Introduction

The temple is a really important factor in where the story goes from here. The book of hagai has god taking a similar tone toward zerubbl and the people who are back in jerusalem, kind of flirting with rebuilding the temple. In chapter one of the story of the temple, there's a temporary tent called the tabernacle. And when it's set up and ready to go, according to god's commands, god's spirit shows up. God dwells among his people. Then they build a permanent version of thetabernacle, which is the first temple under solomon. This is just a little but after one thousand a d it's built in jer