Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

We ended yesterday half way through Zacharias' strange night of multiple visions.

Today we pick up where we left off with vision number 6.

In this vision he sees a giant flying scroll, roughly the size of a billboard.

We know it's a papyrus scroll, not an animal skin parchment, since it has writing on both sides.

It's flying over the city, bringing judgment to everyone who disobeys God's laws.

While there are only two laws mentioned in the vision, it seems they may represent the

two types of sin, horizontal sin, sin against our neighbor, and vertical sin, sin against

God.

If that's the case, that would mean they ultimately represent all of God's laws.

The angel calls this scroll a curse.

Some say this means the scroll only held the curses for breaking the covenant, not the

benefits of keeping it, and others say the fact that it's called a curse just serves

to remind us all over again that the purpose of the law is to reveal that we all deserve

death.

Only in Christ do we find life.

Only in Christ are we redeemed from the curse of the law, like Galatians 313 says.

In vision 7, I had a hard time not picturing a hot air balloon ride, but that's apparently

not it at all.

First, we see a woman who represents wickedness in a basket.

The angel seals her up in the basket before she's carried away by a stalk-like woman to

Babylon, where they'll build a house for her and the basket.

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