THE REAL REASON SOLOMON BUILT THE TEMPLE AND NOT DAVID- 2Cor.3

While reading in 1Kings2 about David and Solomon I began to wonder why Solomon, and not David, was allowed to build the Temple.

David was a bloody man God said. That’s why not him but Solomon. But, what greater by today’s standards reprobate is there in history than Solomon? He married and fornicated outside the house of Israel against what the law said. And more so than all others before or since.

In 1Kings2 it says, “Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,

2 I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;

3 And keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:

4 That the Lord may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.”

Upon hearing these words rather than pay close heed to them Solomon not only married outside of Israel, he also made altars to the gods of the women he joined himself to. Giving their gods the place he was commanded must only be given to the one true God.

After starting out so well. Asking not for fame, fortune, or power. But, for wisdom. When reading Ecclesiastes we find it went pretty much down hill from there.

For example, the Ammonites who were a pagan tribe descended from Lot were specifically identified in the Bible as devotees of Molech. In 1 Kings 11:7 King Solomon builds a high place for Molech (“the abomination of the Ammonites”) on the hill east of Jerusalem.

So the reason Solomon was allowed to build the temple and not David was not because he was greater than David. But, because the temple with all of its sacrifices were what Paul describes in Phil.3 as dung compared to knowing Jesus.

The things pertaining to that covenant were of far lesser glory in that they had no power to give life. While giving life is the hallmark of the New Covenant.making its glory beyond in any measure compared to the old.

This is what Paul was saying in Phil.3:7,8 when he wrote of the righteousness he as a New Covenant believer attained compared to that which was available through the law, “But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ”.

And is also what he was saying in 2Cor.3 when he wrote, “But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:

8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.”

This is why Solomon, and not David, was given the privilege of building the temple made with hands. Because the glory it represented is dung compared to the glory of the New Covenant in which Jesus sits on the throne of David.

God wants people to know this so that they will cease from giving anything in the old covenant credence while they seek to understand God’s requirements for righteousness unto eternal life. Because the Old Covenant has no power to give life. And this is the whole of the matter as it concerns Jesus coming as a man born of a woman under the law.

This is why Jesus told the Jews that He came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill it. And that being fulfilled only then would it pass away. To give way for the New Covenant that Jesus’ death, “the death of the testator”- Heb.9:15-17- gave power to.

And it was by this that He made the way for Israel to be delivered from the dead works of the law. And also to bring salvation to the whole world. Seeing that there is no way to be saved by the keeping of the law. And that by doing it the person must attain life by it. Which is impossible because righteousness unto eternal life can only be attained by grace through faith. But, the law is works.

With Moloch that Solomon built an altar to comes the understanding that the bloody and torturous death of the innocent is required to appease wrath. Hence the reason for infant sacrifice. And the reason churches believe this is what Jesus’ sacrifice accomplished.

This concept derived from Molech worship is not foreign to those who have believed the doctrine of original sin and sin nature. A doctrine taught in virtually every church in the world since the Roman Catholic Church received it from Augustine, and codified it in her catechism.

But, if this were true then the God of the Bible would be no different from Molech. And the true God makes it abundantly clear that He is nothing like the false gods. Saying in Isaiah46:9, “Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me.”

As was said in a recent article from J D Hall comparing abortion with the practice of infant sacrifice to moloch, “Abortion is not simply a social issue. It is not primarily political. It is spiritual. It is a liturgy. A sacrament. It is the crown jewel of Molech’s modern worship.

Women are told they must kill their offspring in order to live full, productive lives. They are told their future depends on the death of their child. This is not a new message. It is the exact lie Molech told through the fire: give me your child, and you will be safe. Give me your baby, and your crops will grow. Give me your infant, and the storms will pass. The language has changed. The theology has not.

Abortion is the high ritual of Western apostasy. It is packaged as empowerment, but it is servitude to an ancient god. It is sold as liberty, but it is enslavement to a demonic lie.

Molech feeds on fear. Fear of poverty. Fear of shame. Fear of inconvenience. Fear of accountability. The ancient world called it survival…. But the ritual is unchanged. Molech always says the same thing: your child must die so you can thrive.”

This is exactly the way the purpose for which Jesus had to die is described by the churches. Saying His death was to pay the penalty for sin to appease God’s wrath. A totally pagan concept. And no wonder, as Augustine through whose beliefs and teachings the doctrine of original sin was codified, was a believer in pagan Manechean Gnosticism.

So now you know why Solomon and not David was tasked with the building of the temple. Because the throne of David, the man after God’s own heart, and not the temple the idolatrous Solomon built, was where Jesus would ultimately be seated. Solomon was way too pagan, way too worldly, way to carnal.

If you have been taught the lie of Molech to believe the doctrine of original sin that Jesus died to appease God’s wrath, being punished in our place because God’s wrath required it for appeasement, turn from that lie from the pit of hell now, to the truth.

Turn to the Biblical Jesus. The one who came as a man so that He could die a man’s death. Entering into our mortality and death, not in our place, but by joining with us. So that by faith in His death and resurrection we can enter into eternal life and immortality with Him.

Don’t be fooled by the beauty of the shiny objects found in the temple built by Solomon. With its sacrifices required from those who were under the law. The shadow of the true glory that is only found in Jesus.

But, look to the throne of David upon which Luke1:32 says Jesus is seated. Because only by looking there will you find the righteousness unto eternal life you need to enter into the kingdom of God. Only there are you able to come boldly to obtain mercy.

If you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus. And believe in your heart that He has raised from the dead. Then you will be saved. Because with the heart man believes and is righteous. And with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. So says Paul in Rom.10:9,10.

If you will do this then you will have eternal life. If you will do this then you will be made a child of God and heir to His kingdom. If you will do this then a spirit will be created in you by God that joins you to Him forever. If you will do this… then I will see you there or in the air!