I/W: 2022 H: 2021 Spirit
I inquired to the Lord about why things are so difficult for Israel and he showed me his emotional state toward them. In response, his emotional state was he still has ill feelings toward the house of Israel which were in the context of the books 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles. His feelings are toward the Israelites of the past but they are and were directed at the house of Israel because he views them as one under the same umbrella which is what I saw when he showed me.
Of course, this was thousands of years ago so it may come across as a bit off. But he’s not a human. To put it in perspective, the difference of thousands of years for him is like a person being two seconds late for a meeting, and that’s a huge overstatement. I wrote a post that goes over how he sees spacetime/time:
How God Sees 4D Spacetime / A Look at Dimensional Perspective
I also wouldn’t dismiss his sensitive nature and him being a baby (cherub) having some kind of an influence on his feelings, despite his tough exterior in general and at the time he showed me.
What God “Looks” Like Plus His Personality (DIRECT)
I used the term the house of Israel because it embodies who’s on the other side of the covenant. The house of Israel, as I interpret it based on Torah, includes all the Jewish people as well as all non-Jewish people who are descended from Jacob/Israel.
On a separate occasion, I was reading the Torah and studying God’s blueprint and plan for the earth. As a method of trying to understand it, I raised the question to myself of if there needs to be a temple, in relation to the redemption. When I did this, God got mad and was on the precipice of getting mad at me and it was the first time this had happened in my experiences working with him. But he refrained which I think is because he understood the context of the thought and I was confused as to why he was mad. The Torah describes pretty much exactly what his anger looks like, something I had never really quite gotten prior to seeing it. It’s like staring at a steaming kettle.
To put this in context, I wasn’t asking him the question, I asked myself. He got upset I was asking this question to myself. I also wasn’t saying it wasn’t needed but was just exploring the idea and raising the question as a means to understand its significance. He didn’t like this. The question was also a personal thing because it happened in my mind.
To put that into further context, I do believe there should be a temple for various reasons. The temple is a structure God designed himself and it’s his chosen place of residence on earth with the intention of helping its inhabitants. As someone who believes in the God of Israel and that he’s an actual living being of superior intelligence and power, I think the whole point of believing this is he does something. The temple (that is Zion) has a great track record for God revealing himself on the earth and doing things. Whether it’s what happened after the Exodus (portable temple) which includes him appearing as a cloud by day and pillar of fire by night, splitting the ground open, carving and writing on stone, causing manna to fall from the sky, and so on. There are the revelations of Isaiah and Jeremiah who lived by the temple. I won’t get into everything, but the point is the temple has a track record of making things happen. To the point, he knows I believe this and he still got mad that I’d even think of the possibility of if there doesn’t have to be a temple. So it’s very important to him, obviously, and this aligns with the attention he gives to it which is conveyed in the Torah. Right when they escaped Egypt, they got directions from God on constructing the tabernacle (portable temple) which they did. Leviticus, Exodus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy mainly deal with the temple and the proper conduct for its stewards and surrounding inhabitants, Zion. The attention he’s put forward to the temple and its and Zion’s upkeep is a testament to its importance to him. Arguably, he hasn’t given more attention to anything in relation to the earth. The temple is a major part of his relation to the earth. Also considering how absent he’s been in human history, visibly speaking, while the temple isn’t present (or the covenant isn’t followed), is a testament of its importance to him. Follow what he says to do, he shows up, don’t, he doesn’t (generally speaking).
The thing about the temple though is it’s shrouded in mystery. I understand the impact it’s had and have an idea of how it works, but overall there are a lot of question marks with it. In the Torah, he doesn’t reveal a great amount about the mechanics of how it works to Moses and Israel. But one thing you can say for certain is it’s important to him.
When he got mad, I expressed to him to show me (its inner mechanics) because a lot about it I don’t get. He hasn’t expressed if he will or not. I felt somewhat bad about the exchange too when looking back at it, and can understand why he would get mad because I interpret from his point of view that it’s like questioning if he knows what he’s doing. At the same time, I do think raising the question like I did as a thought experiment was fine. The temple and Zion are great points of interest for me which I study. I believe that studying the mechanics of Zion and its surrounding factors helps to understand who God is, what he wants, and his plan for the earth, or at least in part.
I had in mind at some point writing about this exchange of him getting mad but didn’t have it on the schedule. When I began to set out to write about God’s status with the house of Israel, he prompted me to write about our exchange regarding the temple alongside it. To put this in context, this is the first time he’s ever prompted me to write about anything, and I’ve done 40+ blog posts on this blog before writing this one. Prior to it, I had near complete freedom to write about whatever I want. The point I’m making is the temple is very important to him. So I included it in this post which was originally just supposed to be about his status with the house of Israel. Upon putting it together, I see why he did prompt me because I see the correlation in that you can’t have one without the other. If I didn’t include it, the picture wouldn’t be complete.
To translate and summarize, God is still upset with the house of Israel, but he’s still fully committed to the temple, which means he’s still fully committed to the house of Israel, because you can’t have the temple without the house of Israel. In other words, he’s still committed to the covenant.
I guess in certain respects there’s nothing new here but God’s relationship with the house of Israel has been complicated. Thousands of years is nothing to him but it’s not to humans, so I guess it’s good to have a refresher, and his prompt means he wants the information out there.