Satan appeared before God in the Bible to accuse Joshua the high priest and in this video today we are going to be looking at where in the Bible this story is mentioned and what actually happened during this heavenly vision in Zechariah 3: 1-9 it says 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 fine 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 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 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 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 so it is clear that Joshua the high priest was caught up in a heavenly vision where he was in a courtroom of some sort and was before the great judge who is God the father and beside him stood Satan to accuse him of his past sins or mistakes that he did in the past but God covered him from his sin and rebuked Satan who is the accuser you see Satan is a legalist and uses legal Authority in the courts of the spiritual realm to bring up a charge against you and he uses your
sin to gain access into your life but Jesus is our lawyer who will fight on your behalf with his blood the the devil has been defeated and the only Power he has in our lives is the power that we give him this can only come through believing his lies and walking in sin but when you repent before God ask the Lord to cleanse you with the blood of Jesus God will forgive your sin and remember it no more you will have protection from Evil because of the blood of Jesus what is interesting In this passage
of scripture is that Satan is revealed to be an accuser this is confirmed in the Book of Revelation 12:10 where it says then I heard a loud voice in heaven say now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Messiah for the accuser of our brothers and sisters who accuses them before our God day and night has been hurled down Satan is the accuser of the Brethren this is why Jesus said to the Pharisees in John 8:44 you belong to your father the devil and you
want to carry out your father's desires he was a murderer from the beginning not holding to the truth for there is no truth in him when he lies he speaks his native language for he is a liar and the father of Lies did you hear that Jesus said to the religious leaders of his day that their father is the devil why because they were in the image and likeness of Satan what what do I mean I mean that their nature and their conduct manifested the character of Satan and since Satan is the accuser the Pharisees
were doing the same thing by accusing people of sin when they themselves were full of sin one of the people the Pharisees were accusing was the woman who was caught in adultery this event is found in John 8: 1-1 where it says Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives but early the next morning he was back again at the temple a crowd soon gathered and he sat down and taught them as he was speaking the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery they put
her in front of the crowd teacher they said to Jesus this woman was caught in the act of adultery the law of Moses says to Stone her what do you say they were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger they kept demanding an answer so he stood up again and said all right but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust when the accusers heard this they
slipped away one by one beginning with the oldest until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman where are your accusers didn't even one of them condemn you no Lord she said and Jesus said neither do I go and sin No More Jesus was trying to show the religious leaders of his day that God desires mercy and not sacrifice God wants you to walk in love mercy and forgiveness and when Jesus came across the religious leaders and saw how they were
he had to call out their sin so next time your brother or sister falls into sin instead of judging that person and accusing them you ought to restore them gently imagine if God treated you the way the Pharisees treated the woman who was caught in adultery do you think any of us will survive so just as Christ loved us and forgave us let us forgive and love one another I'm sure you don't want Jesus to say the same thing to you that he said to the Pharisees but I tell you that if Jesus was to
walk the earth again today he would be telling most of the religious leaders the same thing that he told the Pharisees because most of the church leaders of today are doing the same thing have you noticed that Jesus did not choose anyone from the synagogues to be his disciples he never went into the synagogues or temples and said to the Pharisees or other people in there follow me no instead he went into the streets the highways and the byways to find his true followers because Jesus is looking for people who have pure your hearts the
reason why he chose people like Peter was because you see what you get there is no fakeness there but there is fakeness in the church so he went to find those who were real and true to themselves because at least people from the streets are real they don't snitch Jesus said blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God this is related to the fact that even if you are doing wrong things as long as your heart is genuine you will see God don't believe me well in the Bible there was a man
named Saul whose name was later changed to Paul he was ending the life of Christians and he thought that he was doing the will of God he was pure in heart because his intention was to serve God he had the right intentions but the wrong directions and so Jesus appeared to him which led to a drastic change of his mindset and life he then went on to be one of the greatest Apostles of his day this event is found in Acts 9: 1-9 where it says meanwhile Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the
Lord's disciples he went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus so that if he found any there who belonged to the way whether men or women he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem as he neared Damascus on his journey suddenly a light from Heaven flashed around him he fell to the ground and Heard a Voice say to him SA Saul why do you persecute me who are you Lord Saul asked I am Jesus whom you are persecuting he replied now get up and go into the City and
you will be told what you must do the men traveling with Saul stood there speechless they heard the sound but did not see anyone Saul got up from the ground but when he opened his eyes he could see nothing so they led him by the hand into Damascus for 3 days he was blind and did not eat or drink anything Paul then went on to write multiple letters that are now canonized as New Testament scripture he planted multiple churches over the world he was persecuted for Christ he performed insane Miracles and healings and then was
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