Haggai talks
about God filling His house with glory when the desire of the nations is
revealed. It is obvious in the text that the rebuilding of the Temple was not
the greater glory. That greater glory arrived in the person of Jesus Christ and
was completed at Pentecost with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on God’s
people.
And now we get to gather each Lord’s
Day, in the Lord’s house full of glory, with Christ in the holy of holies, in
heaven itself, full of the glory of God.
In the Old Testament, the saints
longed for the Shekinah. But even after the Temple was built, only one priest
per year got to go into that most holy place, and it was not necessarily a
blessing. Moses’s face was veiled, even for a fading glory and the people could
not look upon him. The cloud of glory followed be day and pillar of fire by night.
It was was a protection for the people and are diving mark for the enemies.
This is the glory we now have as we
enter Heaven itself each Lord’s Day. It is presented to us at This Table, a
Table of peace, a Table of Presence, a Table of Glory. No sun, no moon, just
Jesus 24/7!
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