What "Recovery"? LSM's Major Myth Debunked - TOMES

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Originally Posted by aron

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 future and a hope".

Just because the glory was short-lived has little bearing here. Look at the glory of Solomon's temple, how long did it last? How about the glory that filled the Tabernacle? We could also make similar comments about the early church.

But none of that is my point.

The question is this -- did not the exhorting word given by Jehovah through the prophet Haggai to "be strong" and rebuild the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem also include the promise that the "the latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former?"

Nigel Tomes and Professor Wright seem to differ, saying only that these prophecies are yet to be fulfilled. It seems to me that they are reading this into the word, whereas a simple perusal of Haggai appears quite different.