Zechariah 3
Signposts of the Kingdom!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, October 10.
You are a signpost of the kingdom of God, but you can only be accurately read when you are not smeared with sin. Being a visible sign of prophetic significance is called holiness, sanctification, or purity, and it’s an important aspect of our calling as followers of Jesus. He is the only visible image of the invisible God, but we, as His remnant on Earth, are to point to Him until His victorious return as the conquering King. The angel of the Lord taught Joshua what it meant to be such a prophetic sign (“symbol”) of the Messiah in Zechariah 3:8-10:
“Now listen, Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who are sitting in front of you – indeed they are men who are a symbol, for behold, I am going to bring in My servant the Branch. For behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave an inscription on it,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. In that day,” declares the Lord of hosts, “every one of you will invite his neighbor to sit under his vine and under his fig tree.”
Joshua was the high priest of the postexilic remnant of Israel, and it was his calling to lead the people back into right worship of God. He could not do so by his own merit, for his righteous deeds are but a filthy garment in God’s sight (Zechariah 3:3-4a; cf. Isaiah 64:6; Matthew 22:11-14). Interestingly, to be holy unto the Lord, set apart for his calling, he had to clothed by another into new clothes (Zechariah 3:4b-5; cf. Ephesians 4:22-24). Then, and only then, could he walk in the ordinances of God as a signpost of the Messiah (Zechariah 3:7; cf. Galatians 3:24-29; Colossians 3:1-17).
Seize the moment and point the way to Christ – “You shall be holy, for I am holy” (1 Peter 1:16).
God bless you!
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