I keep coming back to where Jesus instructs us to pray “Our Father in heaven hallowed be your name.” Then in today’s reading I find that Solomon builds a temple for the Name of the Lord…
2 Chr 6:38 if they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of their captivity to which they were carried captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,
Solomon built a house for the name of the Lord. They (the jewish nation) valued the name of the Lord, I think they wouldn’t even say the word Yahweh? What did Jesus say? Our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name…
Could it be that the name and reputation of God is so precious that God would become man and let His own creation kill him in order to preserve that creation and preserve his name and reputation?
