Lee
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Sept 21, 2014 20:46:48 GMT
Post by Lee on Sept 21, 2014 20:46:48 GMT
The counsel of God upon Babylon is further illustrated by the following:—“Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country.” Here Cyrus is the “ravenous bird” and “the man” in question. Throughout the scriptures the eagle is the symbol of conquerors in their flesh-devouring operations. Ezekiel’s parable of two eagles and a vine (ch. 17) introduces the Kings of Babylon and of Egypt as the eagles and Judah as the vine. Moses, in Deuteronomy, had spoken of a nation coming against Israel “swift as the eagle flieth,” and “thy carcase,” said he, “shall be meat unto all the fowls of the air” (28:26, 49). Jesus, when the time came for the fulfilment of Moses’ prophecy, said of the Roman eagles, “Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together” (Matt. 24:28). And he connected this with the unseen though real “coming of the Son of Man” to judgment on the nation at the end of that age. The Romans were “the king’s armies to destroy those murderers and burn up their city” (Matt. 22:7).
Robert Roberts, & Walker, C. C. (1907). The Ministry of the Prophets: Isaiah (588). The Publishing Commitee, Christadelphian Old Paths Ecclesia.
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