THE CROWNING SHEKINAH GLORY

When God materializes on earth this is called the "Glory of the Lord" or "Shekinah Glory". This appearance is a very rare event. The God of Heaven and Earth or the Shekinah materializes in such a way so that the human eye can see only his outer covering of a cloudy whirlwind. Ezekiel describes the whirlwind as the Shekinah of God. On a rare occasion about once every 2,000-3,000 years God descends out of space to earth from the North in a whirlwind.

A dictionary description of Shekinah is: "A cloud of glory that accompanied the Temple and tent of the Jewish Divine Presence."

When the Shekinah Glory descends, He descends with fire and lightening. God is wrapped around with a thunderous and fiery tornado. Ezekiel in his vision was able to peek inside the cloudy tornado. He saw God along with his wheels, bowl of fire, gigantic sheet of ice (firmament), lightening, rainbow, clouds, throne and mythical type creatures called cherubim's. The 4-winged cherubim's with 4-faces were described as to have been made of shiny molten metal.
The three most famous rare appearances of GOD on earth which predate the Roman Empire are:
1. On Mount Sinai when Moses was given the 10 commandments.
2. Dedication ceremonies of the Tent of God as built by Moses
3. Dedication ceremonies of Solomon's Temple.
The last grand appearance of God and his cloudy Shekinah was on Solomon's Temple. A few other brief historical sightings might have occurred but they were not recorded in the Bible.

C 1998, 1991 U.S. & foreign patents pending by Michael S. Young

FIRST TEMPLE HEIGHT & FOUNDATION

The First Temple stood over 20 stories tall (120 cubits). Josephus, the Jewish historian with Roman citizenship, states that both the Main Temple and Porch were 120 cubits tall. Why was the main tower 120 cubits tall? Possibly because the First Temple might have been built vertically.

"And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was a hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold."
DIVRE HAYYAMIM 3:4 The Jerusalem Bible, Koren Publishers (JB)

"And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, 20 cubits, and the height was an 120: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
2 CHRONICLES 3:4 Bible, King James Version (KJV)

"So that the entire altitude of the temple was hundred and twenty cubits. Its front was to the east. As to the porch, they built it before the temple; its length was twenty cubits, and it was so ordered that it might agree with the breadth of the house; and it had twelve cubits in latitude, and its height was raised as high as a hundred and twenty cubits."
Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, B-VIII, C-3, V-2

The porch is high and the main temple of the house is very high also. II Chron. 7:21. On this porch stood the two free standing round pillars. The pillar on the south was called Jachin and the north pillar was called Boaz. Attached upon these two pillars were ornamental pomegranates.