We’re right in the middle of a three-part look at Second Temple literature — those writings from the time between the Old and New Testaments. While they’re not part of our Bible, they matter for this series because they show how people in Jesus’ day understood the Bible. What they expected wasn’t vague global collapse, it was the same pattern we’ve seen in every section of Scripture — a regional war centered on Israel, with Jerusalem surrounded, the nations rising and the Messiah ...