Did God dwell in the 2nd temple?

[tonychanyt]

Solomon dedicated the 1st temple in 2 Chronicles 5:

7 The priests then brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim.​

At the end:

13b the temple of the Lord was filled with the cloud, 14 the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple of God.​

Centuries later, the Babylonians destroyed the 1st temple. Zerubbabel built the 2nd temple in Ezra 3 but there is no mention that the glory cloud of the Lord filled the second temple.

Did God dwell in the 2nd temple?

Yes, I think so. Zechariah 8:3 This is what the LORD says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the Faithful City, and the mountain of the LORD Almighty will be called the Holy Mountain.”

King Artaxerxes thought so and wrote in Ezra 7:15b to carry the silver and gold that the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose dwelling is in Jerusalem.

Jesus mentioned it in Mat 23:21 He who swears by the temple swears by it and by the One who dwells in it.

 

[David Kent]

ISAIAH 44: That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Hag 1 3-5 Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways

YES, I agree with you

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

No. God did not reside in the 2nd Temple. From the time the first temple was destroyed, God had divorced Israel. The next time His presence came to Israel was in the Person of Jesus Christ. And He was heralded by John the Baptizer, the first prophet in 400 years to give the direct Word of God. Logically, the presence of God was not going to inhabit the Temple if God in the Person of Jesus was right there among them. When Jesus died on the cross, the curtain separating the Holy of Holies from the Holy Place was torn from top to bottom to show that the barrier between mankind and the presence of God was destroyed. Through faith in Christ, believers can enter right into the presence of God through boldly coming to His throne of grace.