Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

We ended yesterday halfway through Zachariah a strange night of multiple visions.

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

In this vision he sees a giant flying scroll roughly the size of a billboard and we know

it's a papyrus scroll not an animal skin parchment since it has riding 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

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

God's laws. The angel calls the 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 are up in the basket before she's carried away by stork-like women to Babylon

where they'll build a house for her and the basket. First, we should address that this isn't an actual woman.

The basket referred to here isn't even big enough to hold a woman.

It's about the size of your kitchen trash can.

Some believe this woman represents the pagan goddess a sharea and other say

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