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Zechariah 3:8

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KJV ORIGINAL

Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.

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Listen up, Joshua the high priest, you and all your fellow priests sitting with you — you guys are like living signs of what's coming. Because I'm about to bring my servant, the Branch, into the picture.

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

God's telling his priests they're preview signs of something amazing he's planning.

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So here's the main point of everything we've been talking about: We have this incredible high priest who's literally sitting at God's right hand in heaven.

This person is going to build God's temple and carry all the honor that comes with it. He'll sit on his throne as both king and priest at the same time — which is wild because those were usually separate jobs. And there's going to be perfect harmony between these two roles.

The LORD said to Moses, 'Tell your brother Aaron that he cannot enter the holy place behind the curtain whenever he wants—the place where the mercy seat sits on top of the ark. If he goes in at the wrong time, he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.'

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