By the first century, Baal is a distant memory, but Jesus immediately heads to Herod's temple, which he condemns as a den of thieves, repeating the words of Jeremiah against the first temple. (firstthings.com)
From about the destruction of the first temple up till now, jews have and will always be looking for a messiah, they haven't stopped as a culture and its why jesus was popular among some when he came onto the scene, because they WANT a messiah. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
In that year in the city of Smyrna there was erected the first temple of the divinity of Rome. (religion-online.org)