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Streets Full of Children: A Crowned Priest and What God Wants More Than Fasting | Zechariah 6–8
Episode Overview
Today we read Zechariah chapters 6 through 8. Four chariots come out from between two bronze mountains, patrolling north, south, and across the earth—a picture of God's activity running everywhere at once, not confined to Jerusalem.
Then a crown is made and placed on Joshua's head. This is unusual enough to be the point: Joshua is a priest, and crowns belong to kings. Israel kept those offices strictly separate. Here they are combined in one man called the Branch, who will build the temple and sit and rule on his throne, and there will be harmony between the two. The…
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