Well, some on this forum have now made your yearly pilgrimage to Mecca at Little Rock, paying your respects to the large edifice there in the honor of men.
So, how did your trip go?
How did you feel when you looked at the golden Moroni angel above and behind the pulpit?
Did you get the sense of idolatry or was it business as usual?
Isn't it amazing that when we look at the Book we see where the only thing that God said to build was the Tabernacle.
We see the temples being build to glorify man, not God. Poor ol David could not get it right on this one, walking in his flesh as he were.
God told David that David's son would build the temple. David thought it meant Solomon, God meant Jesus Christ. God was referring to the Temple of the Body of Christ.
We see that when Solomon build the temple that from then on it is referred to as Solomon's Temple. When Herod built his temple it is referred to as Herod's Temple. The edifice there in Little Rock is called JH's church. But the Tabernacle is called either the Tabernacle of God or the Tabernacle in the Wilderness. Stephen called it the Church in the Wilderness.
When you went to the Tabernacle your eyes were immediately drawn to the glory cloud, overshadowing the tent. Yet when the queen of Sheba visited Solomon we see that she was drawn to the glory of the buildings, not the glory of the Cloud.
We see this also in
Matthew 24 when even the disciples got caught up in the glory of the buildings. Jesus had to remind them that within a generation that was all going to end. How many times have we seen, even in Pentecost, where it only takes one generation to see the end of the glory of the buildings.
God deliver us from the same mistakes that have been made over and over. Men building temples for their glory and God then walks out. Just as He did to the Solomon's Temple, the Glory cloud first went to the doors, then to the gate of the city then to the mount, then left for good. He will not share His glory with another.
Man builds temples, God builds Tabernacles.
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