Zechariah 3:3

"The LORD said to Satan, “The LORD rebuke you, Satan! Yes, the LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?”"

Key Reflection

In Zechariah 3:3, the Lord rebukes Satan as a symbol of his authority over spiritual forces and his protection of God's people. The image of a "burning stick plucked out of the fire" vividly portrays how the righteous are preserved from the fiery trials that Satan seeks to impose upon them.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments -Such, it is expressed, was his habitual condition; he was one so clothed. The “filthy garment,” as defilement generally, is, in Scripture, the symbol of sin. “We are all as the unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags”Isaiah 64:6. “He that is left in Zion and he that remaineth in Jerusalem shall be called holy - when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion”Isaiah 4:3-4. “There is a generation, pure in its own eyes, and it is not washed from its filthiness”Proverbs 30:12.

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