Cleaned Out - Zechariah 5

0:37There's four more in the resource library. Is that what you asked? No. I was saying that there isn't more. Oh, there are more, yes. Yeah. All right, Zechariah chapter five. I'm going to pray one more time. Father, I pray that you bless our time tonight as we study this text, this unique text. I pray that you would help us learn about your character, learn about what you're saying. I pray that you would help us wrap our minds around this time and history and around what's going on so that we can understand what your word says. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.

1:23All right, Zechariah 5. So remember, in Zechariah, actually, I'm going to read to you Zechariah. Zechariah 1, verse 3. This was in that first message that Zechariah got. So this is before he's getting all the night visions. But in his introductory message, one of the main themes of what he says is, return to me. He says, therefore say to them, thus declares the Lord of hosts, return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. And in a large part, that is a big message of Haggai and Zechariah: of get back into it, get back to the temple, return to me, and I will return to you. And so in Zechariah 1, as we begin the night visions, one of the first topics is that the Lord is in charge of the whole earth, and he has his men patrolling, or his angels patrolling the earth, and yet he has chosen Jerusalem, and it says he will choose it again. So Jerusalem is still the Lord's chosen place. In chapter 2, in the night vision, he has a figure measuring the city, presumably to build the temple there again. And the message there is that he is going to come and dwell in Jerusalem again. So he hasn't given up on Jerusalem. So he's chosen Jerusalem. He's going to dwell someday in Jerusalem. Chapter 3, he talks about the clean high priest. So he hasn't forgotten their need for a... Clean high priests, and he hasn't disqualified Joshua as the high priest. Instead, he's cleansed him of his sin, provided them with the high priest, and told about a sign in the future that these priests have something to do with the branch, the Messiah who is to come.

3:18In chapter 4, he talked about the other leader. They have a qualified high priest, but they also have a qualified governor who's going to be successful in raising the last stone on this temple. And so, I think so far, if we were to try and put all of this into one big idea, it's that the Lord has not forgotten Jerusalem, and he has also not banished Jerusalem or told them that since they have sinned so much or since they have neglected to build the temple for so long, that he's done with them. No, he's reaffirming that he has chosen them, he will dwell there someday. There is this future figure coming who is the priest and the king, and he's going to dwell with God's people in the land. And in the meantime, they can get to work. That, in the context, I think, is the encouragement of this. As Haggai and Zechariah are giving these prophecies, and Zechariah is having these night visions from the Lord, I think the encouragement to the people is: yes, you still can build this temple. Go do it. God hasn't forgotten. You. You have a high priest. You have a governor. In the future, all of these amazing things are going to come true about Jerusalem. So for now, be responsible and finish this temple. Okay? So all of these messages that we're getting are in the second year of King Darius. Zechariah will give some more messages in the fourth year of King Darius, so two years later. And then two years later, again, in the sixth year of King Darius, is when the temple will be finished. So the people do respond. They are encouraged. And I think that we'll see today that the message today continues on with this theme of the Lord is not done with his people. The Lord is not done with his land.

5:15And they're going to get some more comforting promises as we look at this text tonight. So look at verse 1. The first vision that we have tonight is of a flying scroll. Verse 1. Again, I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll. And he said to me, This is probably still, it doesn't tell us, but this is probably still the angel that's been talking to him. And he said to me, What do you see? And I answered, I see a flying scroll. Its length is 20 cubits, and its width 10 cubits. Its length is 20 cubits, and its width is 10 cubits. So most people think that a cubit. Is about 18 inches. So that would be 30 feet by 15 feet. Matt, do you remember, Matt, are you in here? Oh, do you remember how tall these ceilings are?

6:13We measured them once a few months ago. Yeah. Yeah, I'd say it's about the size of like one of these seating areas or something. So this is a really big scroll. No, it's probably both. Oh, both? But without the walkways. Without the walkways. Okay. Yeah. So this is a pretty sizable scroll that's flying around. It's not a little scroll. And it's big. And I think that the first thing that would come is maybe a little bit of fear. There is this giant scroll, and on it is a curse. It's not a little scroll. In Revelation, there's actually two scrolls. I don't know if you remember. There's the big scroll with the seven seals. It doesn't say how big it is, but it's the one that every time the Lord breaks one of the seals, more judgments come. And then a couple chapters later, we hear about the little scroll, and it calls it a little scroll, and that's the one he puts in his mouth, and it's sweet in his mouth and bitter in his stomach. Well, this scroll that we're reading about today is huge. I see a flying scroll. Its length is 20 cubits and its width 10 cubits. So it's probably unrolled and flying around. Verse 3. Then he said to me, This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who swears falsely shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side. So probably the two sides that it's talking about are the two sides of the scroll. So there's something written on one side of the scroll that means that everyone who steals is going to be cleaned out, and everyone who swears falsely shall be cleaned out. They're going to be removed from the land. They're going to be cleaned up, the people who steal and the people who swear falsely. And to swear falsely is that commandment to take the Lord's name in vain. So if I'm going to swear that I'm telling the truth and I'm going to take an oath to make you believe that I'm telling the truth and I use the Lord's name in that, but I am not telling the truth, then that's a wicked sin. It's showing that I do not believe that there is a God. It's showing that I'm not honoring his name. And so that's what's going on here. These people are stealing and swearing falsely.

8:50When you hear those two things together, what does that make you think of? Stealing, swearing falsely. The Ten Commandments. Commandments, right? The Ten Commandments. Let's turn over to Exodus 20 just to look at those because I want you to see something. These commandments are given in Exodus 20. In Exodus 34 is when he makes the new tablets. And if you want to read the whole story recounted of making the tablets and remaking the tablets and having the Ten Commandments, that's in Deuteronomy 4 and 5, is when he retells that story.

9:35But Exodus 20, verse 1, God spoke all these words, saying, I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. Skip down to verse 7. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain. That's the one we already talked about.

10:12Swearing falsely. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. Verse 8, remember the Sabbath. Verse 12, honor your father and mother. Verse 13, you shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. That's our other one that the scroll talks about. Verse 16: you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor's house is the last one. You shall not cover your neighbor's wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that is your neighbor. So no coveting. So those are our ten commandments. And if you look at that list, see if you can see what numbers our two commandments fall under. See if you can figure that out. I'll give you just a moment. So if you're looking at that list and we're talking about swearing falsely and stealing, are the verses, yes. And then what are the numbers of the commandments? So, like the first commandment. Yeah, it's three and eight. Commandment three and eight, okay? So just to tell you where I'm going with this, you can turn back to our text.

11:35Let's say hypothetically that on this gigantic scroll were the ten commandments. And they were five on one side and five on the other. And so on the middle of the one five is commandment three, right? If one side says one, two, three, four, five, in the middle is commandment three. On the other side, on the middle of it, is commandment eight. If it's six, seven. 8, 9, 10. So, all that to say, a lot of people say that this probably refers to all the Ten Commandments that are going out in the ones that he reads, or just those two that are right in the middle on each side of the scroll, condemning those people. Or it could just be that the people in the land, this is what they're struggling with at this time. There's a lot of theft going on since people's, maybe their houses are built, but they don't have fences up or something like that. Maybe there's a lot, there's a habit of taking the Lord's name in vain. So, back to our text: Verse 3: This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land, for everyone who steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who swears falsely shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side. Verse 4: I will send it out, declares the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by my name, and it shall remain in his house and consume it, both timber and stones. So, for the thief and the one who swears falsely, this scroll is terrifying because it speaks directly against the sins that they're committing, and it's saying it's going to find them out and it's going to come to their home and it's going to destroy them and destroy their homes. Okay, so as we think about this scroll and we think about what's going on for that original audience, I think that they would have thought right away, okay, I need to stop. Stealing if they're stealing, or I need to stop swearing falsely. But it seems like what the Lord is saying here is there's going to be this time where he makes this proclamation of judgment where he is actually going to clean all these people out of the land. That after this scroll goes out and the Lord enacts this judgment, that the thief and the one who swears falsely, they're going to be gone. They're going to be cleaned out.

13:58So I do think that the person hearing this in the original context would hear these things and remember, okay, the Lord has accepted us. He's accepted our high priest. He said he's still chosen Jerusalem. He's accepted our governor. He said he's still going to finish the temple. But I need to clean up my act. I need to stop stealing. I need to stop swearing falsely. I do think that that's what they would have heard right away, but I also think that he's talking about this future time. And that goes with the next vision that we're about to read. Okay, so we just read the sixth night vision that Zechariah receives, and we're about to read the seventh. Also, a little bit strange of a vision. Okay, so we've got the flying scroll. Any questions on the flying scroll before we move on to the woman in a basket?

14:53Okay, verse 5. Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, Me. Lift your eyes and see what this is that's going out. And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the basket that is going out. And he said, This is their iniquity in all the land. Okay, so he's done seeing the scroll now. He's told by the angel to lift his eyes, maybe to somewhere else, and says, Okay, what do you see? And the Lord's giving him a new vision, and it's of a basket. And the word it uses there is an ephah, like a measurement. And if you forgot how much an epha is, it's a little more than half a bushel, if that helps.

15:43No, it's about this basket would have been about the size of like a five-gallon bucket for reference. So either it's a little woman or it's like a standard word for a basket, and maybe the basket's huge and there's a normal-sized woman inside. We don't know. Okay, but we'll get to that in a second. So, verse 6. So, he says, What is it? He said, This is a basket that is going out. And he said, This is their iniquity in all the land. So, something with the basket is involved with their iniquity. Verse 7, and behold, the leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the basket. Okay, so the basket would have had this really heavy. Lid. It gives a measurement in the text there, and I think it is supposed to come out to about a hundred pounds. So this is a heavy lid on the basket. Okay, so it's obviously trying to keep something in the basket. And it's lifted, and you find out what it's trying to keep in the basket is a woman.

16:50And verse 7 is pretty shocking, right? All of these visions are shocking, but in verse 7, he says, and behold, right, the leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in a basket. You know, this is a surprising image. Verse 8, and he said, This is wickedness. And he thrusts her back into the basket and thrusts down the leaden weight on its opening. Okay, so the woman is a symbol of wickedness itself. And it's the wickedness that is in all the land. Remember, verse 6, this is their iniquity in all the land. So symbolically, this is God gathering all of the wickedness that's in Israel and putting it in a basket. And it's represented by this woman who is wickedness. Okay, and she tries to maybe escape, and the angel thrusts her back into the basket. You know, this is wickedness. Get back in there. And then slams the lid down. To keep the wickedness in the basket. Okay, so the wickedness is trapped. This is the wickedness of the land, and it is trapped in the basket. Verse 9.

18:13Then I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, two women coming forward. The wind was in their wings, and they had wings like the wings of a stork. And they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven. Okay, so this is the next part of the vision: is that these two women come. Remember, this is symbolic, so we don't necessarily have to tie these with certain angels or something like that. But this is a symbol that he's seen. And so this symbol is two women, and the two women have wings of a stork.

18:54And I'll tell you two things about storks. Number one, they were unclean animals. So a lot of people think, according to the Old Testament, they're unclean animals. So a lot of people think that these two women are wicked also, just like the woman in the basket, and they're carrying her to a place where she can thrive, that we'll see in a minute. But I think that another reason why they could have picked the stork, why God could have picked the stork, is that storks have really long migrations. And so God is showing the symbol of taking the sin of the people in the land. Shoving it into a basket and sending it far, far away. And the storks, if the wind was in their wings, could fly that long. They would have even longer migrations than the place we're about to see that they go. Okay, so verse 9: I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, two women coming forward. The wind was in their wings, they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven. So they take flight, they lift off, and they're not on the ground, they're not all the way up in the sky, they're just flying along with the wind in their wings. Verse 10: Then I said to the angel who talked with me, Where are they taking the basket?

20:12Verse 11, he said to me, To the land of Shinar, to build a house for it. And when this is prepared, they will set the basket down there on its base. Do you guys know where the land of Shinar is? Babylon, right? That's the ancient name for the city of Babylon, or the land of Babylon. Where's the first time we hear about it? Genesis 11, right? The Tower of Babel. They build it in Shinar. So when all the people have one language and they are all going to band together and celebrate the fact that they are humans and can do anything, and they're going to build this giant tower in rebellion against. God and God sees it and says, if they do this, then they will be able to do everything. All of that took place in the land of Shinar. So it's a very ancient place that they would have associated, they being Jews, reading Zechariah's vision, they would have associated with wickedness and city and commerce. And we'll turn to Genesis 11 in just a minute. But verse 11, again, he said to me, to the land of Shinar to build a house for it. So maybe that was some kind of wicked temple or something like that where it's going to stay. And when this is prepared, they will set the basket down there on its base.

21:38Okay, so the question is: what are these two visions trying to communicate to the people as God is sending these prophets to tell them to keep building the temple? And part of this prophet's message are these two visions: where number one, the people, the stealers and the swearers, they're going to be cleaned out. And then this other vision where the sins of the people of the land are gathered up, put into a basket, trapped in there, and sent far, far away.

22:18What do you think it's trying to communicate? Any ideas or thoughts? That's okay. I'll tell you what I think. Oh, yes, just. James. Well, I think part of it is kind of in the mind's full, it says at the end of that, that it's going to be in their house, right? I guess part of that should be that the law is being present, but they will be aware of it. Yeah, at least certainly in that the time that they're hearing this, I think it's saying you need to remember the law, or at least those two laws, but they should remember all the law, and make sure you're following the law.

23:03And it's a standard, that's right. Yeah, and I think that even more broadly, as he's looking at this, he's saying, Look, someday, God, as he looks at this land, he is going to completely remove the sinner from this land. He's going to clean out the sinner, and he's going to clean out the sin so that what's left over inside this land is a totally clean land. Any sin that was there has been packaged up and sent away, far, far away, to be destroyed at a later time.

23:42But God has eradicated the sinner in his land, and God has eradicated sin in his land. Let's turn and just follow a little bit of the biblical story of Babylon. So, turn over to Genesis 11. Babylon gets associated throughout the scriptures with rebellion against God and with sin. And rightly so, over and over and over, this is where wicked things are happening. So, Genesis 11, verse 1. Now, the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.

24:34And they had brick for stone and bitumen for mortar. And they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens. And let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth. So that's their desire. They want to make a name for themselves. They're not trusting in the Lord by any means. In fact, a chapter later, he will say to Abraham that he is going to give Abram a name. A name. But they're trying to make a name for themselves. And in verse 5, and the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of man had built. So the Lord comes down from heaven. He sees the city. He sees the tower. And the Lord said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language. And this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down there and confuse their language. That they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore, its name was called Babel because there the Lord confused the languages, the language of all the earth, and from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth. So this is the first time we hear about Shinar in this place where the people have said, We want to make a name for ourselves. We're going to build it all the way up into heaven, this tower, and we're going to show how mighty we are and make a name for ourselves. And the Lord condemned them and scattered them and spread them all over the earth. Okay? And then throughout Old Testament history, this region gets associated with wickedness. And of course, the young adults will remember, because we spent a long time in Isaiah and other places, that Babylon becomes the place that's going to take captive the southern kingdom. And they do, and the Lord uses them. You might remember in Habakkuk that it's shocking that the Lord is going to use Babylon. You remember, Habakkuk is praying for God to deal with the sins of the people of the land. And God says, I'm going to deal with it by bringing Babylon. And it's shocking because Babylon is wicked. Okay, so they take the people into captivity, but now Babylon has been conquered by who? Persia. Okay, and now the people under the The king of Persia have been allowed to return to Israel. And so, really, there's not this evil, dark, scary empire in Babylon anymore, right? Because they've been taken by Persia. Okay, so now I want you to turn over to Revelation, chapter 17.

27:35The Lord shows John in Revelation this woman. And already in Revelation 14, we had a little bit of foreshadowing. I believe it's an angel, shouts, fallen, fallen as Babylon the Great. And that's going to get repeated for us in chapter 18. But this city of Babylon seems to return in the end times. So look at verse 15, chapter 17, verse 15. The angel said to me, The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, he sees a woman, and he sees the woman as a prostitute seated on the waters, are the peoples and the multitudes and the nations and languages. Verse 16, and the ten horns that you saw, they and the beasts will hate the prostitute. They will make her desolate and naked and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire. For God has put it into their hearts to carry out his purpose by being of one. Mind and handing over their royal power to the beast until the words of God are fulfilled. Verse 18, and the woman that you saw is the great city that has dominion over the kings of the earth. Look at chapter 18. After this, I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was made bright with his glory. And he called out with a mighty voice, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great. She has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, like a stork, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast. For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living. So it's this woman as a symbol for this city, Babylon. And they're saying, fallen, fallen is this great city that all the kings of the earth interacted with. Look down at verse 15. This is Revelation 18, 15. The merchants of these wares who gained wealth from her will stand far off in fear of her torment, weeping and mourning aloud. Alas, alas for the great city that was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, with jewels and with pearls. For in a single hour all this wealth has been laid waste.

30:00So, when we think of the whole revelation that we see in the Bible, that from the very beginning in the land of Shinar, there's this rebellion against the Lord. And then at the very end of time, there is this woman who is symbolic of this great city, Babylon. And the Lord is destroying again this great city full of merchants and trade and all of these things that represent maybe human autonomy and standing against the Lord. Both of those are in Babylon, and they represent rebellion against him. And so, when we, in the middle of all of this, when we hear Zechariah talking about how God is going to bundle up all the sins of the land of his people, and he is going to send them away, send these sins far, far, far away to the land of Shinar, it makes a lot of sense, right? This is the place where sin like this is going to be judged at the very end. You remember what we were just reading is Revelation 18. After Revelation 18 is Revelation 19 and 20, right? Where there's rejoicing in heaven, and the Lamb comes back and reorders everything on earth, right?

31:22So as we consider this and we're thinking back to our text, you can turn back to our text. Zechariah. As we're considering this, and we're considering the pride of men, and we're considering the sin of men, what we see is the Lord dealing with this, that he is going to clean out the land of sinners. He's going to make sure they are judged, but then also he's going to take the sin from the people in the land and send it away to Babylon in this place that's going to be destroyed right before he comes back.

31:59And great is going to be its fall. And we see the Lord remembering his people again. We see the Lord dealing with their sin issue again. Remember in chapter 3, Joshua was clothed in those filthy garments because of his sin. But the angel of the Lord dresses him or has him dressed in the clean, sparkling garments. He's dealing with their sin again. And that's what we get in this picture, in Zechariah 5, these two pictures. Okay, so just real quick: if we're thinking about the original audience and we're thinking, okay, what was their application from this? Well, their application is: if God has chosen us, and someday he's going to totally eradicate sin from this place, and this is still his chosen land, and he is going to make sure his temple is finished here, then not only do we need to kick it into gear and build the temple, but we also need to observe the law. We need to be holy. We need to be his people. We need to stop stealing. We need to stop swearing. Okay, I think that that would be the message that cuts them to the heart, and they obey it, and they get working on the temple and they clean up their act.

33:14I think that the timeless message that we take from this again, just like we did a few chapters ago, is that God is the God who deals with sin. And maybe this is a message that we repeat a lot, but it's a message that's worth repeating a lot: that God is the one who sin most offends, and yet he is the one who comes up with a solution of how to get rid of it. And in our chapter today, we saw that in two different sides. There are some people who are judged that are going to be cleaned out.

33:54They're the sinners, and that's one of the ways the Lord deals with sin. Then there are others, the ones who are left in the land, who get to watch as the basket goes away, right, with all the sin and leaves the people in the land pure. And so he is purging the land and purifying the land. He is eradicating the sinner and eradicating sin. The Lord has come up with a solution. And so for us as Christians, as we're thinking about that, we realize that the Lord has also done that in our life. As we expect and look forward to the future promises of Dwelling with him. Number one, when we're there, he will have eradicated the sinner. We're not going to have to be afraid anymore. We're not going to have to lock our doors anymore. The gates aren't even going to be shut on the city because there's no enemies. Turn over, if you will, or just listen to the end of Revelation.

34:58In Revelation 21, the end of Revelation 21. Verse 22: I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives its light, and its lamp is the Lamb. By its light will the nations, excuse me, by its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, and its gates will never be shut by day, and there will be no night there. They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations, but nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life. So, in this future, as we look forward to our future with the Lord, we get this picture of there's not going to be any sinners that are allowed to be there. We'll never have to be afraid because he has purged the sinner. But he also deals with our sins. Sin. I'm going to read from the end of Jude, the book before Revelation, in verse 24.

36:11Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy. To the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority before all time and now and forever. So yes, he's going to eradicate the sinner from the place where his people dwell in the future, but he also will have eradicated the sin. To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy.

36:52To the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority before all time and now and forever. Amen. So God is the God who deals with sin. Yes, God is the God. God is the one whose sin most offends, and yet he comes up with a solution. And for his people, Israel, he's going to clean out the land from sinners, but he's also going to take their land and trap it far away. And for us, we get to rely at least on similar promises that someday we're going to. Be able to dwell in a place like that as well, with no sinners, and we're going to be able to dwell with God as people who have no sin in them. I think that's something we can rejoice about and look forward to. So, pray with me, Father.

37:46I do pray that we would look forward to these things. And just as the people who were hearing these original night visions that were spurred on to action to remember that they are your people and they need to finish the temple, I pray that we also would be spurred on to action as we look forward to the day when we're not surrounded by sinners and we're not filled with sin ourselves. You are the God who deals with sin and has found a way to get rid of it.

38:19And we're grateful, Father. We pray that as we look forward to that day, that we also would be encouraged to live holy lives even now. Thank you, Father, for this passage. I pray that we would remember your character and be encouraged in Jesus' name. Amen. We're going to take a little bit of a break from Zechariah for a few weeks. The next chapter we're going to do is chapter 6, and just something to look forward to. We see Joshua again, the high priest. And this time, there are some foreign visitors, and they're supposed to make a crown.

39:00And put it on Joshua, and then they say, Behold, the one whose name is the branch. So it's pretty neat. So in a few weeks, we'll get back to Zechariah. But until then, you're dismissed.