Today people are doing the same thing that was done in the time of King Rehoboam. The Old Testament describes how enemies came and stole gold from God’s temple. Instead of the stolen gold objects, King Rehoboam made copper ones. Christians do something similar today. They replaced the gold of the Temple – God’s plans, purposes and their achievement – with the copper of the world. They brought worldly and carnal manifestations into the church and replaced with it the real movement of the Holy Spirit.
The next great spiritual outpouring that God wants to bring to earth will require people to put aside their plans and goals and seek true worship of God. The Body of Christ is now at the beginning of a new manifestation of God’s glory on earth, but a new wave of God’s blessing can only come when the Church throws out the brass from the Temple!