The Second Dedication of Solomon's Temple

The second dedication inspired ezra to include ezra six 16 in his book. The sacrifices are comfortably 200 times smaller than what had happened at the first dedication. There's just a passing acknowledgment that there was a dedication, that we didn't really have a ton of money to sacrifice a lot of animals or anything. And glaringly absent, once again, from this account, is any notation of the supernatural and physically obvious arrival of god. We'll talk about how this bitter sweet arrival of the second temple affects the mentality and the religion of the jewish people moving forward toward the time of christ.