Rose Guide to the Temple

Solomon’s great Temple stood for centuries until the Babylonians captured Jerusalem and destroyed it. The devastation was both physical and spiritual: the Temple was an awesome structure, but it was also the place of the Lord’s presence with his people, the place of worship.

 About 70 years later, the people returned to Jerusalem and built a second Temple. It wasn’t as spectacular as the original, and those who remembered Solomon’s golden pillars, wept over the difference. Yet it was the house of God to the exiles who returned home. 

Some 300 years later, Herod the Great renovated and expanded the second Temple and made it famous, rivaling the finest monuments of that time. This is the Temple where Jesus was dedicated as a baby, where he honored the widow for giving all she had, and where he threw out the money changers.

 The Temple is important, both as a historical and architectural masterpiece, and as a spiritual symbol of God's desire to dwell with his people.

 This full-color book gives a complete, easy-to-understand overview of the history of the Temple in Jerusalem. Features a description about how the Temple looked during biblical times; well-annotated text; more than 100 images, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations; covers the span of time from Abraham to today.

 BK1083H, 143 pages, hardback