Wow!! What a Ceremony!!

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Before I comment on the obvious, I have to say this temple dedication must have been absolutely spectacular. The pomp and ceremony was over the top! Can you imagine 120 trumpets sounding as one?! I used to march with the drum and bugle corps and it so happens that years ago 120 was the limit of the size of the entire corp unit (today it's 150). Now, the horn section generally took up about 40-50 and oh the sound these talented musicians could make!! Now imagine 120 horns "an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets" -- oh my goodness!! Add to that the mass choir assembled with other instruments it had to be absolutely stunning to experience. If you didn't get chills from the sights and sounds you weren't breathing!

So it is this back drop before which the awesome presence of God appears in the form of a cloud which fills the temple. Imagine after all the breath-taking, goose-bump infusing musical and visual stimulation over load -- next comes the awesome, unbelievable, paralysing presence of God! What must it have been like? If you really use your imagination you might even get goose bumps and won't be able to come up with anything else to say but WOW!!! Honestly, this is jaw dropping stuff!!