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This episode explores Zechariah 3–4 to show that God’s kingdom advances only through the cleansing work of the promised Messiah and the continual supply of the Spirit, not human strength. It highlights how, in vision four, Joshua the high priest—though filthy under Satan’s accusation—is instantly justified and re-robed because God’s coming Branch (the Messiah) will bear the nation’s iniquity in one day, a promise now fulfilled in Christ’s cross and to be completed at His return. Drawing from that courtroom scene, it emphasizes that every believer’s fitness to serve rests on the same gracious exchange: condemnation removed, clean garments given, and access to God secured. Vision five then reframes Zerubbabel’s daunting temple project: the two olive trees symbolize Joshua and Zerubbabel as Spirit-anointed servants, revealing that the lampstand-community is kept burning “not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,” so every mountain of rubble or opposition becomes level ground. The message ends with a challenge: to keep serving and inviting others under our “vine and fig tree,” confident that the same Spirit who brought the work from foundation to capstone will bring His kingdom to its overwhelmingly great finale, however small the present beginning appears.