Isaiah 55:8-9
King James Version
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
How does GOD build?
What does He build?
In contrast, how does man build?
What does he build?
JESUS puts structures in perspective.
With this powerful statement:
Luke 21:5-6
King James Version
5 And as some spake of the temple,
how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts,
he said,
6 As for these things which ye behold,
the days will come,
in the which there shall not be left
one stone upon another,
that shall not be thrown down.
Here's how GOD builds:
2 Corinthians 5:1-2
King James Version
5 For we know that if our earthly house
of this tabernacle were dissolved,
we have a building of God,
an house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens.
2 For in this we groan,
earnestly desiring to be clothed upon
with our house which is from heaven:
Hebrews 3:4
King James Version
4 For every house is builded by some man;
but he that built all things is God.
Revelation 21:9-21
King James Version
9 And there came unto me
one of the seven angels which had the seven vials
full of the seven last plagues,
and talked with me, saying,
Come hither,
I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
10 And he carried me away in the spirit
to a great and high mountain,
and shewed me that great city,
the holy Jerusalem,
descending out of heaven from God,
11 Having the glory of God:
her light was like unto a stone most precious,
even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
12 And had a wall great and high,
and had twelve gates,
and at the gates twelve angels,
and names written thereon,
which are the names of the twelve tribes
of the children of Israel:
13 On the east three gates;
on the north three gates;
on the south three gates;
and on the west three gates.
14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations,
and in them the names
of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
15 And he that talked with me
had a golden reed to measure the city,
and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
16 And the city lieth foursquare,
and the length is as large as the breadth:
and he measured the city with the reed,
twelve thousand furlongs*.
The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
17 And he measured the wall thereof,
an hundred and forty and four cubits**,
according to the measure of a man,
that is, of the angel.
18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper:
and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
19 And the foundations of the wall of the city
were garnished with all manner of precious stones.
The first foundation was jasper;
the second, sapphire;
the third, a chalcedony;
the fourth, an emerald;
20 The fifth, sardonyx;
the sixth, sardius;
the seventh, chrysolyte;
the eighth, beryl;
the ninth, a topaz;
the tenth, a chrysoprasus;
the eleventh, a jacinth;
the twelfth, an amethyst.
21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls:
every several gate was of one pearl:
and the street of the city was pure gold,
as it were transparent glass.
Here's how man builds:
Genesis 11:1-4
King James Version
11 And the whole earth was of one language,
and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass,
as they journeyed from the east,
that they found a plain in the land of Shinar;
and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another,
Go to, let us make brick,
and burn them thoroughly.
And they had brick for stone,
and slime had they for morter.
4 And they said,
Go to, let us build us a city and a tower,
whose top may reach unto heaven;
and let us make us a name,
lest we be scattered abroad
upon the face of the whole earth.
To which, GOD responds:
Genesis 11:5-9
King James Version
5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower,
which the children of men builded.
6 And the Lord said,
Behold, the people is one,
and they have all one language;
and this they begin to do:
and now nothing will be restrained from them,
which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down,
and there confound their language,
that they may not understand one another's speech.
8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence
upon the face of all the earth:
and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel;
because the Lord did there confound
the language of all the earth:
and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad
upon the face of all the earth.
Scripture also has this to say about structures:
Exodus 20:17
King James Version
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house,
thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife,
nor his manservant, nor his maidservant,
nor his ox, nor his ass,
nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
GOD doesn't care for covetousness.
Colossians 3:5-6
King James Version
5 Mortify therefore your members
which are upon the earth;
fornication, uncleanness,
inordinate affection, evil concupiscence,
and covetousness, which is idolatry:
6 For which things' sake the wrath of God
cometh on the children of disobedience:
NOTES:
* twelve thousand furlongs = 2,414,020.8 meters
**an hundred and forty and four cubits = 65.8368 meters
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