God's Promises! 2 Peter 1:4 2 Corinthians 1:20
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God's PlaceIn the beginning God created Heaven and earth. On earth He has chosen one place for Himself. The following Biblical events, and many others, occurred at God's place: 1. Adam was formed of the dust of the ground at that place, then was put in the garden, eastward in Eden. Genesis 2:8. 2. Abraham offered up Isaac at God's place in the land of Moriah. Genesis 22:2. 3. Jacob saw the ladder to Heaven with angels ascending and descending in a dream while sleeping at God's place. Genesis 28:10-22. Holy Scriptures about God's Place: Genesis 2:7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the
ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a
living being. Man later built temples on God's place. God made mankind to be God's temple. Do you not
know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have
received from God? You are not your own; After forming Adam he was put eastward in Eden: Genesis 2: 8 Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. God's place, God put His Name there: Deuteronomy 12:5 But you are to seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name there for his dwelling. To that place you must go; .......10 But you will cross the Jordan and settle in the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and he will give you rest from all your enemies around you so that you will live in safety. 11 Then to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name-there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice possessions you have vowed to the LORD ......21 If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put his Name is too far away from you, you may slaughter animals from the herds and flocks the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and in your own towns you may eat as much of them as you want......26 But take your consecrated things and whatever you have vowed to give, and go to the place the LORD will choose. Passover at God's place: Deuteronomy 16:5 You must not sacrifice the Passover in any town the LORD your God gives you 6 except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. There you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary of your departure from Egypt.
Three times a year the men left their families protected by God and traveled to God's place for the feasts. Deuteronomy 16:
Abraham names God's place Jehovah Jireh: Genesis 22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. 14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, ... Jacob visits God's place. He sees a ladder
connecting God's place on earth with God's place in Heaven. God has two
places: Genesis 28:10 Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran. 11 When he reached a certain
place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the
stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. 12 He
had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top
reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. 13
There above it stood the LORD , and he said: "I am the LORD , the God
of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your
descendants the land on which you are lying. 14 Your descendants will
be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the
east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed
through you and your offspring. 15 I am with you and will watch over
you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave
you until I have done what I have promised you."
16 When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, "Surely the LORD
is in this place, and I was not aware of it." 17 He was afraid
and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of
God; this is the gate of heaven."
18 Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under
his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it. 19 He
called that place Bethel, though the city used to be called Luz. God's place, promised to Abraham's descendents, is
purchased by David. A threshing floor is a place of harvest. God's
greatest harvest will occur at God's place. 1 Chronicles 21:18 Then the
angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the
LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. 19 So David went
up in obedience to the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the LORD . 20
While Araunah was threshing wheat, he turned and saw the angel; his four sons
who were with him hid themselves. 21 Then David approached, and when
Araunah looked and saw him, he left the threshing floor and bowed down before
David with his face to the ground. 22 David said to him, "Let me
have the site of your threshing floor so I can build an altar to the LORD , that
the plague on the people may be stopped. Sell it to me at the full price." 23
Araunah said to David, "Take it! Let my lord the king do whatever pleases
him. Look, I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, the threshing sledges
for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering. I will give all this." 24
But King David replied to Araunah, "No, I insist on paying the full price.
I will not take for the LORD what is yours, or sacrifice a burnt offering that
costs me nothing." 25 So David paid Araunah six hundred shekels of gold for the site. 26 David built an altar to the LORD there and
sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He called on the LORD , and the LORD answered him with fire from heaven on the
altar of burnt offering. David's son Solomon builds a temple on God's place. Here the temple is dedicated to God the Father. God the Father accepts the temple by entering into the temple in a cloud of glory. 2 Chronicles 5:7 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. 8
The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and covered the ark
and its carrying poles. 9 These poles were so long that their ends,
extending from the ark, could be seen from in front of the inner sanctuary, but
not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today. 10
There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it
at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out
of Egypt. 11 The priests then withdrew from the Holy Place. All the
priests who were there had consecrated themselves, regardless of their
divisions. 12 All the Levites who were musicians-Asaph, Heman,
Jeduthun and their sons and relatives-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. 13 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: Jesus, God's Son, was killed and resurrected very close to God's place. He will come again in a cloud and His foot will touch ground at the Mount of Olives, close to God's place. He will rule the earth from Jerusalem, God's place, for one thousand years commonly called the Millennium. God's place is now called The Temple Mount in Jerusalem. What is now called the Western Wall is a wall of the temple built over God's place. In the year 637 AD a Muslim leader out of Iraq built a mosque over God's place, the Dome of The Rock. Around the top of this mosque is the following inscription in the Arabic language, "Allah is God. Muhammad is his prophet. Jesus is his prophet, but is not his son." Jerusalem is the most contested piece of land in
the world. God will defend His place in that day. Zechariah 12:2
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup
of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege
both against Judah and against Jerusalem. 3 And in
that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that
burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the
earth be gathered together against it......8 In that
day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble
among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as
God, as the angel of the LORD before them. 9 And it
shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that
come against Jerusalem. Note: This article
was written from notes taken listening to a message delivered by Mrs.
Billye Brim at Eagle Mountain International
Church on September 26, 2003. |
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