The term "House of God" is a significant concept in the Bible, representing both physical structures and spiritual realities where God's presence dwells among His people. It is a place of worship, sacrifice, and divine encounter, central to the faith and practice of the Israelites and later, the Christian Church.

Behold, I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, he will build the house for My name.’

Horus (/ h ɔː r ə s /), [c] also known as Heru, Har, Her, or Hor (/ h ɔː r /) [d] [6] in Ancient Egyptian, is one of the most significant ancient Egyptian deities who served many functions, most notably as the god of kingship, healing, protection, the sun, and the sky.

2023年12月11日 · The purpose of our being built up as a spiritual house is to form a collective priesthood that is continually offering spiritual sacrifices to God (1 Peter 2:5). But what are the sacrifices that this spiritual house, this priesthood, is bringing to God?

Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's house, bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. But Christ is faithful as the Son over God's house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

2023年7月7日 · Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you? 2 Corinthians 5:1 . For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

The sacredness of God's house is a profound biblical theme that underscores the holiness of spaces dedicated to God's presence and worship. From the Tabernacle and Temple in the Old Testament to the Church as the spiritual house in the New Testament, the reverence for God's dwelling place remains a central aspect of the faith, calling believers ...

2012年11月11日 · The people who boast and hope in Jesus Christ are the house of God. Which means that Jesus this very day — not just back in Moses’s day or in his own days on earth — but this very day is our Maker, our Owner, our Ruler, and our Provider. Jesus is called the “builder” of this house. Moses was not the builder. He was part of the house.

Spiritually, in the New Testament, the "house of God" (oikos theou) is the church or community of believers (1 Timothy 3:15; Hebrews 10:21; 1 Peter 4:17; compare 1 Corinthians 3:9,16,17; 1 Peter 2:5).