Acts 7:48
The issue of building an assembly hall or cathedral for God is explained, not only in Acts 17:24-25; “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. But this has also previously been stated by the Holy Spirit through prophet Isaiah in Isaiah 66:1-2; This is what the Lord says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be? Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?” declares the Lord. “These are the ones I look on with favour: those who are humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at my word.
Furthermore, in 2 Samuel 7:5-7; “Go and tell my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord says: Are you the one to build me a house to dwell in? I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought the Israelites up out of Egypt to this day. I have been moving from place to place with a tent as my dwelling. Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their rulers whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”’ Subsequently the House that was built for God’s Name was explained in 2 Samuel 7:12-13; When your days are over and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, your own flesh and blood, and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will build a house for my Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. The House [Solomon’s Temple, the Second Temple and Herod’s refurbished and rededicated Temple]that was built and destroyed was not for God to dwell in, or to reside in, or to contain God, but for His Name.
