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

We ended yesterday halfway through Zachariah's 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 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 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 her 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

as Shera, and others say she's just a symbol.

Second, the whole image seems to speak to the fact that Babylon is the new representation for evil.

After all, it's where evil's home is being built. The Book of Revelation spends a lot of time

talking about the wickedness of Babylon. In vision number eight, we get more

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