to the Temple) in all his glory. The world will once again know that God is in his Temple and in his city. Nothing is said about a return from exile, a restoration of political power, or the royal house of David. Many Jews had thought about God’s future and their own future in those terms. Indeed Jeremiah and Ezekiel had done so, although Ezekiel’s last great vision had turned to the view of a new temple rather than a new nation. Nonetheless, those expectations will not die easily. The skeptical