Let the Word Speak to You Your Life

22 October 2012

2 Chronicles 5, NIV

When all the work Solomon had done for the temple of the Lord was finished, he brought in the things his father David had dedicated – the silver and gold and all the furnishings – and he placed them in the treasuries of God’s temple.(1)

Give to the Lord from the bounty we have received from Him. Fulfill what has been entrusted to you faithfully.

The Ark Brought to the Temple

Then, Solomon summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chief of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the Lord’s covenant from Zion, the City of David. And all the men of Israel came together to the king at the time of the festival in the seventh month. (2-3)

The Lord brings people together.

When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites took up the ark, and they brought up the ark and the Tent of Meeting and all the sacred furnishings in it. The priests, who were Levites, carried them up; and King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel that had gathered about him were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and cattle that they could not be recorded or counted. (4-6)

In service to Him, everyone has specific functions.

The priests then brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim. (7) There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt. (10)

The stone tablets are special because God made them; unlike anyway He was referred making anything as I remember in the Bible. When He created, He used His Word, creating something out of nothing (Genesis 1-2) or His Word still (even in visions), causes people to move and make something out of something as people were bound to create (except those He favored through prayer which I will expound on later).

With those tablets, He used His force to create it from something existent, a slab of mountain stone, writing on it with His hands (however they may look. I remember seeing them presented in a docu as very bright and blinding lightning coursing through the symmetric and identical rocks to form letters). At that moment, He personally and manually created something out of something directly as humans did (He usually delegates these creative approach to humans though He surely can do it Himself). His Words engraved in a human’s manner (below the level God usually creates) compares to how God stoops down as human, but remains inherently powerful, capable and mighty holy (an allusion of how human His Word would be centuries after. Those tablets in a way represented Jesus to the world even before He actually lived as a material guarantee to the prophecy). Though limited by the rules of humanity, Jesus remains holy and still is God.

By breaking the barrier limiting people from working the way He works, from His side of that wall (again, by doing things the way humans do it), God enabled people to create something out of nothing (that was previously reserved for Him). We were permitted to create something simply from words even if by a retarded manifestation scheme (compared to His which He could set at His pleasure) through prayer and faith. It is through prayer and faith that prophets and judges were able to perform the feats we call miracles (eg Elijah was able to call a storm after the three years of drought he also foretold as directed to him by the Lord 1 Kings 17:1, 1 Kings 18). Those two differentiated them from all other people of God’s favor. They were the more favored among the favorites. They had that communication line which surely has less static and more bandwidth than what other people of their time had.

[Isn’t Moses just so blessed? He was the humblest man on earth, he talks to God directly, God talks to him not in visions but face to face (or close to it. People weren’t supposed to survive after seeing the face of God.), God personally handled his human remains and in light of this comparison, he was entrusted to bear and present to the people a symbol foretelling Jesus who is yet to come. That makes Moses what, the equivalent of the virgin Mary just as the stone tablets were symbolic equivalents of Jesus with Mount Horeb (or Sinai as it is familiarly called) as the figurative equivalent of the Holy Spirit? I claim that I am in the least as blessed as he. If it was possible for him, why wouldn’t it be for me? That’s the mindset. J So envy, go away.]

The priests then withdrew from the Holy Place. All the priests who were there had consecrated themselves, regardless of their divisions. All the Levites who were musicians – (…) – stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps and lyres. They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets. The trumpeters and singers joined in unison, as with one voice, to give praise and thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, they raised their voices in praise to the Lord and sang:

                                                “ He is good; his love endures forever.” (11-13a)

This emphasizes the importance of the tablets. They are God’s word crafted the human way to stay with humanity in a tangible form (Jesus is God’s word who lived as a human among humans but died to this world just as humans inevitably would). This gives those stone tablets significance worth the benedicted merriment (inclusive of the demanding exactitude of preparation and heraldry) it received.

[Maybe( just maybe) medicine tablets were called, the same way the stone engravings of the Ten Commandments were called tablets, because both had the same purpose. The protection, empowerment and healing the Ten Commandments offered, Jesus replaced with an overriding context of emancipation against its (The Ten Commandments) implication of restriction. Humans created a medical counterpart of it and called it tablets as well since aside from the similarity of end function, they have the same requirement before taking effect. That is, they both have to be applied. They won’t work if you simply know they exist, if you stare at them 0-0 or come closer to them or if you touch them, not even if you sniff them (unless that’s how they were supposed to work. But, waah? Sniffing tablets? *#3 Maybe it ought to be powdered first but they wouldn’t be tablets anymore by then but powder. Or would they? Whatcha think?), if you pay for them, or if you are close to someone who uses them. Tablets work only when the person who wants to subscribe to their benefits applies them to oneself as indicated on the manufacturer’s inserts or by the clinician. So, I can liken Jesus to a wonder drug in my mind and be justified. Please don’t contradict me on this whim :3]

Then the temple of the Lord was filled with a cloud and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple of God. (13b-14)

If the temple (person. Recall: the human body is the temple of the Holy Spirit) has the stone tablets (Jesus) in its accorded place of exaltation (inside the temple’s Most Holy Place canopied by the cherubim’s extensive wings which to the human is which, mind, heart, spirit, soul, conscience?) through celebration (worship, not confined to music) the priests’ purpose (human intercession) would be omitted because God’s glory (the Holy Spirit) will directly fill the temple (the direct communication line I’ve discussed that God had with the spiritually elite people called prophet or judge). And that would be the optimum condition for a temple (person) to be in.