![]() ![]() Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself (Exodus 19:4). When the children of Israel came out of Egypt God reminded them: Israel Previously Delivered on Eagles Wings In Ezekiel’s day the second eagle could not assist the Jews against the Babylonians but in the last days a great eagle will assist in Israel’s escape and provide for her for 1,260 days until Christ returns. ![]() The symbolism of a great eagle is clearly representing great political and military powers involved with the nation of Israel and the use of the same symbol in Revelation Chapter 12 is therefore most significant. ![]() In Daniel’s vision of four world empires he saw a lion with, “ eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it” (Daniel 7:4). The stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel (Isaiah 8:8).Īlso, Jeremiah prophesied that Nebuchadnezzar would smite all the nations around the land of Judah and when he spoke of Edom he said:īehold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah (in Edom)(Jeremiah 49:22). More than a hundred years before, Isaiah had prophesied that Assyria would occupy the land. The interpretation of the parable is that the first great eagle was the Babylonian Empire that had come into the land and taken the best of the people to Babylon but Israel, the vine (Judah), had “bent her roots” toward another great eagle, the Egyptian Empire, for protection. There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him (Ezekiel 17:7). Ezekiel was told by God to “put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel” (Ezekiel 17:2).Ī great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colors, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar (Ezekiel 17:3). The symbolism of a “great eagle” is used in Ezekiel’s prophecy Chapter 17 in relation to Israel. Jesus foretold that “the abomination of desolation”, Antichrist’s idol image, would be set up in the Temple at Jerusalem at the mid-point of the Tribulation, and then the Jews in Judea would “flee into the mountains” (Matthew 24:15-16) so it is obvious assistance from the “great eagle with two wings” will occur at that time. The fact that the woman will “fly into the wilderness, into her place” and that the great eagle enables her to do so, suggests a massive evacuation and relocation into a safe place in the face of attack. Whatever it is, it must be able to provide protection and nourishment for Israel in the face of the military onslaughts of Antichrist and we should expect that the eagle would have substantial military power and resources. The great eagle is obviously symbolic of something. We know that this period of 1,260 days is the second half of the future 7-year Great Tribulation which immediately precedes the return of the Lord Jesus in glory as King of kings (Matthew 24:29 Daniel 9:27).Īt the mid-point of the Tribulation, Satan will be expelled from his place in heaven and for the last 1,260 days of the Tribulation will persecute the woman and her seed (Israel) but God will give her “ two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for 3 1 /2 years”, or the last half of the Tribulation until Christ returns in glory to destroy Antichrist and establish His universal reign. In the last days the woman, (Israel) will flee into a wilderness, “where she hath a place prepared of God”and for 1,260 days will be “nourished”. In Revelation Chapter 12 John traces the history of Israel in the vision of the woman she began with the 12 sons of Jacob she brought forth “a man child” the Lord Jesus, who Satan attempted to kill at His birth but who is destined to “ rule all nations with a rod of iron.” Christ, “the man child”, was “caught up unto God, and to His throne” when He ascended (Revelation 12:5). The Holy Spirit used the same symbolism in Genesis 37 as He did in Revelation Chapter 12. Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth? (Genesis 37:10). When Joseph dreamed of the 11 stars making “obeisance” to his star (Genesis 37:9-10) Jacob immediately asked, The “crown of 12 stars” on her head are the 12 tribes of Israel. The woman that John saw in Revelation Chapter 12 is undoubtedly the nation of Israel. We are not left to our own devices or imagination when interpreting the Bible. The symbols in Scripture are interpreted by the Bible itself.
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