Setting: Zechariah is having visions about Israel. God is encouraging Israel at this time, after it has been pretty much destroyed, enslaved, and now everyone is free and coming back to rebuild. No nation in history has ever come back after being destroyed like the nation of Israel has. Israel is in the forefront of the news today, on television. We know that the world is not going to solve the Middle East problems, only God will do that.
Vs8: This Joshua is a religious high priest, sitting on a higher chair than the other men. He is respected and looked up to as teachers and a person of respect, as a person you could go to who will tell you the truth about God's program. The Branch is Jesus.
Isaiah 11:1…Isaiah prophesized about this branch, 700 years before the birth of Christ, 200 years before Zechariah is told about the branch that will come to the house of Isaiah.
Isaiah 42:1…here Isaiah says judgement will come to the gentiles. At that time, Gentiles were considered the vermin of the earth. But Isaiah is prophesizing about Jesus coming to bring judgment to the truth. Christ brought grace and mercy.
Zechariah 3:9…This stone has engravings, and seven eyes. We studied this stone in the book of Daniel that was built without hands. It grew and wiped away the bad image, and the stone is Jesus. It will smash all the gentile empires and blow them away. Christ will grow and consume the whole earth. The 7 eyes represent complete, and that Christ..
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