OUR FATHER WHO REVEALS MYSTERIES TO HIS PROPHETS

The book of Zachariah chapter 5 verses  5 - 11 continues with another vision that the prophet Zachariah saw. 

The Angel of the Lord told Zachariah to lift his eyes and look at what was appearing. Zacharia described seeing a basket (for measuring grain) and he told the Angel of the Lord what he was seeing and he asked the Angel what the basket was. The Angel of the Lord replied that the basketˋs appearance was universally found throughout the land.  (Alternately, the Angel of the Lord replied that basket contained the inquity of the land).

The basket had a round lid made of lead and when the lid was lifted, Zachariah saw a woman inside the basket who tried to get out of the basket whan the lid was lifted. The Angel of the Lord told Zacharia that the woman was ˋwickednessˋand the Angel of the Lord pressed the woman back into basket and closed the lid over her.

Zachariah then saw two women with large wings flying up to them and the women grabbed the basket and flew up with it into the atmosphere.

 Zachariah asked the Angel of the Lord where they were taking the basket and was told that the two women were taking the basket to the land of Shinar where they were going to build a house for it and once the house was completed, they would set the basket on a pedestal in the house. 

5 Then the angel who talkeed with me came out and said to me, “Lift your eyes now, and see what this is that goes forth.”

6 So I asked, “What is it?” And he said, “It is a basket that is going forth.” He also said, “This is their resemblance throughout the earth: 7 Here is a lead disc lifted up, and this is a woman sitting inside the basket”; 8 then he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he thrust her down into the basket, and threw the lead over over its mouth. 9 Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were two women, coming with the wind in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven.

10 So I said to the angel who talked with me, “Where are they carrying the basket?”

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

Amen.

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