were scorched, blasted, and driven away. The supernatural phenomena continued, Gibbon wrote, until the whole project was abandoned. The facts are evident. First, Julian was determined to disprove Bible prophecy by attempting to rebuild the temple before its time as an outright challenge to God. Second, with all the wealth and power of the world at his command, he failed. Nor has anyone since Julian’s day made a similar experiment. The Jewish temple in Jerusalem will be rebuilt, as we learn from other