Les Feldick Bible Study

Did any pagan temple ever experience God's invading glory like Israel's temple did?

No pagan temple ever experienced that kind of invading glory. Only Israel's temple, when Solomon dedicated it, was filled with God's Shekinah glory, so that the priests did not dare intrude. Visiting every pagan temple ever built would yield no evidence of such glory.

Les explains that Deuteronomy reminded Israel that no other nation had experienced the mountain on fire like Mount Sinai, nor God coming down with thunder, fire, and glory. No other people on earth had experienced it and lived, but Israel did. He then leaps centuries to Solomon's completed temple, where at the dedication the glory of God came in and filled it with Shekinah glory so fully that the priests did not dare intrude. Les says you could visit every pagan temple that has ever existed and never find evidence of that kind of invading glory, but Israel did.