DECEMBER 28
A GREATER THAN SOLOMON
OLUBI JOHNSON
Matthew 12:42 KJV
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
The historical temple of Solomon was destroyed by Babylon. However, Ezra, Joshua and Zerubbabel built a greater temple, and the glory of the latter temple was greater than the temple of Solomon (Ez. 5:1-2).
In the same way, the New Testament Church: the present day temple of God, made up of individual Christians who have been defiled and have had their foundations destroyed (Psa. 11:3, ″If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?”) by the spirit of Babylon, will have to have their foundations re-laid and rebuilt to make a glorious temple that will be greater than Solomon’s temple.
So God, in this 21st century, is building new individual temples that will form a corporate, perfect, glorious Church whose glory will be greater than that of Solomon’s in:
1. Character: better arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: the righteousness of the saints (Rev. 19:8).
2. Wisdom (Luk. 11:31).
3. Glory and Power (Jn.2:11).
4. Material and financial wealth (Hag. 2: 7-9).
The foundation of this “greater than Solomon” temple is being laid presently.
Individual Christians that have completed their individual temples by attaining manifesting perfection, will become individual stones. God will use these stones for:
Firstly, laying the foundation of the corporate end-time spiritual temple.
Secondly, building the corporate end-time spiritual temple that will be “greater than Solomon”.
Recall that in the original temple of Solomon the stones were prepared individually outside the temple site, such that when the stones were brought to the temple site they fitted each other perfectly so that no noise of hammer, nor axe, nor any other tool of iron was heard at the temple site (I Ki. 6:7).
In the New Testament God refers to us as living stones used to build a spiritual temple (1 Pet. 2:5).
Therefore, God is now preparing great, costly and hewed stones: individual Christians who will be individually perfect and so fit together without noise signifying a perfect unity of mind and perfect character (1 Cor. 1:10).
In order to build your individual temple you need the spirit of wisdom and revelation (Prov. 24:3-4). You will get this wisdom and revelation by using the keys of the kingdom daily (Luk. 9:23).
This wisdom must then be used to build the life and character of God into your soul and body by faith, until you attain manifesting perfection. This will enable you to continue in the Word all the days of your life, making you to be greater than Solomon (Deut. 17:15-20).
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