Cyrus and the Second Temple

Jerusalem is just left to sit empty between five 87 and about 50 years after that, theres just nothing happening in this once great city. And the temple is destroyed. After that, things go very, very badly. Assyrians first, and then later the babylonians come along. They conquer allof the jewish, israelite people, the hebrew people that is. There's no reference to god's showing up in the same obvious, supernatural way. Here, there's no sacrifices that are consumed with fire from heaven. This seems to be a very different animal. But that is not the end of the story of the temple in the old testament because there is an oft