EXODUS, GENESIS AND EAGLE'S
WINGS
April 11, 2010 am
MF
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Genesis
1:1-2 KJV In the beginning God created the heaven and the
earth. (2) And the earth was without form, and
void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God
moved upon the face of the waters. (3) And God
said, Let there be light: and there was light. (4)
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from
the darkness. (5) And God called the light Day, and
the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the
first day. (6) And God said, Let there be a
firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from
the waters.
Deuteronomy
31:19 KJV Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach
it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may
be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy
31:30 KJV And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation
of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.
Deuteronomy
32:1 KJV Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear,
O earth, the words of my mouth.
Deuteronomy
32:8-11 KJV (8) When the most High divided to the
nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set
the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of
Israel. (9) For the LORD'S portion is his people;
Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. (10) He found
him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him
about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his
eye. (11) As an eagle stirreth up her nest,
fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them,
beareth them on her wings:
Moses wrote Deuteronomy and chapter 32 is a prophetical song of Moses.
Deuteronomy 32:1 KJV Give ear, O ye heavens,
and I will speak; and hear, O earth,
the words of my mouth.
Just like Genesis, the song of Moses begins with reference to the
heaven and the earth.
- They would
HEAR the WORD just like God spoke to the heavens and earth and said LET
THERE BE LIGHT.
- And Israel
was considered to be God’s portion.
- God
divided the earth after Adam and all the nations came into being.
- And He
especially chose THE LAND OF CANAAN for Israel to come thousands of
years later.
- Abraham
lived 2,000 years after Adam.
- And the
land of Canaan was inhabited temporarily by the Canaanites until Israel
should come, according to verse 8.
- Deuteronomy
32:8 When the most High divided to the nations their
inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of
the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
- Canaan was
in God’s mind for Israel as far back as when the NATIONS came
into being and were divided.
- Many
Centuries before Israel came into the land, the land was already
measured out and established as suitable for Israel.
- When Moses
sang this song, Israel was actually on the verge of coming into the
land of Canaan!
- That very
land was described as being preserved for them until the time they were
actually in when Moses sang this song.
Deut
32:
. (10) He found him in a desert land, and in the waste
howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as
the apple of his eye.
God found Israel in the desert which is the wilderness we read about in
Exodus.
- And Moses
uses words that are found no where else in the bible except Genesis 1:2.
- WASTE is
the same Hebrew word as WITHOUT FORM.
- We are
seeing GOD’S WORD connect the picture of the Exodus with
Genesis.
- As God
found Israel in this WILDERNESS WITHOUT FORM, the earth was without
form and God Sent His Spirit.
Deuteronomy
32:11 KJV As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth
over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them
on her wings:
Here is another instance where WORDS FOUND IN GENESIS 1 are used here.
- FLUTTERETH
is the same Hebrew word as MOVED.
Genesis
1:2 KJV And the earth was without
form, and void; and darkness
was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved
upon the face of the waters.
God’s Spirit is known to be like a dove or bird.
Genesis
1:2 GW The earth was formless
and empty, and darkness covered the deep water. The Spirit of God was hovering
over the water.
Genesis
1:2 YLT the earth hath existed waste
and void, and darkness is on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of
God fluttering
on the face of the waters,
God literally fluttered as though with WINGS over the waters that
covered the earth in Genesis 1:2.
- He did
this very same thing with Israel in EXODUS.
- We read
the eagle stirred her nest.
Deuteronomy
32:11 KJV As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over
her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her
wings:
Egypt was like a nest, as filthy as Egypt was, for Israel, whom God
likens to infant eagles.
- And eagles
are known to make the nest uncomfortable to get the baby eagles to
leave, for it is time for them to learn how to fly.
- And the
pressure that increased from the taskmasters for Israel to make bricks
with no straw only stirred Israel from her comfort in the wretched
kingdom.
- And the
eagle flutters over her young.
- She
transfers the warmth of her body to the babies.
Deuteronomy
32:11 YLT As an eagle waketh up its nest, Over its young ones
fluttereth, Spreadeth its wings--taketh them, Beareth them on its
pinions; --
And the eagle actually bears the little ones on its own wings.
- Exodus 19
shows the same picture.
Exodus
19:1 In the third month, when the children of Israel were
gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the
wilderness of Sinai.
Exodus
19:3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him
out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob,
and tell the children of Israel; (4) Ye have seen
what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and
brought you unto myself.
When they arrived at Sinai, God said He had borne Israel upon
eagles’ wings and brought them to Himself.
- In other
words, SINAI was the destination that God called HIMSELF.
- When they
came to Sinai, God had successfully carried them with His
eagles’ wings to Himself.
- It was
THERE AT SINAI where He established them as His people.
- He gave
them His covenant.
- Ezekiel 16
explains it as though He MARRIED THEM as a man marries a woman.
Ezekiel
16:8 KJV Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee,
behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee,
and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a
covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
God exchanges the idea of covering Israel with eagles’ wings
for covering her with his skirt, which was a manner of speaking of
MARRYING Israel.
Look at WHAT POINT God gives Israel EAGLES’ WINGS.
- Revelation
12 shows the same pattern we find in the EXODUS
- Moses was
said to be a prophet whom Jesus would be like.
- And just
as Moses was raised in Egypt and eventually came to a place of
rulership in Egypt, the MANCHILD in Revelation 12 is caught up the
throne.
Revelation
12:5 KJV And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule
all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God,
and to his throne.
The WOMAN in Revelation 12 is like ISRAEL in the Exodus.
Revelation
12:6 KJV And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she
hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a
thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Just as Israel was delivered by the Passover blood on the doorways of
their homes, we read there is a war in heaven and Michael and his
angels battle the devil, and the church overcomes by the blood.
Revelation
12:7 KJV And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels
fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
Revelation
12:8 KJV And prevailed not; neither was their place found any
more in heaven.
Revelation
12:11 KJV And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and
by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the
death.
It actually mentions the BLOOD OF THE LAMB to point us back to the
PASSOVER.
And Just as when Israel fled Egypt and Pharaoh was defeated by the
Passover and then chased Israel, we read the dragon chased the woman
and the woman was GIVEN WINGS OF A GREAT EAGLE.:
Rev
12:13-16 KJV And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto
the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man
child. (14) And to the woman were given
two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness,
into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half
a time, from the face of the serpent. (15) And the
serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he
might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
(16) And the earth helped the woman, and the earth
opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon
cast out of his mouth.
Israel passed through the Red Sea just as the woman was given wings of
a great eagle.
- Keep in
mind that wings of an eagle correspond to passing through the Red Sea.
- As
Pharaoh’s army pursued Israel into the Red Sea that was
opened for Israel, and then drowned in the Red Sea as Israel made it
safely across, the flood from the dragon’s mouth flowed after
the woman but the
- Revelation
said the earth helped the woman and swallowed the flood.
Exodus
14:13-14 KJV And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not,
stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to
you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see
them again no more for ever. (14) The LORD shall
fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
STAND STILL – WAIT.
Exo
14:23-28 KJV And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after
them to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots,
and his horsemen. (24) And it came to pass, that in
the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians
through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of
the Egyptians, (25) And took off their chariot
wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let
us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against
the Egyptians. (26) And the LORD said unto Moses,
Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again
upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their
horsemen. (27) And Moses stretched forth his hand
over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning
appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the
Egyptians in the midst of the sea. (28) And the
waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all
the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained
not so much as one of them.
And Moses described this event later on by saying:
Exo
15:9-12 KJV The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I
will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will
draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. (10)
Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead
in the mighty waters. (11) Who is like unto thee, O
LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful
in praises, doing wonders? (12) Thou stretchedst
out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
THE EARTH SWALLOWED THE ARMIES just as Revelation 12 said the earth
swallowed the flood sent from the mouth of the dragon.
So the point in which GOD CARRIED ISRAEL ON HIS WINGS in Deut 32:11 was
when THE RED SEA OPENED UP.
Notice that God told Israel to STAND STILL AND SEE GOD’S
SALVATION.
- And then
they were given EAGLE’S WINGS.
Isaiah
40:28-31 KJV Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that
the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth,
fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his
understanding. (29) He giveth power to the faint;
and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
(30) Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young
men shall utterly fall: (31) But they that wait
upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with
wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk,
and not faint.
God is said to not get weary nor faint.
- HE GIVES
POWER.
- HIS POWER.
- And when
we WAIT ON THE LORD – STAND STILL TO SEE HIS SALVATION
– WE MOUNT UP WITH HIS WINGS.
- AND WE ARE
NOT WEARY AND DO NOT FAINT.
So the wings of the eagle lifted Israel AT THE POINT OF THE RED SEA.
- But they
were the infants at that stage.
- Not able
to fly on their own yet.
- Only
stirred from their nest by the great eagle.
- And then
carried on HER WINGS.
But the great eagle carried Israel
to HIMSELF.
- Israel
came to MOUNT SINAI.
- RECEIVED
LAW.
We
have law of the Spirit of Life today!
- When we learn of it,
we will fly like eagles!