Changes for the high priest Joshua
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📚And he showed me Joshua 📖 the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD 📖, and Satan 📖 standing at his right hand to resist him. 2 📚And the LORD said to Satan, “The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD who has chosen Jerusalem 📖 rebuke you! Is this not a brand snatched out of the fire 📖?”3:2 Why should the LORD say “the LORD rebuke you?” – note at 2:11. The LORD here is the same as the angel of the LORD and His words mean that God the Father should rebuke Satan.⚜
3 📚Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes 📖, and standing before the angel. 4 📚And the angel answered and spoke to those who were standing before him, saying, “Take off his filthy clothes”. And to him he said, “See, I have removed your sin from you, and I will put costly garments on 📖 you”.
5 📚And I said, “Let them put a clean turban on his head”. So they put a clean turban 📖 on his head, and put the clothes on him. And the angel of the LORD stood by.
6 📚And the angel of the LORD solemnly affirmed to Joshua, saying, 7 📚“Thus says the LORD of hosts: If you walk in my ways, and if you keep my command, then you will also govern my house, and will also have charge of my courts, and I will give you places to walk among these who are standing here 📖.
3:6-7 Joshua was made righteous and his sin was gone. Now in accordance with that he must live a faithful holy life. Compare Rom 12:1-2; Eph 4:1.⚜
Prophecy concerning Christ the Branch
8 📚“Now listen, high priest Joshua, you and your companions who are sitting before you, men who are a symbol 📖. For, see, I will bring my servant the BRANCH. 9 📚For see the stone that I have laid before Joshua. Seven eyes 📖 are on that one stone 📖. See, I will engrave its inscription, says the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day 📖.
10 📚“In that day 📖, says the LORD of hosts, each of you will invite his neighbour under his vine and under his fig tree 📖”.