Question: Who are the two winged women in Zechariah 5:9?

Question: In Zechariah:5:9Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.
See All..., who are the two women with “wind in their wings,” and whose wings are like the wings of a stork? This is how much of the world, and especially Catholics, believe that angels look. But I have believed that all angels are male. Are there other mentions in the scriptures of these women with wings? Are they good or evil?

Response: In Zechariah 5 we first meet a “flying roll,” explained to be “the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth…” (5:1-3). It brings God’s judgment upon sinners (v. 4). Then we see an ephah (a basket of large measure) with a woman sitting in it, which is “wickedness” (vv. 5-8). Then the two women appear with wings and carry the ephah and its wicked occupant to the land of Shinar. This land is mentioned seven times in the Bible. It seems to be part or even all of Babylonia, the center of false religion and the home of spiritual wickedness.

The woman (wickedness) is the ephah, establishing a house in Babylon, which could signify the revival of evil religion in relation to the woman on the beast in Revelation 17 whose name is MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT…. The two women seem to be in sympathy with her, if not co-workers for spiritual wickedness. The women are not angels, which the Bible refers to as “men” when they appear. That does not, however, mean that angels are male. God made humans “male and female” (Genesis:1:27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
See All...) and He told them to “be fruitful, and multiply” (Genesis:1:28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
See All...). The Bible never says that God made angels male and female, nor told them to multiply. In the Bible, angels never appear as women.

Some television programs offer angels represented as both men and women. Their message is anti-biblical and ecumenical. Any kind of “spirituality” and any “God” will do. Back in the day, Time pointed out that “these mighty messengers and fearless soldiers [one angel wiped out an army of 185,000 in 2 Kings:19:35And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
See All...] have become Kewpie-doll cherubs, all fluff and meringue, kind, nonjudgmental…available to everyone, much like aspirin.”

Back in 1989 Benny Hinn prophesied that it would become commonplace for angels appearing as young men to come knocking at Christians’ doors. On TBN, he once proclaimed that the activity of angels would accelerate among Christians, and that each Christian could have 6,000 angels at his disposal. Equally unbiblical was his claim over TBN that angels appeared in his bedroom every night during the entire year of 1974—for what purpose? Hinn didn’t say.

Word-faith teachers speak of learning to “command” one’s angels to bring wealth. The Bible warns against a fascination with angels (Colossians:2:18Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
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