12.27.2014 Old Testament: Zec 5.5–8

To read the Bible in a year, read Zechariah 4–6 on December 27, In the year of our Lord 2014

By Don Ruhl

Zechariah received a vision, showing him how the Lord views wickedness on the Earth,

Then the angel who talked with me came out and said to me, “Lift your eyes now, and see what this is that goes forth.” So I asked, “What is it?” And he said, “It is a basket that is going forth.”  He also said, “This is their resemblance throughout the earth: Here is a lead disc lifted up, and this is a woman sitting inside the basket”; then he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he thrust her down into the basket, and threw the lead cover over its mouth (Zechariah 5.5–8). 

The Lord saw wickedness as a woman whom He put in a basket, but He had to thrust her down, because she unwillingly submitted to Him. Also, this shows that people think they can get away with their evil, but they do not, for the Lord puts them in a basket, then takes them out of the land, which verses 9–11 show.