<TITLE>02. Par 3-4</TITLE>L-3 [Brother Littlefield reads the Scripture:
 Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the Lord was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and the instruments, put he among the treasure of the house of God.
 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, out of Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant out of--the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.
 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.
 And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.
 And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels and were in the tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring up.
 And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for--for multitude.
 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord unto his place, to the oracles of the house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims:
 For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof and above.
(Brother Littlefield says, "Would everyone stand please.")
 And they drew out of the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracles; and they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day.
 There was nothing in the ark save two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present was sanctified, and did not then wait by course:
 Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with the mu--their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with the trumpets:)
 And it came--and it came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were one, to make one sound to be heard in the praising and thanking the Lord; and when the--and when they had lifted up their voices with the trumpets, with the cymbals and the instruments and the musick, and praised the Lord, saying, For He is good; for His mercy endureth forever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord;
 So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.
Brother Littlefield says, "God's richest blessings upon His Word."--Ed.]

L-4  Then said Solomon, "The LORD hath said He would dwell in the thickest of the darkness.
But I have built Him a house...
As we solemnly look to the Word of the Living God, and speaking on this subject of "Dedication of Building" to the Lord, I would like to make this statement: That it is known among most of us, and especially among scholars, that God is omnipresent. Well, I believe, in a measure, that God is omnipresent. God is omnipresent, Him being omniscient makes Him omnipresent. If God is omnipresent just like the atmosphere, then He is a myth.
But God is a Person. Therefore He has to have a certain place that He dwells. And He is omnipresent by being omniscient. Therefore if He is everywhere, because being omniscient, He knows everything. Therefore if He knows everything, He knows what's going on at every place. But God Himself dwells in a certain place.


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