FIRE CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN: At a later time, God
answered Elijah in just such a way: 1Ki 18:24,38.
2Ch 7:5
Is it feasible to actually offer at that time so many animals
as sacrifices? Perhaps Solomon simply "transferred title" of some of his vast
herds to the Temple service itself.
2Ch 7:11
Thus the record notes at this point, after the Cloud of Glory
had entered the temple, that "Solomon had finished the temple"; this
demonstrates that the building on its own was incomplete until it had received
the presence of God.
We are the temple of the living God (2Co 6:16), but we are not
complete as the dwelling place for God until Christ returns and glorifies his
"Body" or "Temple".