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build a HOUSE FOR GOD at His present earthly Headquarters -- on the
campus of Ambassador College in Pasadena. God has turned His back
on Jerusalem. He will yet choose Jerusalem again, and make it
world Headquarters of His government in the WORLD TOMORROW. But it
has been trodden down of the Gentiles for 2,500 years. It is sad
testimony today to the degeneracy of humanity -- ugly, dirty,
smelly.
I am writing on the plane, flying high over Greenland,
returning from Jerusalem. There, 50 Ambassador College students
are digging in the largest archaeological excavation of all,
clearing off the accumulated rubble and debris of 1,900 to 2,500
years of Gentile occupation -- clearing it down to the very level
of the Palace and Throne of DAVID -- preparing the way for CHRIST
to sit on David's throne -- probably in the very location we are
clearing off, and making ready for Him!
Doesn't it give you a thrill to realize what we have been
called to do? Our students are working there with tremendous
enthusiasm! They were so eager to have this part in it they
volunteered to pay their own transportation to Jerusalem and back!
But I have emphasized before, the Auditorium I have hoped
to build in Pasadena to serve as a HOUSE FOR GOD at His present
earthly Headquarters of HIS WORK, is not planned to be remotely as
magnificent, costly or glorified as Solomon's Temple. It is not to
be a temple. It must be, and serve as the college auditorium --
BUT, among ourselves, WE will think of it as GOD'S HOUSE where He,
in Spirit, meets in fellowship with His Headquarters congregation
every Sabbath. Yet, as I have said before, it must not be cheap,
inferior, or even ordinary in construction -- but considerably
superior to run-of-the-mill construction of our modern day. It is
definitely planned to be OUTSTANDING, of better than average
quality. It must HONOR our Great GOD!
Whether we build it at all probably depends on how YOU
BRETHREN RESPOND TO THIS LETTER! I have sent YOU requests -- as
God's Church for THIS TIME -- for contributions to build it. So
far there has been a fairly good response -- but NOT AT ALL the
overwhelming, generous, enthusiastic response God's Church of
David's day sent in!
Those people were really STIRRED with joy and anticipation.
They responded with GREAT LIBERALITY! Read of it, yourself, in I
Chronicles 29:9: "Then the people rejoiced, for that they had
offered WILLINGLY, because with PERFECT HEART they offered
willingly to the ETERNAL: and David the king also rejoiced WITH
GREAT JOY!" They were stirred, inspired, MOVED, fired up to
willing sacrifice of other things they may have wanted or planned,
to help in great anticipation for this HOUSE FOR GOD.
David was deeply moved emotionally, because he knew that
all they gave CAME FROM the Great God! This inspired him to
realize the GREATNESS, the MAJESTY, the SUPREME GLORY of the living
GOD! He was moved to an inspiring prayer, publicly expressing his
gratitude and praise for the living GOD!