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David prays that his sin does not spoil God's plans for a temple IN ZION!

28/2/2019

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Psalm 51:18/19
 
There is no doubt that this Psalm describes the repenting heart of David following his sin with another man’s wife—Bathsheba.
 
After his confession and plea for mercy there is a series of requests that include being washed and cleansed and that God will not remove his Holy Spirit from David.


But David is also concerned about the vision that God had given him for Zion, the City of David, where he knew the temple (the plans for which he was giving to his son Solomon) was to stand--
 
‘Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion;
Build the walls of Jerusalem.

 
Then You shall be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness,
With burnt offering and whole burnt offering;
Then they shall offer bulls on Your altar’
(vv18/19)
 
David, when he had bought Araunah’s threshing floor had said, like Jacob long before him, “This is the house of the Lord God” and added, “and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel”
(1 Chronicles 22:1).

There was no doubt in David’s mind that all the activity of the altar was to be centred in Zion...that is, the City of David (see 2 Samuel 5:7) and near that ancient water source (the living water that represented the flow of life from God
), the Gihon Spring.

The picture above is an artist's impression of the ancient City of David with the protruding wall protecting the Gihon Spring. It was above this, within the City of David, that Solomon built the temple. The karst type spring gushed (that's what Gihon means) and the water was piped up under its natural pressure to serve the purposes of the temple and sacrifices.

Read the fascinating history of the biblical site that became known as The Place, in '
THE PLACE HaMakom: where Jerusalem's Temples stood'

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THE RIVER OF LIVING WATER IN ZION...

7/2/2019

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Babylon had the Euphrates. Nineveh had the Tigris.
 
And Jerusalem? Oh yes, there was a stream—the 'river' or stream that David said ‘made glad the city of God’! (see Psalm 46:4).
It was called the ‘Bursting Forth’ or Gihon, and it sprang up on the eastern slope of the southern ridge of Mt Moriah. It was a powerful, karst type, spring (similar to Crystal Geyser, the cold water geyser pictured left at Green River Utah, USA) and its waters were piped up into the Temple and the City of David.
 
It provided the ‘living water’ that was necessary to represent the Presence of God—and David also had this to say about it in relation to those who put their trust in God: ‘...they are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of your house AND you give them drink from the river of your pleasures, for WITH YOU is the fountain of life’ (Psalm 36:8 & 9).

WITH HIM! There, where his presence dwelt in the holy place, within the City of David. The requirement for living water at the place of his presence DEMANDS that the temple be located in the City of David, otherwise known as Zion!




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THE NEPHILIM: freaks or failures?

3/2/2019

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There has been much fanciful speculation about the Nephilim of Genesis 6, with some concluding they were the product of the mating of male angelic beings and human women.
I don’t believe so. For starters, there is no scriptural evidence for gendered angelic beings.
 
To conclude this is a stretch as the statement in Genesis 6:4 that there were Nephilim in the land is not the conclusion of the statement in 6:2 about marriage of the ‘sons of God’ to the daughters of men. They are two separate statements of fact. It cannot be concluded that one is the result of the other.
 
The Hebrew word from which Nephilim derives is NAPHAL meaning 'to fall, be cast down, fail' (see Strong’s 5303 and 5307). Note that Young’s Literal Translation states it that way, ‘The fallen ones were in the earth in those days...’

The NEPHILIM were fallen and corrupted men who were committed to following their corrupted desires, away from God.

SO...who were/are 'the sons of God' in the Bible?
 
Read ‘THE PEOPLE: the sons of God (through the eyes of a Watcher)’ See more details on this site, AND...
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