I went to the Old City and the WALL twice today. The first time started at 10:30 and returned by 13:30. The next time was at 18:30 returning at 22:30. The last was because I scheduled a tour called “Tunnels of the Wall” which as the first tour I could get on.
While waiting for the tour and started to look around and consider what I was seeing and the meaning of all of these surroundings. Most of what I am going to say, I already knew but, this time I know it by being here.
The Dome of the Rock in the location of where THE NAME IS, which is also said to be the Foundation Stone, and the peak Mount Mariah.
Why is this important?
This is some of the evidence in the Tanakh, that we will be so bad that the ALMIGHTY will NOT HEAR us.
Deuteronomy 31:17 Then My anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come upon them; so that they will say in that day: Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?
Deuteronomy 32:17 They sacrificed unto demons, no-gods, gods that they knew not, new gods that came up of late, which your fathers dreaded not. 18 Of the Rock that begot thee thou wast unmindful, and didst forget God that bore thee. 19 And the LORD saw, and spurned, because of the provoking of His sons and His daughters. 20 And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.
Isaiah 1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide Mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 59:1 Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear; 2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear.
Jeremiah 7:16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to Me; for I will not hear thee.
Jeremiah 11:14 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto Me for their trouble.’
Jeremiah 14:12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt-offering and meal-offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.’
Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore will I also deal in fury; Mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in Mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.’
Okay, so what is with the Place HE PLACED HIS NAME?
I present so much text so that you might understand the importance of what King Solomon did. This I believe to be the most important and wises thing he ever did. The ramifications are for all time and for the Children of the MOST HIGH. King Solomon got a promise from the MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE, THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS, which assures US how we can be heard by the ALMIGHTY even when we are at our worst, and return to OUR LORD.
1 Kings Chapter 8 מְלָכִים א
18 But the LORD said unto David my father: Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house for My name, thou didst well that it was in thy heart;
19 nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for My name.
20 And the LORD hath established His word that He spoke; for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
21 And there have I set a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which He made with our fathers, when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.’
22 And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven; . . . . [NOW THE MATTER AT HAND]
27 But will God in very truth dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee; how much less this house that I have builded!
28 Yet have Thou respect unto the prayer of Thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer which Thy servant prayeth before Thee this day;
29 that Thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place whereof Thou hast said: My name shall be there; to hearken unto the prayer which Thy servant shall pray toward this place.
30 And hearken Thou to the supplication of Thy servant, and of Thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place; yea, hear Thou in heaven Thy dwelling-place; and when Thou hearest, forgive.
31 If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be exacted of him to cause him to swear, and he come and swear before Thine altar in this house;
32 then hear Thou in heaven, and do, and judge Thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
33 When Thy people Israel are smitten down before the enemy, when they do sin against Thee, if they turn again to Thee, and confess Thy name, and pray and make supplication unto Thee in this house;
34 then hear Thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of Thy people Israel, and bring them back unto the land which Thou gavest unto their fathers.
35 When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, when they do sin against Thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess Thy name, and turn from their sin, when Thou dost afflict them;
36 then hear Thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of Thy servants, and of Thy people Israel, when Thou teachest them the good way wherein they should walk; and send rain upon Thy land, which Thou hast given to Thy people for an inheritance.
37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
38 what prayer and supplication soever be made by any man of all Thy people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house;
1 Kings Chapter 9 מְלָכִים א :
3 And the LORD said unto him: ‘I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before Me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put My name there for ever; and Mine eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.
ONLY the place HE placed HIS NAME!!
Currently the mark of THAT PLACE has a golden dome on it. Know this: it was never the building that had the name, but the location on the earth where HE PLACED HIS NAME.
The Promise: “to put My name there for ever; and Mine eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.” HE took the building, but the location is still there.
If you what to be HEARD, face THAT place and SPEAK TO GOD.