The dedication of the temple by Solomon, David’s son

Good afternoon, beloved friends and brethren present at this dedication of this place for the worship to God and to hear His Word in this end time.

Every dedication of a temple is type and figure of the Temple of God, of the Temple of Jesus Christ, which He is building from stage to stage, from age to age, and it is also type and figure of the Temple that is in Heaven.

And now let’s see the dedication of a temple that was fabricated, built, and where no hammer sounds were heard. And now, notice, it was a very special construction, because no hammer sounds were heard.

And to tell a group of people to build a temple and that no hammer sounds should be heard, they tell them like this and they say: “No, no. You are looking for some weird contractors, different from us; therefore… We use hammers, we use nails, we use saws, we use all these tools, and they make quite a bit of noise.” So they didn’t have those kinds of carpenters there.

Carpenters that didn’t make noise with hammers or things like that: they brought everything ready and they were putting it in place, assembling it.¹

And now let’s see here when King Solomon dedicated that temple…

Remember that a temple without the most holy place… These temples that were built in the midst of the Hebrew people, it wouldn’t be a temple without the most holy place, because the most holy place is where the presence of God is.

And now, let’s see in chapter 8… First Kings, chapter 8, verse 1 and on, it says:

“Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.

And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

And they brought up the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.

And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims (that is, under the wings of the cherubim of olive wood that Solomon had built, which were overlaid with gold; they were giant cherubim that were placed in the most holy place, one on each side, and the ark was placed in the center).

For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.

And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.

There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the Lord,

So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.”

May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.

Our subject is: “THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE BY SOLOMON, DAVID’S SON.”

The first dedication of a temple for God was made by the prophet Moses: by divine order, God showed him the Divine Blueprint. In other words, Moses saw Heaven’s Temple, and God showed him how to build on Earth a temple that typified the Temple of Heaven; and God showed him all those symbols that he had to place in that tabernacle; and told him how to make that tabernacle: what he would place for the roof, what he would place for the walls, what he would place for the floor, and so on; and the things that would be inside that temple.

And then, Moses himself offered the sacrifice of the calf (or red calf), and then he also offered the sacrifice of the goat. And notice, they brought into the most holy place there – they brought into the most holy place the blood of the goat.

Let’s see, Hebrews, chapter 9, tells us… Now, that is how it was under the first Covenant. Chapter 9, verse 16 and on, says:

“For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.

For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.

Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,

Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.

Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.

And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these.”

Therefore, all those symbols that were there inside the temple, in other words, all the things that Moses did there, are nothing less than the types and figures of the heavenly things, of the things of Heaven. That is why the tabernacle that Moses built represents the heavenly Temple and also represents the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; because the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is a spiritual Temple. It says:

“It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.”

The heavenly things would be purified with blood, but not with the blood of a little animal, but with the precious Blood of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

And that is why, being that the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ come from Heaven: they come from the seventh dimension, their souls come from the seventh dimension, and they pass through this planet Earth where they obtain a mortal, corruptible and temporary body; and therefore they have appeared in a valley of shadow and death, where every soul of God has to hold on to the eternal life, which is Jesus Christ, because otherwise he loses his life: he loses eternal life, eternal life escapes him.

But just as there was a sacrifice for the firstborn who were in Egypt, for the occasion when death would come upon all the firstborn in Egypt… There was the sacrifice of the Passover lamb, and the blood applied upon the lintel and doorposts of the homes of the Hebrews, so that the firstborn of the Hebrew people may not die.²

And so that the firstborn of the heavenly Israel, the firstborn of Heaven, the firstborn of the House of God, the House of Heaven, the Family of Heaven, don’t die; for them not to die: the Blood of the Passover Lamb, of Jesus Christ our Savior, has been poured out upon Earth, and has been placed on the lintel of the door of our soul, in us as individuals, so that death doesn’t enter our souls and we may live eternally.

And the Blood of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, has also been placed in the House of God, which is the Church as the Mystical Body of believers; there at the Door (and the Door is Jesus Christ our Savior), there is the Blood that protects us so that we don’t die, so that death can’t come to us, but we remain with Christ; because he who enters through that Door: “He that enters by me shall be saved,”³ the Lord Jesus Christ says.

He is the Door of the Fold of the sheep, and the Fold of the sheep is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and at that Door is the Blood of Redemption, the Blood that prevents death from entering that House; because that House is full of eternal life, which Jesus Christ our Savior gives us. And that is the only safe place: to be in the House of God entering through the Door, which is Jesus Christ our Savior; and that is to be in Christ, because Christ is His Church too.

Just as a corn of wheat when it is sown: it is born, and what appears is not a corn of wheat: it is a wheat plant; and that plant is the corn of wheat turned into a wheat plant to carry many corns of wheat. And Christ, by dying on Calvary’s Cross, resurrecting and ascending to Heaven: now the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is His Mystical Body of believers, where He is to reproduce Himself in many corns of wheat, in many sons and daughters of God.

Him being the Son of God, His reproduction is what? Sons and daughters of God.

And now, we can see that that House is the Family of God. It is not a house of four walls, but it is a House of human beings. It is a House, a Family, an offspring: the Family of God, the offspring of God. Did you know that God has offspring? He has no ancestry, but He has offspring. You see, He has no ancestry, because He was not made by another person; but we are His offspring.

And now, notice, God’s offspring had to be purified with the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, of the perfect Sacrifice. And that is why we find that God in the Old Testament reflected in those sacrifices what God would perform in the Coming of the Messiah, in His First Coming, dying on Calvary’s Cross, for what? For the purification, with His Blood, of all the sons and daughters of God, of all the descendants of God.

And now, notice, our souls come from God; but the physical, mortal and corruptible body that we have received on Earth, has been obtained in the permissive will of God; and also the spirit of the world that we received when we were born through our parents; and that is why the person needs a new birth. Therefore, the soul of the person needs to be born again, where he obtains a theophanic body of the sixth dimension, by receiving Christ as his Savior, washing his sins in the Blood of Christ, and receiving His Holy Spirit; and thus the person is purified by the Blood of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

And notice how what Moses did there in the temple, when he spread the blood of the calves (or red calf) and the goat, spreading the blood over everything that was there…, for it says:

“…he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,

Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.

Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.

And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heaven (that is, what typified the heavenly things were the things that were in the temple or tabernacle that Moses built, and even the temple itself) should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us…”

For Christ is the High Priest. Being the High Priest, not of the earthly temple, that is why when He died He didn’t present His Blood in the temple that was there in Jerusalem, but He took it to the Most Holy Place of the Temple of God in Heaven; and there He presented Himself for us, to intercede for us, to reconcile us with God.

In other words, the human being is lost without Christ; without Christ the human being can’t live eternally: he only lives a period of time here on Earth and then he will be judged; and look at what will happen… we are going to read in John, chapter 3…

Every human being has to face this biblical truth; and whoever doesn’t face it while living on Earth, he will later have to face the consequences for not having faced it while living on Earth. It says in chapter 3 of John, verse 14 and on:

“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up…”

When Moses lifted up the bronze serpent in the wilderness, on a rod, the people who were bitten by poisonous snakes looked at that bronze serpent and were free from the effect of the snakes’ venom: they didn’t die; the people who didn’t look at it, died. Why? Because that bronze serpent represents the sin already judged; and if it was already judged, then the person didn’t have to die for his sin, therefore, the venom of the serpents that bit the people was annulled.⁴

And now, that bronze serpent represents Christ being lifted up on Calvary’s Cross, so that every person who looks at Jesus Christ and receives Him as his Savior, the poison of sin is removed, is annulled, and we may live eternally; so that we don’t die, we don’t have to die, but we can live eternally. But the people who don’t look at that bronze serpent…, there in the Old Testament had to die, the people who were stung or bitten by those poisonous serpents.

And remember that in the Garden of Eden, the ancient serpent, the serpent there bit the human race with sin; it introduced the poison of sin into the human race; and that is the cause of death of the human being, both physical death and spiritual death.

And now, in order for the human being not to die eternally, but to live eternally, we must place our sight, our gaze, on Christ: on Jesus Christ crucified; and receive Him as our Savior, as the Sacrifice for sin, so that the poison of sin that the serpent introduced there in the Garden of Eden is annulled. You see? There is no other exit for the human being.

There are very wise people on Earth, who think that because of their wisdom and because they have obtained great degrees or doctorates or are scientists, they think they have something important; but they don’t. You have something important when you have received Christ as your Savior. That is the most important thing you obtain, because you are receiving eternal life, and the poison of sin that the serpent introduced in the Garden of Eden is being annulled!

But notice, no human being by his own wisdom or by his own money can obtain eternal life. No person can annul the poison of sin introduced there in the Garden of Eden, in the human race. It is only by looking to Jesus Christ our Savior, by receiving Him as our Savior, that the poison of sin is annulled and death is annulled; therefore, we can live eternally with Jesus Christ.

Even if our physical body dies, there is no problem: Christ has promised in chapter 6 (later we will continue with chapter 5)… Chapter 6 of John, verse 39 to 40:

“And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.”

See? There is a resurrection for all those whom the Father has given to Jesus, so that they may receive salvation. And now, notice what it says next:

“And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day (that is, He will resurrect him in the seventh millennium).”

And now let’s continue reading here, in the same chapter 3 that we were reading before, verse 15; now, verse 15 says:

“…That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”

The only form or only way to keep our soul from being lost, is what? By looking to Jesus Christ and His Sacrifice on Calvary’s Cross, and receiving Him as our Savior, and washing our sins in His Blood, and receiving His Spirit: and thus obtaining the new birth; for whosoever is not born again, can’t see the Kingdom of the Heavens or Kingdom of God; whosoever is not born of the Water and the Spirit, can’t enter the Kingdom of God.⁵

Now, there is no other exit for the human being; the only exit is: looking at Jesus Christ as our Savior, receiving Him as our Savior, washing our sins in His Blood and receiving His Holy Spirit.

And a person who has received Him, whether man or woman, is a wise person; he has more wisdom than any person who has the greatest doctorates that a human being can have and has not received Christ; because he has the wisdom of Heaven, the wisdom of God, to receive Christ as his Savior, and there the poison of sin be annulled, and death and the sentence of death remains annulled.

Now, it goes on to say… We read verse 15 again:

“…That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.”

Now notice what a beautiful passage, which reveals to us where eternal life is and how to annul the poison of death in order to live eternally.

Remember that believers in Jesus Christ are the heavenly Israel. Being the heavenly Israel, notice, we have been going through the different stages that the earthly Israel went through.

And now, the heavenly Israel, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, is a spiritual Temple, represented in the temple built by Solomon and the tabernacle built by Moses.

And now, we don’t have the temple that Solomon built nor the tabernacle that Moses built; but the Scripture tells us in Zechariah, chapter 6, verse 12:

“And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The Branch; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord.”

This man of which it speaks here is Christ, but He is represented in Zerubbabel, a descendant of King David. Being Zerubbabel a descendant of King David, he is typifying Christ, the Son of David; and with the restoration that took place there in Jerusalem of the temple, it is typifying the construction of the Temple that Jesus Christ will carry out by divine creation; and that Temple that Jesus Christ will build is His Church, a spiritual Temple.

And now, we find that the creation of a new race is coming.

Remember that God created the human being so that the human being would be a temple of God, for God to dwell in the human being and to have fellowship with the human being.

And now, Christ, just as Adam is the first, the head of the Creation that fell (in other words, of that old Creation of the human race), now the second Adam, who is Jesus Christ, is the head, the beginning of that New Creation. In Revelation, chapter 3, verse 14, it tells us that Jesus Christ is the beginning of the Creation of God, and that Creation of God is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the head, He is the beginning of that new race⁶; it is a new race that Christ is creating.</sup>

That is why what is accomplished in the life of the person when he receives Christ as his Savior and washes away his sins in His Blood, and receives His Spirit, is a Work of Creation; and he obtains an eternal and theophanic body, an angelic body, of the sixth dimension; and the person has already entered into eternal life: he already has an eternal body of the sixth dimension, and the soul of that person has already obtained a theophanic body of the sixth dimension. And soon we will obtain the eternal and glorified and immortal physical body, a body equal to the body of Jesus Christ; and physically we will enter into eternal life also. And then we will be as immortals, not only in our soul and not only in our theophanic spirit, but also in our body that we will have, which will be a glorified body equal to the body of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

There are three kinds of bodies: physical body, angelic body and glorified body; and we are to obtain the glorified body very soon.

And now, since we are members of the Mystical Body of Christ, that is, of the House of God (the House of God, the Family of God, the offspring of God), that is the Temple of God.

And now, our beloved Lord Jesus Christ coming in Holy Spirit from stage to stage has been building, has been creating that Temple, and calling and gathering His elect in each age, and thus building each part of His Church. In each age, He creates that age by calling and gathering the elect of that age, by means of the manifestation of Christ in Holy Spirit through the messenger of each age; and thus the spiritual Temple of Christ grows in the construction that Christ is carrying out.

And we have the Holy Place, which pertains to the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church with the seven angel messengers; the Mystical Body of Christ of the seven ages with the seven angel messengers is represented in the candlestick; but after the seven stages and the seven angel messengers, the Age of the Cornerstone comes.

And just as there was a territory where each age was fulfilled, there is a territory where the Age of the Cornerstone is fulfilled, which is the Age of the Most Holy Place of that spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ.

And the good news for us is: that it is in Latin America and the Caribbean where Jesus Christ is creating, building, the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple, with living stones, with human beings; and He is the Prince who would build, who would create, that Temple for God.

In First Peter, chapter 2, verse 4 and on, it says:

“To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,

Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.

Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,

And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation [people], a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light…”

Now look at all that we are before God, and notice for what we have been called by Christ in this end time: to be part of the House of God, of that spiritual House, of that heavenly Family: the Family of God, the offspring of God, which is a spiritual Temple where God in Spirit manifests Himself.

And that Family, that House, is being created stage by stage; and now it is time for the stage of the creation of that House, the stage of the Most Holy Place; and the territory is Latin America and the Caribbean. And that is why He is calling and gathering His Latin American and the Caribbean elect in this end time; and even if they have gone to other nations, the Message reaches them there.

And when the construction of that House is finished, the creation of that House, of that heavenly Family, then the dedication of that House will come; and Christ, the Prince descendant of King David, will be the one who will manifest Himself and will dedicate to God that House for the dwelling of God in Holy Spirit in all His fullness. Of which Saint Paul also spoke to us in his letter to the Ephesians, chapter 2, verse 19 to 22, where he says:

“Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God…”

Do you know what it means to be a member of the Family of God? That means to be a son or daughter of God; and that means that if He is King, then we are children of a King: of the King of kings and Lord of lords; and therefore we belong, let’s say it… to the Royalty of Heaven, to the Royalty of the Heavens and Earth; and that means that the government of the whole universe is in the hands of God and His Family.

Young people, when you fall in love with a believer and get married, you found a princess, a daughter of the heavenly King; and you, young ladies, you found a prince, a son of the heavenly King. And when we are in the Millennial Kingdom we will understand much better what it means to find…: a young man to find a princess, and a young woman to find a prince, because we will be as kings and priests in the Millennial Kingdom.

Now, notice, we are members of the Family of God, of Royalty; we have the Blood of Christ.

They say that people of royalty have blue blood, they call it that way; although blood is always red, but as a saying, they use that saying. We have the Blood of Jesus Christ our Savior, and therefore we are of the heavenly Royalty.

How can we be kings if we don’t belong to royalty? See? Then, by belonging to Christ and being born through Christ in the House of God, in the Family of God, we are descendants of God; and therefore heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ our Savior.⁷

Therefore, being heirs, He has made us kings and priests. He cleansed us with His precious Blood, redeemed us with His Blood, and has made us for our God kings and priests.⁸ And in the Millennial Kingdom we will be ruling, reigning with Him; and for the Millennial Kingdom the kingdoms of this world will belong to our beloved Lord Jesus Christ⁹ and His people, because the Kingdom will be given to the people of the saints,¹⁰ and the people of the saints is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, we continue reading here; it says:

“…and of the household of God;

And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

In whom all the building…”

See? It is a building, but a human building, a building composed of the members of the Church of Jesus Christ.

“In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord (that is a spiritual Temple):

In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit (for God to dwell in us in Holy Spirit in all His fullness).”

Already with the new birth, by receiving Christ as our Savior, washing our sins in His Blood and receiving His Spirit: we receive the first fruits of the Spirit; and in addition, we will receive the fullness of the Spirit at the Last Day, by being transformed.

And then we will have the double portion: the first fruits, which is the theophanic body, and then the physical body; and thus we will have a theophanic body of the sixth dimension and an eternal and glorified physical body, equal to the body of Jesus Christ; and thus we will be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; and then we will see Him in His glorified body.

And so the spiritual Temple of Christ will be dedicated. And as He came into the tabernacle which Moses built, and the house was filled with the presence of God; and as Solomon dedicated the temple to God, and the house was filled of the cloud, with the presence of God; so will the fullness of God enter into the Church of Jesus Christ, and we will have an adopted Church: with His children in eternal bodies, wherein the manifestation of God in all His fullness will be.

And now, Christ in the Last Day will dedicate to God that House, which is His Church, so that God may dwell in Holy Spirit in all His fullness, both in the messenger of the Last Day and in all the elect of the Last Day; and also in the messengers of the different ages and also in the members of the Church of the different ages. And thus there will be a spiritual Temple, the Church, filled with the fullness of God, with eternal bodies. That is the Temple of God, the Tabernacle of God, in which God will dwell in all His fullness.

The dedication of the tabernacle that Moses built and the dedication of the temple that Solomon built, and every dedication that is made of a temple, is pointing to the dedication of the spiritual Temple of Christ, which will soon be dedicated to God for the dwelling of the Holy Spirit in all His fullness.

But Christ is still building that Temple, and He is already at the Most Holy Place; and when every last one of God’s elect enters the Most Holy Place, in that part of the spiritual Temple (which is the Age of the Cornerstone), the construction will be completed and it will be dedicated to God, so that God may dwell in all His fullness; and God will manifest Himself in all His fullness in His Church: we will all have an eternal and glorified body.

Now, we have seen what the dedication of a temple to God means. But these earthly temples are type and figure, that is, they represent that which God is going to do, and that dedication.

May this place be of blessing for all the sons and daughters of God; and may God here speak directly to the soul of every human being that is within reach of the Word that comes out of this place. And may God continue adding more and more people to His Mystical Body, and continue bringing more and more people to this place to serve God and hear His Word. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.

Thank you very much for your kind attention, beloved friends and brethren here present listening to our subject: “THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE BY SOLOMON, DAVID’S SON.”

And now, the Son of David, Christ, is the one who will dedicate the New Temple, which is His Church.

“THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE BY SOLOMON, DAVID’S SON.”