The Coming Witnesses

My Commentary on the Book of Zechariah Part Three

Posted on October 21, 2012 by RobertLeeRE

 My Commentary

on the Book Of

 Zechariah Part 3

 
now revealed to the body of Christ.  My comments are not meant to replace the word of God, nor be added to it.  They are meant only as a guide for you to compare my interpretation to what the Holy Spirit leads you. 

  Please comment on areas that you feel are wrong and I will be happy to reconsider it included with the facts you gave.  My only intention is to teach on the book of Zechariah and the interpretations God revealed to me, subject at hand. 

  Lack of leadership in the body of Christ on prophecy is unending.  Those who are pastors and teachers constantly ignore these prophetic books.  The rejection of prophecy has let to a great crisis in the church today.  To teach the bible without teaching prophecy is just plain wrong.  My goal as a teacher is to fill this gap.
       Let us break bread and open the book of Zechariah, chapter 5.  Please read this, [only], side by side when you have your bible with you.  I use an NIV so I put those words here so it is easy for you to see what God stated in his holy bible. 
Please be careful and do not place my words equal to those in the bible for they are not.  This is just commentary only and I am not adding or taking away from the bible according to Revelation 22:19.
This is only a commentary of a long line of commentaries down through the last 2000 years. 

But I do believe this interpretation is far superior to any interpretation out there today.
Please pray for God to wake you up and give you the proper interpretation of these prophecies so you may warn and wake up the body of Christ.  I have placed my words in a different color, this color, so that you may differentiate them from God’s words.

                                          

 

                                  The Flying Scroll

    ¹ I looked again—and there before me was a flying scroll!

    ² He asked me, “What do you see?”
I answered, “I see a flying scroll, thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide. ^[a] ”

    ³ And he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely will be banished. ⁴ The LORD Almighty declares, ‘I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in his house and destroy it, both its timbers and its stones.’ ”

       Many have said this flying scroll seems  like a flying carpet or flying rug, representative of the old legends of Islam.  What they do not realize is that these same legends go all  the way back to King Solomon, son of David and Bathsheba.  So it cannot be that.
I think this explanation is just over simplistic.  From what we know of the history of Islam and the fulfilment of the Fig Tree prophecy we know all these prophecies must be fulfilled during these last years.  In the light of this we must look at world history and use evidence of what is happening now to know what God is doing in our lifetime.  This is only true if we do not contradict other scriptures.
Who can really know the mind of God anyways.  Isn’t this what all theologians do anyways?  All theologians, at least a good one anyways, interpret scripture using all antidotal evidence of what is happening in light of the scriptures.
In other words God speaks to mankind not just through the bible, the clearest way, but through all creation, nature and stars, and also through history, and according to scripture even through false prophets if we are careful with the evidence; Balaam.  
Then the good theologians reconsider their interpretations when history proves that that was the wrong interpretation, bad theologians get stubborn and hang on to the same tired old interpretations manipulating them like trying to force a square peg into a round hole.

       So without digressing any further let me give you what the Lord has revealed to me on Zechariah chapter 5.

       A scroll to the Jews was a parchment with the holy words of God written on it.  Some holy scrolls were God’s words some were false god’s words.  To me this scroll is a holy scroll that becomes a curse throughout the world.  A holy book that claims to be the only holy book, from God, like the bible, but not the bible. This holy book will be in direct competition with Christianity’s holy book, the bible, in direct competition with Jesus Christ, Islam.  The Hindu holy books do not claim absolute God breathed, being a religion of many gods they believe there is truth in all religions, so they are not in direct competition.  They lead people astray but will never control the earth like the Antichrist nations do.  The Bhuddist holy books do not claim absolute G-d breathed and are a religion of philosphy that believes one can obtain some truth on how to live by thinking, reaching everlasting life and a state of god becoming god. 

       Only Christianity, Hebrew and Islamic holy books claim God breathed status.  Hebrew doesn’t qualify being a curse for they are saved in the end, turning to Chr-st in the end. Also Hebrew Old Testament is absolute and God breathed. This holy book, holy scroll,  is the Koran and Islamic Hadiths.  But this is not holy as we Christians know since it becomes a curse that is spread throughout the earth, a flying scroll.  Only holy according to false witness and lies.  This curse is Islam and the scroll is the Koran.  God has not revealed to me the meaning of the measurements, 20 cubits by 10, or 30 feet by 15 feet.  This could be the exact measurements of a Koran cut into small pages.  The average Koran translation I read is about 200 pages.   I do not think this means anything because some translations are more and less.  So this 200 thing I do not know.  I give this to the brain trust and if any one has something let me know.

Let us see if we can somehow simplify and break this down into more manageable information.  It is easier for me when I do this.
                                 Flying Scroll
Flying Scroll; holy words;Wings;Curse; spread throughout earth`

One side; Every thief banished.

Other side :  Everyone swears falsely banished

These words seemed so puzzling to me at first.  I must admit my brain was racked.  I could not for the life of me figure this part of chapter five out.  Then I read God’s words after these words in verse 4 which I believe is the key to understanding the scroll.  L-rd Alm-ghty says some peculiar things that we must also try to break down and simplify.  Here it is.
Lord Almighty

Enters house of thief

Enters house of him who swears falsely;false witness

Verse 4 speaks of [it] that enters the house of the thief and the house of the false witness.  To me this, [it], is also the curse that goes throughout the earth.

In case you haven’t figured this out we have two similar things here.  Both of them have houses and they are as follows.

1.)  The house of the thief.

2.)  The house of the false witness.

I think this must start becoming obvious by now who these are.

The house of the thief is either satan or my view, antichrist.

The house of the false witness is either antichrist or my view, false prophet.

Both of these house’s would be under the authority of Satan, given by God for one hour, 43.66 years, Revelation 17:12.  This one hour authority is defined by the Apostle Peter in 2nd peter 3:8.  Verse 4 speaks of a “him” who swears falsely by God’s name.  This would be someone who claims to speak for God but doesn’t thus they swear falsely by God’s name or in God’s name.  House  to me means these are literal entities that have places where they dwell and live, not some symbolic nonexisting thing.  They have houses in the sense that Satan has a house where he dwells, Hades.
Now it is important for us to define something the whole bible is based upon, truth is based upon, witnesses.  We cannot understand what a false witness is unless we understand how God defines witness.  Deuteronomy 19:15 says one witness is not enough to convict a man.  A matter must be settled by two or more witnesses.  Notice the scripture says two or more, two or more.  So the weightier things are the more witnesses required, the better.  We know Moses parted the Red Sea in front of the whole nation of Israel, Egyptian army, a nation of witnesses to teh world.  Jesus Christ did thousands of miracles in front of thousands of witnesses.
        It is always the cults that have problems with witnesses.  The ones not from God have to physically threaten people to follow them by orders of decapitation or the like.  Angels are always giving them tablets that seem to always get lost somehow.   For these cults witnesses do not matter because people are converted by confusion and mosaic law, man’s rules & regulations anyways.  This house of false witness is most likely the house of the False Prophet.
       It is important for me to mention a prophecy that Islam believes in.  If I didn’t I wouldn’t be doing my job.
Islam prophecy in the Hadiths, their holy books, teach that a person that they accept as Jesus Christ whom also claims to be will come back to earth, visiting in the Desert, Middle East, Islam.  I have read this in them myself and recommend anyone with strong faith to study these.  This information is there from anyone that wishes to find on the internet.  There are Islamic websites everywhere and they do not deny these beliefs.  Here are some links to get you started:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam

 

http://www.islam.tc/prophecies/jesus.html

 

http://www.islam.tc/prophecies/imam.html

 

http://irshad.org/exposed/mahdi.php

 

http://irshad.org/brochures/iiie_30.php

We must not be ignorant of those who are against God.  They believe this Jesus Christ will be offered by the 12th Mahdi to pray for the Mahdi’s army before some war campaign.  But [this] Jesus will submit to the 12th Mahdi and claim that the 12th Mahdi is more Holy and, [he], should pray because he is more worthy.  They also believe this Jesus will claim he is not the Son of God, an important tenant of Islam that is all over the Dome of the Rock.  Their prophecy also claims this Jesus will say the christian bible is corrupted and that there is no trinity, no Son.  Then this Jesus and 12th Mahdi will come out with a new holy book, an uncorrupted holy book, not corrupted like the old and new testament.  This book will be added to the Koran to unite the world in following what they call the true faith, Islam.  They may even call it the true christianity.
So the False Prophet might actually be someone who claims to be Jesus Christ, according to the Islamic prophecies.  I believe this is how it is going to play out.  Of course they will believe it is Jesus Christ, but this will be an Islamized Jesus Christ and true christians will already know he is not the same Christ.  We christians know that Christ will not come as a man this time but to conquer as the King of Kings.
Israel, Christianity & Islam are the only world religions that assume to speak for God.  We will not cover all the other sects that fall under these same categories since it is unneccessary.  Hindi  and Buddhist would not qualify since they do not assume to speak for God.  Hindi & Buddhist actually accept all other religions because they believe there is truth in all religion.
But Israel claims that all others not in their camp are going to hell, Christianity also, Islam also.  Taking all the other historical evidence and scripture the curse that spreads throughout the earth is Islam.  I cannot picture this being any other then Islam.

The Woman in a Basket

    ⁵ Then the angel who was speaking to me came forward and said to me, “Look up and see what this is that is appearing.”

    ⁶ I asked, “What is it?”
He replied, “It is a measuring basket. ^[b] ” And he added, “This is the iniquity ^[c] of the people throughout the land.”

    ⁷ Then the cover of lead was raised, and there in the basket sat a woman! ⁸ He said, “This is wickedness,” and he pushed her back into the basket and pushed the lead cover down over its mouth.

    ⁹ Then I looked up—and there before me were two women, with the wind in their wings! They had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.

    ¹⁰ “Where are they taking the basket?” I asked the angel who was speaking to me.

    ¹¹ He replied, “To the country of Babylonia ^[d] to build a house for it. When it is ready, the basket will be set there in its place.”

Footnotes:

1. Zechariah 5:2 Hebrew twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide (about 9 meters long and 4.5 meters wide)
2. Zechariah 5:6 Hebrew an ephah ; also in verses 7-11
3. Zechariah 5:6 Or appearance
4. Zechariah 5:11 Hebrew Shinar

       The key to interpret verses 5-11 is in verse 11.  The measuring basket is taken to a distant land, Babylonia, for a future time.  The distant land is Babylonia, also known today as America.  This Babylonia is Babylon the Great in the book of Revelation.  Think of verses 5-11 as a riddle and break it down so it is easier to understand.  Let us do it here.

1.)  The measuring basket measures something; What is it?  It must measure what is in it–Wickedness represented by a woman and time, the same amount of time that was the desolation of Israel–Seventy Years according to Jeremiah the prophet–also called the seventy years of captivity.  This was the seventy years of desolation.  Now we are seeing the Seventy Years of rebuilding, right now today.  This started in 1948 with fulfillment of the Fig Tree prophecy when Israel became a nation.

2.)  What is in the basket, wickedness and Nuclear proliferment, is always trying to get out–Babylon the Great, has tattoo on forhead saying–Babylon the Great, Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth, Revelation 17:5, this is America.  Babylon the Great, America, like Babylon of old will have a kingdom whose days are numbered by God himself, Daniel 5:25-28;  This also means Babylon the Great, America will be overthrown by the same characters, Medes and Persians.  When the basket is full judgement of the world by God will occur with the separation of the sheep from the goats, and final complete redemption for all the Christ followers everywhere.  We know with fulfillment of the Fig Tree prophecy that since we are the last generation the place traditional church leaders have told us for the last 75 years, Iraq, cannot be the Babylon the Great from the bible.
This Babylon the Great, Babylonia is nothing more then America, Revelation chapters 17, 18, Jeremiah chapters 50, 51, Isaiah chapter 13, a nation that feeds the earth like the old Babylon for she represents wealth and not religious Apostasy as many teach, Daniel 4:22.

3.)  The lead cover on the basket means nuclear proliferment plays a key role in the wickedness.  Lead prevents radiation from getting through–major building component in nukes.

4.)  The two women with wings and wind beneath their wings–Verse 9.  These two women were England & America, Mother and Daughter of Babylon, Jeremiah 50:12-13.  Wings–because something they do will spread throughout the whole world; English; unbridled freedom, materialism/atheism/city building, prosperity.   The wind means to a certain degree that during part of their history God will be with them for God controls the winds.

5.)  The angel told Zechariah that the place the basket was taken to, the house, wasn’t ready yet.  This implies the place the basket would be taken to would be the distant future.  This future time we will call today.

6.)  Verse 9 said the two women had wings [like] a stork.  This implies these two women, two nations, England & America, each will birth something no other nation birthed.  England birthed modern freedom.  America birthed the Wealthiest city on earth, the best city man ever built.

7.)  The angel pushed the wickedness back in for the time was not right.  The time measured is like a stopwatch that starts once Israel became a nation, a seventy year period that the four craftsmen would rebuild Israel, redeem Israel to never sin again, Daniel’s seventy weeks, Daniel 9:24.

8.)  Verse 6 like verse 3 is the whole earth.  Land is the whole earth, Gentiles and Jews.

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