Second Temple
169Walls (Part 3)
17 Jul 2023
1:27¶ 4
“When Joshua and Zerubbabel come back and lead the original return and set about reestablishing worship, they do the altar, which we would expect,…”
2:13¶ 6
“There is no mercy seat. We’re not told what they did, and yet God orchestrated all of this and told them to rebuild the…”
2:39¶ 7
“The Shekinah glory too is missing. There’s no visible representation, no lightshow of God’s presence. That doesn’t mean God wasn’t present, and that’s kind…”
161The Day of Small Things
17 Apr 2023
5:49¶ 16
“In this case, when the temple’s foundation slab was laid, there were people who remembered the complete structure, and the complete structure of Solomon’s…”
6:31¶ 18
“As they looked at this one they said, “It’s a slab of concrete.” Well, it probably wasn’t concrete but, “It’s a foundation slab,” and…”
7:55¶ 21
“On the other hand, there were people there who had grown up in captivity in Babylon, and they’d heard about what it was like…”
159The Restoration Era
20 Mar 2023
27:49¶ 93
“The most obvious thing that this new temple did not have was the ark of the covenant. How do you do Day of Atonement…”
28:21¶ 94
“So all of that, which was in effect the big deal about the tabernacle and then about Solomon’s temple, just isn’t there anymore, so…”
28:41¶ 95
“In fact, he’s present not only in the new temple, but the whole city by the time Nehemiah is done building and sanctifying the…”