Consider the years of many generations.
bAsk your father, and he will show you;
Your elders, and they will tell you:
When He bseparated the sons of Adam,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
According to the number of the1 children of Israel.
And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness;
He encircled him, He instructed him,
He bkept him as the apple of His eye.
Hovers over its young,
Spreading out its wings, taking them up,
Carrying them on its wings,
That he might eat the produce of the fields;
He made him draw honey from the rock,
And oil from the flinty rock;
aWith fat of lambs;
And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,
With the choicest wheat;
And you drank wine, the bblood of the grapes.
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Moses is recounting God's removal and workings with Israel from Egypt and through the wilderness into the Promised Land in these verses. The imagery of the actions of the adult eagle to that of its eaglets is what we are going to focus on. By stirring the nest, the eagle is potentially waking up the eaglets. The hovering is done in a protective manner, almost as if the eagle is watching over the young and caring for them. And also the hovering could be a way for the eagle to keep the focus of the eaglets upon it by hovering close.
Then you have the action of the eagle taking the eaglets upon its back to remove them from the nest. This last action, it does not seem like a common occurrence for the eagle, as most research does not back it. So why then is it recorded here in Moses' song? Maybe it is a particular type of eagle from that time which did perform this action. Or maybe it does occur and man just has not yet recorded it or seen it. Or maybe it was a mythical attribute attributed to the eagle by the people of that time.
But what if it was stated purposely to show the miraculous actions of God when calling His people, a supernatural act, as we have heard before. If we view ourselves as the eaglets, we see the symbolism as the miraculous work of God in our calling through the opening of our minds. The eaglets, they were sleeping, and thus they had to be woken up by the stirring. Their focus had to be drawn to the eagle that was presenting itself by hovering close.
And then it took a miraculous event such as the eagle carrying them upon its back to bring them out of the nest as God brings us into His Family. See, that is why it is miraculous because no human can get to that point without God gifting it to them. Verse 12 points us to this conclusion as it states, "so the Lord alone led him," and this is not the only reference to this imagery in the Bible. God tells the Israelites:
Articles
Israel: Past
The Christian Fight (Part Seven)
Sermons
Standing on the Sea of Glass
The Day of Israel's Calamity
God's Sea of Glass (Part 2)
The Doctrine of Israel (Part One): Origins
Childrearing (Part Five)
Childrearing (Part Four)
Faith and the Christian Fight (Part 7)
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