A Vision of a Flying Scroll

  

Zechariah 5

 

A Vision of a Flying Scroll

Again, I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll!   And he said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll. Its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.”  Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who swears falsely shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side.   I will send it out, declares the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it shall remain in his house and consume it, both timber and stones.”

 

As I’ve often stated I’m an uneducated man, and like many of you, do not have insight into the message or vision.   But this I know each person is held accountable because God has given all people knowledge of Him.  Romans 1:18-23, ^“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.   For what can be known about God is plain to them because God has shown it to them.   For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So, they are without excuse.   Although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.   Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.”

 

The Jews had the first five books of the Torah, the Law and it was not a recommendation but the Commands of their God and yours.  So, Zechariah is telling them that God’s judgment is coming on the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name.

 

It is a very dangerous thing to be a prophet like Hananiah who said he had a message from God.  “And Jeremiah the prophet said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah, the Lord has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie.   Therefore, thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, I will remove you from the face of the earth. This year you shall die because you have uttered rebellion against the Lord.’”

 

From the Back Porch,

 

 

Bob Rice