1) God initiates plan. 2) it's the son who does the building. 3) God has the pattern.
The pattern was given by revelation. God spoke to him very clearly: stick to the pattern. When you stick to God's pattern, you are actually submitting to his role as a king over your life. When you resist His pattern, you are resisting His role as a king over your life. Its all very well to say: Jesus is king; but actually He becomes king in our life when we recognize He knows how to build. By wisdom is a house built; wisdom comes from God.
We have our own ideas. Most of us, when it comes to building marriage, building family, bring our old pattern we're used to into the marriage, and often it's a broken pattern, a dysfunctional pattern, but we're used to it, so it feels normal. We don't understand, if you're going to build something that's different and better, then you need to do something different. Find out what God said to do, and do that, it'll be a lot better.
4) God filled it with His glory
The last thing is, as we saw in Exodus 40, when the house was built, according to the pattern God designed, then God filled it with His glory. His glory is all his goodness, His nature. There was a supernatural, tangible manifestation in the earth, that could be seen day and night, and was spectacular to watch. You could not doubt this was a house where God was in it, because you could see God was in the house. The display of his glory was so enormous. That's Moses.
I found the same four things with Solomon. 1 Chronicles 28:10-19
1 Chronicles 28:10 - "Consider now for the Lord has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary, be strong and do it"
Then David gave his son Solomon, the plans for the vestibule, the houses, the treasuries, the upper chambers, the inner chambers, the place of the mercy seat - for the plans for all, he had by the spirit. Notice all the detail: the courts of the house, the chambers, the treasuries, treasuries of dedicated things. Verse 13, all the divisions of the priests, the levites, all the work. Verse 19 - "all of this, the Lord gave me the plan". He didn't come up with a grand idea of his own; he got it by revelation. God revealed to him how to build, and what to do. He said: the Lord made me understand, in writing by his hand upon me. We would expect that if this is a pattern, that when he builds according to what God wants - God fills it! If you want God to fill it, then build it his way.
2 Chronicles 5:13-14 - "It came to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, making one sound praising, thanking the Lord, lifting up the voice with trumpets and Cymbals and instruments and music. Praising the Lord saying: for He is good, His mercy endures forever".
God loves music. The house of the Lord was filled with a cloud, and the priest could not continue ministering, because of the the glory of the Lord filled the house. They fell over, they could not stand because of the Majesty, the glory, as God himself did what He said he'd do - come and fill the house with all his fullness. He would dwell on the earth. Now, that's astounding.
Have a look at the time and the season after that, all that happened in Israel, as a nation. The nations of the earth came, the riches of the earth came. People came all over to see the wisdom of Solomon. The kings of the earth came there. They gathered into Jerusalem. What did they gather to? The house God had built. How was it built?
1) God was the architect, the designer. He was the one who initiated it. It's His plan, to build, and come and live in it.
2) He got a son to build it. God said to David: you can't build it. Solomon, your son, is going to build the house.
3) It came by a divine pattern, revelation. It was built according to what God showed him, not his own plan.
4) When it was completed, it was filled.
5) David, the father, provided everything needed to build the house.
We have five things in play:
1) God, as a father, initiates the plan of building a family, building a house, that He can come and dwell in.