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pariah chapter number three the bible reads 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 and the lord said unto satan the lord rebuke thee o satan even the lord of that that have chosen jerusalem rebuke thee is not this a brand plucked out of the fire now joshua is clothed with filthy garments and stood before the angel and he answered and spake unto those that stood before him saying take away the filthy garments from him and unto him he said behold i've caused thine iniquity to pass from thee and i will clothe thee with change of raiment now first of all if you would flip over to the book of jude because there are several things in these couple of verses that we just read that are actually also found in the book of jude obviously the book of jude is referring back to this passage in some ways uh... but if you would first of all look at the book of jude verse number nine the bible reads yet michael the archangel when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of moses durst not bring against him a railing accusation but said the lord rebuke thee now right away it should stand out to us that back in zechariah chapter three the thing that is said unto satan by the angel of the lord is the lord rebuke thee now it's a totally different situation it's not the situation where michael the archangel is contending with the devil about the body of moses that's a different situation but in both cases we see the response being the lord rebuke thee okay now what is it saying here in jude verse number nine michael the archangel when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of moses durst not now what does durst not mean it means he did not dare he dared not bring against him a railing accusation but said the lord rebuke thee but these and who are the these wicked false prophets evil people but these speak evil of those things which they know not but what they know naturally as brute beasts in those things they corrupt themselves now go back just a couple pages to the left in your bible and look at second peter chapter two because second peter chapter two is parallel with jude and covers the same subject second peter chapter number two it says in verse number eleven whereas angels which are greater in power and might so the bible saying that angels are greater in power than might than human beings are whereas angels which are greater in power and might bring not railing accusation against them before the lord but these as natural brute beasts made to be taken and destroyed speak evil of the things that they understand not and shall utterly perish in their own corruption what's this chapter about look at the beginning of verse one there but there were false prophets also among the people what this tells me is that these pastors and preachers who will rail against the devil and rail against demons are actually false prophets according to the bible the bible warns us here about false prophets who speak evil of things that they don't understand and they bring railing accusations against the devil whereas even angels the angels of the lord like michael the archangel for example did not dare to bring against them a railing accusation but rather said the lord rebuke thee you know when michael the archangel's faced with the devil he told he said the lord rebuke thee okay what am i talking about this is big in the pentecostal movement who's heard this before this thing of you know i rebuke you satan in the name of you know in this kind of thing where they you know they yell at the devil or like billy sunday was famous for having boxing matches on stage where he'd say come on devil you know i'm gonna fight you right now whatever you know just this kind of circus and showmanship i've also heard people just blame things on the devil like i was at a church service one time and they were trying to play some weird touchy feely christian music on a cd that was supposed to you know tug at our heartstrings and they put in the cd and the cd started skipping and they said that's the devil the devil doesn't want you to hear that cd you know i mean that right there is speaking evil of things that you don't understand and that's just bringing a railing accusation look cds are the most fragile stupid invention ever invented i hate cds because they get all scratched up and damaged everything you look at them wrong and they get a scratch in them but it's like no it was the devil the devil didn't want you to hear that song no the devil wants you to turn off your stupid cd player and preach to us out of the bible you know but he's playing us canned music in church and i'm sure the devil has just a major ministry of going around and the devil wants to shut down all this canned music in churches but see how ridiculous that is you really think that the devil paid a visit to that liberal watered down church just to scratch up that cd so that we couldn't listen to some touchy feely gospel song on canned music but this is a railing accusation this is people speaking evil of the things that they know not and there's a whole movement of the demon of alcoholism the demon of pornography and the demon of this and people going into great detail about the names of all these demons and rebuking them and casting them out you know and honestly this is not biblical and in fact the bible warns about people who bring these kind of railing accusations and and try to do battle with the devil and all this kind of stuff you know you don't even see jesus doing battle with satan you know you see him resisting the temptation you see him quoting scripture unto satan and the bible does say resist the devil and he'll flee from you but we should take these scriptures to heart second peter chapter two in the new testament jude in the new testament is telling us not to bring railing accusation against devils demons or even the devil himself isn't that what it says even angels dare not do that but just say the lord rebuke thee and in zechariah we see an example of that but not only that flip back a few pages of the right again to where you were in jude let me show you another reference in jude that ties in with zechariah chapter three it says in the book of jude at the end there verse number twenty two and if some have compassion making a difference and others save with fear pulling them out of the fire hating even the garment spotted by the flesh so the bible here is talking about us getting people saved us winning people to christ notice how it says others save with fear now what does that mean save them with fear you know i believe that that means that we preach to them the truth of hell we warn them about hell we warn them about the wages of sin being death and basically people are going to be saved because the bible says by the fear of the lord men depart from evil and obviously you know the reason i got saved was because i didn't want to go to hell who got saved because they didn't want to go to hell yeah look around the room you're not alone so that's people that are saved with fear people that are being pulled out of the fire now a lot of people when you talk about soul winning which is a biblical term that we derive from proverbs eleven verse thirty where it says the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and he that winneth souls is wise when we talk about soul winning what we mean by that is when we go out and we just knock on doors and just go up and down the highways and hedges up and down the street just talking to as many people as we can and just telling them how to be saved just going out and preaching the gospel to every creature which is known as the great commission most churches have caused this to be the great omission because it's something that they don't do and in fact when we show up on soul winning to a door people will often think that we're the mormons or the jehovah's false witnesses because of the fact that they're just so not used to seeing a christian show up at their door with the true gospel with the king jade bible in their hand telling them that salvation is by faith in jesus they're used to the cults coming to them mormonism is a cult, joe's witnesses are in a cult and that's who they're used to coming to them and preaching lies shame on us as christians when we don't have the reputation they ought to say here come the baptists here comes faithful word of baptism, I'm sure they do say that around here but nationwide it ought to be that the baptists have that reputation but many people aren't doing this but when you start talking about soul winning, and let me tell you, I'm a big believer in soul winning, I love soul winning I think soul winning is the reason why our church exists in many ways you know we're here to be trained and equipped and edified and taught so we can go out and do the work of the lord and god said go work today in my vineyard and that vineyard is a harvest of souls that need to be saved but when you start preaching about soul winning those who are lazy and those who are just pure evil where they're just the enemies of soul winning they don't want you to go soul winning for whatever wicked reason in their heart they don't like the fact that you're going out soul winning they'll often come out with this kind of stuff we don't save souls you don't win anybody's soul jesus is the only one that can save anyone, you didn't get anybody saved and you'll even say this statement, I got someone saved and they'll object to that, who's had somebody object to that when you said I got someone saved well you got someone saved but what does the bible say? it says right here others save with fear but then they tell you oh you can't save anyone then why did god say others save with fear why did the apostle Paul say I've become all things to all men that I might by all means save some of them why did he say that if we can't save souls and they say well that's not what he meant well that's not what I meant either you can use the exact same terminology that Paul used Paul says I saved some and then we're like I saved someone, shame on you, how dare you say that, give god the glory look we're not trying to take the glory from god here obviously jesus is the savior obviously without him we can do nothing obviously he gets all praise and all glory and all power goes unto him but wait a minute the bible says for us to go out and save people this is a commandment listen to these words from Jude others save with fear save them save these people why because they're lost because they're dying going to hell they need someone to save them now jesus is the savior but we point them to the savior so in that sense we're saving them okay but people get all scared when you talk like that what does the bible say and there's even more scripture than that romans eleven fourteen says if by any means I might provoke to emulation them that are of my flesh and might save some of them and then there's another scripture that talks to a woman who has an unsaved husband and says for how knowest thou o wife whether thou shalt save thy husband so the bible does use that terminology so it's perfectly right for a christian to say I got someone saved but you know why people are whining about that whole I got someone saved or I saved someone you know why people whine about that because they never get anybody saved so they're jealous that they actually are a zero and a failure and a loser so then they see someone who's actually doing work for the lord and said hey I got somebody saved see a born again child of god with the holy spirit inside them that's actually right with god when they hear someone say I got someone saved you know what they do they rejoice they rejoice and say man that's great that you got someone saved praise the lord hallelujah but yet the wicked the lazy the slothful servant he says how dare you use that terminology oh the bible's terminology in jude the bible's terminology in first corinthians the bible's terminology in romans eleven fourteen these people are grasping at straws and only jesus can save what are you calvinist you think jesus goes around and saves everybody by himself no the bible says that he's committed unto us the ministry of reconciliation and it says we beseech you in christ's stead be ye reconciled to god see jesus christ said as long as I'm in the world I'm the light of the world but jesus is no longer in the world and he says you're the light of the world he has ascended up to the father and he is committed unto us the ministry of reconciliation we beseech them in christ's stead since he's not here we are sent and we say be ye reconciled to god and I'm telling you it's a red flag when people are negative about soul winning that shows that something is seriously wrong in that person's heart either they're not saved or they're very backslidden to have this negative attitude towards soul winning usually they're not saved when they're really negative about soul winning because it's of the devil I mean obviously obviously god wants us to go out and preach the gospel jesus sent out his disciples two by two it says in acts five forty two daily in the temple and in every house they cease not to teach and preach jesus christ how could you be against that unless you're just evil unless you're just not saved unless you just hate the gospel or or hate people getting saved or unless you're just a prideful arrogant jerk who doesn't have the normal natural reaction of hearing about somebody getting saved of just rejoicing and being happy instead of being envious in your heart how wicked you know I mean when somebody gets saved there's rejoicing amongst the angels in heaven you know shouldn't we be rejoicing also instead of saying oh how dare you use the bible's terms use my terms he made a commitment to christ no I'll use the bible's term he got saved we saved him we pulled him out of the fire I mean look if you pull somebody out of the fire wouldn't they say you saved me what are we told to do others saved with fear pulling them out of the fire hating even the garment spotted by the flesh now it's interesting that when he brings up pulling him out of the fire he brings up the garment spotted by the flesh go back to zechariah three with that in mind and see how the new testament cast light on the old testament look at zechariah chapter three verse one 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 now again let me give you the context of the book of zechariah zechariah is being written at the time when the the children of judah have been captives in the land of babylon now they've come back from captivity and the temple is being rebuilt and the wall is being rebuilt there are two prophets that are preaching to them and encouraging them in their work those prophets are zechariah and haggai there are two books of the bible that cover this subject those two books are ezra and nehemiah and there are two great leaders of the people during this time and those two men are joshua and zerubbabel joshua is the high priest and zerubbabel is the governor he is the ruler politically joshua is the ruler spiritually zechariah and haggai are two preachers that are preaching the bible during that time ezra and nehemiah are other leaders at that time so let's uh... look at the bible here joshua the high priest what's this book about it's about encouraging joshua and encouraging zerubbabel and encouraging the people in their work that's what ezra says about these books but also obviously it's profitable for doctrine in all ages including two thousand fifteen because much of this chapter and much of the book of zechariah in general is about jesus because the bible says to him give all the prophets witness that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins that's what all the prophets are about and zechariah is no different the bible says here that satan is at the right hand of joshua resisting him now why is satan standing at the right hand of joshua to resist him because joshua is a great man of god and by the way this is not the joshua from the book of joshua if so you need that cd on the overview of the whole bible if you think it is big difference alright so this is a different joshua this joshua is the high priest he's a man of god god's using him right now so it makes sense that satan is at his right hand to resist him you know when jesus walked this earth who showed up to tempt jesus satan himself and if you remember when the apostle paul was on this earth doing a lot of great works for god there were seven sons of skiva and these guys were called exorcists they wanted to go into business they thought they were like the ghostbusters or something you know they're basically going to go into business as like a uh... a devil castor outer you know they're trying to be an exorcist okay so these seven sons of siva they go out and they try their hand at you know casting out devils because how hard could it be so they just said oh well you know there's power in the name of jesus let's go do it so these guys show up and there's a guy who's who's possessed of devils in the book of acts and they show up and they say we adjure thee by jesus whom paul preacheth and this guy says jesus i know and paul i know but who are you and he grabs them and just starts beating the snot out of them and he beats them so bad they run out of the house naked and wounded i mean he beats them rips their clothes off them and they run out bleeding and naked i mean he tears them up so they ended up basically having fools made of themselves and this kind of goes back to what we were talking about earlier this thing of railing accusations against the devil and and and you know this uh... i don't want to go all back into that again but the bottom line is that that devil possessed man he said jesus i know and paul i know so the great soul winner the great preacher paul was known of the devil why he was doing great works for god and so of course he's going to be known who is the devil's enemy he's going to stand to resist those that are doing the greatest works for god so joshua is an important leader of god's people at this time so it makes sense that satan is going to be at his right hand to resist him and so we need to understand that when we go out and do great works for god we should expect the devil or a devil to attack us you know we should expect opposition from the devil now should we start rebuking the devil and and uh... and and bring in a railing accusation no we should just basically just understand that this is something that's going to happen and we should expect that when we try to do good things for god that bad things will happen to us because the bible says ye and all that will live godly in christ jesus shall suffer persecution so we don't want to be a christian who starts to live for god and then as soon as bad things happen we run away scared with our tail between our legs we don't want to be that kind of christian we need to be steadfast in the faith and the bible says think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as though some strange thing happened to you he's saying we should expect tribulation we should expect persecution and we should expect if we're going to be a man as great as joshua here leading god's people that satan is going to be at our right hand to resist us from time to time and the bible tells us submit ourselves therefore to god resist the devil and he'll flee from us so he's resisting us and we're supposed to resist him so let's keep reading he showed me joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the lord and satan standing at his right hand to resist them so the angel of the lord is there to strengthen him the angel of the lord is there to defend him and by the way the bible says in psalm thirty four the angel of the lord campeth round about them that fear him so there god has many angels you know you've heard of a guardian angel that's actually biblical because the bible does teach that that angels are sent to be ministers unto them that will believe and the bible does talk about angels ministering unto jesus when he was in temptation and so when we realize that satan might be at our right hand to resist us or one of his many minions we need to realize also that the angel of the lord is also right there with us the angel of the lord and camp it round about then that fear him so we've got the devil resisting us but we also have the angel of the lord there to strengthen us we need to realize that that god is with us and that god's angels will protect us that is biblical but you say well why don't we talk much about angels and demons and they well the reason we don't talk in great detail about these things is because the bible doesn't give us great detail on these things and we're not supposed to just talk about things that we don't understand the bible says so we shouldn't delve into like this thing of just going into all this angelology and demonology because of the fact that those are things that are too high for us and that we know they're on a different level and we shouldn't worry we just need to worry about keeping the commandments of god and just realizing that there is a spiritual battle that's going on the devil and his angels are real the lord and his angels are real and we just need to realize that that conflict is going on and that there is a spiritual battle and that prayer will affect the spiritual battle so these are the things that we need to realize but we need to not get too wrapped up into like getting all the names for all the demons and and studying into this and i'm sure that i'm sure youtube is replete with demonology videos and angelology but we need to be aware of that the bible warns us about both so what does the bible say here the lord said unto satan the lord rebuke thee o satan the reason why you might look at that and think that that's kind of odd that the lord says the lord rebuke thee satan because you're thinking like why is he talking about himself in the third person right but actually when you study the old testament you'll notice that a lot of times when the bible talks about the angel of the lord speaking angel means messenger the messenger of the lord so often what the bible will do it'll say hey the angel of the lord came and spoke with gideon for example but then instead of saying whenever that angel talks then the angel said then the angel said it'll just say like the lord said unto gideon because of the fact that it's the lord's words that are being spoken through that angel okay it would be it would be sort of like if i sent you know brother dominique as my messenger and i said hey would you go tell my wife x y and z and then he goes and tells her right and then she says well this is what my husband told me wouldn't that make sense it would make more sense than saying this is what dominique told me because dominique was not the author of the message he just carried the message he's just the messenger okay it's god that spoke to gideon even though he did it by means of the angel now other people will take an interpretation of this and say well the angel of the lord here is jesus you know i've heard a lot of people say every time the angel of the lord is mentioned in the old testament it's actually an old testament incarnation of jesus and here's the i'm not saying that that's a bad view or that you know or that that's not possible that in some because in some cases it does appear that way when you read but you know i personally when looking at this passage and looking at the gideon passage you know i would lean more toward that it's the lord speaking through his angel which is what why the angel says you know the lord rebuke thee but the other the other interpretations valid also doesn't really change any any doctrine or anything but i'm just saying that's what i think this is saying because if you look at all the instances but it says the lord said unto satan the lord rebuke thee oh satan even the lord that hath chosen jerusalem rebuke thee watch this is not this a brand plucked out of the fire what did it say in jude others save with fear pulling them out of the fire well the angel is saying of joshua that he is a brand plucked out of the fire meaning he is one who has been saved and then it says in verse three now joshua was clothed with filthy garments now what did it say in jude others save with fear pulling them out of the fire hating even the garment spotted with the flesh so again we can see a lot of parallels between what we see in jude and what we see here in zechariah three joshua was clothed with filthy garments and stood before the angel and he answered and spake unto those that stood before him saying take away the filthy garments from him and unto him he said behold i have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee and i will clothe thee with change of raiment so get the picture here joshua in this vision that zechariah has he sees basically the world through spiritual eyes what we don't see in the physical realm we don't see any of these things we don't see the devil we don't see the angel of the lord we don't see the battle that's going on but it's there zechariah is shown these things in a vision and he sees joshua the high priest and he sees satan at his right hand resisting him and he sees the angel of the lord standing before him satan is rebuked by the angel of the lord who says the lord rebuked thee oh satan this is a brand plucked out of the fire basically what he's saying is he's off limits unto you you know i'm here to protect this guy from you he's a brand plucked out of the fire he's saved now joshua in the vision is clothed in filthy garments and the angel says that he should be given clean new garments and when he receives the clean new garments the clean new clothing he says that his iniquity is passed from him his sins are gone now this pictures salvation because all throughout the bible this is used as a metaphor of salvation for example there's that great parable in the book of matthew where they're they're all called to the great wedding feast of the sun the sun being the son of god jesus and they're all called unto that marriage supper of the lamb and if you remember many are called but few are chosen and so there are people that there's a guy at the wedding feast and he's not wearing a wedding garment you remember that and they confront this guy at the wedding feast in jesus parable and say how camest thou in hither without a wedding garment and he's speechless and he says take him and bind him hand and foot and cast him into outer darkness now if you crash a wedding that you're not invited to you're probably you know you're not gonna be cast into outer darkness that you know i remember my brother went through the uh... a phase where he would he did this a couple times where he would show up at a wedding that he wasn't invited to and just kind of eat the cake and just kind of enjoy the wedding it's just kind of a fun thing we did that type of stuff when we were teenagers but um... you know it seems a little harsh being cast into outer darkness right just for crashing the party but here's why he's cast into outer darkness because it's a it's it's uh... a parable it's actually about salvation okay having the the wedding garment on represents being saved not having the wedding garment you're not saved what do those filthy garments represent well remember what it says in isaiah sixty four six we are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags very famous verse in the bible that tells us that our righteousnesses are as filthy rags that's why the bible says in philippians three that we should be found in him not having our own righteousness but that which is through the faith of christ the righteousness which is of god by faith so when god looks at us through spiritual eyes when we're not saved we have all our good works that we think are going to get us to heaven all the good deeds that we've done or we've turned from all our sins and we're living a good life and we repented of this sin and repented of that sin and we've joined the church and been baptized and we give money and we help people god looks at that and just sees us in filthy garments and when we believe on jesus christ as our savior not having our own righteousness but that which is through the faith of christ the righteousness which is of god by faith then he looks down at us and he sees that robe of righteousness which is actually the righteousness of jesus that is imputed unto us see when jesus died on the cross all of our sins were imputed unto him and he died for our sins and when we believe on jesus not only does he take our sins away but he didn't just remove the filthy garments and leave them unclothed but rather he replaces it with a robe of righteousness which represents the righteousness of jesus being imputed unto us so our sins are gone and christ's righteousness is imputed unto us it's put on our account and we are declared righteous in the sight of god not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the holy ghost now in revelation nineteen if you would turn there the bible talks about that marriage supper of the lamb remember the parable we talked about in matthew friend how cameest thou an hither without a wedding garment he's speechless he's cast out into outer darkness for not having on the wedding garment obviously representing his uh... eternity in the lake of fire in outer darkness but here we go here we have in revelation nineteen that marriage of the land verse number seven of revelation nineteen let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him for the marriage of the lamb is come and his wife has made herself ready and to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen clean and white for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints but don't misread that my friend the righteousness of saints is not our own righteousness it's the righteous witches of god by faith not having my own righteousness which is of the law but that which is through the faith of christ the righteousness which is of god by faith that role of righteousness represents being saved it represents salvation and the great thing about salvation if you would go back to zechariah chapter three is that our iniquity has passed from us the bible says verily verily i say unto you he that heareth my word and believeth on him that sent me has everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death unto life and the bible says that our iniquity has passed from us the bible says as far as the east is from the west so far has god separated us from our sins he said there's sins and iniquities will i remember no more this is what salvation is it's all through faith it's not by works our works are the filthy rags those are being replaced by the role of righteousness in zechariah chapter three it says in verse five and i said this is zechariah speaking let them set a fair mitre upon his head so they set a fair mitre upon his head and clothed them with garments and the angel of the lord stood by now the mitre is basically his hat and in the old testament the priests would wear a hat that was part of the garment because if you remember god had special priests garments made specifically for aaron and his sons to wear and these garments involved linen britches which are pants that basically would stretch from the loins and to the thighs basically what we would consider like a knee length pair of shorts okay he would wear that and then he also had you know a shirt and a robe and a hat and a breastplate and a whole there was a whole get up involved but what's interesting is that in the old testament when these priests would minister they would wear a hat they would wear this thing known as the mitre and here when he's getting his garments changed out zechariah basically says hey don't forget to swap out the mitre you know give him a fair mitre on his head if you're going to change the clothes you know change the hat also now what's interesting about this is that there's a movement out there today that's known as the head covering baptists or head covering movement and it's a movement that teaches women that they have to wear head coverings basically like the muslims will wear head coverings or like a catholic nun will wear a head covering there's a movement out there to try to get christians to wear head coverings and they'll try to say oh you know the early christians there's examples of this archaeology that somebody wore a head covering but here's the thing about that it's a total twisting and a misreading of first corinthians chapter eleven because in first corinthians chapter eleven when it talks about a woman should not pray or prophesy having her head uncovered but then it goes on to say that her hair is given her for covering and it basically equates uncovered with short hair or no hair and it equates covered with long hair okay and it basically is saying that a man should have short hair and a woman should have long hair now they'll try to say no no no it's a you know if you go back to the greek and blah blah blah actually that the hair is not the covering even though if you read in first corinthians eleven it's crystal clear that that's what it's about but they'll say well the hair is a covering but they need another covering and then they'll point to the fact well christ rejecting orthodox jews wear head coverings well case closed of course they also wear eye coverings every time they read the bible they do it blindfolded that's what the bible says the bible says that in the reading of the old testament the veil is upon them and that when their heart turns to christ the veil is removed that's why jesus said you are blind leaders of the blind and you will both fall in the ditch who did he say that to? rabbinical judaism? who did he say that to? the pharisees? but here's the proof because the bible says does not even nature itself teach you that if a woman that if a man have long hair it's a shame unto him and if a woman have long hair it's a glory under he says doesn't nature itself teach you and a few verses before that in first corinthians eleven you know what he says he says judge in yourselves is it comely that a woman pray or prophesy having her head uncovered so basically what the what the bible is teaching us over and over again in first corinthians eleven is that you know this is something that that's kind of just taught by nature itself we kind of intuitively know that men are supposed to have short hair and that women are supposed to have long hair but let me ask you this if we're to listen to this head covering crowd it's actually about wearing head coverings or hats or bonnets then let me ask you this why would we intuitively know that a man should not pray or prophesy having his head covered when the old testament ministers were told to cover their heads stop and think about that the old testament preachers and prophets and uh... especially the priesthood which the levites taught the people they're told to do it in a hat put a mitre on his head erin had a mitre on his head so does it make any sense to say well men are supposed to preach and pray with their head uncovered and then he puts a hat on them in the old testament that makes no sense does it but i think that these people just haven't thought this through and i tried to explain it to some of them and it just went over their head but it's actually not that complicated but see what they tend to do though they only focus on the women and you know it's sort of like a weird thing where they just the women have to wear these head coverings but see if you're going to interpret it that way then you'd have to say man can't cover it man can't preach or pray with a hat on right? because if you're going to say well the woman you know she has to have this covering to pray or prophesy then if you interpret that way because it says that the man should be uncovered so if you're going to interpret that as a hat then he can't wear a hat then why did jesus put them all in hats in the old testament why is joshua being put in a hat here to minister unto the lord it makes no sense so don't get sucked into this head covering movement okay head covering baptist the covering that you need ladies is long hair and the covering men that you need to lack is long hair so i just want to point that out here this is one of the many examples of the old testament where men of god have a hat on as part of their now obviously i'm not wearing the priestly garments here because we're not in the old testament jesus is the high priest okay so i don't need that out but he's wearing it but let's keep reading here i'm a pastor but i'm not uh... the high priest i'm a priest and so are you he's made us all kings and priests unto god and his father we believe in the priesthood of the believer as baptist but what does the bible say here in uh... verse number six and the angel of the lord protested unto joshua saying thus saith the lord of hosts if thou wilt walk in my ways and if thou wilt keep my charge then thou shalt also judge my house okay now notice he didn't say if you walk in my ways and keep my charge then you'll get saved is that what he said hey if you keep my charge and walk in my ways you'll get a robe of righteousness no you already had that that was given him by grace through faith not of works lest any man should boast that's why the word also is there that's why he says then thou shalt also judge my house in addition to having a clean garment in addition to being saved and regenerated if you keep my charge then thou shalt also judge my house and shalt also keep my courts and i will give thee places among these to walk among these that stand by in order to be a leader you know you have to keep the commandments of god in order to be greatly used by god and to rule god's house or judge god's house uh... even in the new testament you know you're supposed to be one who is you know walking in the fear of the lord obviously no one's perfect you know but the bottom line is you know you do have to live up to a certain standard to hold that position the bible here though is saying also because you're already saved just by believing he says to joshua you know if you walk in my ways and and keep my charge then you'll also be a ruler of my house that's what he's saying and he says i'll give thee places to walk among these that stand by and these men that stand by the other men are other leaders of god's people that's why he says in the next verse here now oh joshua the high priest thou and thy fellows that sit before thee those are the others that walk among these that stand by he's saying these other guys your fellows he says here now oh joshua the high priest thou and thy fellows that sit before thee for they are men wondered at now what does it mean men wondered at it means that these are men that are greatly admired now think about people that you've wondered at in your life what does it mean to wonder at someone it means that basically you stand in awe of them you're blown away by them in today's vernacular we probably say you're impressed by them you know you're you're just really amazed at them so what he's saying when he says they're men wondered at he's saying they're men that other people look up to they're heroes unto other people and i you know i heard a sermon preached one time actually i actually i preached a sermon like this but i i preached it after i heard another sermon like this called men wondered at and it was a sermon about all the different people that we wonder at you know and and and the heroes that we have and now some people really have the wrong heroes and they wonder at the wrong people you know too many people the nfl are men wondered at too many people hollywood actors and actresses are men wondered at you say how can an actress be a man well in hollywood it happens okay but you know there are a lot of uh... uh... you know rock and roll singers that are men wondered at i mean you i'm not gonna ask for a raise of hands who's ever been to a rock concert their men wondered at you know and i mean literally these singers and these bands they'll kinda come up close to the crowd and put out their hand like this right and people are just like fighting just to like touch that hand they're never gonna wash that hand again or they'll take some shirt off and throw it in the crowd and you know you know and you know how people idolize i mean they literally call it idol there's even a show about it right american idol what does that mean american idol it means that they worship singers that's even beyond just wondering at them i mean they're actually worshiping there are a lot of heroes in this world that people should have but the question is who should be our heroes it should be godly men and women joshua and his fellows were men wondered at you know and and god's warning them look your men wondered at people are looking at you don't let them down because people are looking up to you and if you uh... blow it then they're gonna fall with you many people will be uh... uh... will stumble at that now watch what he says he says you and your fellows that sit before you for they are men wondered at end of verse eight there for behold i will bring forth my servant the branch when he says i'm gonna bring forth my servant the branch let's figure out who that is okay flip back to isaiah eleven we're gonna do this kind of a chronological order of of god laying out this doctrine now remember isaiah jeremiah and ezekiel they actually appeared in that order in history meaning that isaiah prophesied before jeremiah and jeremiah prophesied before ezekiel the major prophets are in order and then the minor prophets are also in chronological order which is why we find zechariah toward the very end of the minor prophets because we're in the days of esra and nehemiah very end of the of the story of the old testament so therefore this is going way back in time hundreds of years before zechariah is written and this is a scripture that joshua and them would have been familiar with because they all knew of the writings of isaiah so it says in isaiah eleven verse one and there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of jesse and a branch shall grow out of his roots and the spirit of the lord shall rest upon him the spirit of wisdom and understanding the spirit of counsel and might the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the lord and shall make him a quick understanding in the fear of the lord and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes neither reprove after the hearing of his ears but with righteousness shall he judge the poor and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the way... who is this? jesus then it says in verse six you know the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb it gets into the the millennium the millennial reign of christ time of peace on earth for a thousand years that christ will bring it his second coming so the servant the branch is jesus he's the root and the offspring of david okay it's an interesting term the root and the offspring of david he's both he's the creator he's the root i mean before abraham was i am jesus said he's the root but he's also the offspring of david because he's humanly speaking he's descended from david the son of david so that's what it means by the branch okay now go through and we saw the millennium tied in with that we also saw this list and and count with me with the list verse two the spirit of the lord shall rest upon him let's count the spirit of wisdom one and understanding counsel might knowledge and the fear of the lord so we see here seven spirits the spirit of the lord is mentioned at the beginning then the spirit of wisdom spirit of understanding spirit of counsel spirit of might spirit of knowledge spirit of the fear of the lord so it's the seven spirits of god okay that are listed there and they are resting upon him flip over to jeremiah now chapter twenty three and the reason i bring that up is because in zechariah chapter three right after it says my servant the branch it says for behold the stone that i have laid before joshua upon one stone shall be seven eyes seven eyes on one stone well in revelation five verse five it says that the lamb had seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven spirits of god so you know the book of zechariah can seem really cryptic the stone with the seven eyes and the branch but here's the thing if you compare scripture to scripture it's all there all of it's covered you know i don't even have time to go to all the references it's all interwoven through the whole bible but look at uh... jeremiah chapter twenty three it says in verse five and again this is this is later than isaiah behold the days come verse five saith the lord that i will raise unto david a righteous branch and a king shall reign and prosper and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth in his days judah shall be saved and israel shall dwell safely and this is his name whereby he shall be called the lord our righteousness so what's our righteousness what's the righteousness of saints what's that robe of righteousness it's the lord it's jesus it's his salvation and again it says uh... therefore behold the days come saith the lord that they shall no more say the lord liveth which brought up the children of israel and the land of egypt but the lord liveth which brought up which led the seed of the house of israel out of the north country talking about out of babylon and from all countries where i had driven them and they shall dwell in their own hand that was fulfilled in the days of Zerubbabel Joshua zechariah etcetera flip over to one more place uh... on this jeremiah thirty three jeremiah thirty three just a few pages to write in your bible jeremiah thirty three and this is a this is a really interesting passage i don't want you to miss as i i skipped some other stuff in the sermon because i want to make sure i get to this is really interesting look at jeremiah thirty three verse fifteen in those days and at that time will i cause the branch of righteousness to grow up unto david so notice the branch is always associated with being the son of david the branch of david the offspring of david it says he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land in those days shall judah be saved same thing we just saw and jerusalem shall dwell safely and this is the name wherewith she shall be called the lord our righteousness sound familiar for thus saith the lord david watch this this is key david shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of israel what does that mean there will always be a son of david to sit on the throne of israel isn't that what it says let's keep reading neither shall the priest the levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings and to kindle meat offerings and to do sacrifice watch this to do sacrifice continually and the word of the lord came unto jeremiah saying thus saith the lord if you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night and there should not be day and night in their seasons then may also my covenant be broken with david my servant let me just say and we don't have time to go there for sake of time but over and over and over again the promise is made to david that his seed will sit on that throne forever over and over that's what's being referred to he's saying look i will never break that promise to david and the sun and moon will stop shining before i would ever break that promise to david everybody get that and that promise is repeated if you know your bible you know that promise repeated over and over and over and over again he says then may also my covenant be broken with david my servant that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne and with the levites the priests my ministers as the host of heaven cannot be numbered neither the sand of the sea measured so will i multiply the seed of david my servant and the levites that minister unto me stop and ask yourself this question is there a son of david ruling on the throne over in israel right now are the levites right now over in israel offering sacrifice unto god continually okay so basically there's two options then either god broke his promise that's not possible because the sun still came up today and went down at the end of the day either god is a liar and god broke his promise or else this is fulfilled in jesus because jesus is the son of david that's why i flip over to genesis forty nine flip over to genesis forty nine genesis chapter forty nine this is when jacob is speaking to his twelve sons about the last days and the last days biblically is defined as the new testament but if you would look at genesis chapter number forty nine look at the blessing to judah in verse ten the scepter shall not depart from judah now judah the tribe of judah is whose tribe david's tribe and jesus is the line of the tribe of judah but judah is the tribe of david the bible says the scepter which what is the scepter it's what a king reigns with the scepter shall not depart from judah nor a lawgiver from between his feet well between his feet is talking about the physical reproduction there he's saying he is going to have a physical descendant sitting on that throne the scepter shall not depart from judah when did the scepter show up at judah when david sat on the throne he was the first king of the tribe of judah because saul was of the tribe of what? the scepter shall not depart from judah nor a lawgiver from between his feet until shiloh come and again i don't have time to go into it shiloh is talking about the messiah shiloh is jesus it says and unto him unto shiloh unto jesus shall the gathering of the people be binding his full unto the vine and his ass is cold unto the choice vine he washed his garments in wine and his clothes in the blood of grapes his eyes shall be red with wine and his teeth white with milk that's all about jesus jesus wrote the ass is cold jesus said i'm the true vine i'm the vine my father's the husband men jesus had a garment dipped in blood jesus had eyes like a flame of fire jesus fulfilled all this so the bible says the scepter is not going to depart from judah until the messiah comes until jesus comes now listen to me what in the world could a christ rejecting jew do with these scriptures because their god has forsaken them for the last two thousand years where's the where's david on the throne has the scepter departed from judah oh yeah first of all they didn't even have a throne they didn't even have a country they didn't even have anything in that place until the twentieth century so where was it at and i sure don't see the levites offering burnt offerings they don't do any sacrifices why because shiloh came because jesus is the son of david jesus you know why the scepter never departed from david's house because jesus is the son of david and jesus is the king jesus is the king of kings right now they don't recognize him but we do jesus is the king of kings he is that lion of the tribe of judah with that scepter and jesus is the burnt offering once for all okay and and you know the bottom line is that if you're a christ rejecting jew you would have to basically say well god broke the promise in in jeremiah and all the other times that he said that uh... uh... there would always be a king descended from david upon that thrown now i have a feeling that what the synagogue of satan is going to cook up in the end times is they're basically going to say oh see we've got a king of the tribe of judah they'll pull out somebody and put him on that throne and he's going to be the anti-christ oh here he is you know here's our guy and then you know what they'll do then they'll pull out the levites and start offering burnt sacrifices again right because it talks about in second thessalonians how the anti-christ will cause the offering in the oblation to cease well you know how can you make it cease if it isn't happening why because it's going to start up again they're going to rebuild the temple and they're going to start offering burnt sacrifices again over in israel because their whole thing right now is like oh we can't do it because we don't have the temple oh we can't do it because we don't have the temple we gotta wait so when they get the temple then they're like okay we can do it again but let me tell you something that is the biggest fraud because god didn't say oh we're going to pause it for like two thousand years and then there's going to be one of david's sons sitting on that throne again oh we're going to pause it for you know two thousand years then we'll start having burnt sacrifice again hey do you think it's a coincidence that the burnt sacrifices just happened to end in the century when jesus came that's just a coincidence right just a coincidence that the sacrifices just happened to end with the same generation of people that were alive and rejected jesus it ended in their generation but see the jews don't want you to notice that how they just happened to stop doing animal sacrifices right when jesus was the lamb which taken away the sin of the world just like jesus was prophesied he would be that final sacrifice but they don't want to recognize that and they don't want to recognize that they don't have a king of judah anymore but how can they say that when jesus would be the only way that this could even be true look either either the new testament is true and the old testament is true or they're both a lie because you know what you can't say well i believe the old testament but not the new testament then you're a fool because the bible says right here that there's going to be a king on the throne of david all the time who was that king who was that ruler go to zechariah chapter three that ruler's name was Zerubbabel and you'll know this from matthew chapter one if you know that genealogy where it's you know so-and-so begat so-and-so right and it says jeconias you know joseus begat jeconias and his brethren about the time they were carried away to babylon and after they were brought to babylon jeconias begat salathial and salathial begat zerubbabel so that kingly line of the kings of judah is unbroken in fact you say well but you know where were they raining was he raining for those seventy years what about that pause no even even in captivity he was lifted up joiachim was lifted up in the captivity at the very end of uh... the book of jeremiah talks about how he's lifted up and and set you know given dignity as king and so forth he was still recognized as the king of judah and salathial in matthew one is uh... old testament shayaltiel and zerubbabel is somebody that we're going to talk more about in the next few chapters of zechariah look down at your bible there's zechariah chapter four says in verse six then he answered and spake unto me saying this is the word of the lord unto zerubbabel saying not by might nor by power but by spirit saith the lord of hosts and again the rest of the book is going to continue to encourage zerubbabel who's zerubbabel the son of david who's zerubbabel the man who's ruling with the scepter why because jesus hadn't come yet for a few more hundred years so there had to be that scepter in the tribe of judah now let's quickly finish up here verse nine for behold the stone that i have laid what's that stone that was the stone that the builders rejected that became the head of the corner jesus seven spirits of god that the branch had jesus isaiah eleven one and two the lamb of god in revelation five with seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven spirits of god sent forth unto all the earth says for upon one stone shall be seven eyes behold i will engrave the graving thereof saith the lord of hosts and i will remove the iniquity of that land in one day in that day saith the lord of hosts shall ye call every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree you study that statement under the vine under the fig tree it's a reference to the millennial reign of jesus christ jesus christ will show up he will remove the iniquity of that land in one day and in that day shall ye call every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree that means jew, gentile, you name it because there is no jew or gentile in christ everybody's going to be our neighbor in that in that day in uh... in the millennial reign of christ this is a really deep chapter there's way more than i can preach obviously i don't know i mean we barely even scratched the surface this is a really interesting chapter this is one of the the busiest chapters you know in the book of zechariah a lot going on i hope that it got you interested where you'll do more study and and read more and and keep going over this but i just wanted to hit the highlights tonight and just to show you how much a chapter like zechariah three tucked away in the minor prophets of the old testament is all about jesus and soul winning isn't that interesting i mean so much application to us today in the new testament the whole bible's about jesus let's bow your heads and have a word of prayer father we thank you so much for this chapter lord and and and uh... the wonderful teachings that are found therein is a really interesting chapter lord help us to take comfort in knowing that the angel of the lord campeth round about them that fear him uh... help us to resist the devil that he might flee from us help us to cling to your promises lord and and to realize that you are the king of kings and lord of lords and that you are the the lion of the tribe of judah you're the root and offspring of david you're the branch you are the one that should in all things have the preeminence lord and i pray that lord many of these uh... blinded christ rejecting jews lord would be saved before it's eternally too late lord i pray that that many of them would be saved lord they're they're so blinded but but help us reach a few of them lord if we can in jesus' name we pray amen