Albert Barnes Commentary Zechariah 5:11

"And he said unto me, To build her a house in the land of Shinar: and when it is prepared, she shall be set there in her own place." — Zechariah 5:11 (ASV)

To build it a house in the land of Shinar — The name Shinar, though strictly Babylonia, carries back to an older power than the world-empire of Babylon, which now also was destroyed. In the land of Shinar (Genesis 11:2) was that first attempt to array a world-empire against God, before mankind was dispersed. And so it is the more apt symbol of the antitheist or anti-Christian world, which by violence, cunning, falsehood, sophistry, wars against the truth. To this great world-empire it was to be removed; yet to live there, no longer cramped and confined as within an Ephah, but in pomp and splendor.

A house or temple was to be built for it, for its honor and glory, just as Dagon (1 Samuel 5:2–5), Ashtaroth (1 Samuel 31:10), or Baal (2 Kings 10:23) had their houses or temples: a great idol temple, in which the god of this world would be worshiped.

And it—the house—shall be established firmly on its base, like the house of God; and it (wickedness) shall be tranquilly rested on its base, as an idol in its temple, until the end comes.

In the end, the belief of those of old was that the Jews would have a great share in the antagonism to Christ and His empire.

At first, they were the great enemies of the faith and, Justin says, sent forth those everywhere who would circulate the calumnies against Christians, which were made a ground of early persecutions. In the end, it was believed that Antichrist would be from them, and that they would receive him as their Christ—the last fulfillment of our Lord’s words, I am come in My Father’s name and ye receive Me not; another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive (John 5:43).