Was Solomon the Son Who Would Build a House for Yahweh?

It was in David’s heart to build a house for the name Yahweh 1 Kings 8:17, 1 Chr 22:7, for the ark of the covenant of Yahweh in 1 Chr 17: 1 – 2, 22:19, adding “as a footstool for our God” in 1 Chr 28:2.  Yahweh said “you shall not build a house for me to dwell in, for I have not dwelt in a house . . .” 1 Chr 17: 4 – 5, 2 Sam 7:5 – 7, or because David had spilled much blood 1 Chr 22:8, 28:3. 

Solomon believed his father David couldn’t build Yahweh a house until Yahweh “put his enemies under his feet”, which Yahweh did for Solomon, giving him “rest on every side”, so he would build a house for the name of Yahweh in fulfilment of what Yahweh said to David “I will put your son on your throne in your place, and he will build the house for My name” in 1 Kings 5:3 – 5.

To address the confusion about who the ‘son’ was, Yahshua said “How then does David in Spirit call him ‘Lord’? for he says “Yahweh said to my lord ‘sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet’.  So, if David calls him ‘lord’, how can he be David’s son?” in Matt 22: 43 – 45.

According to Paul in 1 Cor 15:20 – 26, “the Messiah was raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep.  For since by a man death, by a man also the resurrection of the dead.  For as in Adam all die, so also in the Messiah all will be made alive, but each in his own order – the Messiah the first fruits, after that those who are the Messiah’s at his coming, then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when he has abolished all rule and all authority and power.  For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.  The last enemy that will be abolished is death.”

Paul sees Psalm 110: 1 – 2 “Yahweh said to my lord ‘Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.  Yahweh extends your mighty scepter from Zion ‘Rule in the midst of your enemies.’”, as a prophecy of the 1000-year reign of the Messiah and the saints in Rev 20: 1 – 4, after which death is destroyed in the ‘white throne’ judgment in Rev 20:11 – 15.

Stephen said in Acts 7: 48 – 50, “The Most High does not dwell in houses made by hands”, and he quotes Isa 66:1 – 2 “’The heavens my throne, and earth is the footstool of my feet, what house will you build for me?’ says Yahweh ‘and where then place my rest? Has not My hand made all these things?” Stephen considers this to be the works of “stiff-necked people” who “resist the Holy Spirit” in v51.