TAWG - May 21, 2024 - Zechariah 5:1-11
May 21, 2024

Zechariah 5:1-11

5:1 | God Himself was guiding the message of the giant flying scroll. Judgment would come upon the land and sinners would be cast out, fulfilling the curses outlined in the Mosaic Covenant (Deut. 30:7).

5:3-4 | This pictures the severity of God’s judgment against those who violated His covenant: the curse would consume the house of each violator, depicted here as a thief or a perjurer.

5:6-9 | In Zechariah’s vision, a basket (large enough to contain an ephah, about a bushel) used for holding dry goods was filled with sin to the measure of God’s forbearance. Trapped inside, awaiting His judgment (Ezek. 45:11; Rev. 14:10), was wickedness personified (the woman). The two women are compared to storks, perhaps because the stork was an unclean bird according to the law (Lev. 11:19; Deut. 14:18). The vision is of unclean messengers transporting moral filth to a distant, unclean land.

5:11 | Shinar is an older word for Babylon (Gen. 10:10). That city became the epitome of human self-sufficiency, pride, and resistance to God for its great tower (Gen. 11:1-9).