It's a used prayer by NT believers, but rarely do you hear a full teaching on the passage.
We should learn to read the entire passage before exegeting and expounding verse 14.
But this is connected to Romans chapters 9, 10, and 11.
2 Chronicles 7:12-22
“Then the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.
When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people,
if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place. For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.
As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you,
and if you keep My statutes and My judgments, then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, You shall not fail to have a man as ruler in Israel.’
“But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods,
and worship them, then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house which I have sanctified for My name I will cast out of My sight,
and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
“And as for this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say,
Why has the LORD done thus to this land and this house?’
Then they will answer, ‘Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore He has brought all this calamity on them."
If My people.
Ask yourself the question.
Who's "My people?"
Israel is "My people" in this passage, not the NT church. In John 10, the Lord mentions that there are sheep that are not of this fold, them I must bring in. Paul speaks about the church as the "wild olive branch being grafted in," in Romans. The Gentiles were "adopted."
The destruction of the Temple the Lord referred to was fulfilled in 586BC which is the Babylonian captivity of Israel for 70 Years. If you read Daniel chapter 9, you will see that Daniel searched the Scriptures (the Book of Jeremiah 25:12-13 and chapter 29:10, chapter 52 also summed up the tragic event) to see why Israel was exiled to Babylon and found out that they would remain in Babylon for 70 years.
Then the angel Gabriel showed up to reveal the end times for Israel.
"70 weeks had been determined for your people."
Then further in the explaination of the final week, Gabriel said 7 weeks and 62 weeks.
This adds up to 69 weeks, but what about the final week?
The 70th week is when everything comes to an end. (see Daniel 9:27 and the 12 chapter of Daniel).
The first half or 42 months, or 1260 days or 3.5 years will be "Peace and Safety. (see 1 Thessalonians 5:3)" The second half or 42 months, or 1260 days or 3.5 years (week) will be "sudden destruction." (see 1 Thessalonians 5:3).
In the middle of the week, Revelation 13 takes place that the Lord Jesus called "great tribulation" in Matthew 24.
Now the Temple was finally fully destroyed in AD70 by the Romans, 37 years after the Lord prophesied of its utter destruction in Matthew 24.
37 lunar calendar years after the resurrection of Christ.
If you read Matthew 24, you will see that in verse 15, the Lord mentioned "the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet standing in the Holy Place."
Immediately, we see that the Lord is speaking of the Temple.
In order for "the abomination of desolation" to take place, there must be a Temple.
Now in 2 Chronicles 7, it's amazing that we only read verse 14, but we never read the entire passage.
Verse 14 is a great prayer template, but within context, it’s speaking to Israel.
Today, the Temple is gone but it will be rebuilt.
Matthew 24, 1 Thessalonians 5, 2 Thessalonians 2 and Daniel 9 tells us that there will be a Temple.
God knows the end from the beginning (see Isaiah 46).
But the great debate is will the Temple be built on the very site where the Dome of the Rock is or will it be built elsewhere on the Temple Mount?
Many Bible prophesy pundits don’t believe that the Temple will be built exactly where the Dome is. But for that to happen, the Dome must be either removed or destroyed. What about renovating it? It doesn't seem possible, and here's why.
There's a replica of the Temple already made that may serve as a model and in this replica, there's no sign of the Al Aqsa Mosque or the Dome of the Rock. The Jews intend to build the Temple (see the Temple Institute Website here.)
Many Bible prophesy pundits conclude otherwise, with a plausible scenario that building a Temple on the Temple Mount with the Dome and Al Aqsa Mosque there at the same time.
I highly dloubt it, but I don't close my mind to the possibility.
Remember the Golden Gate?
The Golden Gate or the East Gate is where the Messiah will enter to go into the Temple according to Ezekiel 44:1-3.
How will the Temple will come about has yet to be seen but there’s nothing too hard for God, and with God, nothing is impossible.
Should Trump get in office, it’s possible that we may see it happen.
Or at the very least, Trump will give Israel permission to prepare for the Temple in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount. Or Israel ignores the international pressure not to build the Temple and build it anyway.
The 2024 election is more than just about America.
It’s about what leads to the building of the Temple, the final week of Daniel's prophesy, the pouring out of the wrath of God on the earth, and then the Second Coming of the Messiah to establish His everlasting kingdom (see Daniel chapter 2) and save Israel.
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