EAGLE-EYED SAINTS!
By: Dr. Mike Jones
Throughout history mankind has had fascination with Eagles, known as the king of the birds. Roman Legions (about 6,000) marched under the silver and gold emblem of Eagles. Egyptians used the Eagle as a symbol of victory! Here in America, our founding fathers put the Eagle on our national seal and on our money.
Eagles can weigh as much as 14 pounds and have wing spans measuring seven to eight feet. Turbulent winds don’t affect them.
Eagles in the Bible represent qualities we admire: speed, strength, power, majesty, courage, faithfulness, pride, and tenacity … they don’t give up!!!
Eagles have great courage. For their size, they are the most powerful of creatures and will attack animals larger than themselves. In Australia, they have been known to knock kangaroo and sheep off cliffs. If a snake attacks an Eagle, the Eagle barest its breast, encouraging, the, snake to strike it. An Eagle has virtually no FEAR! (Doesn’t this remind you of a saint that has no fear over demon power because greater is He that’s within me, than HE that’s in the world?
There are 34 references to ‘the Eagles in the Word of God. King Solomon said in Proverbs 30:18-19, “There are three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not.: The way of an Eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.”
The Word of God shows a wonderful parallel between the Eagle soaring in the air and the believer living above the power of temptation. It is a picture of the kind of life saints of God are privileged to live by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Saints, Eagles are symbolic of a certain type of person, for instance, the Bible states, “But they that wait upon the Lord … shall mount up with wings as Eagles (Isaiah 40:32). You can only mount up as a son or daughter of God if you’re willing to wait in His presence until His glory changes you from the earthly image that once dominated your life, to the image of your heavenly king who rules and reigns. It’s amazing, the same way the Eagle deals with her young, God deals with us today.
(Adapted from Eagle-Eyed Saints; all Scripture references are taken from the KJV unless otherwise noted.)