great Romans 8:28 and we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose to be conformed to the image of His Son. So the trials which the Lord has permitted us in our lives are to be received by faith. Romans 8 and 28 is a faith scripture because all these experiences are for our best spiritual welfare. Remember this so that we do not grow weary in well doing.

Administration A scriptural portrayal of the administration of Solomon’s Temple is given to us in 1st Chronicles 28 verses 20 and 21, and here we see four classes involved in this administration, and it matches up perfectly with the pyramid which we see on the chart of the ages. First we have the priests representing the Church, the bride of Christ. Second are the Levites representing the spiritual class, the Great Company.

Third, we read of the officials or the ancient worthies, the princes of the earth, and finally we read about mankind. The people who will be under the administration of this royal Melchizedek priesthood, the great company servants and the earthly visible spokesman of Zion. The ancient worthies for the law shall come forth from Zion, but the word of the Lord from Jerusalem, who will all work together helping mankind under that new covenant mediation process. Differentiation we will now look at three differences which Solomon’s Temple had which were different from the tabernacle arrangement.

And these are significant. One of the Differences are the two prominent pillars located at the entrance of the temple.

First Kings 7 verses 15 to 22 describes these two beautiful pillars and they are named Joachim and Boaz. These were made from copper. Yaakan means he will firmly establish. Boaz means in strength. So what these pillars combined are telling us he will firmly establish the temple in strength.

The visible pillars represent Christ himself and body. The world of mankind will not be able to see the Christ because they will be invisible spirit beings with divine nature in the spiritual realm. But we remember that in the tabernacle copper represents perfect human nature. So this of course represents our Lord Jesus who had that perfect human nature represented with copper. Now the Church in the Gospel age are justified by faith in Jesus.

So when God looks at those prospective members, he sees us as copper because we are covered with the robe of Christ. So the Lord sees us being in Christ in copper, not in the imperfections of Adam. The fruitage of the Church in the characters and lives of the church class is represented in these pillars. We see engravings and pictures of pomegranates and lilies on these two pillars. Pomegranates represent faithfulness and fruitfulness, the fruit of the spirit.

Now mankind will only remember how the Christ his body members looked and behaved in their interactions with them in the flesh. They saw an outward show of love coming from these peculiar people who were doing good unto all men in all experiences and in all relationships.

The lily is a beautiful fragrant flower which can represent the memory or the fragrant experiences they had with this church class while in the flesh, while they interacted with them in good times and in bad. So in other words, as Brother Tom taught us, the world of mankind are going to remember those who were born in Zion because these people treated us like we cared.

A second difference in Solomon’s Temple is the change of the contents which occurred inside the Ark. Now, in Solomon’s Temple we only have the two tables of the Law. Aaron’s rod that budded and the golden pot of manna are now missing. Why? What does that teach us antitypically?

Well, we remember that bringing the Ark of the Covenant into the most holy of the Temple represents the completion of the Church into their heavenly condition, the divine nature. These two items are missing because the election and the selection of the Gospel age church pictured in Aaron’s rod that budded is complete. It is now beyond the veil. The golden pot of manna is now gone because the hope of immortality has now been fulfilled. The hope of the Church and the divine nature will never ever be offered to mankind again.

A third and final difference between the tabernacle and Solomon’s Temple are the two standing cherub angels in the Most Holy between the mercy seat in the Tabernacle, the two cherubim looking down to the mercy seat onto the Ark of the Covenant represented. They were waiting in hope for justice to be satisfied so that with their wings unfurled they would looking forward to that blessing of mankind in the Kingdom. But in Solomon’s Temple, look at these two angels now. They are standing and their wings are unfurled and they are facing the people, representing how God’s blessings now will go outward towards the people in the Messianic age. Dedication the dedication of the Temple is found in 1st Kings 8:62 through 64.

We notice that King Solomon and not the priests offered sacrifice to the Lord at this dedication in the temple. This may seem odd because we remember in the tabernacle arrangement only the priests were authorized to offer burnt offerings. God in this situation has allowed King Solomon to do this. The dedication because King Solomon represents the glorified Christ who are now kings and priests according to the order of Melchizedek. So Solomon offering burnt offerings at this time is permissible in God’s eyes to suit this picture or antitype.

Notice at this time there were no sin offerings offered at this dedication. These were all free will offerings. This is because the sin offerings of the Gospel age are now finished.

The temple dedication are freewill offerings that are subsequent to the Day of Atonement sacrifices, and our class in Orlando have received a great blessing just recently studying these subsequent sacrifices to the Atonement day which represents the consecration of the people in the next age. They are consecrating their lives to God not to sacrifice unto death. Instead they will be consecrating to the Lord unto life. Because the people of the world will love the Christ.

They will appreciate Jesus, ransom and the truth and the righteousness that will prevail. So the people will be wanting to bring these free will offerings of consecration, praise, thankfulness and worship to the Mediator Christ, head and body, who Solomon represents. Finally we have actualization of this antitypical Temple of Solomon. The actuation of this great mystery which Brother David reminded us of the Church. The Temple of God is written in Revelations 21:1 4 and it reads then I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth passed away and there is no longer any sea.

And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem coming out of heaven down from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband, and I heard a loud voice from the throne saying Behold, the tabernacle or temple of God is among the people, and he will dwell among them, and they shall be his people, and God himself will be among them, and he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there will no longer be any death. There will no longer be any mourning or crying or pain. The first things have passed away.

So in review and summary, the antitypical lessons of Solomon’s Temple, we broke down into eight aspects. The inspiration was significant. The location of Solomon’s temple was significant. The preparation of this temple was significant. The construction of this temple was significant.

The administration of this temple is significant. The differentiation that we’ve learned between the tabernacle of the Gospel age and Solomon’s Temple of the Messianic age had three big differences, and then of course, we have the dedication, which was different, and finally the aqualization which we are still praying for. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. So don’t Forget, brethren, Revelation 21, verse 5.

And he who sits on the throne said, behold, I am making all things new, and he said, write, for these words are faithful.

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