Post by Lee on Dec 21, 2014 17:52:47 GMT
The man with a measuring line of chapter 2., going forth to measure Jerusalem, would further encourage the same hopes, for the accompanying announcement was: “Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein” (verse 4), coupled with the comforting assurance that Israel were as the apple of God’s eye. Each of these visions absolutely necessitates the establishment of the kingdom of God in the future, yet they cannot have failed to have a most beneficial effect on the minds of those who heard them, stirring them up to the work in which they were engaged.
The symbolic incident of Joshua and the Adversary (chapter 3.) was likewise designed to act as a stimulus upon the energies of those who were contemporary with Joshua, at the same time illustrating in figure some of the deepest truths concerning sin and its removal in and through the antitypical Joshua, whose filthy garments (sin’s flesh) were to be changed, a change which was consummated when “My servant, the Branch” ascended to the Father’s nature, after his resurrection from the dead. It will be noted that it is distinctly stated in this chapter that Joshua and his fellows were men of sign (verse 8, margin). The application in the past would be to the adversaries of Joshua and those associated with him in the work, and it would indicate that whatever the number or power of those enemies they could not prosper against him because the Lord would rebuke them, and thereby vindicate him.
1907 The Christadelphian, 44(electronic ed.), 247–252.
The symbolic incident of Joshua and the Adversary (chapter 3.) was likewise designed to act as a stimulus upon the energies of those who were contemporary with Joshua, at the same time illustrating in figure some of the deepest truths concerning sin and its removal in and through the antitypical Joshua, whose filthy garments (sin’s flesh) were to be changed, a change which was consummated when “My servant, the Branch” ascended to the Father’s nature, after his resurrection from the dead. It will be noted that it is distinctly stated in this chapter that Joshua and his fellows were men of sign (verse 8, margin). The application in the past would be to the adversaries of Joshua and those associated with him in the work, and it would indicate that whatever the number or power of those enemies they could not prosper against him because the Lord would rebuke them, and thereby vindicate him.
1907 The Christadelphian, 44(electronic ed.), 247–252.