{"id":3086,"date":"2026-07-24T16:55:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2026-07-24T16:55:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:55:41","slug":"july-26-2026-zechariah-6-the-crowning-of-joshua-the-high-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=3086","title":{"rendered":"July 26, 2026 &#8211; Zechariah 6 &#8211; The Crowning of Joshua the High Priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prophet Zechariah is told to collect silver and gold from certain men and make crowns (or, an &#8220;elaborate crown&#8221;) and set it on the head of Joshua the High Priest. But this was forbidden according to Jewish law. However, Joshua was to serve as a type of the Messiah, the Branch, who would combine the offices of king and priest. Then the crown would be removed and stored in the Temple &#8220;as a memorial&#8221; awaiting the coming of Messiah.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityoncolumbia.org\/pdf\/Readings_Notes\/Zechariah6_Notes.pdf\">Notes on Zechariah 6:1-15<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prophet Zechariah is told to collect silver and gold from certain men and make crowns (or, an &#8220;elaborate crown&#8221;) and set it on the head of Joshua the High Priest. But this was forbidden according to Jewish law. However, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=3086\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3089,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions\/3089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}