Someone made me recheck Zechariah, and I already saw these are demons. But, good for you everyone! You read the context that I have missed for a couple decades, when a woman in a Sunday school class tried to correct my belief that angels are male! She mentioned Zech. 5:9 but with no context, and foolishly, I believed her and didn't read the context. I'm glad I made this post. I learned something new! Yay!
6 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: 7 Here is a lead disc lifted up, and this is a woman sitting inside the basket”; 8 then he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he thrust her down into the basket, and threw the lead cover over its mouth. 9 Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were two women, coming with the wind in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven.
I've been thinking about this now for a couple hours, and I believe the Spirit taught me that these "female angels" are the spirits of transgenderism and homosexuality in gays and lesbians of Romans 1. Does anyone concur?
The cherubim and the seraphim are the only winged types of angels known in Scripture. Though Christian iconography does indeed usually depict angels as possessing wings, so that the common people, which, for the most part of human history, were illiterate, might be able to distinguish them from common saints, this is not the norm in Scripture itself, where they are simply described as men.
Because the ephah was a standard tool for measuring grain and dry goods, it represented trade, business, and economic life. In the post-exilic period, returning Jews struggled with materialism, dishonesty in business, and cheating for profit; the ephah symbolized this quantified sin and commercial corruption.
In the vision, Zechariah sees a woman sitting inside the ephah who represents "Wickedness". She is trapped inside when a heavy lead disc/cover is placed over the basket, showing that God limits and restrains.
Two winged women lift the ephah and carry it away to the land of Shinar (ancient Babylon), where a house is built for it.
According to some scholars, this symbolizes the total removal, quarantine, and banishment of idolatry and wickedness away from the land of Israel.
By personifying evil in a trading receptacle, the vision targets mercantile greed infecting a community tasked with rebuilding God’s house (
Haggai 1:4-11).
Lead (ʿăbarâ) is the heaviest common metal of antiquity; its 75 lb/sq ft density underscores finality. Sealing the ephah illustrates divine quarantine: the sin is not only measured but irrevocably restrained.
Evil is not merely opposed; it is measured, contained, and scheduled for removal. This provides pastoral assurance amid societal corruption.
