Notice that the conditions for our dwelling place were established long before we came into this world. If we would walk before The LORD, as HIS servant David walked, to do according to all that The LORD has commanded us to observe, then HE The LORD our GOD will establish The throne of David's Kingdom and sanctify His house to bear HIS Name forever. But if men shall choose to turn and forsake all that HE has called us to observe, then HE will pluck up by the roots out of HIS land all who have rejected The Place of HIS dwelling, because they, who were made to bear HIS Name have chosen to lay hold and follow other gods to serve and worship them. Because David walked with GOD, he wanted to build a house for The LORD to dwell in. "Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD [remaineth] under curtains. Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that [is] in thine heart; for God [is] with thee. And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying, Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in: For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from [one] tabernacle [to another]. "Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars? Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, [even] from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel: And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that [are] in the earth. "Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning, And since the time that I commanded judges [to be] over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house. And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go [to be] with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom. "He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever. I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took [it] from [him] that was before thee: But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore. According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David" (1 Chronicles 17:1-15). Notice that The LORD has revealed by HIS Word to HIS servant David that HIS Son shall be of his seed that shall come after him, as one of his sons, and it is He that shall build for HIM a house to dwell in, which will last forever. In his prayer to The LORD, David said, "The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever" (Psalms 23:1-6). He also testified and said, "The LORD [is] my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD [is] the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, [even] mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this [will] I [be] confident. One [thing] have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple. "For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD. Hear, O LORD, [when] I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. [When thou saidst], Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek" (Psalms 27:1-8). Speaking of The Word of GOD, "...Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven: And he said, LORD God of Israel, [there is] no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart: Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled [it] with thine hand, as [it is] this day. Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me. "And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father. But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded? 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 to day: That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, [even] toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place. And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive. "If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house: Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house: Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers. "When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them: Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance. If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, [or] if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness [there be]; What prayer and supplication soever be [made] by any man, [or] by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, [even] thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;) That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers. "Moreover concerning a stranger, that [is] not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake; (For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house; Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as [do] thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name. "If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen, and [toward] the house that I have built for thy name: Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. If they sin against thee, (for [there is] no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near; [Yet] if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness; And [so] return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name: Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause, "And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them: For they [be] thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron: That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee. For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, [to be] thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD" (1 Kings 8:22-53). Notice the focus for which Solomon addressed his prayer to GOD. He praised GOD for being the only GOD, WHO keeps HIS Covenant of Mercy with HIS servants, who by HIS Hand walk before HIM with all their heart. Solomon prayed also that The promise that had been spoken and had been fulfilled by HIS Hand, GOD might verify, or confirm it by HIS Word, that there shall not fail The LORD a Man in HIS sight to sit on the throne of Israel, so that HIS children might take heed to their Way and walk before Him as David walked. Solomon asked the question, "Will GOD indeed dwell on earth" seeing that the heaven of heavens cannot contain HIM? Yet, HE has opened HIS eyes toward The House, in Whom HE has placed HIS Name. And HE has opened HIS ears to hear the supplication of His servants, who shall pray in HIS Name toward HIS Dwelling Place Which is there now in heaven, Which He has built, to hear and forgive of our sins, which we have trespassed against our neighbor. If any man, or woman shall trespass against his, or her neighbor and an oath is laid upon the heart of him, or her to cause him or her to recognized the sin, or to confess that it is sin, and no confession is made, then if the oath has to go before The Altar of The LORD in The House of The LORD, then The LORD will do, and judge HIS servants, to condemn the wicked according to his own way, and justify the righteous according to His Righteousness.

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He, The Dwelling Place of The LORD will offer back to the people that which is in the heart of those, who transgressed against The LORD and upon HIS people. If the way of the wicked is a way that keeps not The Covenant and Mercy of The LORD, Who has fulfilled HIS oath, or HIS promise with HIS Hand, then the sinner that shall walk before The LORD without HIS Covenant of Mercy and Grace, he, or she will bring his or her own way upon his, or her own head. For if it is in the heart of His servants to seek forgive for each other, then He will bring healing and justify both servants according their righteousness in Him. But if it is in the heart of His servants to bring judgment against those, who have sinned against him, or her, then the one seeking judgment will receive the same judgment according to that, which is in the heart for the transgressor. For GOD has provided The Way for those, who would obey HIM, that HE might forgive HIS servants, who make supplication unto HIM by Him. For He has offered Himself as our Joy, Mercy, Peace and Grace to all, who shall seek HIS Face that we might praise HIS Name in revealing from our hearts That, Which is in HIS Heart to do HIS Will of Love. An example of GOD'S Love for those, who have been wounded in His Temple, and yet seek to pass judgement against those, who have been wounded by the enemy of His Body, was presented in the testimony of John, Who testified of Jesus, saying "...Early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with [his] finger wrote on the ground, [as though he heard them not]. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And they which heard [it], being convicted by [their own] conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, [even] unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more" (John 8: 2-11). Notice that the scribes and Pharisees came unto Him in The Temple, Which is a symbol of His Body, which we are. And they came and brought unto Him a woman, who was caught, or was taken in the very act of adultery. They said unto Him, "Master, this woman was taken, in adultery. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?" According to the words of Solomon, "If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house: Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness." According to the ways of the scribes and Pharisees this woman was caught in adultery and should have been stoned. But they also had committed adultery by sinning against their own body of flesh and blood to condemn their own sister, mother, wife, or church to death. For the whole world have sinned and have come short of the Glory of GOD by wondering after the image of the beast. By seeking the way of condemnation over The Gift of Reconciliation, Which is given of GOD, the sins we had committed against our own flesh and blood, which we are members should have resulted in our own stoning with stones. For he, or she that speaks evil of his, or her own brother, or sister to appear righteous of the same sin is saying that they have cut themselves off from The One Body of Life to bring condemnation of death, not only on their brothers, or sisters, but on themselves. But if a brother, or sister shall show himself, or herself merciful to those, who might sin against him, or her, then The LORD will show HIMSELF to be Merciful to that brother, or sister. "In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. "No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son [to be] the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also" (1 John 4:9-21).

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