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Speaker 1: Hi there, faithful listeners. Today we're going to be talking

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Speaker 1: about the building of the Temple and just how absolutely

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Speaker 1: beautiful the temple really was. We're gonna get into that

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Speaker 1: today in Second Chronicles, Chapter three, so stay tuned for

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Speaker 1: a really great episode. So today has been a very

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Speaker 1: nice day so far. It started out kind of rainy,

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Speaker 1: and now it's beautiful and sunny and cold. You know,

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Speaker 1: I feel like fall weather has finally hit. You know.

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Speaker 1: The leaves in my area are fully colorful at this point.

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Speaker 1: There's really no well there's a little bit of green

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Speaker 1: I have this really pretty tree in my backyard. I

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Speaker 1: forget the name of it, but it's like it's like

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Speaker 1: bright red. Every single year, it just the leaves turn

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Speaker 1: like this waxy, absolutely gorgeous, bright red color, and it

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Speaker 1: just is so so pretty as compared to all the

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Speaker 1: But I hope your guys' fall is going well so far.

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Speaker 1: I was able to hang out with my niece this weekend.

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Speaker 1: We went to a fall festival and that was just

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Speaker 1: an absolute blast. There was like a hay ride and

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Speaker 1: this like jump pad thing, which as an adult, I

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Speaker 1: was like a bunch of eight year old my niece

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Speaker 1: that jump pad and it was fun. It was really fun.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, that's what I did over this past week.

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Speaker 1: And you know, my sister, my niece, and my brother

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Speaker 1: So sad to see them go, but I'm excited they'll

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Speaker 1: be back next month for Thanksgiving. Tell me how your

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Speaker 1: week is going so far. I do love hearing from

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Speaker 1: all of you guys. You're gonna find my contact and

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Speaker 1: information listed in the description of this episode, but also

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Speaker 1: you can contact me if you have a prayerquest, because

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Speaker 1: all my emails. By the way, I will read your

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Speaker 1: prayerquest and I will pray for you for the week.

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Speaker 1: I write everybody down in my little prayer journal, which

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Speaker 1: is basically just my planner. I write you down, and

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Speaker 1: I will pray for you for the week. So please

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Speaker 1: do that if you have a prayer request that you

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Speaker 1: would like me to pray for. Let's go ahead and

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Speaker 1: read second Chronicles three today, the entire thing, and we'll

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Speaker 1: talk about the beginning of the building of the temple,

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Speaker 1: all the beauty that goes into it, and how this

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Speaker 1: it doesn't, it certainly does. I'll be reading this chapter

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Speaker 1: from the web as usual. Then Solomon began to build

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Speaker 1: Yahwa's house at Jerusalem on Mount Mariah, where Yahweh appeared

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Speaker 1: to David, his father, which he prepared in the place

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Speaker 1: that David had appointed on the threshing floor of Ornan,

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Speaker 1: Thebu site. He began to build in the second day

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Speaker 1: Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the

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Speaker 1: building of God's house. The length by cubits after the

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Speaker 1: first measure with sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.

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Speaker 1: The porch that was in the front its length across.

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Speaker 1: from Perveaum. He also overlaid the house the beams, the thresholds,

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Speaker 1: cherubim on the walls. He made the Most Holy Place.

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Speaker 1: Its length, according to the width of the house, was

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Speaker 1: left Boaz. So now the building of the temple has

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Speaker 1: But Solomon decides it is time to retire the Tene

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Speaker 1: the temple. And I don't really know why. Scripture does

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Speaker 1: laid for the building of God's house. The length by

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Speaker 1: So shockingly enough, the temple was rather small. Actually, it

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Speaker 1: porch was beautiful because it says it was overlaid within

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Speaker 1: So pretty much everything inside the temple was overlaid with gold.

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