It is great to have scriptures and notes for study of them. If pondering things of God we can be guided to such notes like cross references and from there to truth we need to help us understand the things of God we ponder. The Holy Spirit can do this guiding once we have accepted the teachings of Lord Jesus and received the Holy Spirit. Accepting gifts of the Spirit brings us from proximity to the kingdom of God, actually into the kingdom of God. Then we are told “Build the temple”. Instead of merely knowing scripture verses about God and notes about those verses (the Pharisees loved to write such notes), we can love God and cherish His commands obediently and be visited by God, to know Him, and by His Son to know His Son, and by the Holy Spirit to know the Holy Spirit. Then God can tell us what He wants to tell others to build up the Temple. “Israel has sinned”, He says. And the eagle with the big white eye overhead is sign of this. God can help us root out sin and bring His kingdom near to others. But merely knowing scriptures and studying is no substitute for all of this, all of this of which they testify. We need the reality in our lives, realities of the kingdom of God.
