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What is the importance of an "Eagle Ministry"? | [[Image:eagle.jpg|right|250px|thumb|It's a pretty cool bird, but its not typed to prophets in the Bible.]] | ||
Are prophets actually compared to eagles in the Bible as William Branham claimed? What is the importance of an "Eagle Ministry"? | |||
=What the Bible says= | =What the Bible says= | ||
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#Two (2) verses identify people of strength (Ezekiel 17:3, 17:7) | #Two (2) verses identify people of strength (Ezekiel 17:3, 17:7) | ||
The primary reference to an eagle is as a descriptor or an illustration of such things as fierce swiftness and strength. It is NEVER used as a reference to prophetic wisdom or vision. Other than King Saul (2 Sam 1:23 where Saul and Jonathan are referred to as "swifter than eagles"), | The primary reference to an eagle is as a descriptor or an illustration of such things as fierce swiftness and strength. It is NEVER used as a reference to prophetic wisdom or vision. Other than King Saul (2 Sam 1:23 where Saul and Jonathan are referred to as "swifter than eagles"), '''there are ZERO prophets or seers that were likened to an eagle'''. | ||
==The eagle is an unclean bird== | |||
Leviticus 11:13 says | |||
:''These are the birds you are to regard as unclean and not eat because they are '''unclean: the eagle''', the vulture, the black vulture...<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Le 11:13–19.</ref> | |||
=What William Branham said= | =What William Branham said= | ||
William Branham stated many times (see the list of quotes below) that the Bible compared God's prophets to eagles. However, he never provided one scriptural example of where this was the case. We consider this to be [[Lazy Theology|lazy theology]], and here is one example: | |||
:''“Before God moves to action, like He did in the days of Noah, he sent forth an Eagle. When he brought Israel, and Pharaoh’s army was ready to go, He sent an eagle. Every time, He sends an eagle at the last, end of it. And here He sends an eagle, again.”'' (William Branham, the [[Fifth Seal]]) | |||
==What science says== | |||
William Branham stated that an eagle could fly higher than any other bird. '''But is this true?''' | |||
One of the most impressive altitude records for birds is that of a flock of Whooper Swans which was seen on radar arriving over Northern Ireland on migration and was visually identified by an airline pilot at 29,000 feet.<ref>[http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/How_Fast.html Stanford University]</ref>. The Bar-headed Goose is one of the world's highest-flying birds, having been heard flying across Mount Makalu – the fifth highest mountain on earth at 8,481 m (27,825 ft) – and apparently seen over Mount Everest – 8,848 m (29,029 ft).<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar-headed_Goose Wikipedia - Bar-headed Goose</ref> | |||
But '''the world record for high altitude flying by a bird''' is a Ruppell’s '''vulture''' (gyps rueppellii) which collided with a commercial aircraft over Abidjan, Ivory Coast, at an altitude of '''37,900 feet''' in November 1973. The impact damaged one of the aircraft’s engines, but the plane landed safely. The avian altitude record in North America is held by a mallard, which collided with an airplane on July 9, 1963, at 21,000 feet above Elko, Nevada.<ref>[http://archive.audubonmagazine.org/birds/birds0011.html Audubon Magazine, 2000]</ref> | |||
Eagles are not found in any of the records for highest flying birds. | |||
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Here are a few of William Branham's quotes on the subject of eagles and prophets: | |||
:''A prophet in the Bible is a eagle. He goes higher than other birds, and he can see way off, things coming.<ref>HEAR.YE.HIM_ CHATTANOOGA.TN SATURDAY_ 58-0301E</ref> | |||
:''The Bible likens His prophets to being eagles. Now, a eagle can soar higher than any other bird. If another bird tries to follow an eagle, he'd die, because he--he--the eagle's made special, and he can go so high if the hawk trying to follow him, the hawk would disintegrate in the air. He just couldn't follow him; his feathers would fall out; he'd come apart. But the eagle is a special bird. Now, what good would it do him to go way up there in the air unless he could see way off? He'd be blind himself. But see, nature has provided the eagle with an eye that he can see as high till you can hardly see the eagle yourself: some of them fourteen feet across their wings. You can hardly see the eagle with your eye. But he can see any little moving object on the ground. Now, God likened His prophets, His preachers, to eagles. He calls Himself, "Jehovah Eagle." He's a eagle Himself.<ref>FORMER.AND.LATTER.RAIN_ PHOENIX.AZ THURSDAY_ 60-0303</ref> | |||
:''In the Bible His prophets was considered eagles. The eagle, how it would... It could climb higher than any other bird.<ref>WATCHMAN.WHAT.OF.THE.NIGHT_ LAKEPORT.CA FRIDAY_ 60-0722</ref> | |||
:''You know, Jehovah is an eagle, Himself, and He calls us eaglets. His prophets are eagles, seers.<ref>WHO.IS.JESUS_ TOPEKA.KS V-20 N-4 SATURDAY_ 64-0620B</ref> | |||
:''Now God always likens His prophets to eagles. <ref>THE.GOD.WHO.IS.RICH.IN.MERCY_ PHOENIX.AZ V-19 N-2 TUESDAY_ 65-0119</ref> | |||
< | :''Everyone knows that a prophet is called the eagle, in the Bible.<ref>WHO.IS.THIS.MELCHISEDEC_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-10 SUNDAY_ 65-0221E</ref> | ||
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