Things Are FLYING in ZECHARIAH 5 -- Zechariah 5:1

Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked,

and behold a flying roll !

Zechariah 5:1

The Angel of The LORD awakened Zechariah ( 4:1 ) and showed him visions. The visions continued on into Chapter 5 which starts with the FLYING SCROLL. 

Although the vision of a 30-feet by 15–feet  FLYING ROLL was astounding, the Hebrew words  indicate it was a SCROLL for writing that was flying through the air. 

The Hebrew word for scroll is  “megillah” , from the root word GaLaL, which is a verb meaning “to roll” . Scrolls were “rolled up”.   Thus, “megillah” is translated as a ROLL in ancient Hebrew sources and in the KJV. We would know it as a scroll. 

The Vaticanus Codex B of the Old Testament,  which is what is called, published , and sold as “the Septuagint” or the LXX, states this Hebrew “megillah” is a FLYING SICKLE.

However, other Old Testament Scriptures tell us it could NOT be a SICKLE used to cut or harvest grain.  For Instance, throughout the verses in Jeremiah chapter 36, the megillah or “roll” was a written document of a “book”; megillah could NOT be a sickle in Jeremiah nor in Zechariah.

Jeremiah 36:2  clearly states: 

Take thee a roll (MEGILLAH)  of a book (sepher), and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.

So we see that MEGILLAH is never used as a SICKLE, but always as a scroll upon which one writes and which can be read. 

See Verse 5:2 next post . . . 

 JESUS saith unto him, 

I+, I AM,  the Way, the Truth, and the Life: 

no man cometh unto THE FATHER,

 but by ME+. 

John 14:6