A Lie Greater Than Solomon Is Here

The Temple Did Not Begin With Solomon

Before a single stone was laid, before Solomon was even born, the Most High entered into covenant with David — a covenant centered on a house and an everlasting kingdom.

Your house and your kingdom shall be established for ever before you: your throne shall be established for ever. — 2 Samuel 7:16

The exchange is clear. David promises a house for AO. AO promises an eternal throne for David. The covenant is made with David personally. Solomon does not yet exist when the covenant is given.

A covenant requires two parties. Black's Law Dictionary (2nd ed.) defines it precisely:

Covenant. An agreement, convention, or promise of two or more parties, by deed in writing, signed, sealed, and delivered, by which either of the parties pledges himself to the other that something is either done or shall be done, or stipulates for the truth of certain facts. — Black's Law Dictionary

Two or more parties. Pledges himself to the other. Both must exist. Both must consent. A man cannot pledge an unborn son to AO, and an unborn son cannot pledge anything back. AO does not negotiate with names that are not yet alive.

This is a different kind of covenant from the one Daniel describes:

And He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week. — Daniel 9:27

That covenant is open. It is offered to many — to whoever will receive it — across history. Its terms are universal. It belongs to anyone who turns to AO.

The 2 Samuel 7 covenant is the opposite kind. It is bilateral and personal. AO speaks to David. David answers AO. The throne is David's, the house is AO's, and the parties are named. Solomon is not in the room. Solomon cannot inherit a counterparty position any more than a man's unborn grandson can sign his contract.

So when the later narrative slides Solomon into David's seat at the table — because David shed blood — the entire premise collapses. Solomon was not the second party. He could not have been.

David builds the altar where divine fire descends:

And David built there an altar unto AO… and AO answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar. — 1 Chronicles 21:26

David receives the plans:

All this… AO made me understand in writing by His hand upon me. — 1 Chronicles 28:19

David gathers the gold, the silver, the cedar, the stone, the iron. He organizes the Levites, the musicians, the gatekeepers, the sacrificial order. Solomon inherits a prepared structure. David establishes the Temple system.

So the story we have been handed is already upside down before the foundation goes in. David's life had one alleged blemish — and Psalms 7:4 (47 reversed), together with David's refusal to kill Saul to take the throne of Israel on two separate occasions, argue strongly that the blemish itself is a Jeremiah 8:8 insertion designed to mar the visage of the true Messiah (Isaiah 52:14). We will open this up in detail in a future post.

Solomon's life, meanwhile, was filled with idolatry and blood sacrifices to false gods. Yet Solomon "gets" to build His house while David is not permitted to do so because he shed blood?

Hold that "because" next to what AO Himself speaks over the day of vengeance — and the arm that executes it:

1 Who is this that comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in His apparel, traveling in the greatness of His strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.

3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with Me: for I will tread them in My anger, and trample them in My fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon My garments, and I will stain all My raiment.

4 For the day of vengeance is in My heart, and the year of My redeemed is come.

5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore My own arm brought salvation unto Me; and My fury, it upheld Me. — Isaiah 63:1, 3–5

AO speaks. His arm executes. My redeemed is David — His firstborn, the first redeemed from the grave. My counsel shall stand! (Isaiah 46:10) Mine own arm is the Messiah — David resurrected — who carries out the counsel of the Most High. The garments are stained with the blood of AO's enemies, by the hand of the One wielding AO's staff and the One the prophets also name as the Builder:

Behold the man whose name is The Branch… he shall build the temple of AO… and he shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne. — Zechariah 6:12–13

If shedding blood disqualifies a builder, the prophesied Builder is disqualified before he arrives. The "David shed blood" line is not a rule — no such rule exists in the Torah. It is a pretext written in once, just long enough to move the project from David to Solomon, and never applied again.

That is the cover. Underneath it, three things give the operation away.

1. Hiram Abiff Was Not From the Priesthood

The master craftsman Solomon imports from Tyre to build AO's house has a tribe problem before he ever lifts a tool.

He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali. — 1 Kings 7:14

The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan. — 2 Chronicles 2:14

Naphtali or Dan. The account cannot keep its own story straight. But the question is not which tribe — the question is any tribe. He is not Ephraim. He is not from the priesthood. He has no covenantal standing to touch AO's house at all.

The wilderness pattern was given through Moses, and the warning was explicit:

And the stranger that comes near shall be put to death. — Numbers 3:10

A foreign craftsman directing the construction of AO's sanctuary is the same Korah uprising at a different layer. The builder is not a son of the priesthood. He is the stranger drawn near. The Freemasons name their lodges after him for a reason.

2. The Altar Was Polluted Before It Was Lit

AO's instruction is one sentence long.

And if you will make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone: for if you lift up your tool upon it, you have polluted it. — Exodus 20:25

One sentence. No tool. The moment man shapes the stone, the altar is defiled.

Now read the account of Solomon's temple:

And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready 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. — 1 Kings 6:7

The verse is staged as obedience. It is the opposite. The stones were hewn somewhere else, then carried in. The tools still touched them — the work was just hidden offsite. And AO did not say don't make noise in the house. He said don't lift up your tool upon it. The altar of Solomon's temple is polluted by definition. The entire building is polluted by definition. The story is so brazen it tells you the tools were used and asks you to call that obedience.

3. The Two Pillars Were Never In The Tabernacle

Read the Tabernacle pattern Moses received on the mountain. Boards. Bars. Sockets. Veils. Curtains. The Ark. The Mercy Seat. The Table of Shewbread. The Lampstand. The Altar of Incense. The Altar of Burnt Offering. The Laver.

There are no pillars at the entrance.

Now read Solomon:

And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz. — 1 Kings 7:21

Two pillars at the entrance. Named. Numbered. Standing on either side of the door. Nothing in the pattern AO gave Moses calls for them. They are an insertion. They are an addition. They are not from the mountain — they are from Edom.

And every Masonic lodge on earth installs replicas of those same two pillars at the entrance of the lodge. They are not hiding it. They are signing it. The same pair of pillars the builders carried forward as the twin flames — Christianity and Islam — were planted at the door of Solomon's temple by the same hand that planted them at the door of every lodge that followed.

The Tabernacle has no Jachin. The Tabernacle has no Boaz. Solomon's temple has both — built by a foreigner, of hewn stone, with tools — and the brotherhood that descends from him has been replicating it for thousands of years.

The Inversion

The whole world has been taught that Solomon's temple was the pinnacle of Israel's worship. That AO Himself dwelt between the cherubim of an altar polluted by tools, in a house designed by a man who could not lawfully stand inside it, with two pillars at the door that AO never asked for.

The covenant was with David. The pattern was given to David. The fire came down on David's altar.

The world says Solomon reigned for 40 years, and David died at 80 with diminished faculties.

But notice what 1 Kings 15:5 actually says:

David did that which was right in the eyes of AO, and turned not aside from any thing that He commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. — 1 Kings 15:5

If the Uriah account is itself a Jeremiah 8:8 insertion — the same kind of pretext used to disqualify David from building the Temple — then the verse reads what it actually says: David did right all the days of his life. Full stop.

A man who walks in AO's commandments all the days of his life does not die at 80 with diminished faculties. Moses walked in AO's commandments and died at 120 — "his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated" (Deuteronomy 34:7). Genesis 6:3 set the maximum lifespan at 120 years. David, the man after AO's own heart, was not given less than Moses.

David lived to 120.

120 minus 40 equals 80. The forty years attributed to Solomon are the forty years subtracted from David. Solomon never existed. David reigned over Israel's Golden Age — and the Golden Age was actually golden. Not marred by idol worship and child sacrifice as the world has been led to believe. That was the cover story written in to defame the king the builders were trying to bury.

We will open this all up in detail in a future post.

The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. — Matthew 12:42

JC is telling the truth in this verse. A lie greater than Solomon is here.

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FAQ

Was Solomon's Temple really commanded by AO?

No. The Temple was promised in the 2 Samuel 7 covenant — and that covenant was made with David personally, before Solomon existed. David received the pattern (1 Chronicles 28:19), built the altar where divine fire descended (1 Chronicles 21:26), gathered the materials, and organized the priesthood. Solomon inherited a prepared structure and bent it into a Masonic lodge with a foreign craftsman, hewn stones, and two pillars AO never asked for.

Why couldn't Solomon inherit David's covenant?

A covenant requires two parties. Black's Law Dictionary (2nd ed.) defines it as "an agreement, convention, or promise of two or more parties… by which either of the parties pledges himself to the other." The 2 Samuel 7 covenant is between AO and David personally. Solomon did not exist when it was given. A man cannot pledge an unborn son to AO, and an unborn son cannot pledge anything back. Solomon was not the second party. He could not have been.

What tribe was Hiram Abiff from?

The account cannot keep its own story straight. 1 Kings 7:14 says Hiram was "a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali." 2 Chronicles 2:14 says his mother was "of the daughters of Dan." Whichever you choose, the point is the same: Hiram was not Ephraim, not from the priesthood, and had no covenantal standing to touch AO's house. Numbers 3:10 was clear: "the stranger that comes near shall be put to death." Every Masonic lodge on earth carries his name for a reason.

Why does AO forbid tools on the altar?

Exodus 20:25 — "if you lift up your tool upon it, you have polluted it." The moment man shapes the stone, the altar is defiled. Solomon's temple staged this as obedience by having the stones "made ready before they were brought thither, so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house" (1 Kings 6:7). The tools still touched the stones — the work was just hidden offsite. AO did not say don't make noise in the house. He said don't lift up your tool upon it. The altar was polluted by definition.

Why are Jachin and Boaz not in the Tabernacle?

Because AO never ordained them. The Tabernacle pattern Moses received on the mountain has no pillars at the entrance — boards, bars, sockets, veils, curtains, the Ark, the Mercy Seat, the Table, the Lampstand, the Altars of Incense and Burnt Offering, the Laver, but no pillars. Solomon's temple installs two named pillars (Jachin and Boaz, 1 Kings 7:21) standing on either side of the door. They are an insertion — from Edom, not from the mountain. Every Masonic lodge on earth installs replicas of those same two pillars. They are not hiding it. They are signing it.

What does "the David shed blood" line really do in the text?

It is the pretext used once — long enough to move the project from David to Solomon — and never applied again. If shedding blood disqualified a builder, the prophesied Builder of the Branch prophecy (Zechariah 6:12–13) is disqualified before he arrives, and the Messiah of Isaiah 63 — whose own garments are stained with the blood of AO's enemies — is disqualified along with him. The rule does not exist in the Torah. It is a scribal pretext (Jeremiah 8:8) used once to slide Solomon into David's seat.

Who is AO speaking to in Isaiah 63?

Isaiah 63 is AO Himself speaking — describing the day of vengeance and the year of His redeemed. The voice throughout is AO's. The Messiah is His arm — the executor of His counsel (Isaiah 46:10) — not the speaker. "My redeemed" in verse 4 is David, the first redeemed from the grave. "My own arm" in verse 5 is David resurrected, wielding AO's staff and carrying out the counsel of the Most High.

What does Matthew 12:42 mean by "greater than Solomon is here"?

In Matthew 12:42 JC says, "a greater than Solomon is here." JC was telling the truth — but read more carefully than the church has read it. A lie greater than Solomon is here. The temple of Solomon is the most celebrated fraud in Scripture, and the brotherhood that descends from him has been replicating it for thousands of years. The greater lie is the cover story the world was handed about Solomon himself.