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Be still before the class="small-caps" >Lord, all mankind, because he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.”
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Clean Garments for the High Priest
Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the class="small-caps" >Lord, and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him.
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The class="small-caps" >Lord said to Satan, “The class="small-caps" >Lord rebuke you, Satan! The class="small-caps" >Lord, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?”
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Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood before the angel.
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The angel said to those who were standing before him, “Take off his filthy clothes.” Then he said to Joshua, “See, I have taken away your sin, and I will put fine garments on you.”
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Then I said, “Put a clean turban on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him, while the angel of the class="small-caps" >Lord stood by.
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The angel of the class="small-caps" >Lord gave this charge to Joshua:
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“This is what the class="small-caps" >Lord Almighty says: ‘If you will walk in obedience to me and keep my requirements, then you will govern my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you a place among these standing here.
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“‘Listen, High Priest Joshua, you and your associates seated before you, who are men symbolic of things to come: I am going to bring my servant, the Branch.
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See, the stone I have set in front of Joshua! There are seven eyes on that one stone, and I will engrave an inscription on it,’ says the class="small-caps" >Lord Almighty, ‘and I will remove the sin of this land in a single day.
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“‘In that day each of you will invite your neighbor to sit under your vine and fig tree,’ declares the class="small-caps" >Lord Almighty.”
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He asked me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a solid gold lampstand with a bowl at the top and seven lamps on it, with seven channels to the lamps.
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Also there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.”
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So he said to me, “This is the word of the class="small-caps" >Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the class="small-caps" >Lord Almighty.
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“What are you, mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground. Then he will bring out the capstone to shouts of ‘God bless it! God bless it!’”
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Then the word of the class="small-caps" >Lord came to me:
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“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this temple; his hands will also complete it. Then you will know that the class="small-caps" >Lord Almighty has sent me to you.
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“Who dares despise the day of small things, since the seven eyes of the class="small-caps" >Lord that range throughout the earth will rejoice when they see the chosen capstone in the hand of Zerubbabel?”
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Again I asked him, “What are these two olive branches beside the two gold pipes that pour out golden oil?”
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So he said, “These are the two who are anointed to serve the Lord of all the earth.”
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The Flying Scroll
I looked again, and there before me was a flying scroll.
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He asked me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”
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And he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely will be banished.
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The class="small-caps" >Lord Almighty declares, ‘I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and its stones.’”
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The Woman in a Basket
Then the angel who was speaking to me came forward and said to me, “Look up and see what is appearing.”
