Joshua's duties are expressed as conditions whose fulfilment would bring high privilege and honor. The transaction was tantamount to a covenant of grant proposal, offering special reward in recognition of faithful services to be rendered. Joshua's recommissioning took this form because the high priestly order epitomized the Torah-covenant with Israel and therefore, like it, was informed by the works principle as previously observed. The Mosaic Covenant was indeed a covenant of works at the level of Israel's typological kingdom. In that respect it recapitulated the original covenant of works with Adam. Hence the proposal made to Joshua was also after the pattern of that covenant of creation with its proposal of a grant of heightened blessings to be merited by Adam's obedient discharge of the stipulated services, particularly the priestly guardianship of God's sanctuary.

To be created in the divine image includes, ultimately, three glory components of celestial/supernal (galactic progeny) king-priesthood present in the Glory-Spirit-Archetype.

WALK IN HIS WAYS Kingship of truth

KEEP HIS CHARGE Priesthood of purity X2M.125 One is the ethical glory of purity and truth. That is the component Paul focuses on when he adopts this metaphor of putting on Gods likeness like clothing (Eph 4:24; Col 3:10) Interestingly, in the apostle’s adaptation of the theme, the putting on of the clothing of holiness follows, as in Zechariah 3, a putting off of unfit clothing (Eph 4:22; Col 3:9).

Like Adam's probation mission in Eden (Gen 2:15), Joshua's commissioning set him on guard against the hostile incursion of the evil one into God's holy house. He must stand against Satan's challenge at Har Magedon.

CROWN ACCESS UNTO COUNCIL AND LAND GRANT A second component of the image of God is dominion comparable to that exercised by God and the Elohim-like angels of the divine council (cf. Ps 82:1,6). Agreeably, Joshua's re-investiture was an appointment to the office of the high priest, which afforded admission into the holy of holies, with a place in God's court. This is mentioned in the commission given to Joshua: he was to govern God's courts and to be given access among the angel-attendants of the heavenly King (Zech 3:7).

TRANSFIGURATION UNTO GLORIFICATION The third component of the Glory likeness is the visible glory of transfiguration, an outward luminosity befitting and bespeaking the lucid purity and integrity within, a physical radiance that manifests the majesty of regal station. This visual glory, not included with the other two elements in the original creation endowment of man, is an eschatological honor. It is the Spirit-wrought glorification the redeemed will experience when they behold Jesus, arrayed with the Glory-Spirit, coming in the clouds of heaven. It was portrayed by the dazzling beauty of Aaron’s holy garments. In the vision of Zechariah 3, Joshua, be being re-invested with the radiant high priestly regalia, is transfigured into the brilliant Glory-likeness of the messianic Angel of the Glory-presence before whom he stands.

Kline Meredith G. 2001. Glory in Our Midst : A Biblical-Theological Reading of Zechariah's Night Visions. Eugene Ore: Wipf and Stock, pp. 114 & 118.

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