The True Glory of the Second Temple

And yet this was the building of which the Lord had declared, “The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former.” “The Desire of All Nations” would come. Haggai 2:9, 7. Jesus, the Desire of All Nations, made the temple holy by His personal presence. Yet many have refused to see any special significance in His advent. Their minds are blind to the true meaning of the prophet’s words.RR 210.5

God honored the second temple, not with the cloud of His glory, but with the presence of the One in whom was “all the fullness of the Godhead bodily”—God “manifested in the flesh.” Colossians 2:9; 1 Timothy 3:16. In this alone did the second temple exceed the first in glory. The “Desire of All Nations” had indeed come to His temple when the Man of Nazareth taught and healed in its sacred courts.RR 210.6