Living Water Community Church

We looked at the return to the record of the building of the temple. This is after we took a few verses and looked at the building of Solomon’s house. Here we learned about the worker in bronze named Hiram who came down from Tyre to work on the temple. He had a Jewish mother and a gentile father. It is a great  picture that the temple was for all people and so a representative of all people was the key artisan doing the bronze work. We also looked at the first items he cast for the temple. The two pillars named Jachin and Boaz. They flanked the entrance to the temple. Their names meant to establish and strength. Because they were the entrance to God’s house they speak of how He establishes and how we need to look to Him for strength. These pillars while beautiful were made of bronze and bronze is almost always a symbol of judgement in the Bible. Here their position points to the fact that those who seek to go before God must first face judgement. This of course points to the reality that Jesus has gone before