The Holy Spirit surely moves here at my keyboard when I study for the Bible lessons. He typically moves differently when I teach it in person.
I added a paragraph to the text of my notes on Zechariah 5 regarding the second vision, where the winged ladies take the basket away:
We often forget in our modern Western world that the fundamental flaw of feminism is demanding control over every factor in the nesting instinct. A part of the curse of the Fall on women is seeking that control mostly in a materialistic and political sense. Zechariah here assumes such an understanding, that women of faith know they have to let go and trust their men and their God. The little goddess in the basket represents the worst of the fallen instinct in women, which manifests today as feminism. Most people don’t recognize that feminism is simply another face of middle class merchant culture, part of the symbolic identity of Babylon. Godly women would try to keep this nasty instinct out of their community, as do the winged motherly figures in the vision.
