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Bible Questions Answered:
“...Jews
always face the east, why?...”
Miles/
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
Jews always face toward the “holy hill”, that
is, the temple in Jerusalem.
II
Chronicles 6:34,35 NLT
34
If your people go out where you send them to fight their enemies, and
if they pray to you by turning toward this city you have chosen and
toward this Temple I have built to honor your name,
35
then hear their prayers from heaven and uphold their cause.
Daniel
6:10,11 NLT
10
But when Daniel learned that the law had been signed, he went home
and knelt down as usual in his upstairs room, with its windows open
toward Jerusalem. He prayed three times a day, just as he had always
done, giving thanks to his God.
11
Then the officials went together to Daniel’s house and found him
praying and asking for God’s help.
Jews, praying in the temple, and the Holy Of Holies.
I Kings 8:38 NLT
And
if your people Israel pray about their troubles, raising their hands
toward this Temple,
Psalm
5:7 KJV
But
as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy:
and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
Jews today, still pray, facing the East. For awhile
early Christians held to this practice, but over time,
discontinued it.,
Samaritans face towards Mt. Gerizim.
Mohammedans face towards Mecca.
Does it matter, if we are facing East or West, when we
pray? No, because our God is omnipresent, that is He is every where.
The
Word:
Deuteronomy
4:39 KJV
Know
therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that The Lord He
is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none
else.
I Kings 8:27 NLT (Solomon)
But
will God really live on earth? Why, even the highest heavens cannot
contain you. How much less this Temple I have built!
Job
34:21 KJV
For
His eyes are upon the ways of man, and He seeth all his goings.
Psalm
113:4-6 NLT
4
For The Lord is high above the nations; His glory is higher than the
heavens.
5
Who can be compared with The Lord our God, who is enthroned on high?
6
He stoops to look down on heaven and on earth.
Psalm
139:3,7-10 KJV
3
Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with
all my ways.
7
Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy
presence?
8
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell,
behold, thou art there.
9
If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts
of the sea;
10
Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
Proverbs
15:3 KJV
The
eyes of The Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
Isaiah
57:15 NLT
The
High And Lofty One who lives in eternity, The Holy One, says this: “I
live in the high and holy place with those whose spirits are contrite
and humble. I restore the crushed spirit of the humble and revive the
courage of those with repentant hearts.
Isaiah
66:1 KJV
Thus
saith The Lord, The heaven is My throne, and the earth is My
footstool: where is the house that ye build unto Me? and where is the
place of My rest?
Jeremiah
23:23,24 KJV
23
Am I a God at hand, saith The Lord, and not a God afar off?
24
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith
The Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.
Matthew
6:6 KJV
But
thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast
shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father
which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Matthew
18:20 KJV
For
where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in
the midst of them.
Acts
17:24,27 NLT
24
He is The God Who Made The World And Everything In It. Since He is
Lord Of heaven And Earth, He doesn’t live in man-made temples,
27
His purpose was for the nations to seek after God and perhaps feel
their way toward Him and find Him—though He is not far from any one
of us.
Prayer:
Psalm
4:3 KJV
But
know that The Lord hath set apart him that is Godly for Himself: The
Lord will hear when I call unto Him.
