OUR FATHER WHO IS THE JUDGE

The book of Zachariah chapter 5 reecords the prophet Zachariahˋs  visions with verses 1 - 4 describing a vision of a huge flying scroll that was twenty cubits by ten cubits (roughly 10 meters by 5 meters). The Angel of the Lord explained to Zachariah that the scroll served as a curse against two kinds of people. People who were thieves were cursed by one side of the scroll and likewise, the other side of the scroll contained a curse against those who swore falsely by the name of God. The curses were curses of displacement and both the thief and the perjurer would be expelled from their dwelling places.

The Lord of hosts said that He would send out this scroll and it would enter the house of the thief and the house of the perjurer and it would remain in their houses and consume the wood and stone alike. 

1 Then I turned and raised my eyes, and saw there a flying scroll.  2 And he said to me, “What do you see?” So I answered, “I see a flying scroll. Its length is twenty cubits and its width ten cubits.”

3 Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole earth: ‘Every thief shall be expelled,’ according to this side of the scroll; and, ‘Every perjurer shall be expelled,’ according to that side of it.”

4 “I will send out the curse,” says the Lord of hosts; “It shall enter the house of the thief

And the house of the one who swears falsely by My name. It shall remain in the midst of his house And consume it, with its timber and stones.”

Amen.

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