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As with any good deception, there is always some element of truth to the lie. In the best propaganda you want to have two main elements: a point “a” within a circle “b”. At the center-point there is a tall grandiose fabrication, like an oversized obelisk, especially if it has some enlightened measurement within its posture. The bigger the better, as few will suspect that you would be so bold to bow before the people respectfully while also floating such a titanic tale. Then, shaped by the helm of a crafty tongue, is the detail that surrounds the Great Lie, usually including just enough truth to spin the untrained eye into constant submission. Mix this up with most people’s unwillingness to seek truth, and you have a way to sort of just make up whatever Target you want. Call it mind control. With a little leadership, the led simply follow, principally where constant repetitions are hallowed. Usually this happens without anyone even noticing or questioning the matter. In the realm of spirituality you have blind trust formed, and then the blind lead the blind into a ditch (9), as they take their eyes off God and seek the false horizon, because it sounds so ear-tickling good. It’s a sheeple thing.

When we end up in a ditch we need to seek to be lifted up by the Holy One who knows all things, and do so according to his Word(s). Then we can find that the most honest answer given in the survey to the initiated question of Why did God say David couldn’t build the temple? “I don’t know”. Albeit anyone who has been a Christian for reasonable time should have an answer besides “idk”, because Solomon’s Temple is no small matter of Scripture and history, especially for “the elect and elite” of this world.

After all, the truth seems easy enough to validate by looking at two passages:

[1 Chronicles 22:7-8 KJV Freevised Version] 7 And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build a house unto the name of the YHWH my God: 8 But the word of YHWH came to me, saying, [you have] shed blood abundantly, and [have] made great wars: [you] shalt not build a house unto my name, because [you] [have] shed much blood upon the earth in my sight.

[1 Chronicles 28:2-3 KJV Freevised Version] 2 Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: [As for me], I [had] in [my] heart to build [a] house of rest for the ark of the covenant of [YHWH], and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building: 3 But God said unto me, [you shall] not build a house for my name, because [you] [(have) been] a man of war, and [have] shed blood.

So far it sounds like the usual answer given during the survey is accurate. What is there to challenge? Should we assume that the man after God’s own heart (10) David is lying? Is there another passage that says something different? Please understand that this is not the author putting David down, but rather lifting the Most High Almighty God up. We must survey the answer in light of the biggest human problem: communication. It seems as though most everyone answered a question they weren’t really asked. If the question was, “Why did DAVID say he couldn’t build the temple?”, then the “blood on his hands/man of war” answer would have been accurate, at least in terms of what David said. But the question is “What did God—YHWH Elohim say?”

But David said ‘God said’ so isn’t that enough? This objection is expected, with extra attention to this being the greatly worshipped King David, but if we are to take the whole counsel of the transcript into consideration, then we need to know if the unabridged text agrees, especially on such an important matter, and certainly if God had something different to say! When we check the text we find two other passages that directly oppose David’s claims, and each of these passages preceded David’s claims.

Let’s have a look at what YHWH Elohim said:

[2 Samuel 7:1-17 KJV Freevised Version] 1 And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and [YHWH] had given him rest round about from all his enemies; 2 That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwell[s] within curtains. 3 And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that [is] in [your] heart; for [YHWH] [is] with you. 4 And it came to pass that night, that the word of [YHWH] came unto Nathan, saying, 5 Go and tell my servant David, This [says YHWH] [Should you] build me a house for me to dwell in? 6 Whereas I have not dwelt in [any] house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. 7 In all [the places] wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spoke I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why [don’t you] build me [a] house of cedar? 8 Now therefore so [shall you] say unto my servant David, This [says YHWH] of hosts, I took [you] from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel: 9 And I was with [you] [wherever you went], and have cut off all [your] enemies out of [your] sight, and have made [you] a great name, like unto the name of the great [men] that [are] in the earth. 10 Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them anymore, as before time, 11 And as since the time that I commanded judges [to be] over my people Israel, and have caused [you] to rest from all [your] enemies. Also the LORD [tells you] that he will make [you] [a] house. 12 And when [your] days be fulfilled, and [you shall] sleep with [your] fathers, I will set up [your] seed after [you], which shall proceed out of [your] bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build [a] house for my name, and I will [establish] the throne of his kingdom forever. 14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit[s] iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: 15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took [it] from Saul, whom I put away before [you]. 16 And [your] house and [your] kingdom shall be established for ever before [you]: [your] throne shall be established forever. 17 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.

Special attention should be paid to verse 14 in 2 Samuel 7. This is YHWH directly stating the prophecy of the Messiah; I will be his father and he shall be my son. This has nothing to do with Solomon, unless you want to embrace the daylights out of typology!

This prophecy-talk concerning the Messiah exists in many passages throughout the accepted cannon like [Luke 1:31-33 KJV Freevised Version] 31:

And, behold, [you shall] conceive in [your] womb, and bring forth a son, and shall] call his name JESUS. 32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: 33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.

We see this kingdom power in Psalm 2 that concludes with “kiss the son lest he be angry”, encompassing the relevance of the overall story of the Kingdom of YHWH. This same prophecy from 2 Samuel 7.14 is repeated in verse 13 of 1 Chronicles 17 below:

[1Ch 17:1-15 KJV Freevised Version] 1 Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in a house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of [YHWH remains] under curtains. 2 Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that [is] in [your] heart; for [Elohim is] with [you]. 3 And it came to pass the same night, that the word of [Elohim] came to Nathan, saying, 4 Go and tell David my servant, [YHWH says], [you shall] not build me a house to dwell in: 5 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]. 6 [Wherever] I have walked with all Israel, spoke I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have [you] not built me an house of cedars? 7 Now therefore this [shall you] say unto my servant David, [This says YHWH] of hosts, I took [you] from the sheepcote, [even] from following the sheep, that [you should] be ruler over my people Israel: 8 And I have been with [you wherever you have] walked, and have cut off all [your] enemies from before [you], and have made [you] a name like the name of the great men that [are] in the earth. 9 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 anymore, as at the beginning, 10 And since the time that I commanded judges [to be] over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all [your] enemies. Furthermore I tell [you] that [YHWH] will build [you] [a] house. 11 And it shall come to pass, when [your] days be expired that [you] must go [to be] with [your] fathers, that I will raise up [your] seed after [you], which shall be of [your] sons; and I will establish his kingdom. 12 He shall build me a house, and I will [establish] his throne forever. 13 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 [you]: 14 But I will settle him in [my] house and in my kingdom forever: and his throne shall be established forevermore. 15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.

When you pay attention to the details of what YHWH said, you will see glaring contrasts to what David spoke. Like in verse 11, YHWH will raise up the Seed “after” David expires, whereas in David’s story he raises up Solomon before he expires (1 Chronicles 22 and 28). We can also readily see that verses 13 and 14 above could not have been fulfilled in Solomon. The testimony is more and more telling the further you dig in. As David says “alone” (one/echad), according to only what King Solomon could have fulfilled in 1 Chronicles 29.1: …Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen. But Solomon did not fulfill the established throne forever, nor the Kingdom of God, for he was not the Messiah. Yet Solomon also says (repeats), like David spoke, that he is “the one son”; so Solomon says in 1 Kings 5 and 8. The best-case scenario in all of this is David misunderstood what YHWH said to him through Nathan the Prophet, and then Solomon just fell in line to recite the story of his father David. This leeway is much more believable with Solomon, but not so much with David when you put all the pieces together. Maybe it’s just that David lied and Solomon validated the lie. Whatever the exact truth is, their interpretation is different than God’s command, seeing that the Word of YHWH came through the prophet Nathan, otherwise we can’t rely on any of the text. The true inspiration of infallibility and inerrancy is to clarify the exact facts as written. Otherwise we come to foul elucidations when we don’t abide in the word of Yahh.

For those who want to question the whole lot here by bantering the idea of pesher interpretation (which is redundancy at best), or multiple fulfillment, or partial fulfillment in prophecy, and argue such with the famously challenged 2 Samuel 7.14 verse in full view, ask yourself this question: was the “if” fulfilled in Solomon or Christ, as Solomon sinned, and Jesus did not. Watch for the “when” vs. “if” translations, unless your personal faith professes Christ sinned, and consider this verse is not in the story of 1 Chronicles 17. Furthermore, was Solomon ever chastened with the rod of men? By God’s word we know his rampant iniquity is obvious and rife with sin (no?). Did he have some of God’s mercies pulled from him (yes!); in 1 Kings 11 the rending of the Kingdom, and for David’s namesake as YHWH had promised, the Kingdom was torn from Solomon’s “only” son for Solomon’s iniquity. Continuing in 1 Kings 11, verse 13 takes out Solomon’s ability to be the one that fulfilled! Yet Hebrews 1.5 (and 5.5) affirms 2 Samuel 7 and Psalm 2 and 89 to be fulfilled in our Lord Jesus Christ, and again in Acts 13.33. Where are the passages that cry Solomon fulfilling any of these besides the misplaced “house building scenario”? Has not the Scripture revealed Christ descended from David: John 7.42; see Romans 1.3? No matter your interpretation of partial fulfillment, or single, or both, all things concerning these prophecies are only perfected in Christ (or not yet perfected for those that choose to reject Jesus Christ). Like the Ark, Jesus guarded all the commandments of the Father, budding forth as the Manna. He is the living bread of life. Even the first time the word Ark appears in the Scripture it is Joseph’s coffin; Jesus is the preeminent fulfillment of both the Ark and Joseph in the Resurrection Life, as the Father YHWH Elohim places upon him the multicolored coat.

Let’s look again with a different highlight on 2 Samuel 7 with additional passages:

[2 Samuel 7:14-15 KJV Freevised Version] 14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: 15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took [it] from Saul, whom I put away before [you].

This passage is expressing a potential context of “if he commits iniquity”, implying that it was possible that Jesus could have sinned, or there would have been no point of the temptation in Matthew 4.

This is prophesied in [Isaiah 7:14-16 KJV Freevised Version] :

14 Therefore [Adonai] himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. 16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that [you abhor] shall be forsaken of both her kings.

Then this is confirmed in [Hebrews 5:8-10 KJV Freevised Version] :

8 Though he were a Son, yet [he] learned [by] obedience the things which he suffered; 9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; 10 Called of God [a] high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

Solomon the son on the other hand, with seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines filled up his cup with iniquity. So much so, it’s a seeming mystery that Solomon only has a lineage of three recorded children in the Scripture. Having loved so many women, he should have passed up Abraham on the highway to the children of the sands of the sea—right? On the other hand, if you follow the pavers in the path that Almighty God provides, you can see what might have happened to all of his children? For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites [1 Kings 11:5 KJV]. Is not Milcom the same as Molech? (and Chemosh connected in 1 Kings 11.7 and 2 Kings 23.13). Weren’t they making their children pass through the fire: Leviticus 18.21, Deuteronomy 18.10, 2 Kings 16.3, 2 Kings 17.17, 2 Kings 21.6, 2 Kings 23.10 (see verse 13), 2 Chronicles 33.6, Jeremiah 32.34-35, Ezekiel 16.21, Ezekiel 20.26, 31, and Ezekiel 23.37. This puts Solomon-Worshipping systems like Freemasonry into a “New Light”, don’t you think? There is a place where darkness only darkness contrives, yet poses as a lamp on the path to life.

Now depending on your belief system, religion, or denomination, certain questions and objections are likely to be flying all over the place. We have established that it’s acceptable to have questions. You are in a great place. If you didn’t have any questions then you would be a know it all (kia), and thinking you know everything makes you not-so-humble, especially chiefly to the Scripture. KIA is also an acronym for killed in action. Don’t be dead. There is a lot to work out, so put that inquiring mind to work and make new discoveries. This is how The Word comes to life to those who seek him diligently (10b).

First let’s pay attention to the fact that we haven’t left the accepted text of the Biblical sages. Before the ANTI-KJV activists start objecting, you have to realize the author needs to quote something, and there is no way to please everybody. The Authorized Version or King James Version (KJV), 1611, 1769, outside of the United Kingdom is in the public domain, currently free to use without permission under the author’s place of citizenship in the USA. This is the main reason it is quoted, and the slight edits to common English and replacing the Lord’s name calls for the reference of “Freevised Version”, sometimes labeled as KJV-F. However, as already indicated you are free and encouraged to test the claims made in the Great Temple Deception to any translation. The challenge is to show where any printed version will yield a different understanding.

The main point is simple: are there two versions of the same story in the text or not? Did YHWH say something different through Nathan the prophet, whereby King David later contradicts YHWH when David says “Hear me”? Clearly there is! Should you follow along and make the effort to conclude the same with your preferred version of reading Scripture, then a follow-up question ensues for the sound realist: can you find the bridge passage(s) to explain logically and literally where it is written that YHWH changed his mind? Through much effort, the author is yet to find YHWH’s road of His own repentance in the lamplighter of the feet (11).

Until such proof comes forward…David lied (or misrepresented for those that like the soft approach), just as it is written: let God be true and every man a liar (12). Now some might say David misunderstood. We will deal with whether David lied or misrepresented or misunderstood a bit later in more detail. For now, we need to firmly establish that there is a contradiction in the text, and note why this is the case. Does the Scripture lie? Or does King David go off the trail Yahh overlaid? We know that David had some colored history, and so as not to take up unnecessary space, we won’t belabor the point. Let’s just note quick reference: adultery (13) leading to murder (14) of his newly stolen wife’s honorable husband (15), and getting 70,000 of his own people terminated (16). David was even almost himself killed by giants long after slaying Goliath (17), so there is a lot in the text to consider on this subject, besides the usually repeated stories. Being that David was a little flawed like the rest of us, it shouldn’t be too hard to understand he might have lied about something he had in his “own heart” (18). This is not hard unless you have David-worship beyond what the text says is valid, as King David was a mashiach (anointed) as a type of the coming messiah (19). Surely David is worthy to be noted on every account of the role God raised him to play, but he must be loved within the right framework. To love David is to love his Elohim just as David loved Him, as David genuinely longed for YHWH Elohim. To love David more than his Elohim is to be idolatrous and ridiculous. Therefore, if we think straight and view the text for what it says, we can see that David was at least in error, and move forward to determine what caused it, what is meant by his interaction, and most importantly what this all means concerning the temple and then eschatologically! Is there an end-time message the church has been missing?

This is where David fulfilled YHWH’s will as the great servant king of Yahh that he was. Though greatly imperfect like all men (save Christ), he followed more than enough in the commands of YHWH to find the Lord’s grace and mercy in the prophecy that was revealed to him through Nathan. David was a man seeking God’s heart.

Some have gotten most of the first half right, as we see a reflection in Acts 13:

[Acts 13:21-24 KJV Freevised Version] 21 And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years. 22 And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the [son] of Jesse, a man after [my] own heart, which shall fulfill all my will. 23 Of this man's seed [has] God according to [his] promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus: 24 When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Please see how it is the seed that immediately follows, wherefrom we can derive the truest meaning of “after YHWH’s own heart”. Though David was imperfect, and continued in this even after Nathan’s Vision, David yielded to the Father in prayer, providing evidence concerning David’s acknowledgement:

[2 Samuel 7:18-26 KJV-F Version] 18 Then went king David in, and sat before [YHWH], and he said, Who [am] I, O Lord GOD? and what [is] my house, that [you have] brought me [here]? 19 And this was yet a small thing in [your] sight, O [YHWH Elohim]; but [you have] spoken also of [your] servant's house for a great while to come. And [is] this the manner of man, O [YHWH Elohim]? 20 And what can David say more [to you]? for [you], [YHWH Elohim], [know your] servant. 21 For [your] word's sake, and according to [your] own heart, [you have] done all these great things, to make [your] servant know [them]. 22 [Therefore you are] great, O [YHWH Elohim]: for [there is] none like [you], neither [is there any] God beside [you], according to all that we have heard with our ears. 23 And what one nation in the earth [is] like [your] people, [even] like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for [your] land, before [your] people, which [you redeemed to you] from Egypt, [from] the nations and their gods? 24 For [you have] confirmed to [yourself your] people Israel [to be] a people unto [you] forever: and [you], [YHWH], [have] become their God. 25 And now, O [YHWH Elohim], the word that [you have] spoken concerning [your] servant, and concerning his house, establish [it] forever, and do as [you have] said. 26 And let [your] name be magnified forever, saying, [YHWH] of hosts [is] the God over Israel: and let the house of [your] servant David be established before [you].

Certainly there is a lot to consider when it comes to the Scripture, especially when measuring "inside the text" what men say compared to the recorded words of God. So it is best if we choose to be humble and follow carefully through the detail, rather than assume we already know everything we need to know. Otherwise we will miss precepts built upon precepts that are keys in the steps to understanding The Way. For if it is altogether true that David was being pure in message to the people about God saying he could not build the Temple because he was a Man of War and had shed much blood, then what can we make of this following passage, spoken in the voice of David, and written within the same era as 1 Chronicles 22 and 1 Chronicles 28? This next passage (2 Samuel 22) comes immediately after the passage (2 Samuel 21) where David wars with the Philistines and the Giants:

[2 Samuel 22:1-7, 18-25 KJV-F Version-F] 1 And David [spoke] unto [YHWH] the words of this song in the day [that] [YHWH] had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: 2 And he said, [YHWH] [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; 3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: [he is] my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; [you save] same from violence. 4 I will call on [YHWH], [who is] worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from [my] enemies. 5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; 6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me; 7 In my distress I called upon [YHWH], and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry [did enter] into his ears...

....18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, [and] from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me. 19 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but [YHWH] was my stay. 20 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me. 21 [YHWH] rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. 22 For I have kept the ways of [YHWH], and have not wickedly departed from my God. 23 For all his judgments [were] before me: and [as for] his statutes, I did not depart from them. 24 I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from [my] iniquity. 25 Therefore [YHWH has] recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.

Therefore, as we consider the question, "Why did God say David couldn't build the temple?", and as we compass the answers given by David vs. YHWH, we must entertain new questions in light of what is written in the Scripture: Should we consider David's hands clean by his own confessions, or should we consider them as unrighteous having shed much blood, by his own confessions? Furthermore, does David's alternating versions of the story define YHWH Elohim as contradictory, or simply clarify that we must be extra careful as we build precept upon precept in our quest to understand the Word of the Lord? Of course the latter is the chief matter, for it was YHWH who commanded David to tear down the enemies of God.