“I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in his house and destroy it, both its timbers and its stones.”
– Zechariah 5:4
Hi James and Ellen,
Do you steal? Do you slander? Are you sinful? God – as God the Father, utilizing an angel or different angels, conveyed in visions to Zechariah – who was one of His prophet spokesmen, what he wrote in his Zechariah Book. God – as God the Father, – used visions, an angel or angels and Zechariah, to level curses against every guy whose everyday lifestyle norm was to steal, slander and sin. The sixth and seventh visions that Zechariah received via an angel or by two different angels who God – as God the Father, employed to pass on visions to Zechariah, are found in Zechariah 5. Thieves and slanders are the foci in the sixth vision that God – as God the Father, communicated to Zechariah via an angel. God – as God the Father, in the sixth vision that He passed on to Zachariah using an angel, used a 30 foot long – 15 foot wide flying scroll that Zechariah – along with every other guy who was living in the land that God gave to His specially chosen guys and gals to always to have to live in as their very own land, could visibly see to drive home His condemnation against lawbreaking thieves and slanders. God’s curse against thieves was written on one side of the flying scroll while His curse against false accusers was written on the opposite side of the flying scroll. The flying scroll – which Zechariah hints in this vision as being unfurled and waving like a banner, probably flew in a flight that God – as God the Father, preprogrammed so that every guy who was living in the land that He gave to His specially chosen guys and gals to always to have to live in as their very own land would see it. God’s explicit spotlight on thieves and slanders suggests that thieves and slanders were the largest offenders of the Ten Commandments which He gave through Moses – when He met with Moses on the top of Mount Sinai, for His specially chosen guys and gals to use for their ongoing lifestyle guide. The flying scroll’s bold, clear message from God – as God the Father, resulted in one of two responses from guys when they read the flying scroll. The guys who were thieves and/or slanders who internalized their dismal failure to keep the third and/or eighth commandment that led them to be spurred to repentance and to live a righteous life were given a pass to a hope filled life while guys who were thieves and/or slanders who refused to abandon their vile behavior are informed in verse 4 what happens to them, “The LORD Almighty declares, “‘I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in his house and destroy it, both its timbers and its stones.””’
The visual in the seventh vision that God – as God the Father, – using an angel, revealed to Zechariah had a large measuring basket in it. God – as God the Father, had this angel tell Zechariah that the dismal iniquity of each guy who was living in the land that he gave to His specially chosen guys and gals to always to have to live in as their very own land was being embodied by the gal who Zechariah could see sitting inside the basket. The general gist of wickedness in your grandpaa’s thinking is a moral, religious and civil breakdown of a societal order that will lead to an evil system that God will use to . . . (your grandpaa is leaning towards believing that God has given Satan plenty of room – which your grandpaa believes that God knows how Satan will use the room . . . causing your grandpaa’s head spin because . . . which God will ultimately hold against Satan to annihilate him once and for all). (The editing of this missive is being done almost fifteen years after your grandpaa wrote it. Your grandpaa now believes because of what Paul wrote near the end of Romans 11 that God – possibly using Satan as His stoolie, imprisoned, enslaved, bond every guy, gal and kid over into disobedience so that they all can know His mercy.) When Zechariah saw the angel push the basket’s lead cover back over the emblematic gal, he saw two gals with stork like wings – who God was sending as divine agents, flying in on the wind to lift the basket of evil to carry the basket to a place somewhere between planet Earth and heaven. When Zechariah asked the angel giving him this vision where the two flying gals were taking this basket, the angel told him that the basket will be taken one day to the country of Babylon where . . .
The payment for doing good and the punishment for doing evil is a reoccurring theme throughout the Bible. You are living today in a global community which because of technology is becoming more and more a single entity that is snared in competing civil, moral and religious mores. Because evil exploits whatever to justify a choice that ultimately leads to corrupt conduct and destructive decisions and because planet Earth is Satan’s playground today, your grandpaa is convinced that insubordination of laws, compliance to depravity and disregarding the probability of a Divine God will supplant what God has mandated in every Bible book – like the book that He – as God the Spirit, breathed on Zechariah to write, for all the guys, gals and kids who are living on planet Earth to accept as absolute truth. Your grandpaa is also convinced though that as some guys, gals and kids who are living on planet Earth are unconsciously being pulled into the vortex that is being advanced by the Islamic belief paradigm – which your grandpaa believes is symbolic today of a worldwide Babylon, other guys, gals and kids are intentionally taking a bold Christ-follower stand which – especially today, have young guys and gals bravely articulating their faith in public forums and in one on one settings. Where are you today in this relentless conflict between good and evil?
Zechariah 5 (1086)