2Ch 7:1

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”.