6:14
The three returnees from Babylon were to be given the crown, with a fourth person, Hen, now being mentioned. It is given as a memorial in the temple of the Lord. There was to be several hundred years between the completion of the second temple and the coming of Christ. This crown was a reminder of what was to come, a reminder that the second temple was not “it”, but only a shadow of “it”. This was actually something that many of the Jews did grasp, at least to some extent. They realised, or at least suspected, that the temple and the return from Babylon could not be the fulfilment of God’s plans, there had to be so much more.
6:15
We then get a reference to those far away. We can see this as referring to the Gentiles, with people from all corners of the globe coming into the kingdom and so helping to build the true temple of the Lord. “This will happen if you diligently obey the Lord your God”. There is nowhere in the Bible where it says “obedience does not matter”, so any teaching or theology that does say this is deeply flawed.
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