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G. Campbell Morgan · Citado em PreceptAustin
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Morgan says "It was the hour when the accomplishment of work means the relaxation of effort. That is always a perilous hour, and the greater the work done the graver the peril. A life which has been full of activity, when that activity ceases, demands some new interest, and will find it, either high or low, noble or ignoble.” Have you had some major achievement in your life recently? If so, you need to be on HIGH ALERT for spiritual apathy, spiritual declension or spiritual disaster! My suggestion is ramp up your time in the Word, so that the Word daily renews your mind and heart to what is eternally significant in your life. The Spirit will take the Word you take in and so the supernatural work on your inner man that only He can accomplish (cf 2Co 3:18+). C H
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Morgan - 1 Kings 9.2. This second special appearance of Jehovah to Solomon was very significant. It came at a critical time. Solomon had finished all the work prompted by his desires, both godly and self-centred. He had completed the House of God, and his own house. It was the hour when the accomplishment of work means the relaxation of effort. That is always a perilous hour, and the greater the work done, the graver the peril. A life which has been full of activity, when that activity ceases, demands some new interest, and will find it, either high or low, noble or Ignoble. It was at such a moment that Jehovah specially manifested Himself to His servant. He declared that his prayer had been heard and answered, but that in order to continued well-being there were conditions which must be fulfilled. Thus the king was called to a new sense of responsibility as to his own life, and as to the administration of his kingdom. Alas, the sequel is a very sad one. The conditions were not kept, either by king or people; and the ultimate issue was that of the destruction of the Temple, and the driving out of the nation. That sad sequel, however, does but serve to reveal more completely to us the importance of heeding all those tender and strong methods by which our God is ever seeking to deliver us from failure. When one task is accomplished, He never leaves us a prey to the perils which follow: For us, in Christ, He is always at hand and available, no longer needing to come in special ways; and it is for us to listen for His next word, that we may continue in His will. 1 Kings 9:3 The LORD said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built by putting My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually. I have heard: 2Ki 20:5 Ps 10:17 66:19 116:1 Da 9:23 Joh 11:42 Ac 10:31 1Jn 5:14 I have consecrated: 1Ki 8:10,11 Ex 20:11 Nu 16:38 Mt 6:9 putting: 1Ki 8:28-29 De 12:5,11,21 16:11 my eyes: De 11:12 2Ch 6:40 7:15,16 Ps 132:13,14 Song 4:9,10 Jer 15:1 Related Passages: 1 Kings 8:28-29+ “Yet have regard to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant prays before You today; 29 that Your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, toward the place of which You have said, ‘My name shall be there,’ to listen to the prayer which Your servant shall pray toward this place. 30 “Listen to the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place; hear in heaven Your dwelling place; hear and forgive. Exodus 29:43+ (TABERNACLE WAS CONSECRATED) “I will meet there with the sons of Israel, and it shall be consecrated by My glory. 2 Chronicles 7:12-22+ Then the LORD appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice. 13 “If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people, 14 and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 15 “Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place. 16 “For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that My name may be there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually. 17 “As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, even to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes and My ordinances, 18 then I will establish your royal throne as I covenanted with your father David, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to be ruler in Israel.’ 19 “But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, 20 then I will uproot you from My land which I have given you, and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 21 “As for this house, which was exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’ 22 “And they will say, ‘Because they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers who brought them from the land of Egypt, and they adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them; therefore He has brought all this adversity on them.’” JEHOVAH AFFIRMS HEARING AND CONSECRATES TEMPLE Note that Yahweh's message in 1 Kings 9:3-9 is considerably amplified in 2 Chronicles 7:12-22. The LORD (Jehovah) said to him, "I have heard your prayer (1Ki 8:22-53)(tepillah; Lxx - proseuche) and your supplication (teḥinnāh/techinnah; Lxx - deesis) (cf prayer & supplication - 1Ki 8:38, 45, 54), which you have made before Me - Solomon had repeatedly asked Yahweh to listen or hear (Listen - 1Ki 8:28, 29, 30, hear - 1Ki 8:30, 32, 34, 36, 39, 43, 45) and here he gets clear affirmation that the LORD did in fact hear, which was one purpose of this theophany. This affirmation also would serve to underscore that at this time in Solomon's life he was walking in righteousness for Pr 15:29 says "The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous." Spurgeon on I have heard - Have you never known what it is to leave off prayer when you are in the middle of it, and say, “I am heard: I am heard”? Have you not felt that you needed not to cry any longer, for you had gained your suit, and must rather begin to praise than continue to pray? When a man goes to a bank with a cheque, and he gets the money, he does not stand loafing about the counter: he goes off about his business. And oftentimes before God, he that is prepared to be a long time in prayer if it should be necessary, feels that he must be brief in petition and long in thanksgiving.” I have consecrated (qadash; Lxx - hagiazo) this house which you have built by putting My name there (1Ki 8:29, 16, 17, 18, 19; Dt 12:11) forever, and My eyes and My heart (NLT - "dear to My heart") will be there perpetually - My Name speaks of Yahweh's personal presence (Dt 12:5,11,12, 14:23,24; 16:2,6,11; 1Ki 8:16,17,19,29,43,44,48; 11:36; 2Ki 21:4,7; 23:27). Note God's personal possession MY Name...MY eyes...MY heart (the last two descriptions being anthropomorphisms). As we might say today Yahweh was "all in!" This was a second purpose for the theophany. Notice that it is God (not the ceremonies, rituals or sacrifices) Who had set the Temple apart as holy. Only God can make a place or a person holy! Solomon built the Temple, but God made it holy (qadash; Lxx - hagiazo)—it wasn’t sacred because of human effort, but because of God’s presence and desire. In 1 Kings 8:29 Solomon asked that God's "eyes may be open toward this house night and day." God's answer here is that not only will His eyes be open, but His eyes and His heart shall be there reminding us of how God answers prayer as described in Ephesians 3:20+, Paul writing "Now to Him Who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us." The eye to watch, the heart to cherish. -- Pulpit Commentary There is a third purpose for this theophany which is expounded in 1Ki 9:4. Solomon first got the good news and then he received some news not necessarily so good. Note the two significant time phrases forever and perpetually, which is not a promise that Solomon's Temple would exist forever, but is a promise related to Yahweh's promise to David (2Sa 7:12-15+) (YAHWEH ADDRESSING DAVID) “When your days are complete and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you (SOLOMON), who will come forth from you, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 “He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14 “I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; when he commits iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men and the strokes of the sons of men, 15 but My lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you. 16 “Your house and your kingdom shall endure before Me forever; your throne shall be established forever.”’” (FOREVER CLEARLY REFERS TO JESUS CHRIST, THE GREATER SON OF DAVID) In 1 Kings 8:13 Solomon said “I have surely built You a lofty house, A place for Your dwelling forever.” That the Temple was subsequently burned with fire and destroyed (2 Kings 25:9) was because of the Israel's apostasy (1Ki 9:8, 9). Paul House says it this way - God will honor the eternal side of the Davidic Covenant. The temporal portion of the covenant, the part about Solomon and his descendants, however, is dependent on human obedience. (Borrow 1-2 Kings page 150) Mordechai Cogan: I have consecrated this House that you have built to place my name there forever. A unique idea. It is usually a human who dedicates (Heb qadash) gifts to God (cf., e.g., 2 Sam 8:11); here it is God who endows the gift presented to Him with holiness (the same Hebrew verb), apparently meaning that He has agreed to receive Solomon’s gift and take up residence in the Temple (cf. 1 Kgs 8:10–11). Jewish Study Bible - God indicates that He had consecrated the House in response to Solomon’s prayers and supplications. This emphasizes that itis His act of will, not Solomon’s, that makes the Temple an effective place. John
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Morgan - “Compromise is pathetic in that it always witnesses a conviction of what is the high and the true, and attempts to ensure its realization while yielding to the low and the false. It is evil, for its invariable issue is that the low and the false ultimately gain the ascendance and the high and the true are abandoned. To build a house for Pharaoh’s daughter outside the Holy City is to open its gates sooner or later to Pharaoh’s gods. J