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881. Bible Study: Zechariah 3 (Joshua/Yeshua Symbol of Jesus the Branch, the Messiah, the Stone with 7 Eyes) · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapter 3 from the book of Zechariah.
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  Dear Lord, please open our eyes and our hearts and our minds to
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  what you have to say. We ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
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  This is called clean garments for the high priest.
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  Then he showed me Joshua the high priest, standing before the
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  Angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right side to
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  accuse him. The Lord said to Satan, the Lord
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  rebuke you. Satan, the Lord who has chosen
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  Jerusalem rebuke you. Is not this man a burning stick
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  snatched from the fire? Now Joshua was dressed in filthy
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  clothes as he stood before the Angel.
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  The Angel said to those who were standing before him, take off
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  his filthy clothes. Then he said to Joshua, See, I
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  have taken away your sin, and I will put fine garments on you.
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  Then I said, put a clean turban on his head.
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  So they put a clean turban on his head and clothes him while
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  the Angel of the Lord stood by. The Angel of the Lord gave this
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  charge to Joshua. This is what the Lord Almighty
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  says. If you will walk in obedience to
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  Me and keep my requirements, then you will govern my house
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  and have charge of my courts, and I will give you a place
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  among these standing here. Listen, High Priest Joshua, you
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  and your associates seated before you, who are men symbolic
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  of things to come, I am going to bring my servant the branch.
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  See the stone I have sent in front of you?
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  Joshua, there are seven eyes on that one stone.
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  And I will engrave an inscription on it says the Lord
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  Almighty. And I will remove the sin of
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  this land in a single day. In that day, each of you will
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  invite your neighbor to sit under your vine and fig tree,
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  declares the Lord Almighty. So that's the end of chapter 3.
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  But there's a lot in here. So Zechariah is having this
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  Angel or this Angel came to him in a vision and he is showing
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  him, Joshua, the high priest standing before the Angel of the
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  Lord and Satan standing at his right and the Lord's rebuking
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  Satan. And then he's saying, is this
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  man a burning stick snacked from the fire?
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  So I guess this this is like, it reminds me of other things like
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  Ezekiel when he had to the symbolic sense of, you know,
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  taking some of the hairs and burning some of them and then
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  putting some of them inside of his cloak.
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  And they were like symbolic of because of sin, everything would
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  be destined for fire. But this man has been saved.
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  He was a burning stick snack snatched from the fire and
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  Joshua was in filthy clothes. That you know, the filthy
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  clothes I believe is representative of sin.
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  As he stood before the Angel, the Angel said to those who were
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  standing before him, take off his filthy clothes.
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  And then he said to Joshua, see, I have taken away your sin.
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  So who do you think that was? Perhaps Jesus.
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  Maybe that was telling that to Joshua, see I have taken away
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  your sin. Who else could take away a sin?
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  No one but Jesus and I will put fine garments on you now.
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  Fine garments were fine garments, fine linen that was
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  usually the symbol of royalty, which you know, makes sense of
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  Jesus taking away the sin. And then we become Co heirs with
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  Jesus of the Kingdom of God. And and there is that, you know,
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  when we are born again, we become children of God.
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  And so it is God is royalty. And so this this fine linen,
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  which is expressed several times is representative of that the
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  children of God actually. And let's see so in Revelation
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  19 verse 8, it says fine linen, bright and clean was given her
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  to wear. Fine linen stands for the
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  righteous acts of God's holy people.
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  So it this in Revelation, it's very symbolic.
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  It stands for the righteous acts of God's holy people.
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  And this Revelation 19 eight is talking about the the bride.
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  So the verse before says, let us rejoice and be glad and give him
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  glory. For the wedding of the Lamb has
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  come and his bride has made herself ready.
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  So this is the wedding of the Lamb is Jesus and the bride is
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  the is is ultimately Jerusalem and the people that will reside
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  in Jerusalem, the people who have made their self ready.
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  So just look at what it says here.
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  And his bride has made herself ready and fine lemon, fine linen
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  bright and clean was given her to wear fine linen stands for
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  the righteous acts of God's holy people.
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  So that is the same thing that we're seeing here for Joshua and
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  it says to put the clean turban on his head.
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  And the other part was that God gave a, a, a promise or a
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  conditional promise to Joshua said if you do this, then I will
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  do that. So if you walk in obedience to
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  me and keep my requirements, then you will govern my house
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  and have charge of my courts and I will give you a place among
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  these standing here. So it sounds like there's some
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  sort of a Royal Court that he's seeing here.
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  Prominent people. Listen, high priest Joshua, you
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  and your associates seating seated before you who are men
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  symbolic of things to come. And we'll see that symbolism in
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  these next statements because it's a the that they are
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  symbolic. So Joshua is a high priest and
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  he is symbolic of things to come.
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  And then it immediately after that it says I'm going to bring
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  my servant the branch. So the branch is referring to
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  Jesus and you'll see a little bit more the clarity on that.
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  See the stone I have set in front of Joshua, there are 7 I's
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  on that one stone and I will engrave it with an inscription
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  on it. Well, seven I's on that one
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  stone. This reminded me of the Book of
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  Revelation again, and I thought I had that open.
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  OK, yes, so in Revelation it says.
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  Then I saw a lamb, which is Jesus, looking as if it had been
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  slain, standing at the center of the throne.
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  This is the throne of the Father, encircled by the four
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  living creatures. Those are the, I think the
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  Seraphim and the elders. The Lamb had 7 horns and seven
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  eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all
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  the earth. So the number 7 is usually
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  completion, like the seven days of creation, the seven days of
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  the week. Then there are 7 sevens, which
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  is I think it's a shabuim where there's a period of seven, it's
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  like 49 years. So 7 is a very significant
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  number and it's a way of measuring things.
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  It's like a completion part. So it's Jesus is the lamb had 7
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  horns, 7 eyes and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of
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  God sent out into all the earth, the seven spirits.
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  I mean, I think there's another translation that says sevenfold
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  spirits. And I was, I think I was trying
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  to look that up of the different spirits that were referenced and
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  I, I would need to do another study.
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  I didn't do that for this one. But that's I'm not fully, I
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  don't fully understand unless it's like the complete spirit,
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  the Holy Spirit. But the seven horns.
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  Horns are usually power and it's probably perfect power.
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  And the seven eyes is is, you know, like all seeing
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  omnipresent and seven spirits. This is kind of interesting too,
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  because the horses that are representative of there are
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  spiritual that go out sent out into all the earth.
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  The seven spirits. That's what those horse horses
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  are. And we see that in the chapter 1
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  of Zechariah where there's the 3, three or four horses that are
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  in the Myrtle trees that that are seen.
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  We also see we're going to see some more horses.
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  And I think Chapter 6 of the book of Zechariah and also in
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  Revelation Chapter 6, where there are the the four horsemen.
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  And so we see this tying these horses that go throughout the
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  earth. I mean, this is something that I
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  just kind of recently came across when I was actually as a
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  result of some dreams that I had and the significance of horses.
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  And I did find that these horses are symbolic of spiritual
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  entities that go searching the earth for different purposes,
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  just like this Revelation 5-6 says, which are the seven
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  spirits of God sent out to all the earth.
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  I was trying to number the horses just to see if they were
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  the description of the horses. And I so far I only came up with
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  six. So I'm not sure where the seven
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  is because in Scripture the horses that are described that
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  I've seen have been a red horse, a White Horse, a Black Horse,
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  green horse, a dappled horse, and a sorrel horse horse.
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  So those are 6 different horses read in the Book of Revelation
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  has been indicative of war. White is conquering black was
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  symbolic of famine or scarcity, green was associated with
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  plagues. Dappled horse.
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  I think you know that I think may also be a plague.
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  So in chapter 6 of Zechariah it, he sees these Chariots and the
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  Angel answers him. These are the four spirits of
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  heaven going out from the standing in the presence of the
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  Lord of the whole world. The one with the Black Horse is
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  going towards the north, the one with the White Horse to the
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  West, and the one with the dappled horse going to the
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  South. And we're going to read about
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  that in chapter 6, but I can't, I can't recall if they, the
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  dappled horse, what that one specifically represents.
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  But anyway, I came up with six of them and I'm not sure about
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  the seven and just looking into this, but Jesus, you know, is
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  described with the seven eyes and Jesus is also described as a
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  stone or a rock. So let's see where we can where
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  this first comes up about the stone in Isaiah 8 chapter 8
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  verse 14, He will be a holy place for both Israel and Judah.
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  He will be a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock
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  that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem,
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  he will be a trap and a snare. So it makes sense when you think
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  about this as Jesus, because he will be a holy place for both
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  Israel and Judah. He will be a stone that causes
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  people to stumble. So there's a lot of Jewish
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  people that didn't accept Jesus as the Messiah, so that that's
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  how he causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.
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  And you know, Christ is like the firm foundation.
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  So he is the this is also referred to in the book of
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  Daniel with that statue. There's the stone that's not cut
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  or a rock that's not cut, cut from stone that crushes the toes
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  of the statue. I'll have to look that up.
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  But in the book of Daniel that there's another symbolism with
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  Jesus being that that rock that crushes the toes, the final
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  Kingdom that Daniel sees in his dream or that the king actually
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  saw in his dream. Nebuchadnezzar saw it and Daniel
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  interpreted the dream. So then in Isaiah chapter 28
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  this is also referenced, verse 16.
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  So this is what the sovereign Lord says.
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  See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious
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  cornerstone for a sure foundation.
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  The one who relies on it will never be stricken with panic.
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  And that is representative of Jesus, the Lamb of God.
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  And see, I lay a stone in in Zion, which is Jerusalem, a
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  tested stone. Jesus was tested and he remained
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  sinless, a precious cornerstone for a shore foundation.
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  The one who relies on it will never be stricken with panic.
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  If we rely on Jesus, we are on a solid foundation.
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  And so there is that part. And then I'm scrolling through
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  in Romans Chapter 9, verse 33, he, Paul, I presume, is the one
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  who says this as it is written. See, I lay a stone that causes
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  people to stumble in a rock that makes them fall.
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  And the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.
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  So that's referenced. I the book of Isaiah is what is
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  referenced there. And then first Peter also
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  references this in chapter 2 verses 6 and 8.
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  It says, for in Scripture it says, see, I lay a stone in
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  Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who
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  trusts in him will never be put to shame.
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  And then in verse 8, it says, and a stone that causes people
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  to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, they stumble because
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  they disobey the message, which is also what they were destined
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  for. And this was let's see it says
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  the verse before says now to you who believe this stone is
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  precious, but to those who do not believe the stone the
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  builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
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  So the builders it's you know, Israel, right and because God is
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  building his people from Israel, he chose Israel.
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  So the stone the builders rejected has become the
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  cornerstone. Jesus is the foundation of
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  everything but they were he was rejected by his own people.
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  So let's see what else there is. So anyway, going back to chapter
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  3 of the book of Zechariah is God is referencing his the
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  branch, which is who is Jesus. See the stone I set in front of
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  you Joshua. There are seven eyes on that one
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  stone and I will engrave an inscription on it says the Lord
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  Almighty and I I will remove the sin of this land in a single
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  day. Well, that's by Jesus.
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  When you think about that. There's some other verses that I
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  often think I don't know if we always, if everybody gets the
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  right interpretation on these. I mean, it's close, but maybe
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  it's not right because like it talks about, you know, has
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  anyone, you know, I, I think it might be in, in Isaiah where it
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  says they were delivered before it gives birth or being born in
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  a day. Has everyone anyone ever known a
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  nation to be born in a day? And everyone says that's Israel
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  from 1948, I think is when Israel became a nation again.
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  And everybody says, well, that happened in one day.
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  And it was that May 1948 that that was the day that, you know,
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  the birth of the nation. And I think that's true, but I
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  don't think that's the full fulfillment of what this is
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  talking about. I believe this is talking about
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  when Jesus takes the final authority for the Millennium
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  reign and then at that point it's a single day like his
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  absolutely his his death. Well, more so I think his death
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  on the cross was the day that that sins were taken away.
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  They were atoned for by his death on the cross.
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  But then when he returns, he is going to take the sin of the
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  land in Israel and that's going to be gone in a day because he
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  says he will give them, He will remove their heart of stone and
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  give them a heart of flesh. And then he will put his laws on
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  on their hearts and they will be his people and he will be their
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  God. And so this is all going to
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  happen at the time that Jesus returns.
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  And so I think that's the ultimate fulfillment.
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  Jesus's death did is what took away the sin.
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  But I think the completion of that is when he returns and
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  people are no longer into idolatry when they recognize who
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  He is and He reigns as king here on earth.
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  So and that day you will invite your neighbor to sit under your
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  vine, and your fig tree declares the Lord Almighty.
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  So I'll read through the questions and answers for
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  chapter 3 and then that'll be all that we have for this.
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  So why did Satan accuse Joshua the high priest?
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  Satan probably accused Joshua as the representative of the entire
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  nation of Israel. Why does Satan come before God?
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  Satan is the adversary and approaches God to accuse God's
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  people of sin. And that's found in Revelation
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  chapter 12. I didn't call that up, but I
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  might as well, since we're talking about it.
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  It's just going to take a second.
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  But there's another place too, in the book of Job, where Satan
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  is before God. He's like in a counsel of God
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  and he is, you know, going after Job basically he's challenging
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  God with Job. So Revelation 12 verse 10 says
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  then I heard a loud voice in heaven say, now have come the
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  salvation and the power and the Kingdom of of our God and the
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  authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers
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  and sisters, who accuses them before our God, day and night
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  has been hurled down and. Prior to this sentence was the
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  great dragon was hurled down that ancient serpent called the
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  Devil or Satan, who leads the whole world astray.
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  He was hurled to the earth and his angels with him.
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  So Satan has his own angels. Are his alliance of angels?
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  And then the question, how was Israel a burning stick?
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  The people of Israel had been snatched from the fire of the
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  Babylonian exile, God's judgement, in order to carry out
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  God's future purpose for them. Why was Joshua wearing filthy
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  clothes? The filthy clothes represent the
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  sins of the people. In place of the filthy clothes,
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  Joshua, representing the nation, would be clothed in splendid
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  garments, a picture of righteousness.
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  What would Joshua govern? The high priest was responsible
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  for overseeing the orderly activities of the temple.
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  Who is the branch? The Messiah, the servant of God
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  called the branch to suggest the fruitfulness of his life.
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  The same analogy for the Messiah was used by other prophets that
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  as well, such as Isaiah chapter 4, verse 2 and Jeremiah 23.
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  Five. I should probably read those.
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  I didn't have those called up either.
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  But let's see, we have Isaiah 42.
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  So Isaiah 4. Two, in that day the branch of
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  the Lord will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the
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  land will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel.
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  Those who are left in Zion, who remain in Jerusalem will be
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  called holy. All who are recorded among the
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  living in Jerusalem. And then it goes on to talk
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  about more of what will happen in that day.
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  And then we the other reference was Jeremiah 23, verse 5, so I
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  will read that one too. Jeremiah 23 five The days are
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  coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a
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  righteous branch, a king who will reign wisely and do what is
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  just and right in the land. In his days Judah will be saved
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  and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which he
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  will be called the Lord, our righteous Savior.
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  So that is it. And then there's one more who
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  are Why sit under a vine and fig tree?
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  In ancient Israel, this was a picture of the good life.
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  It was their idea of heaven on earth and therefore spoke of
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  abundant blessing. So that concludes chapter 3 from
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  the book of Zechariah. If you're not subscribed, come
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