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When God commissioned Solomon to build the temple in
Jerusalem, it was to replace the tabernacle used by Moses after the
Israelites left Egypt. The temple complex was a magnificent set of
buildings and the people of Judah thought that God was sentimental
to the point that He would never allow Jerusalem or the temple to be
destroyed. God told the people not to trust in lying words, judgment
was coming, and repentance was the only thing that would save them.
The Lord tried to reason with the people and reminded them what He
had done in other places. They completely failed to realize the
gravity of the situation and how they were about to be evicted from
the Promised Land. God was sick of their pagan worship and
sacrificing their children to Moloch, so much so that He would send
Babylon to desecrate and dig up all the bones of kings and the other
noble men of Judah and spread them like dung in the countryside. But
worst of all, the Lord would send a perpetual judgment from
generation to generation since the people of Judah stubbornly clung
to the demon gods they chose to worship. |
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