Not exact matches
Remember, the only reason the Christian Right wants Israel to be protected
so badly, is because they want the Mosque of Omar to be torn down and the
temple rebuilt.
So a group of Israelites, about 50,000 of them, returned under the leadership of a man named Zerubabbel, to
rebuild the
temple.
The process of
rebuilding the
temple experienced many setbacks and difficulties,
so the prophets Haggai and Zechariah encouraged the people to continue
rebuilding the
temple despite all of the problems.
The exiled Hebrews, however, desired nothing quite
so much as the
rebuilding of that destroyed city and
temple; their persistent ambition centered in the restoration of the very shrine whose ruin had done
so much to refine and elevate their faith.
The issue is, theologically it would go against the prophecies and
so would be destroyed most likely and not be
rebuilt to its former glory until the messiah comes, there's also the issue that to
rebuild the third
temple they would need to knock down the Dome of the Rock (among other things) because the
temple is pretty massive, and something tells me that muslims wouldn't exactly welcome the idea.
The
temple you're referring to was never actually built, the plans were laid out but it never came to fruition, these same plans are supposed to be used by the messiah when he comes back
so he can
rebuild the
temple.
The Evangelicals want the
temple to be
rebuilt,
so Jesus can come back and torture all us non-believers.