The Desecrated Sanctuary

This Psalm is an artistic meditation on an event so utterly painful and overwhelming that the average Israelite NEVER even imagined it actually happening. It would be like how you've been waking up lately… Shortly after your eyes open you remember this pandemic and you then think to yourself, "WOW! I can't believe this is happening!" – just imagine THAT feeling but about 1000 times stronger.

THAT'S what the average Israelite felt when they saw the Temple in Jerusalem desecrated by Babylon and eventually destroyed! They simply KNEW it could never happen…and then it DID! God's Dwelling fell...

I wonder… how YOU feel the Church is doing today in the modern world… in the U.S. …in South Florida. What's the Church's influence/effectiveness today? How are we doing?… Do we have a voice? Is there a Christian consensus in our nation? Is the church at all instrumental in forming the opinions of this nation?

How should we read these times and how should the church (THIS church!) how should the church respond to these times… how might this Psalm instruct us?

Let's look at:

1. The Dwelling Design
2. The Dwelling Destroyed
3. The Dwelling Re-Deployed