This points to time, memory, and expectation. I went to a dorm reunion and was struck by thoughts of would have, could have, should have.
Bruce Springsteen sings of Glory Days and surely that was the tune behind the memories of the temple.
On the other hand, their expectations led them to be disappointed.We hear of polls allowing expectation games to be played.
Why were they not more proud of their achievement in a fairly short time in a devastated land?
Note how hard it must have been to mark time under a foreign ruler's regime.
Note how the presence of God is stressed. Was God absent when the temple was gone? Would God be present in this new, apparently inferior temple?
Notice church and state are both addressed. Do you think that material from Joshua on taking heart is b eing applied here to Joshua of the high priesthood?
I love that instead of an earthquake destroying things this shaking seems to be a shakedown of other nations for plunder, or offerings. It would feel good to hear of this when your trasure was pouring out to Persia, no?
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