Time: Written during the building of the temple -- 520-516BC
What the Lord is Saying: The visions continue from Zechariah to Zerubbabel the governor and Judah the High Priest -- to encourage the rebuilding of the temple.
This time Zechariah sees a flying scroll with 2 sides. One side basically reminds the people of the command, "Do not steal." The other is the remind to not use the Lord's name as a curse word or blasphemy. The other vision was of a basket filled with sins. And two women flew and took the basket of sin away.
In these two visions we see the responsibility we each have to not sin, but we also see that the Lord removes sin from His people. Sin results in poor outcomes for people. But God has removed sin for having a hold on people for eternity. This signifies the final purification of God's people.
It is interesting that with the basket, sin is removed, but it is taken some place else. Sin will reside in a place where people that love it will reside with it. People in hell will be there because they want to be there. They prefer sin over God.
Promise: Hell is a real place. And the people there will be where they want to be. Living in sin.
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