The Temple has been cleansed

The Guayaquil temple has been closed for two weeks of cleaning.  Now it shines inside and out, a beacon to illuminate minds and fortify souls and to strengthen families.

2 Chronicles 29–30.   Hezekiah... reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem... And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord... in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them....

And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together... And said unto them, Hear me... sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lord God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place...

Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us...

My sons, be not now negligent: for the Lord hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him.

Then the Levites arose... And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lord.

And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the Lord into the court of the house of the Lord...

 Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the Lord: so they sanctified the house of the Lord in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end...

Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the Lord, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof... have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.

And he set the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the Lord by his prophets. And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the Lord began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.

And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.

 And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped. 

Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the Lord with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.

Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the Lord, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the Lord.

And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.