旧约 - 撒迦利亚书(Zechariah)第3章

Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him.
The LORD said to Satan, "The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?"
Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood before the angel.
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 rich garments on you."
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 LORD stood by.
The angel of the LORD gave this charge to Joshua:
"This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'If you will walk in my ways 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.
"'Listen, O high priest Joshua and your associates seated before you, who are men symbolic of things to come: I am going to bring my servant, the Branch.
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 LORD Almighty, 'and I will remove the sin of this land in a single day.
"'In that day each of you will invite his neighbor to sit under his vine and fig tree,' declares the LORD Almighty."
撒迦利亚书第三章   亚 3:1> 3:1 在以色列的余民回到耶路撒冷、开始重建城墙的时候,约书亚是大祭司(参该 1:1 , 12 ; 2:4 )。 

  亚 3:1-3> “污秽的衣服”,我今天是脱去了它还是仍然穿着? 

  3:1-3 撒但控告代表以色列民族的约书亚。撒但的控告准确无误,约书亚的确穿着代表罪的“污秽的衣服”站在使者面前。但是神显出祂的怜悯,祂说,尽管祂的百姓有罪,祂仍要拯救他们。撒但常常在神面前控告人犯了罪(参伯 1:6 ),它完全不明白神对信祂之人所施的怜悯和赦免是何等浩大。这个控告人的撒但到最后必被毁灭(参启 \cs15 12:10 ),而每一个相信耶稣之人都必得救(参约 3:16 )。我们要作好准备,求神脱去我们罪的衣服,穿上祂华美良善的衣服。 

  亚 3:2> 千钧一发!犹大陷在“火中”,这时候── 

  3:2 神藉着火的大试炼来惩罚犹大,但是祂在全族尽毁以前拯救了他们,就好像“从火中抽出一根柴来”一样。 

  亚 3:2-4> 脱去、穿上,是完整的过程,如果只脱去了没穿上,可就…… 

  3:2-4 撒迦利亚的异象生动地描绘出人是如何领受神怜悯的。我们没有做什么,是神脱去我们污秽的衣服──罪,并为我们预备全新的、洁净的、华美的衣服──神的圣洁和公义(参林后 5:21 ;弗 4:24 ;启 19:8 )。我们惟一要做的是悔改,求神赦免。撒但也许会使我们觉得自己污秽、不配来到神面前,但请记住,基督洁净的义袍使我们配来到神面前。 

  亚 3:5-7> 约书亚,到底有几个约书亚? 

  3:5-7 约书亚的希腊文名字就是耶稣,是耶和华施行拯救的意思。这里的大祭司约书亚跟约书亚记里的勇士约书亚是两个人,不过,他们都是弥赛亚耶稣的预表。 

  亚 3:7-10> 祭司是以色列人的中保,大祭司基督是所有信徒的中保── 

  3:7-10 以色列人被掳以后祭司制度就中止了,所以在归回本土之后他们需要恢复这制度。在撒迦利亚所见的这个异象之中,约书亚受立为大祭司。大祭司的职责之一是在赎罪日献上祭物,为全民赎罪。大祭司是神和以色列全族的中保,所以,代表着将要来临的弥赛亚(参赛 11:1 )。弥赛亚来临后要完全改变神对付百姓之罪的方式(参来 10:8-14 ),耶稣这位大祭司将祂自己一次献上为祭,永远除去了我们的罪。在新制度下,每一个基督徒都是祭司,要将自己圣洁无瑕的一生献给神(参彼前 2:9 ;启 5:10 )。 

  亚 3:8-9> 大卫的苗裔──石头──七眼…… 

  3:8-9 这里所说的苗裔是指弥赛亚。“有七眼的石头”的意思不清楚,可能是:( 1 )这苗裔本身是圣殿的基石;( 2 )这块石头是摩西为给百姓水喝而击打出水的磐石(参民 20:7-11 );( 3 )教会是更新了的属灵祭司(参彼前 2:5 )。这两节经文在几百年以后应验在耶稣基督身上。神说要在一日之间除掉那地的罪孽,基督“一次为罪受苦,就是义的代替不义的,为要引我们到神面前。”(彼前 3:18 )我们无法靠自己的努力除去自己的罪,只能让神藉着基督,把我们一切的罪都除去。 

  亚 3:10> 生在葡萄树和无花果树下,何等美好,我渴想……