Temple Love

With praise and thanksgiving they sang to the Lord:

“He is good;
his love toward Israel endures forever.”

And all the people gave a great shout of praise to the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid (Ezra 3:11, NIV).

Evil

It’s a bad sign when someone visits the Temple and claims they’re God (vv. 1-4) Except there is no Temple.

House of Prayer

Reading Isaiah 56:6-8 reminds me of Jesus’ cleansing of the temple.

The Lord’s house is a house of prayer.

So my home can be a house of prayer as well.

Solomon’s Prayer for the Temple

King Solomon prayed special blessings on the Temple, particularly that the Lord would pay special attention to requests directed toward the temple.

This is meta-prayer, a prayer about the efficacy of future prayers meeting a given set of criteria.