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Later on, our fathers who had received it brought it in with Y'hoshua when they took the Land away from the nations that God drove out before them. "So it was until the days of David.
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He enjoyed God's favor and asked if he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Ya'akov
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and Shlomo did build him a house.
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But Ha'Elyon does not live in places made by hand! As the prophet says,
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'Heaven is my throne,' says ADONAI, 'and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house could you build for me? What kind of place could you devise for my rest?
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Didn't I myself make all these things?'
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"Stiffnecked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You continually oppose the Ruach HaKodesh! You do the same things your fathers did!
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Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who told in advance about the coming of the Tzaddik, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers! -
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you! - who receive the Torah as having been delivered by angels - but do not keep it!"
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On hearing these things, they were cut to their hearts and ground their teeth at him.
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But he, full of the Ruach HaKodesh, looked up to heaven and saw God's Sh'khinah, with Yeshua standing at the right hand of God.