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Excerpted from: Attributes of the EagleMoses 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:
Deuteronomy 32:10
Excerpted from: Four Views of Christ (Part 6)In Deuteronomy 32 there is a little bit more of this same symbolism.
The subject is Israel; the speaker is God, as it were. Moses is writing, but he is describing as if Israel was someone lost, stuck and abandoned out in the wilderness and God found him and -
In the last two verses, Exodus 19:4 and Deuteronomy 32:10-12, the figure shifts to one of care and concern in an inhospitable environment. This is also very necessary for our understanding of Christ, that He is able to care for His people, protect His people; that even as He is not of the world, neither are His people of the world. They inhabit an inhospitable environment and they need to be taken care of. He is able to do it. You begin to see why John portrays the eagle and how the characteristics of an eagle fit perfectly (in symbolism) the divinity of Jesus Christ.
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