Zechariah 5-8, Jude 1, Proverbs 23: 29-35
Zechariah 5: 1-4 (ESV)
“Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying
scroll! And he said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying
scroll. Its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits. ”Then he said to
me, “This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For
everyone who steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and
everyone who swears falsely shall be cleaned out according to what is on the
other side. I will send it out, declares the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter
the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And
it shall remain in his house and consume it, both timber and stones.”
In verses 1 through 4 from Zechariah 5, the prophet
Zechariah has a vision of flying scroll. I love this image of the flying scroll
which sounds like it has the 10 commandments written on it. The scroll has the
names of the people who have violated the commandments of Thou shall not steal
and Thou shall not swear false witness against thy neighbor. The scroll will
then fly around and enter the sinners’ houses and burn them down, including the
timber and stones.
Zechariah’s vision reminds that God keeps tracks of who violates
these commandments and will send punishment to these people and judge them
according to their crimes. The punishment that God sends will be appropriate to
the commandment broken. If you steal and bear false witness against your
neighbor, you will lose everything you possess since your sin deprived others
of their possessions. In modern parlance, some would call this scenario “karma.”
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