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Zechariah 2:1 through Zechariah 2:5 (NIV)
1Then I looked up—and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his
hand! 2I asked, “Where are you going?”
He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is.”
3Then the angel who was speaking to me left, and another angel came to meet him
4and said to him: “Run, tell that young man, ‘Jerusalem will be a city without
walls because of the great number of men and livestock in it. 5And I myself will
be a wall of fire around it,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will be its glory
within.’
Zechariah 5:1 through Zechariah 5:4 (NIV)
1I looked again—and there before me was a flying scroll!
2He asked me, “What do you see?”
I answered, “I see a flying scroll, thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide.”
3And 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. 4The 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.’”
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 1-5
The Son of David, even the Man Christ Jesus, whom the prophet sees with a
measuring line in his hand, is the Master-Builder of his church. God notices the
extent of his church, and will take care that whatever number of guests are
brought to the wedding-supper, there shall be room. This vision means well to
Jerusalem. The walls of a city, as they defend it, so they straiten its
inhabitants; but Jerusalem shall be extended as freely as if it had no walls at
all, yet shall be as safe as if it had the strongest walls. In the church of God
there yet is room for other multitudes, more than man can number. None shall be
refused who trust in Christ; and He never shuts out from heaven one true member
of the church on earth. God will be a Wall of fire round them, which can neither
be broken through nor undermined, nor can it be assailed without danger to those
who attack. This vision was to have its full accomplishment in the gospel
church, which is extended by admitting the Gentiles into it; and which has the
Son of God for its Prince and Protector; especially in the glorious times yet to
come.
VERSES 1-4
The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are rolls, in which God has written
the great things of his law and gospel; they are flying rolls. God’s word runs
very swiftly, Psalms 147:15. This flying roll contains a declaration of the
righteous wrath of God against sinners. Oh that we saw with an eye of faith the
flying roll of God’s curse hanging over the guilty world as a thick cloud, not
only keeping off the sunbeams of God’s favour, but big with thunders, lightnings,
and storms, ready to destroy them! How welcome then would the tidings of a
Saviour be, who came to redeem us from the curse of the law, being himself made
a curse for us! Sin is the ruin of houses and families; especially the doing
hurt to others and false witness. Who knows the power of God’s anger? God’s
curse cannot be kept out by bars or locks. While one part of the curse of God
ruins the substance of the sinner, another part will rest on the soul, and sink
it to everlasting punishment. All are transgressors of the law, so we cannot
escape this wrath of God, except we flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set
before us in the gospel.