Animals
stork in Zechariah 5
STORK
This creature shows up in Zechariah 5:9: “Then lifted I up my eyes, and saw, and behold, there were two women, and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the wings of…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real creature in a real place.
Zechariah 5:9
“Then lifted I up my eyes, and saw, and behold, there were two women, and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket between earth and the sky.”
What kids can learn
When you hear stork in Zechariah, remember the sentence around it. God put this creature in the story on purpose.
Read Zechariah 5:9 again tomorrow and ask what the creature is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Zechariah 5:9
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
liftedIupmyandsaw,andbehold,thereweretwowomen,andthewasintheirwings.Nowtheyhadwingslikethewingsofastork,andtheylifteduptheephahbasketbetweenearthandthesky.