Zechariah Names the Messiah?

 

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Has the Branch come before, and will come again?

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Written for a Jewish audience.

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Moses changed Joshua’s name from Hosea to Yehoshu’a Numbers 13:16

“Joshua” in scriptures below is Yehoshu’a.
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The past repeats in the future

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there a thing of which it is said, ‘See, this is new’? It has already been, in the ages before us.

Ecclesiastes 1:9-10

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Zechariah identifies the Branch

Zech 3- Angel of the Lord talking to Zechariah

1. And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.

2 And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?

3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.

4 And he answered and spoke unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.

5 And I said, Let them set a fair crown upon his head. So they set a fair crown upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by.

6 And the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua, saying,

7 Thus says the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.

8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.

 

**note: Here, it sounds like the angel is just discussing the Branch with Joshua.

9 For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, says the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

10 In that day, says the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.

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Zech 6- Angel of the Lord continues talking to Zechariah

11 Then take silver and gold, and make an elaborate crown, and set it upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest;

12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaks the Lord of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The Branch; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord:

**Note: now, it seems the Lord is referring directly to and about Joshua as the Branch

13 Even he shall build the temple of the Lord; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

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Is it possible that the Branch / Messiah has come already as Joshua, and maybe other historic figures as well, been battle tested, and will return again for the final battle?

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