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Many Bible scholars believe the “Eagle” represents a cherubim angel. John uses the word “Eagle” and not an<br />
angel to shout with a loud voice - Woe, woe and woe!<br />
Revelation 8:13 “Then I looked, and I heard an eagle flying in mid-heaven, saying with a loud voice,<br />
“Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the<br />
three angels who are about to sound!” 77<br />
This is a confirmation of the prior heavenly sign of the sun eclipsed with Saturn, Uranus and the moon as being<br />
the correct interpretation. An “Eagle” represented the Constellation of Aquila in the mid-heavens is seen<br />
following the Fourth Trumpet Judgment. God set the heavenly signs in the skies at the time of creation. Isn’t<br />
this an amazing wonder? It all comes together with what John describes in Revelation in his vision.<br />
There must be significance to the statement of the fourth judgment, “so that a third of them would be darkened and the<br />
day would not shine for a third of it.” Does the third represent the three woes or is there some other significant<br />
meaning? The Prophet Ezekiel foretells Jerusalem’s desolation. One-third would be “scattered to the wind” with a<br />
“sword behind them” representing weapons of war. One-third will die by fire and another third by plague or famine.<br />
One Third<br />
Ezekiel 5:2, 12 “One third you shall burn in the fire at the center of the city, when the days of the<br />
siege are completed. Then you shall take one third and strike it with the sword all around the city,<br />
and one third you shall scatter to the wind; and I will unsheathe a sword behind them.”<br />
12 “One third of you will die by plague or be consumed by famine among you, one third will fall by<br />
the sword around you, and one third I will scatter to every wind, and I will unsheathe a sword<br />
behind them.” 78<br />
How do we know for sure that this passage is a prophetic statement of the desolation of Jerusalem during the<br />
End Times? It is because of the statement in Ezekiel “that I will never do again” and “that I spent….satisfy My Wrath<br />
upon them” that provides the timing of the prophetic statements of Ezekiel.<br />
Ezekiel 5:9, 13 “And because of all your abominations, I will do among you what I have not done,<br />
and the like of which I will never do again.<br />
13 Thus My anger will be spent and I will satisfy My wrath on them, and I will be appeased; then they<br />
will know that I, the Lord, have spoken in My zeal when I have spent My wrath upon them.” 76<br />
We will next take a look at two commentaries on this passage from Ezekiel.<br />
Jerusalem—not the mere city, but the people of Israel generally, of which it was the center.<br />
in … midst—Jerusalem is regarded in God’s point of view as the center of the whole earth, designed to radiate the true light<br />
over the nations in all directions. Compare Margin (“navel”), Ez 38:12; Ps 48:2; Je 3:17. No center in the ancient heathen<br />
world could have been selected more fitted than Canaan to be a vantage ground, whence the people of God might have acted with<br />
success upon the heathenism of the world 79<br />
77 New American Standard Bible : 1995 update. 1995 (Re 8:13). LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.<br />
78 New American Standard Bible : 1995 update. 1995 (Eze 5:9-12). LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.<br />
79 Jamieson, R., Fausset, A. R., Fausset, A. R., Brown, D., & Brown, D. (1997). A commentary, critical and explanatory, on the Old and<br />
New Testaments (Eze 5:5–6). Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.