1Ki 8:61-66 “Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God”

1Ki 8:61  Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day. 
1Ki 8:62  And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD. 
1Ki 8:63  And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD. 
1Ki 8:64  The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings. 
1Ki 8:65  And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days. 
1Ki 8:66  On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people. 

The word “perfect”H8003 in the first verse of our study (1Ki 8:61) means ‘complete’, ‘made ready’ and ‘whole’, and it comes from H7999 which means ‘to make amends’, ‘recompense’, ‘render’, ‘requite’, ‘make restitution’ and ‘restore’.

Within the 28 occurrences that the word perfectH8003 is used, we read in 1 Kings 6:7, “And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made readyH8003 before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.”

“There was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building” is another way of telling the elect of God that we have been been ordained from the foundation of the world to be “made ready”H8003 (Eph 2:9-10, 1Pe 1:20, Rev 13:8) through Christ who restores us and makes restitution for us by reconciling us by His blood (“are madeG1096 [G5675] – Aorist tense) nighG1451 by the bloodG129 of ChristG5547” (Eph 2:13, Col 1:20, Eph 2:13, Rev 19:7, Rev 7:14).

Eph 2:9  Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Eph 2:10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. [We are made ready by walking in them. (1Jn 1:7, Heb 10:25)]

1Jn 1:7  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. 

Heb 10:25  Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. 

1Pe 1:20  Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

Rev 13:8  And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Col 1:20  And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

[As God’s will is fulfilled in our life in earth as it is in heaven, we believe that God is working all things according to the counsel of His own will in order to redeem all of His creation in time (Mat 6:10, Eph 1:11, 2Sa 14:14)]

Eph 2:13  But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nighG1451 by the blood of Christ. 
Eph 2:14  For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; 

Rev 19:7  Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. 

Rev 7:14  And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 

Knowing what the word perfectH8003 means helps set the stage for the rest of our study as we learn of the type and figure actions of king Solomon that were written for our sakes to help us understand how we can go onto perfection on the third day as the bride of Christ as we keep His commandments (2Co 4:15, Luk 13:32).

2Co 4:15  For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. 

Luk 13:32  And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.

1Ki 8:61  Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day. 

King Saul, a type of the rejected anointed, did not act perfectly “with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day” (1Sa 13:13):

1Sa 13:13  And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.

If we contrast this verse against the following three verses that have the word perfectH8003 in them, we learn that it was because of Solomon’s being turned away by his wives when he was old that his heart was not perfectH8003 with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. “His wives” represent the churches of Babylon that produce the false doctrines which prevent us from keeping his commandments until we are called ‘out of her, my people’. King Saul/old king Solomon, representing our old man, must die daily in order for us to go onto perfection on the third day  (Deu 25:15, 1Ki 8:61, 1Ki 11:4, 2Co 6:17, Luk 13:32).

Deu 25:15  But thou shalt have a perfectH8003 and just weight, a perfectH8003 and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened (Eph 6:2) in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 

1Ki 8:61  Let your heart therefore be perfectH8003 with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

1Ki 11:4  For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfectH8003 with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. 

2Co 6:17  Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, 

Luk 13:32  And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.

1Ki 8:62  And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD. 
1Ki 8:63  And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD. 

“The king” represents Christ in this verse who offered 22,000 oxen as “peace offerings” (Eph 2:14, Php 4:7), which is a witness [22] of the spiritual strength that Christ [the Oxen] has over the flesh that must go through a process of judgment (22x10x10x10=22,000).

The 120,000 sheep represent the whole church [4] or body of Christ that must go through a process of judgment (Rom 8:36-37) while in the flesh [3×10 and 120,000/30=4000] (1Pe 4:17).

Rom 8:36  As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter [“an hundred and twenty thousand sheep“].
Rom 8:37  Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 

1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? 

God’s spirit will not always strive with man, “for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years” (Gen 6:3). The striving we are experiencing now of spirit against flesh (Gal 5:17-18, 1Co 15:22-23, Rom 8:21-25) is for the benefit of the rest of the creation that will be judged by the church that will have been made ready to execute those judgments at the great white throne judgment as a result of our wrestling through the night [12 hours] with Christ in this shadow of the valley of death time called flesh (1Co 15:24-25, Gen 32:24, Psa 23:4). It is by our Father and Christ reigning through us that we will put all enemies under his feet (Isa 41:15), which feet represent God’s elect who will go where our Head directs us to put an end to all carnal thinking or fleshly thinking represented by the one hundred and twenty years that will be conquered and established on [“an hundred and twenty thousand sheep“] (Oba 1:21).

Gen 6:3  And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. [120]

Gal 5:17  For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 
Gal 5:18  But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. 

1Co 15:22  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 
1Co 15:23  But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming. 

Rom 8:21  Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 
Rom 8:22  For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 
Rom 8:23  And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. 
Rom 8:24  For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 
Rom 8:25  But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

1Co 15:24  Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. 
1Co 15:25  For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.

Gen 32:24  And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 

Psa 23:4  Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. 

Isa 41:15  Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. 

It took both ‘groups’ of sacrifice for the house of the LORD to be dedicated, “So the king and all the children of Israel” telling us that Christ and His body are the living sacrifice required in order for God’s plan of saving all of mankind to be accomplished upon the foundational sacrifice of Christ includes His head and body [typifying Christ, “Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen” and the elect “an hundred and twenty thousand sheep” offered at the hand of a fit man, Christ Lev 16:10, Lev 16:21]. The dedication of the altar is accomplished by the living sacrifice that God calls the body of Christ to be, who follows the example of our head, Jesus Christ (Eph 4:15-16).

Rom 12:1  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 

Eph 4:15  Instead, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all ways into Messiah, who is the Head. 
Eph 4:16  From Him the whole body is fitted and held together by every supporting ligament. The proper working of each individual part produces the body’s growth, for building itself up in love. 

1Ki 8:64  The same day did the king hallowH6942 the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.

The temple was dedicated through sacrifices, and there was an order as to what was first ‘sanctified’ or ‘hallowed’, as was demonstrated in these verses explaining how different parts of the temple were being hallowed with the same types of sacrifices in 1 Kings 8:63-64.

1Ki 8:63  And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD. 
1Ki 8:64  The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.

What we are being shown is that the day of the Lord, typified by the words “the same day“, is a day of visitation that comes upon us at an appointed time (Luk 19:42), the one event that is common to all men, and so this verse reads: “The same day did the king hallowH6942 the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD” reminding us that “for if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches” (Rom 11:16-21).

Rom 11:16  For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. 
Rom 11:17  And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; 
Rom 11:18  Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. 
Rom 11:19  Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. 
Rom 11:20  Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: 
Rom 11:21  For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. 

Christ died for the sins of the world, and the elect are represented by the priests who present their lives a living sacrifice (Rom 12:1) who offer “burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings” that are washed with the water from the “brasen altar“. The priest who represents the elect also offers the same “burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings” in “the middle of the court” which represents our preaching the gospel to all nations, to every man, in hopes that some “should be saved” (Act 2:47, Act 27:20) through that gospel message which is “the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth” (Mar 16:15, 1Co 9:22,  Luk 8:12, Rom 1:16). We know and believe that the word of God will not return void (Isa 55:11), so our witness of being a living sacrifice and laboring in the Lord is never in vain, which is also symbolized by these sacrifices that are being made in “the middle of the court” as well as at the “brasen altar” (1Co 15:58).

Act 2:47  Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. 

Act 27:20  And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away. 

Mar 16:15  And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 

Luk 8:12  Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. 

Isa 55:11  So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

1Co 15:58  Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Today is a day of salvation and not the day (2Co 6:2 [CLV]), and it is very few who are called in this age to continue in that belief (Joh 8:31-32) as most are offended when they realize we must fill up what is behind of the afflictions of Christ by eating and drinking the body and blood of Christ. Flesh just naturally prefers someone else doing the work (Jas 2:20) which is what the false doctrine of the substitutionary atonement is all about (Col 1:24, Joh 6:52-66).

2Co 6:2  For He is saying, “In a season acceptable I reply to you, And in a day of salvation I help you. Lo! Now is a most acceptable era! Lo! Now is a day of salvation!” [CLV]

Jas 2:20  But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? 

Joh 8:31  Jesus, then, said to the Jews who have believed Him, “If ever you should be remaining in My word, you are truly My disciples,
Joh 8:32  and you will know the truth, and the truth will be making you free.” [CLV]

Joh 6:52  The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 
Joh 6:53  Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
Joh 6:54  Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
Joh 6:55  For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
Joh 6:56  He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
Joh 6:57  As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
Joh 6:58  This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
Joh 6:59  These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. 
Joh 6:60  Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? 
Joh 6:61  When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?
Joh 6:62  What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?
Joh 6:63  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Joh 6:64  But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. 
Joh 6:65  And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
Joh 6:66  From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

1Ki 8:65  And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of HamathH2574 unto the river of EgyptH4714, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days. 
1Ki 8:66  On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people. 

If we look at the definitions of these two words [“Hamath” and “Egypt”] it becomes clear that “from the entering in of HamathH2574 unto the river of EgyptH4714” is symbolically speaking of the time that we live out, as the generation in our flesh that yet has a wall of partition about our hearts that is not yet broken down, witnessed by the numbers “seven days and seven days, even fourteen days“(Eph 2:14). Our wilderness experience is represented by two (2) sevens, the duplicitous completely double-minded man we all start off as in our former conversation (Jer 17:9, Jas 1:8-9, Eph 2:1-3) who is held in the bondage of sin until the son of God sets us free through a lifetime of overcoming and enduring until the end, if we are God’s elect in ‘this age’ (Joh 8:36).

Eph 2:14  For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down [Tense-Aorist See (G5777)] the middle wall of partition between us;
Eph 2:15  Having abolished [Tense-Aorist See (G5777)] in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; 

Jas 1:8  A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. 
Jas 1:9  Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: 

Joh 8:36  If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

It is “on the eighth day he sent the people away” which is symbolic of the new man who is sent off as Christ and the elect were (Joh 20:21, Joh 12:47) after we’ve been drawn to the temple of God which is where Christ abides (Luk 2:42, Luk 2:46,  Joh 6:44) and where we are reconciled by His life, symbolized by Solomon who is a type of the elect who is used to pronounce these blessings and dedications of the temple of which we previously read in 1 Kings 8:63-64. Those sacrifices typify our life being sacrificed and dedicated at the altar which is the cross of Christ (Gal 2:20).

Joh 20:21  Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

Joh 12:47  And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

Luk 2:42  And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. 

Luk 2:46  And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. 

It is “a great congregation” and “all Israel with him” who come to this great “feast” that is held by Solomon. Solomon represents those who are called to the supper of the great God, and now, in the positive sense, are feasting on the flesh of the world, meaning we are destroying the carnality of man through judgment which is leading to the new man symbolized by this feast (Rev 19:17-18).

Rev 19:17  And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; 
Rev 19:18  That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.

Satan is given power to feast on the flesh of man during those symbolic fourteen days from Abel to Zacharias (Luk 11:51), but when the eighth day comes, flesh is put off and we are told in symbolic language what the world will then proclaim unto God with these words, typical of the day coming when God will be all in all (1Co 15:28). All the world will acknowledge His greatness and what He has done through Christ His servant (Mar 10:45, 1Jn 4:17): “On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.“

Luk 11:51  From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.

1Co 15:28  And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. 

Mar 10:45  For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. 

1Jn 4:17  Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 

The title of our study is “Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God“, and because God has granted the elect to see that we are the generation guilty of “the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias” and in need of presenting our lives as a living sacrifice which can only be done through Christ, we can “therefore be perfect with the LORD our God” going on to perfection on the third day having an abased heart that understands our existence and state of mind (1Co 2:16, Php 2:5-7, 1Co 1:25-27) are all a gift from God (Mat 23:12, Psa 51:17, Isa 66:2, Luk 13:32, Eph 2:8-10).

1Co 2:16  For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. 

Php 2:5  Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 
Php 2:6  Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 
Php 2:7  But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 

1Co 1:25  Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 
1Co 1:26  For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
1Co 1:27  But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 

Mat 23:12  And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

Psa 51:17  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. 

Isa 66:2  For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. 

Luk 13:32  And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.

Eph 2:8  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph 2:9  Not of works, lest any man should boast. 
Eph 2:10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. 

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