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Originally Posted by Ohio
Yes it is true...that there is no mention of the ark of the covenant being returned to the temple, nor is there scripture that that specifically states that the glory of Jehovah filled this restored temple... but still I can't believe that Haggai's prophetic word did not have immediate applications.
Haggai in his prophetic word specifically... refers to God's house (Hag 1.2) being built as "this house" which shall have a "greater glory."
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I am uninformed of the "400 years of silence" between the testaments but that won't keep me from making an ignorant comment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_the_Great
According to Josephus the Jewish historian, Herod the great (who besides murdering thousands of Jews, executed his wife, his mother, his brother-in-law, several sons and numerous high priests) tried to put an eagle atop his "improved" temple in honor of his Roman benefactors.
Isn't it patently obvious that any glory the second temple posessed, whether "greater glory" or not, was long since gone when Jesus showed up? So what "recovery" are we looking at here, Haggai's testimony notwithstanding? I see the idea as a literary fiction concocted by Mssrs Nee, Lee & Co to keep the slaves on the plantation.
To me that is like talking about the "glory days" of Elden Hall. Even if the accounts are all true, how glorious was Elden Hall if its glory has long since dissipated?
Any "restoration" that doesn't abide is just a blip on the screen, an artifact of some sort. We shouldn't look to it for a pattern, for a model of "a future and a hope". We just have to go on.