2 Chronicles 3

2Ch 3:1 Now Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

In this chapter we have Solomon building up the temple. This chapter makes it sound like everything happened at once but keep in mind that this would be a lengthy process. The thing that cought my ear about this chapter is where the temple is built. The above verse tells us, the temple is built on "Mount Moriah." Where else do we see this place?

(Gen 22:2) Then He said, "Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."

Tommy taught on this verse just last Sunday night. Interesting picture we have for us. This was the place where God told Abraham to sacrifice his only son Isaac. It would be the place where Solomon would build the temple. Finally, this was the very mountain where Jesus would die and rise again. The picture is vivid. We have the flesh, living by faith. We have the law, being built upon this very mountain. Finally, we have God in flesh, living to overcome the previous two. Certainly Abraham's faith was not a bad thing nor was the law, but they could not save us from our sins. Only Jesus' blood could save us from ourselves. It was as if to say, the sacrifice of another man will not work nor your good deeds, only Jesus.

So Solomon built the temple of sacrifice upon Moriah. Yet we know, the greatest sacrifice would not be done until Jesus died in this place.