Building God's House

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This volume covers the creation of God's house in its various forms - the Tabernacle, Solomon's Temple, Herod's Temple, etc. Almost as soon as Israel was established as a nation after their liberation from bondage in Egypt, God instructed Moses to construct a house for Him where He could meet with His people, and dwell among His people. God gave Moses detailed directions for the construction of the Tabernacle, a large cloth tent, and all its wooden, cloth, iron, brass, silver and golden fittings and furnishings. The Tabernacle remained the principal House of God in Israel for approximately five hundred years. After David died, Solomon began to build the Temple during the fourth year of his reign as king. The construction was completed during the eleventh year of his reign. Besides being made of sturdier materials and being immobile, the biggest differences between the Tabernacle and Solomon's Temple were in the sizes and quantities of the Temple's elements. Solomon's Temple was used for a period of approximately four hundred and twenty years before it was destroyed by Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar when he attacked and destroyed Jerusalem. Thereafter, Israel had neither Temple nor Tabernacle for seventy years, until Persian King Cyrus attacked and defeated the Babylonians and gave Ezra the Israelite scribe permission to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple there. This Second Temple is often called the Temple of Zerubbabel, as he was a prominent Israelite who supervised its construction. During the time of Jesus, the temple rebuilt by Zerubbabel was repaired and expanded by King Herod. It was that temple to which Jesus went on many occasions when he was in Jerusalem.