The Comfort of Christ's Intercession

The picture that is given to us in verses 1-5 is of Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the Lord (who is the pre-incarnate Lord Jesus Christ). Joshua is clothed in filthy rags which is representative of the sins which he and others in the priesthood had committed in marrying foreign women. This God has expressly forbade them to do. Satan, therefore, is at his right hand to oppose his being able to minister to the Lord at all. He is disqualified because of his sins. But even though it was true that he had fallen into this sin, and it had polluted and defiled his spirit and made filthy his garments, still Christ was right there to intercede for him still. We can apply it in this way to the New Testament believer who through Christ has been made a priest, to minister the sacrifices of praise and worship and service unto God. The believer in our Lord Jesus Christ is not only forgiven of all of their sins as they confess them, but Christ also intercedes daily for them in relation to all the service to God and sincere worship and obedience that they would render to Him.