Do you think Solomon learned his lessons by seeing what had happened here? You'd think he should. Huh? You'd think he should. Well, let's go look and see. Solomon formed a marriage of allegiance and ligens with Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. Egypt is the type of the world now. And God told Israel not to marry outside of their people. So what's he doing now? We just got right down here where all these people got killed, where he saw what happened to his father and all of this. Now let's see what happens. So he took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her to the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem. And the people were still sacrificing on high places because there was no house built for the name of the Lord. until those days. Now, they had this. This was there. They could come and sacrifice to God here. The high places, all it did was take them away from God. And on these high places, that's the places where they sacrificed the demons. Now Solomon loved the Lord, walking in his statutes. And his father David accepted his sacrifice and burnt incense on high places. Ooh, David never did that. And the king went up to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for there was a great high place. And Solomon offered 1,000 burnt offerings on the altar. And in Gibeon, the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream. Solomon is going to be the greatest king of Israel. I now always look at David as the greatest king of Israel, but Solomon was like the greatest king, the type of God on the throne in millennial reign. They appeared to him in a dream at night. Now this is a hypnotic trance. I've done some sermons on hypnosis and dreams in the Bible and visions. And God said to him, ask what you wish for me to give to you. And Solomon said, you have shown great lovingkindness to my servant David, my father. According to what walked before you in truth and righteousness and uprightness and heart toward you, and you have reserved for him this great lovingkindness. Now, the word lovingkindness there is also a term for the Messiah, the man of lovingkindness. that you have given him a son to sit on his throne as it is this day. And now, O Lord God, you've made your servant king in his place, and my father David, yet I am a little boy, a little child. I do not know how to go in and come out. Your servant is in the midst of your people, which you have chosen, a great people who cannot be numbered. and counted for multitude. So give your servant an understanding heart to judge your people, to discern between good and evil, for who is able to judge this great people of yours?" And it was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing. And God said to him, because you have asked this thing and have not asked for yourself a long life, nor have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but you have asked for yourself discernment to understand justice. Behold, I have done according to your words. Behold, I have given you wise, discerning heart, so that there has been none like you before you and shall not be one like you arise after you. And I have given you what you have not asked for. both riches and honor, so that there will not be among the kings like you in all of your days. And if you walk, this is a, look at this, if, that's a conditional particle. In Greek, there are four conditional particles. But a conditional particle means if most of the time. In the New Testament, first class does not mean if, it means since. But it says, if you walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and commandments, as your father David did, then I will prolong your days. I will give you a long life. And Solomon awoke out of his exhipo noce, out of his hypnotic trance. And behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and he stood before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord. And he offered burnt offerings, and made peace offerings, and made a feast for all of his servants. Then two women who were harlots came to the king and stood before him. These were, what were they? Prostitutes. Well, we find out that Solomon's great-great-grandmother, great-great-great-grandmother, Rahab the harlot was a harlot too, wasn't she? Now, back in this period of time, there was no social security, there was no health care, there was nothing, okay? If you didn't have children to take care of you when you got old, you were done for. You have a certain amount of time that you can make money, you can do whatever, and then what you have acquired in wealth, you hand it on to your children and they take care of you. Now in America today, it's not quite like that, is it? Maybe it should be, but it isn't. It breaks the ties of the human family. And these two harlots stood before him. Now see what happened here. And one of them said, oh my lord, this woman and I live in the same house and I gave birth to a child while she was in the house. And it happened that on the third day after I gave birth that this woman also gave birth to a child. And we were together there. And there was no stranger with us in the house, only the two of us in the house. We got two babies and two people in the house, nobody else there. Now both of them are pregnant. And both of them are going to have an heir that could take care of them. And this woman's son died in the night because she lay on it. And so she arose in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me while the maidservant slept and laid him in her bosom and laid her dead son in my bosom. And when I rose in the morning to nurse my son, behold, he was dead. But when I looked at him carefully in the morning, behold, he was not my son whom I had born." You can tell. Then the other woman said, no, for the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son. But the first woman said, no, for the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son. Thus, they spoke before the king. Now, God is going to, this is a very famous story. You've seen it on television and movies over the years, and everything, but it was God that gave him this discerning wisdom here. Then the king said, the one says, this is my son who is living, and your son is the dead one. And the other says, no, for your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one. And the king said, get me a sword. Get me a sword. So they brought a sword before the king. And the king said, divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other. Guess what? The mother that's not the mother will be satisfied with that, but not the mother. The mother has love. A woman will never know the type of sacrificial love in this world unless she has a child of her own, from her own body. Then you will love that child like that. The same thing with a man. Of course, there are men and women today in this world that don't give a hoot. When God blessed them with a child, they were able to abort them until the ninth month. Even after they're born, they can expose them and kill them if they decide in different states. Wickedness, death. That's not love. That's not love. Then a woman rose. Solomon would really be having trouble with this today, wouldn't he? Solomon would really have trouble with this situation today. Then a woman whose child was living once spoke to the king, for he was deeply stirred over her son, and said, O my lord, give the living child, and by no means kill him. But the other said, he shall be neither mine nor yours, divide him. Then the king answered, give the first woman the living child, by no means kill him. She is his mother. A mother's love. Have you experienced a mother's love? Have you really experienced a mother's love? This woman loved her child. I've seen women do nothing but use their children. Use their children as servants, use their children as pawns in the welfare system. It would be awful hard to work on this one today, wouldn't it? It would be hard to do this today, because many women do not love their children, especially, like I said, in abortion. Up to the ninth month, how many weeks are they old when they start feeling a baby move inside them? That child is alive. But to many people today, sex was just nothing but pleasure and the consequences of it. If they conceive, then instead of using birth control or whatever they should have done to begin with, they want to kill the baby. This would be hard to discern in America today, wouldn't it? Would it work? Probably not. But back then it did. God gave him wisdom like this. Today, the world is so messed up, we don't have this wisdom. We don't have this mother's love. We don't have it. And what all Israel heard of the judgment the king had made, had handed down, they feared the king. For they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to administer justice. Now as you go on in Chapter 4, you go on to Chapter 5, and we have Sea Alliance, Solomon's Alliance with King Hiram. He talks about installing officers. And then in Chapter 6, Solomon builds the great temple of Solomon. It was God's temple. I don't have that here, but in the sixth chapter it says, Now it came about in the 408th year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord. Now, we find out that David had acquired all of the materials already. He had acquired all the materials. And the house which the Lord King Solomon had built for the Lord, its length was 60 cubits. Its width was 20 cubits. Its height was 30 cubits. And the porch and front have the house of the Lord with 20 cubits in length and corresponding of the width of the house and its depth according to the front of the house was 10 cubits. For the house was made in windows with artistic frames. And against the wall of the house he built stories, storerooms, encompassing the walls of the house around both the nave and the inner sanctuary. Thus he made side chambers all around the house. And the lowest story was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and third was seven cubits wide. On the outside he made offsets in the wall, and the house all around in the inner beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house. And the house, while it was being built, was built of stone. prepared At the quarry and there was neither a hammer nor axe nor any iron tool heard in the house while it was being built Why in the world is that? Because salvation isn't of works for in grace you're having been saved Ephesians 2 and 8 says and For in grace you are having been saved through faith, and that not of yourself, but of the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast." That salvation has always been a free gift of God. Not a tool was heard building there, because God has given us our salvation. You could go into a whole set of messages, and you can hear them on Sermon Audio under Fred C. Creole. We had a series of messages a long time ago, almost 50 years ago, 40-something, where Brother Creole showed the types at the tabernacle. There's types in the tabernacle and types of the temple of God. The temple is the type of God's dwelling with his people in the millennium. The tabernacle was a type of God dwelling with the people in the church age. The tribulation period simply gets Israel ready to do God's bidding. Let's go on a little bit further. He's built a stone. He also built stories against the whole house, eight to five cubits high. And there were fastened in the house with timbers of cedar. Cedar is what? Cedar is a wood that doesn't rot. Now the word of the Lord came to Solomon saying concerning this house which you're building, if you will walk in my statutes and execute my ordinances and keep my commandments by walking in them, then I will carry out my word with you, which I spoke to David your father. And I will dwell among the sons of Israel and will not forsake my people Israel. So Solomon built a house and he finished it. Then he built the walls of the house in the middle with boards of cedar. Again, from the floor of the house to the ceiling, he overlaid the walls on the inside with wood and overlaid the floor in the house with boards of cypress. All of these woods are woods that will last a long time. They defy what we might call disintegration, rot. Jesus Christ all of these He's the rock of Israel is he not the house is built out of stone His wood the wood of the house is his human nature and everything that's covered with gold is his divine nature and he built it 20 cubits at the rear of the house and boards of cedar in the floor of the ceiling and built them a for it on the inside and the inner sanctuary, even the most holy place, the Kadesh HaKadoshim. And the house, that is, the nave in front and the inner sanctuary was 40 cubits long. And there was cedar on the walls inside and carved in the shape of gourds and open floors, all cedar. There was no stone seen. When Jesus walked, when he went to the cross at Calvary, we saw his human nature. We did not see his divine nature. We saw him suffering. We saw him bleeding. We saw him cry out, Eloi, Eloi, lamas abachthani. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Then he prepared the inner sanctuary within the house in order to place there the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord. And the inner sanctuary was 20 cubits in length, and 20 cubits in width, and 20 cubits. It's a Room, four square, even number. These are all the same. It's a perfect cube. And he overlaid it with what? Pure gold, the divine nature of God. This stood for Jesus and his human nature, the sacrifice. And he overlaid it with pure gold, and he overlaid the altar with silter. So Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold. And he drew chains of gold across the front of the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold. And he overlaid the whole house with gold until all the house was finished, also the whole altar, which was in the inner sanctuary, he overlaid with gold. All the way down to verse number 31. And for the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood, the lintel, and the five-sided posts. Five is the number of what? Grace. Salvation. And he made two doors of olive wood and he carved out the carvings of cherubim and palm trees and opened flowers and overlaid them with gold and spread gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees. And he made the entrance of a four-sided post of olive wood. Olive wood is where all the blessings of the Lord come from. The olive oil that was put in the sacred olive oil that was put in the candlesticks. He made two doors of cypress wood and the leaves of the one door on pivots and two leaves of the other door on pivots. And he carved on them cherubim. The cherubim are the two witnesses of God. Two witnesses were always there. Everything that happens in the world, we have two witnesses witnessing it. The birth, the conception, the death, salvation, we all have these cherubim, and palm trees, and open flowers, and overlay them with gold, evenly applied on the engraved work. And he built the inner court, and the three rows of cut stone, and a row of cedar beams. And the fourth year of the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid, in the month of Ziv. And the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, The house was finished throughout all its parts according to all its plans. So it was seven years in building it. Seven is a number of what? Perfection in the Bible. Now, after this house is totally built, it's all finished, guess what takes place? The Shekinah glory of God comes and takes possession of it. And we see God pleased with His dwelling with man. But salvation is always by grace. through the body of his son that became our Goel, our Kinsman's Redeemer. Even though he was divine, he's also related to us, so he can redeem us. And he has death, burial, and resurrection. And when we look at Jesus, we see divine now today. We see the divine Savior. We see the marks of the salvation of the sacrifice that he made for us today still. Our Heavenly Father, we send this message out for your honor and for your glory. Please use it. Please touch your people's lives wherever they are all over the world. Help us learn these lessons from your word. Apply them to our lives today. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.