SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/6/2016 8:51 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
God Removes Wickedness
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zechariah 5:6-11
Message of the verses: 6 I said,
"What is it?" And he said, "This is the ephah going forth."
Again he said, "This is their appearance in all the land 7 (and behold, a
lead cover was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting inside the ephah." 8
Then he said, "This
is Wickedness!" And he threw her down into the middle of the ephah
and cast the lead weight on its opening. 9 Then I lifted up my eyes and looked,
and there two women were coming out with the wind in their wings; and they had
wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah between the earth
and the heavens. 10 I said to the angel who was speaking with me, "Where
are they taking the ephah?" 11 Then he said to me, "To build a temple
for her in the land of Shinar; and when it is prepared, she will be set there
on her own pedestal."”
I have to
say that somewhere in my memory and I believe that it came from a sermon by Hal
Lindsey that he mentioned that this symbol has to do with the chamber of commerce
that is the two women carrying this basket.
At any rate what we see here is a picture of God removing wickedness
from the land of Israel in this vision of Zechariah. One thing that I want to mention is that
angels are sexless, not male nor female and Dr. Wiersbe points out that “these
two women were special agents of the Lord created just for this particular task. They took the ephah and the woman to Shinar
(Babylon, Dan. 1:2) and put the ephah on a base in a special house.”
We have to
tie this portion of Zechariah with Revelation 17-18 was these two chapters
speak of the downfall of mighty Babylon, and Babylon is spoken of as being
mighty in commerce as many people were lamenting over the destruction of
Babylon, people who sold goods, and services.
Babylon is
first mentioned in Genesis 10:10 and the first emperor was Nimrod who was a
mighty hunter before the Lord, or against the Lord. There was commerce there too as this was when
the people built the tower of Babel, the first astrological observatory, a
place where the stars were charted to tell ones future, a false religion that
is in many newspapers today.
Babylon
symbolizes the world’s enmity against God as it culminates in Revelation 17-18
as mentioned. In this vision we see the
Lord riding Israel of wickedness by getting rid of the ungodly commerce. There is nothing wrong with godly business,
but ungodly business and governments God does not like.
6/6/2016 9:31 PM
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