Dusk over a small Judean village of flat-roofed fieldstone houses, a strong wind bending the olive trees and lifting dust along the empty lane, every door shut, under a calm pale sky.

Eight night visions

Zechariah 5

What would God find if He looked inside your house?

11 verses≈ 3 minBSB

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Where we are

1:1–6Return to MeA call to turn, in Darius’s second year
1:7–6:8Eight night visionsHorses, horns, a lampstand, a scroll, a basket, chariotsChapter 5
6:9–15The Branch crownedA crown for Joshua, and the Branch who builds
7–8Fasts to feastsJustice and mercy, and joy in Zion
9–11Your King comesThe King on a donkey, and the Shepherd rejected
12–14On that dayThe pierced One, the fountain, the LORD King

The Vision of the Flying Scroll

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Again I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll.

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The angel

“What do you see?” asked the angel.

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“I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”

The angel

Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.

God

I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name.

Zechariah 5:4

God

Gray morning: a fieldstone house collapsed in on itself, its roof beams down among its own tumbled stones, the doorway standing alone and empty.

It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.”

Question

Quick question

Look back at verse 3 before you answer.

Which two kinds of sinner does the scroll name?

The Vision of the Woman in a Basket

The angel

Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and told me, “Now lift up your eyes and see what is approaching.”

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“What is it?” I asked.

The angel

And he replied, “A measuring basket is going forth.” Then he continued, “This is their iniquity in all the land.”

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And behold, the cover of lead was raised, and there was a woman sitting inside the basket.

“This is Wickedness,” he said. And he shoved her down into the basket, pushing down the lead cover over its opening.

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Two white storks with black flight feathers flying high side by side on a strong wind over a flat plain at dawn, wings spread wide, under a torn sky.

Then I lifted up my eyes and saw two women approaching, with the wind in their wings. Their wings were like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.

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“Where are they taking the basket?” I asked the angel who was speaking with me.

The angel

Dusk over the flat plain of Shinar: a small mud-brick shrine-house on a low platform beside a palm-lined canal and reed beds, an empty stone pedestal before its dark doorway, a distant stepped ziggurat.

“To build a house for it in the land of Shinar,” he told me. “And when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its pedestal.”

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Narrated by Bob Souer · BSB audio, public domain

Pray

Holy God, Your word comes into the house, not just the street. Search mine. What You find, carry far away, and keep it there. Amen.

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A verse to carry with you

I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name.

Zechariah 5:4

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