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lordgodjehovahsway · 6 months

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Exodus 36: Moses Allows Bezalel, Oholiab, and Their Skilled Workers to Get Started on God's Sanctuary

1 So Bezalel, Oholiab and every skilled person to whom the Lord has given skill and ability to know how to carry out all the work of constructing the sanctuary are to do the work just as the Lord has commanded.”

2 Then Moses summoned Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person to whom the Lord had given ability and who was willing to come and do the work.

3 They received from Moses all the offerings the Israelites had brought to carry out the work of constructing the sanctuary. And the people continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning.

4 So all the skilled workers who were doing all the work on the sanctuary left what they were doing

5 and said to Moses, “The people are bringing more than enough for doing the work the Lord commanded to be done.”

6 Then Moses gave an order and they sent this word throughout the camp: “No man or woman is to make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary.” And so the people were restrained from bringing more,

7 because what they already had was more than enough to do all the work.

The Tabernacle

8 All those who were skilled among the workers made the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim woven into them by expert hands.

9 All the curtains were the same size—twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide.

10 They joined five of the curtains together and did the same with the other five.

11 Then they made loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in one set, and the same was done with the end curtain in the other set.

12 They also made fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the other set, with the loops opposite each other.

13 Then they made fifty gold clasps and used them to fasten the two sets of curtains together so that the tabernacle was a unit.

14 They made curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven altogether.

15 All eleven curtains were the same size—thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.

16 They joined five of the curtains into one set and the other six into another set.

17 Then they made fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in one set and also along the edge of the end curtain in the other set.

18 They made fifty bronze clasps to fasten the tent together as a unit.

19 Then they made for the tent a covering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of the other durable leather.

20 They made upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.

21 Each frame was ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide,

22 with two projections set parallel to each other. They made all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.

23 They made twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle

24 and made forty silver bases to go under them—two bases for each frame, one under each projection.

25 For the other side, the north side of the tabernacle, they made twenty frames

26 and forty silver bases—two under each frame.

27 They made six frames for the far end, that is, the west end of the tabernacle,

28 and two frames were made for the corners of the tabernacle at the far end.

29 At these two corners the frames were double from the bottom all the way to the top and fitted into a single ring; both were made alike.

30 So there were eight frames and sixteen silver bases—two under each frame.

31 They also made crossbars of acacia wood: five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,

32 five for those on the other side, and five for the frames on the west, at the far end of the tabernacle.

33 They made the center crossbar so that it extended from end to end at the middle of the frames.

34 They overlaid the frames with gold and made gold rings to hold the crossbars. They also overlaid the crossbars with gold.

35 They made the curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, with cherubim woven into it by a skilled worker.

36 They made four posts of acacia wood for it and overlaid them with gold. They made gold hooks for them and cast their four silver bases.

37 For the entrance to the tent they made a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen—the work of an embroiderer;

38 and they made five posts with hooks for them. They overlaid the tops of the posts and their bands with gold and made their five bases of bronze.

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kdmiller55 · 1 year

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Mission Accomplished

32 Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting was finished, and the people of Israel did according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses; so they did. 33 Then they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its utensils, its hooks, its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases; 34 the covering of tanned rams’ skins and goatskins, and the veil of the screen; 35 the ark…

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#construction #Exodus #Exodus 39 #faithfulness #forgiveness #God #holiness #Israel #Moses #obedience #sin #Sinai #Tabernacle #the house of God #the temple of God

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etirabys · 29 days

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Scott Alexander wrote an effective altruism Talmud parody for April Fool's:

MISHNA: Rabbi Eliezer said: one may work on AI safety but not on AI capabilities. What is AI capabilities? It is anything that makes an AI better at any of the the 39 categories of labor involved in constructing the Tabernacle. GEMARA: The Exiliarch raised a question to Rav Hamnuna: Clearly language models are forbidden due to the prohibition against writing. But why is it capabilities research to work on an image model? Rav Hamnuna answered: that is the prohibited labor of dyeing. And is it dyeing if the image is in black and white? Rav Sheshet said: rather, say that it is still the prohibited labor of writing, because the user must prompt the image model. Rabbi Zeira objects: the image model is translating the writing into its vector space; it is not, itself, improving at writing. Rather, say it is the prohibited labor of sifting, because the AI must separate pixels that should be dark from pixels that should be bright. The halakha is with Rabbi Zeira.

#rambl #lesswrong dot org people #AND IS IT DYEING IF THE IMAGE IS IN BLACK AND WHITE?

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hebrewbyinbal · 7 months

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Sukkot: A Time of Celebration and Connection 🍋✨

Sukkot, also known as the Feast of Tabernacles, is a vibrant and joyous Jewish holiday that holds a special place in the hearts of many.

It's a time when families and communities come together to celebrate the rich tapestry of Jewish tradition and the bountiful harvest season.

At the heart of Sukkot is the סוכה sukkah hut, a temporary dwelling that symbolizes the humble shelters used by the Israelites during their 40-year journey in the desert.

One hut is soo-'kah סוכה.

More than one is soo-'kot סוכות (as well as the name of this holiday).

These soo-'kot סוכות are lovingly constructed in backyards, courtyards, and even on balconies, adorned with colorful decorations and natural elements like branches and fruits.

The sukkah becomes a gathering place for family and friends, where meals are shared, stories are told, and blessings are recited. It's a place where we are reminded of the impermanence of life and the importance of gratitude for the abundance we have.

As the sun sets and the stars twinkle above, many even choose to sleep in the soo-'kah, connecting with nature and reflecting on the blessings of the harvest.

Sukkot is a time of great joy, filled with traditions that bring families and communities closer.

It's a reminder of the importance of gratitude, unity, and the simple pleasures of life.

So, as Sukkot approaches, let's embrace the spirit of the soo-'kah, celebrating our shared heritage and the beauty of gathering under the open sky. 🌟🌾

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eretzyisrael · 2 months

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THIS WEEK'S TORAH PORTION

Parashat Pekudei: Exodus 38:21 - 40:38

In this Torah portion, Aaron and the priests are given their clothing for work in the Sanctuary. This marks the completion of the Tabernacle construction. Moses anoints Aaron and his sons to make their priestly positions official. A cloud descends upon the Tent of Meeting, and God’s presence fills the Tabernacle.

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#parashat pekudei #Shabbat #Judaism #Jewish

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geostatonary · 2 months

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tonight in torah study, we discuss g-d's love for women's handmirrors and smalltalk, architectural and institutional implications of the tabernacle v temple, and discuss the construction of the tabernacle for a fifth time

#torah posting #vayakhel #soup of the day

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power-chords · 12 days

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“You know I have this, uh, recurring dream. I'm sitting at this big banquet table and all of the victims of all the murders I've ever worked are sitting at this table, and they're staring at me with these black eyeballs... ‘cause they got eight ball hemorrhages from the head wounds. And there they are, these big balloon people, because I found them two weeks after they’d been under the bed. The neighbors reported the smell. And there they are, all of them, just sitting there.”

The order of the ritual is paramount in importance because it lends a sense of continuity to a culture. A ritual is both able to regulate society's order through its own order, as well as serve as a means of reestablishing that order when the normative patterns of a society have collapsed. This is part of the reason the "correct" method of enacting a ritual is so important and why a set of behaviors meant to unify a community can often lead to its dissolution or fragmenting. In addition to regulating a society’s order, ritual can be used to define a spatial area. In this way a ritual should be conceived of as “first and foremost, a mode of paying attention.” [...] Thus, if the ritual can be said to have a message, it “is less an idea to be taught and more a reality to be repeatedly experienced.” [...]

Offerings to gods are usually ritual offerings, able to take the role of any of the three basic types of ritual, and must be proffered in a precise way in order for them to be acceptable. [...] There is no denying that by far the most important form of offering was that of animal sacrifice. For “as sacrifice was the raison d’etre of the archaic temple…a temple or altar without sacrifice is a mere monument.” [...] Two major forms of sacrifice can be readily identified, that of gift and that of substitute. [B]oth are marked by the idea that they will either reify the existing world or reinstate a broken or completely destroyed reality (in the line of restoration or maintenance rituals). Ritual offerings are a means of reconciliation with the gods.

—Amy M. Fisher, "Pour Forth the Sparkling Chalice: An Examination of Libation Practices in the Levant," 2007

The Shulchan Arukh (“Set Table”) is the most widely accepted code of Jewish law ever written. Compiled in the 16th century by Rabbi Yosef Karo, it is a condensed and simplified version of the Beit Yosef, a commentary that Karo wrote on the Tur.

The vessels appear in the list of items to be constructed for the table within the Tabernacle. Setting a table for the gods with the foods of kings was a common ritual in both Mesopotamia and Egypt. A set table was “a mark of affluence and status.” The importance of a set table for God is confirmed by the need for one not only in the Tabernacle, but also in both Solomon's temple and Ezekiel's plans for a temple. This need did not end with the exile, as First Maccabees attests to a table in the post-exilic temple, and the Arch of Titus clearly depicts a table with a goblet perched upon it being carted off with the other spoils from the temple. Unlike the set tables of other religions, this one lacked a feast. It only held empty vessels[...] (Fisher, 2007.)

#heat 2 midrash

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transgenderer · 11 months

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The Mormon Kingdom of Beaver Island

(heavily abridged wikipedia section)

Most Latter Day Saints considered Brigham Young to be [Joseph Smith]'s successor, but many others followed James J. Strang, who argued his own claim using a letter that he said Smith had written and mailed to him. Seeking refuge from religious persecution, Strang and his followers moved from Voree to Beaver Island in 1848. At the time, Beaver Island was inhabited by mostly Irish Catholic immigrants.

The Strangites flourished under their Prophet's rule and, due to the Island's strategic location, they became both became an economic and a political power in the region at the expense of nearby Mackinac Island. The Strangites also founded the town of St. James, which was named in honor of Strang. They constructed a road denominated "King's Highway" into the interior of the island that remains one of its primary thoroughfares. The Strangites cleared land; constructed cabins, farms and other improvements; and attempted to establish themselves permanently on the island.

In fact, Strang became powerful enough to force the "Gentiles", or non-Mormons, of Beaver Island to pay tithes to his church. "Gentiles", who refused were allegedly subjected to flogging or violently driven off their land claims.[6][7]

Irish Americans on the island, who were not welcome in St. James, first moved to a new settlement around Cable Bay, on Beaver Island's southern tip. The Ojibwe and Odawa population, on the other hand, fled to nearby Garden Island, where they sided invariably with the Strangites' enemies[8] to the point that Strang later alleged that the Indians had been, "armed and hunting me for my life."[9]

After first decreeing eleven days before the election that, "every Gentile family must come to the harbor and be baptized into the Church of Zion of leave the island within ten days",[10] Strang was unanimously elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in 1853 and again in 1855.

James J. Strang proclaimed himself "King of Heaven and Earth", and was crowned on 8 July 1850 inside a large log "tabernacle" that his adherents erected, in an elaborate coronation ceremony.[13] On him was bestowed a crown that a witness described as "a shiny metal ring with a cluster of glass stars in the front",[14] a royal red robe, shield, breastplate, and wooden scepter.[13]

Meanwhile, ships sailing near Beaver Island routinely, "sailed into a crack in the Lake", even during the summer, when shipwrecks in the region were highly unusual. During Strang's rule and for decades afterwards, allegations of Mormon acts of piracy, wrecking through the use of false light beacons and the cutting of anchor cables by Strangites on skiffs, the mass murder of male shipwreck survivors, and the subjecting of attractive female shipwreck survivors to forced marriage, continued to be commonly told by Beaver Island residents, as well as by Great Lakes sailors and fishermen.[15]

According to Strang's biographer Miles Harvey, there are numerous well-documented cases of groups of Strangites, who saw non-Mormons as the enemy, making marauding raids in settlements around the shores of Lake Michigan. Their acts included timber piracy, counterfeiting, home invasions, armed robbery, and horse theft in, and the theft of fishing equipment from the refugee fishermen in Mackinac Island.[17] Furthermore, on July 13, 1853, Mormon fishermen from Beaver Island fought a pitched battle on Lake Michigan against fishermen from what is now Charlevoix, Michigan.[18]

Strang, however, insisted through his newspaper that all of these charges were lies motivated by Anti-Mormonism.[16]

Strang and his adherents often conflicted with their neighbors on the island and adjacent locales. While claiming dominion of only his church, Strang tended to exert authority over non-Strangites on the island also, and was regularly accused of forcibly seizing their property and ordering physically assaults against them. Meanwhile, the island and surrounding County were ruled with Strang as the political boss, while the Strangites imposed both a monarchy and theocracy upon local government that violated both the American system of Republicanism and the separation of church and state. Even before the new County's creation, Strang was powerful enough to order the Treasurer of Mackinac County to surrender one tenth of Beaver Island's tax revenue to his church.[19]

Open hostility between the two groups frequently became violent, and a growing number of Irish-American refugees fled to Mackinac Island. Other Irish-Americans once assaulted Strangites at the post office and, in what is still called the "Battle of Whiskey Point", Strang fired a cannon at a private army of Irish-American fishermen who had come to retake the island and expel the Strangite church.[20]

Meanwhile, one former Strangite later recalled that more and more Mormon families were, "leading a double life, seemingly good Mormons, but only waiting for the opportunity to get away".[21] The beginning of the end came when Strang ordered all Mormon women to wear bloomers instead of dresses. When two Mormon women refused obedience, Strang punished them by having their husbands flogged, an act that was rendered less unpopular after one of them was discovered in flagrante delicto while committing adultery. While recovering from their floggings, both outraged husbands vowed revenge against Strang. On June 16, 1856, the United States Navy gunboat USS Michigan entered the harbor of St. James and Strang was invited aboard. As Strang walked along the dock the two Mormon flogging victims followed by several other disaffected Strangites repeatedly shot the Mormon king from behind and pistol-whipped him as he lay dying. The shooters then boarded the gunboat, which refused to surrender them to the Mormon Sheriff and instead sailed away and disembarked both men in Mackinac Island. No one was arrested, tried, or convicted of Strang's murder.

After Strang died of his wounds on July 9, 1856, mobs of dispossessed Irish fishermen from Mackinac Island and St. Helena Island arrived and expelled the Strangites, who then numbered approximately 2,600, from their claims on Beaver Island.

According to Frederick Stonehouse, "Whether Strang and his Mormons were guilty of the charges of piracy and murder their enemies levelled at them or not is unknown. In today's more politically correct climate, the feeling is that the charges were trumped up by their enemies, who were jealous of the success of the 'Saints'. As usual, the truth is likely somewhere between the two extremes"[23]

the 19th century was insane

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femmchantress · 2 years

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Zavat Chalav u‘Dvash

I'd asked them to fuck the life out of me, but it wasn't until the beads of sweat on their brow were prominent enough to count that I realized each thrust of theirs was inching me farther through the desert, towards the covenant that was made when they looked me in the eye and pulled taught their harness straps.

"Oh God!" I chanted, a cantillation accompanied only by the rhythmic creaking of our bedframe, "Oh God!"

The divine presence dwelt within me, each velvet stroke of the silicone constructing a tabernacle of my body - the beauty inside me our tent of meeting (and how beautiful your tents, oh lover). No need have I for a mask, no need have you to hide your divinity - I have beheld the entirety of your being and from it I became a land flowing with milk and honey.

The honey lingers upon my feminine presence, clear and shining like the moon reflecting the divine light into the world.

Thank you, God, for making me a woman - She-asani Kirtzono. Thank you, God, for making the strap-on - ozeir Yisrael bigvurah.

#Rachel Time #t4t #Sorry I've been drinking

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theridgebeyond · 2 years

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Broke: Jesus was a cis man.

Woke: jesus was trans! he only had X chromosomes from mary! which means he was afab!

Bespoke: The side wound of Christ was the passageway that first birthed the Church and through which we may enter into the womb of Christ. For hundreds of years Christians encountered Christ in the Eucharist and believed that Christ’s body bleeds and feeds not unlike their understanding of the role of a woman’s body. Not only did they consume Christ’s body and blood (the realm of women) in the Eucharist, but also Christ’s soul and divinity (the realm of men), traversing the medieval European perception of gender. Furthermore, it is the essence of Christianity that Christ is fully God incarnate, the Divine embodied in human flesh. God knows no gender, as God is beyond human constructs and binaries. Yet, in a mystery, God encompasses all genders, as all humans throughout time and culture are made in the Image of God. Regardless of Christ’s physical, biological sex characteristics or gender identity while being as a tabernacle among humanity, Christ is not bound to our earthly notion of gender, and yet we — in our glorious variety and diversity — are reflections of the Divine.

#look look look I’m not hear to dump on people in the X chromosome camp #if that fills your christology with meaning and draws you closer to Christ who am I — a rando on the internet — to deny you #it’s just unimaginative imo #where’s the spice?#where’s the pizzazz?#where’s the razzle dazzle?#but all jokes aside if anyone comes across a bleeding communion wafer I would love to know the results of the genome sequencing #thoughts #Christian #Jesus #Christ as Mother #side wound summer #mysticism

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officialyourdailyinspiration · 1 year

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Devotional Hours Within the Bible

by J.R. Miller

The Temple Dedicated (1 Kings 8:54-63)

The temple was seven and a half years in being built. It rose silently. The stones were dressed in the quarries and all the timbers were made ready in the shops, so that no ax or hammer was heard in its erection.

Thousands of workmen were engaged in the construction of the temple. The building was magnificent, with its terraced courts, its marble cloisters; then within all this mass of splendor, the temple itself, rising above all, a pile of marble and gold.

Then came the dedication. It was a great day. All that vast and costly building had been erected for a definite purpose. It was not to be a great place of meeting for the people, like a Christian cathedral, or a modern church. While the people came to the courts of the temple, none ever entered the temple itself, except the priests. The temple was built expressly to be the home of the ark of God. It would have had no meaning, but for that little wooden chest, with the golden lid, surmounted by the cherubim. So the first thing when the building was finished, was to carry the ark from its old dwelling place in the tabernacle, which Moses had made for it, to this new abiding place now prepared for it.

We are to be temples of the Holy Spirit. Our lives, however beautiful, cultured, and worthy they may be, do not reach to their real glory or the divine purpose in their existence, until God is enshrined in them. This is the object of our creation and redemption. If we miss having God in us we have failed in our highest purpose.

A great sacrifice was offered. That was the way they worshiped God in those days. The offerings told of praise and rejoicing in the people’s hearts. It was a great day, not only for the king who had built the temple but for the people who had watched its rising. The offerings also spoke of the divine holiness, and of the atonement that must be made for sin. We know that there was no real spiritual efficacy in the sacrifices themselves, which were offered at that service. They had no power to put away sin. They did not cleanse the temple and make it fit to be God’s dwelling place. The Lord did not draw near to the people because of the many animals offered up by them in sacrifice to Him. Yet these offerings had their meaning. They declared that “apart from shedding of blood there is no remission of sin.”

We know, too, that they had another meaning that they prefigured the great all-availing sacrifice, “the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.” There came another day, a thousand years afterwards, when upon another hilltop close by, the Son of God offered Himself without spot to God as the Redeemer of the world. In His sacrifice, He actually opened the way to God for all who will come to Him. The sacrifices which Solomon and the people offered that day, had their fulfillment and their real meaning in Christ’s sacrifice, when on Calvary He gave His life a ransom for many.

After the offering, the ark of God was brought in and taken into its place in the inner sanctuary. This holy apartment was not open to the people. Indeed, no one of them was ever admitted, excepting the high priest. This was not meant to teach that men were really shut away from God; for God is merciful and has always welcomed sinners to Him. The exclusion of men from the Holy of holies, taught that God was holy and that sin could not dwell in His presence. It taught also that access to God can be had only through the Great High Priest. Heaven’s gates are wide open they are never shut; but we can enter only through Christ. “He is able to save to the uttermost all who draw near unto God through Him.”

“The cloud filled the house.” This was the Lord actually taking possession of the house which had been built for His dwelling place. It was not an ordinary cloud at all, as we understand the use of the word, that filled the house that day it was the sacred symbol of the divine presence. It was an expression of the wonderful condescension of God, that He should actually accept an earthly temple as a dwelling place. It showed His love for the people of our race. We understand, too, its remoter meaning. This coming of God into the temple was the prefiguration of the Incarnation, when the Word was made flesh and tabernacled among us. Christ was the true temple. Thus God came down and dwelt with us in very truth.

There is still another fulfillment which is to be realized only in the heavenly Jerusalem. This is pictured for us in the book of Revelation, where we read, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He shall dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God.” In another place in Revelation, we have a glimpse also of the same glory: “Therefore are they before the throne of God; and they serve Him day and night in His temple; and He who sits on the throne shall spread His tabernacle over them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun strike upon them, nor any heat: for the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall be their Shepherd, and shall guide them unto fountains of waters of life: and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

It was a wonderful prayer that the king offered that day at the dedication of the temple. He asked God to accept the house he had built, and make it His dwelling place. We have a temple to dedicate to the Lord. It is a great deal more wonderful building than the house Solomon erected. It is in our own heart! The king asked, “Will God indeed dwell on the earth?” We know that God wants to dwell on the earth, not in houses of marble and cedar and gold but in human hearts. God has two homes, “I dwell in the high and holy place; with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit.” So we may have a home for God in our heart, which we can dedicate to Him, to be used by Him as a temple. If we have not yet dedicated it to Him, why should we not do so now? Then God will come into our heart.

It is said of the king: “He arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling. .. with his hands spread forth toward heaven.” There are three things in Solomon’s attitude in prayer which are suggestive.

He prayed before the altar. The altar was the place of sacrifice, and sacrifice meant atonement. All our prayers should be made before the altar; that is, in dependence on the atonement of Christ. That is what we mean when we ask for blessings and favors for Christ’s sake. To pray anywhere but “before the altar” is to pray at unopened doors. We must come in Christ’s name, if we would gain access to the mercy-seat. “No one comes unto the Father but by Me.”

The second thing to notice in Solomon’s attitude, is his posture of kneeling. This indicated reverence, humility, submission. Kneeling is always a fit posture before God. He is infinitely greater than we are, and infinitely holy and good. Kneeling also implies submission. A conquered prince kneels to his conqueror, thus indicating surrender, the laying down of arms, and a full allegiance. Whatever may be the posture of our body in prayer, our hearts should always kneel before God.

The third thing to mark in the king’s praying, is the spreading of his hands forth toward heaven. Holding out the hands open and empty toward heaven, implies that we expect blessing from God and are ready to receive it. This, too, should be part of every true prayer sense of need, confidence that God will give us what we desire, expectancy, emptiness to be filled.

In the building of the temple, Solomon saw the fulfillment of a promise which God had made to Moses hundreds of years before. He praised God for this and testified that not one word of all His good promise had failed. We can say now just as confidently as the king did that day, that in all these centuries since, not one word of all God’s good promise has failed any one of His people. No believer has ever leaned upon a divine promise and had it give way under him. No one has ever trusted the Word of God and had it fail of fulfillment. The most real and sure things in this world are the Words of God. In every one of them, God’s own almighty hand is gloved; we clutch them and find ourselves clutched by Divinity out of whose clasp we never can fall, nor can anyone ever snatch us.

We lean upon these Words, and find ourselves encircled and upborne by the everlasting arms! We pillow our heads in weariness or sorrow upon God’s Words of love and comfort and find ourselves drawn close to our Father’s heart and held in His warm bosom and soothed by His tenderness, which is greater and gentler than a mother’s. So all through life in every experience, we may trust the promises of God and commit all our interests to them, and not one of them ever will fail us. We may trust them, too, in death, and we shall find everything just as God has said the divine presence in the dark valley, dying but going home, and absent from the body being at home with the Lord.

It is a fit prayer to be always on our lips that God may incline our hearts unto Him, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments. Our hearts are prone to wander and need divine keeping. Fenelon’s prayer was: “Lord, take my heart for I cannot give it to You; and when You have it, O, keep it for I cannot keep it for You; and save me in spite of myself.” God will never compel us to be good and obedient but He will incline us, persuade us, draw us, help us. We need continually, therefore, to pray Him to throw over us the mystic influence of His Holy Spirit, that we may desire holiness and may seek to walk in God’s ways.

Solomon asked that God might not forget his prayers, that they might be kept before Him day and night. Many prayers are for more than one answering. When a mother pleads for her child she would have her petition kept before God day and night. She would have God keep His eye ever on her boy, wherever he may be, whatever his danger may be. It is a precious thought that we do not need to be always reminding God of our desires for our friends but that our prayers stay before Him, are not filed away and forgotten, as are so many requests we make in places of power but are always remembered. Even if sometimes we forget to pray, God does not forget, for He knows our love and our heart’s wishes, and will do more for us than we ask or think. Our prayers are kept in heaven. We are told that God keeps our tears in His bottle that is, He remembers our sorrows, and our cries are sacred to Him!

#James Russell Miller #Devotional Hours Within the Bible #1 Kings 8:54-63 #The Temple Dedicated #April 10 #2023

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fictionz · 2 years

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In an apparent bout of completionist madness, I am not just reading the Bible (Douay-Rheims complete) for the first time, but reading it in order, because ya can't go skipping important details like DIY tabernacle construction. I just finished 2 Kings (4 Kings for Catholics because Samuel gets no respect???) and whoof. Just when you think you're past the listicle part of the Bible, they pull you back in.

But the podcast accompaniment of @apocrypals has been a saving grace. Sure they drop the hot Bible content but the ska content has been top notch as well.

#bible #apocrypals #ska #other than this it's those Goosebumps books #the other bible #and Star Trek novels of course

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kdmiller55 · 1 year

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God’s House Built God’s Way

1 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, 3 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, 4 to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, 5 in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in every craft. 6 And behold, I have…

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#Bezalel #construction #equipped #Exodus #Exodus 31 #filled with the Spirit #good works #holiness #Holy Spirit #house of God #Moses #Oholiel #supernatural #Tabernacle #the church

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myremnantarmy · 1 year

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A tabernacle was constructed, the outer one,

in which were the lampstand, the table, and the bread of offering;

this is called the Holy Place.

Behind the second veil was the tabernacle called the Holy of Holies.

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alliluyevas · 1 year

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Hi! This might be a little weird but I’m headed to salt lake city in a couple of days bc we have family who temporarily moved out there and we’re spending the holidays with them. I was wondering if you knew any cool sites or anything, bein’ interested in the history that you are?

not weird at all! happy to help! i am planning to visit salt lake city in april with some friends actually so i had already compiled a list of historical sites that i sent to them. here's some of my ideas and commentary:

You are obviously going to want to visit Temple Square. This is sort of the centerpiece of Salt Lake City that everything is built around (the Temple wasn't completed until the 1890s but they broke ground on it pretty much right away and most of the original construction of important buildings was adjacent to that lot, plus 19th century housing sort of radiated out from there. You won't be able to get into the temple at all right now because they're renovating, and if you're not a temple recommend holding Mormon they wouldn't let you in anyway, but it's definitely worth walking around and looking at the architecture anyway, plus a lot of other monuments/sights are right there.

Overview of the stuff in and around Temple Square:

I would also def recommend you check out the Beehive House and the Lion House, Brigham Young's residences off of Temple Square.

The Beehive House was the “official” residence and it is open to the public for tours. The Lion House is a larger building where most of Brigham Young’s wives and children lived (kind of dormitory style). You cannot tour the Lion House but for some reason there is a cafeteria in it now that you can visit. Plus, again, you can check out the outside!

The Tabernacle was built in 1867! If you go there at noon on a Monday-Saturday or 2 pm on a Sunday, you can hear an organ recital. There might also specifically be Christmas-centric music offerings if you're going at this time of the year. The Tabernacle Choir is very very good and there is a great tradition of choral music performance in Mormonism.

Church History Museum. (This is going to be sort of a mix of actual historical artifacts and religious propaganda. I personally find the religious propaganda aspects sociologically interesting and that's part of why I want to go, but YMMV)

Daughters of Utah Pioneers Pioneer Memorial Museum. Lots of cool niche artifacts! And it's not church-run so it'll be a somewhat different take on Utah history.

The rest of this stuff is NOT in the Temple Square vicinity but I think would also be very cool:

There are a lot of historical homes here and sort of a living-history/reenactment focus. (Mormon colonial Williamsburg? LOL). I definitely plan to go here when I visit!

Here's a list of all the replicated or relocated 19th century buildings they have there!

Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts!

Hope you enjoy and I would love a report back on anything you end up seeing as my friends and I are planning our own trip!

#the heritage park is so interesting bc most of the buildings are associated w families ive read about! so it's cool to be like.#i read about the family that lived in this building. and that one. and that one.

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