The Importance of Solomon's Temple

The northern kingdom of Israel falls to Assyria in 722 BC and is lost to history, just gone. And then sometime later in 586 BC, the southern kingdom falls to the new big bad empire on the block that's come along by this point: Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians. In the process of that fall, the temple that Solomon built for God to dwell among his people is destroyed and left in ruins. The prophets keep fleshing out the idea of the Messiah who was predicted clear back in the garden with the promise of one would crush the head of the serpent.