I never paid much attention to Zechariah 5. Honestly, who does? A flying scroll, a basket with a woman inside, two strange winged figures carrying it off to Babylon — it always read like one of those visions you skim past on the way to the “important chapters.” And yet, when I wasn’t looking for it, that very passage found me.
It came in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death — an event heavy on my spirit, raising questions about corruption, money, and hidden agendas. For the first time, I began to wonder: could Scripture itself be speaking directly to this moment? And then Zechariah’s vision burst open before my eyes.
A curse goes out “over the face of the whole land.” Wickedness is revealed, trapped, and carried away. Where? To Babylon — the house of rebellion. What I thought was an odd, obscure chapter turned out to be a prophetic key: God will not tolerate corruption in His land. He exposes it, removes it, and ties it to Babylon for judgment.
And yet, for more than a century, Christians reading their Scofield Bibles have been trained not to see this. Scofield’s notes protect Israel from the very prophetic rebuke God Himself wrote down. He tells us to limit “the land” to old Palestine, to spiritualize Babylon as a symbol for the apostate church, and to downplay the literal cleansing of Israel’s soil. In other words, the very passage that screams “corruption will be removed from My land” gets muffled by a footnote.
But Zechariah wasn’t writing footnotes. He was writing prophecy. And prophecy doesn’t flatter nations or leaders. Prophecy exposes. Even in the land called holy, wickedness has a shelf life. The iceberg of corruption is already surfacing — and God Himself is the One who pulls it up into the light.
Abraham, Christ, and the Real Promise
From the very beginning, the covenant was two-edged. God promised Abraham:
“I will bless those who bless you, and him who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” (Genesis 12:3)
Notice: this was said to Abraham before there was a nation of Israel, before there was a land divided by borders, before there was even a Temple. The promise was about Abraham’s seed. And the apostle Paul makes it plain:
“Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring… who is Christ.” (Galatians 3:16)
“If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.” (Galatians 3:29)
The blessing is fulfilled in Christ, and all who belong to Him by faith — Jew and Gentile. Which means the curse falls not on whoever questions a political state, but on whoever rejects the covenant God has made through His Son.
And this is where Scofield’s framework collapses. He turned Genesis 12 into a political slogan — “bless modern Israel or be cursed” — while ignoring the deeper covenantal truth: God Himself blesses through Christ, and God Himself curses corruption, even when it takes root in His own people’s land. Zechariah’s vision confirms it: wickedness in Israel’s land will be exposed and exiled.
My Own Struggle
I want to be clear: I was pro-Israel. I never doubted Scofield’s interpretation. I never questioned the slogan: “Bless Israel or be cursed.” I defended it without hesitation. And even now, I am not saying I will go out today and support Muslim nations against Israel — that argument is absurd. No true Christian believes that standing against corruption means standing with Islam.
But here’s what Zechariah 5 forced me to see: chosenness does not exempt Israel from judgment. God Himself says wickedness in the land will be exposed and removed. Even Charlie Kirk, two weeks before he was killed, began speaking this way. He questioned the money flows, the agendas, the political entanglements. According to one of his own podcast videos, and as some sources reported, he was branded “antisemitic” and even threatened with financial retaliation. Truth-telling became too costly. And then, suddenly, he was gone.
I will be honest: this shift has been heavy for me. Changing a view I held for years, overnight, is not something I take lightly. It disturbed me. It made me question: is my faith being tested? What if I’m wrong? What if I’ve been deceived? But then God showed me Zechariah 5. I wasn’t looking for it — it found me. And suddenly, the vision made sense. My heart was both shaken and strangely at peace. Because this is what He has always done: He exposes corruption, He refines His people, and He proves again that His Word is enough.
Jesus Confronts Corruption
And so when Jesus came in the flesh, He walked into His Father’s house and found it overrun by profiteers. Tables stacked with coins, cages of doves for sale, men trading what should never be traded in a place meant for prayer. The zeal of the Lord consumed Him. He overturned the tables, drove out the sellers, and declared:
“My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you make it a den of thieves.” (Matthew 21:13)
This was not a misunderstanding. It was a full-on confrontation with corruption at the very heart of Israel’s worship. And what was the leaders’ response? Not repentance. Not humility. They plotted to kill Him. Jesus was killed because He exposed the corruption in God’s house.
The Vision of Zechariah 5
Go read Zechariah 5 yourself. Don’t skim it — sit with it. The prophet sees a flying scroll of curses sweeping across the land, and then a basket with a woman inside named Wickedness. That basket is sealed and lifted away to Babylon. Along the way, two women with stork wings carry it through the air.
Some stumble here and say, “See? Two winged women — these must be female angels.” But the text never calls them angels. The angel speaking with Zechariah is called a malak — a messenger. The two carriers are called nashim — ordinary women. This is vision-symbol language, not angelology. Just as the flying scroll is not a literal UFO, the winged women are not heavenly beings. They are symbols showing that wickedness will be carried out of the land and exiled to Babylon. The point is not their gender. The point is that God will expose corruption, remove it, and send it to its place of judgment.
Zechariah saw it clearly: wickedness in God’s land is exposed, contained, and shipped out. God will not allow His inheritance to be polluted forever.
The Nations Tied In
This is the prophetic pattern. Jesus cleansed the Temple in miniature; Zechariah 5 shows God cleansing the entire land. And Revelation 17–18 shows the final fall of Babylon, where the merchants of the earth weep and wail as the system collapses.
But take note: it is not only Israel that bears this exposure. The nations tied into her corruption are swept up as well. Joel 3:2 declares that God will bring the nations into judgment “on behalf of My people and My heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and divided up My land.” Revelation 18:3 adds: “All nations have drunk the wine of her immorality, the kings of the earth have committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from her luxurious excess.” The rot spreads outward. The land is the center, but the web of corruption stretches across the earth.
And what we are seeing now is only the beginning of exposure. Charlie Kirk’s death was not just the loss of one life; it was a rupture that made many look again at Israel, at power, at money cloaked in religion. Suddenly questions are being asked that cannot be unasked. Suddenly eyes are opening to the possibility that the very alliances we were told were untouchable are, in fact, deeply corrupt. If Zechariah’s vision is true — and it is — then this exposure has only begun. The hidden things are being dragged into the light. And the Lord Himself is doing the dragging.
The End-Time Fulfillment
This is not only history and not only warning. It is prophecy. What Zechariah saw was not exhausted in his own generation. It is written for the end of the age. The same Word that judged thieves and liars in his day stretches across the centuries. The same vision of Wickedness being exposed and exiled is pointing forward to the last great exposure before the return of the King.
Zechariah himself makes this clear when he carries the vision forward to chapter 14. There the nations surround Jerusalem, but the Lord Himself descends to fight. His feet stand on the Mount of Olives, the land splits, and the city is transformed. And the final line says: “On that day there shall no longer be a trader in the house of the LORD of hosts.” (Zechariah 14:21). The merchants, the profiteers, the money-changers — gone forever. What Jesus did once with cords in His hand, He will do finally with a rod of iron.
And Revelation bears the same witness. Babylon — the house of rebellion, the storage place of wickedness — falls in a single hour. The kings of the earth weep. The merchants lament. The system collapses. The nations that grew rich by her corruption are exposed, judged, and swept away.
So we are not speaking in riddles. We are speaking in prophecy. This will happen. It is written. God will expose corruption in His land. He will remove it. He will tie it to Babylon. And then He will judge Babylon and cleanse the land forever.
We may only be seeing the beginning now — but the King will finish it once for all. The land will be holy. The house will be clean. The nations will tremble. And the King will reign.
Exhortation for Now
When the world throws you confusion and disturbance, do not anchor yourself to men — not to Charlie, not to the new CEO of TPUSA, not to Charlie’s mentor, not to Israel’s leaders speaking in God’s name, not to a president, not to politicians, not even to so-called Christians who are not rooted in the whole counsel of Scripture. Anchor yourself to the Word of God. Test everything by it. Let it be your lamp, your guide, your sword. For it alone will stand when Babylon falls and when every false foundation collapses.
And make no mistake: if Zechariah’s vision is true — and it is — then what we are witnessing is not random. It is part of the prophetic timeline. Wickedness in the land is being revealed. Babylon’s power is rising. And the collapse written in Revelation is drawing close.
Our time is at the door. The corruption has broken the surface, and the King is near. Soon the land will be holy. The house will be clean. The nations will tremble. And the Lord Himself will reign.
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