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5th May 2008, hej,mgh

 

4) The Future Physical House of Prayer

The prophets say that Jerusalem shall be the place of peace and praise.

Give him no rest...till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. (Isaiah 62:7)

Jerusalem is the place Ezekiel comes to and is told by Yahweh that it is,

the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile,... (Ezekiel 43:7)

We note this promise to Ezekiel is despite the evil of Israel, and it is 'for-ever'. Ezekiel is shown a physical house. Just as Jesus is the cornerstone of the spiritual 'house', Jerusalem and the literal physical House of Ezekiel’s prophecy are the corner stone of the political kingdom of the future, where the spiritual and physical houses will together be part of the one worship of Yahweh in the future age.

Jesus went into the House of God, Herod's temple, and showed he valued the physical House, for he cast out the people who profaned it.

Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple,..And said .., It is written, My house shall becalled the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. (Matthew 21:12-13)

Jesus here endorsed the prophet Isaiah who said that in the future Yahweh's house would be called the House of prayer.

For 2000 years there is a preparation of a people, a spiritual house, a family of Yahweh, just as Israel was when redeemed from Egypt. The prophets say there will come a time when there will be a physical house made where Yahweh can again dwell among his family.

It follows that Zechariah's earthquake will indeed physically shake the earth. The Architect of the work, Yahweh, has drawn plans and given us the specification. The earthwork will soon surely begin. Jesus said,

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions:.. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John 14:1-3)

The end is a people redeemed in Jesus, who has prepared us a 'place'. When he comes back to earth, we will be 'where' he is, at the place, of Yahweh's name. A place, that just as Ezekiel describes, has many "mansions".

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