“The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person. For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.” (Ecclesiastes 12: 13-14)

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Today’s Feature

Yahweh Appears to King Solomon twice

A portion of this feature appears in an earlier SnyderTalk because I was dealing with Yahweh’s promises concerning the Promised Land. In this feature, I focus attention of the fact that Yahweh appeared to King Solomon in Person two times.

First, Yahweh appeared to Solomon when he dedicated the Temple (1 Kings 9: 2) and said, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built by putting My Name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.” (1 Kings 9: 3)

This verse should cause alarm bells to ring out in the minds of people who believe Yahweh’s Word. Anyone who thinks he can bargain with the Temple Mount is asking for trouble. Mount Moriah is not a bargaining chip. For reasons known only to Him, Yahweh chose Mount Moriah, and He made it perfectly clear that His Name will reside there forever.

As an aside, in yesterday’s Commentary I talked about the City of David. If you haven’t read it, you should. I bring it up because the Pool of Siloam recently discovered in the City of David and the steps next to it leading to the Temple Mount were built in the Herodian period. Both the steps and the pool are on Mt. Moriah. The City of David sits at the bottom of Mt. Moriah; above it was the ancient city of Jerusalem; and above it was Yahweh’s Temple. Please understand that this issue is important to Israel AND to Yahweh. God addressed the ownership question almost 3000 years ago. He didn’t need, or want, help from Barack Hussein Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, or George Bush (the father). All they have done is cause problems. If you don’t believe me, just ask people who live in Israel. They’ll tell you. If you believe Yahweh’s Word, that means something to you. If you don’t believe Yahweh’s Word, well…there’s still time and hope for you yet.

Getting back to my main point, Yahweh told Solomon He would bless him continually if he would obey His Word and follow after Him the way David had done. Wealth, power, and wisdom should have been enough for Solomon, but they were not. He turned his heart and his mind to other things, and it cost him dearly.

Solomon wrote the book of Ecclesiastes. It describes his journey through life. He sought to discover anything that could be discovered, and Ecclesiastes is a litany of the things Solomon did and the things he learned. There was a great debate about whether to include Ecclesiastes in the Bible, but eventually it was included for one reason—its conclusion. The last two verses in Ecclesiastes sum up what Solomon learned in his quest to know everything:

“The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person. For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.” (Ecclesiastes 12: 13-14)

This conclusion is absolutely correct. It’s a shame Solomon had to do the things he did to learn it. In 1 Kings 11: 9-11, Yahweh makes clear just how disappointed in Solomon He became:

“Now Yahweh was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned away from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice, and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he did not observe what Yahweh had commanded. So Yahweh said to Solomon, ‘Because you have done this, and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear your kingdom from you….’” (1 Kings 11: 9-11)

You may be wondering what Solomon did that made Yahweh so angry. The details are in the Bible: “Now King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonite, and Hittite women, from the nations concerning which Yahweh had said to the sons of Israel, ‘You shall not associate with them, neither shall they associate with you, for they will surely turn your heart away after their gods.’ Solomon held fast to these in love. He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away.” (1 Kings 11: 1-3)

Before he died, Solomon built places of worship for Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Milcom the god of the Ammonites, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Molech the god of the Ammonites. (1 Kings 11: 5-7) He did these things to make his wives happy and to keep peace in his household, but there is no good excuse for what Solomon did. Idolatry was commonplace in Israel, and King Solomon set the example that many people followed to their own detriment.

Yahweh was true to His Word. When Solomon died, God tore Israel into two kingdoms: Israel in the north and Judah in the south. Eventually, the Assyrians took Israel into captivity and scattered the people throughout the world. Today, the Northern Kingdom is known as “the ten lost tribes of Israel.” Most of the descendants of people from the Northern Kingdom are still scattered throughout the world. Later, the Babylonians took the Southern Kingdom into captivity. Most of them were allowed to return to Israel when Cyrus the Great conquered the Babylonian Empire. Many people believe we are living in the day when Yahweh will rejoin the two Houses of Israel. I’m one of them.

Commentary

Beginning with today’s SnyderTalk, I have included for your use hyperlinks to important sources of global news. I’ll continue to pick out important news items, but you need to see what’s out there. You don’t want me or anyone else to be an absolute filter for you. Besides, there are some interesting news items each day that I enjoy but don’t include because I wonder how many of you will want to see them. This approach solves that problem. Let me know what you think.

Today’s Events Shaping Our World

U.S. and Western Hemisphere

You're making me mad now

Israel and Middle East

“On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; all day and all night they will never keep silent. You who remind Yahweh, take no rest for yourselves; and give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.”

Isaiah 62: 6-7

This Land Belongs to Israel

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A fool continues to repeat his actions each time expecting a different outcome.

Jude Image

The Jezreel Valley

China, Russia, India, and Asia-Pacific

Xi Jinping

Europe and Africa

Lehman Brothers

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