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"An Eagle of Divers Colors"
"A personal story"
While doing a Bible search on the word
eagle for a theme of articles, titled, The
Grounded Eagle Needs To Soar Again, I came across
Ezeki
The scripture is a depiction of
right and wrong, keeping a covenant with God vs. breaking one.
God uses two different eagles in the parable--the first eagle
does right, the second eagle does wrong. The first eagle has
wings of divers colors and does not break its
covenant with God.
Christ's true church is made up of all
true believers. And we come from all
nationalities--embroidered into one body, the body of Christ.
I wonder if this is weaved into this scripture. And I
wonder if our founding fathers saw this in this scripture,
when they named the Eagle as our national bird, because we are
a nation that was founded on Christianity and of course we are
made up of various different nationalities.
My grandfather was brought over here
around the turn of the century. Married fifty years to
my grandmother, he and she raised four children
in a small Italian town here in NY. He knew all of his
grandchildren and was able to see us all grow
up. I was the last born in his family.
His last name is the 'M' in my full name. The
name was made just for his family by an American
teacher and means a lot to me. I could not let it go with
marriage. This is why I have four names. --From what I know, I
am the last in his family to bear the last name.
My
grandpa was a man of depth, he cared about his
family and neighbors and country -- he served in WWI and
died in a veteran’s hospital.
As an older man my grandpa loved to
paint. One of his paintings hung in the garage of the house he
lived in for almost 30 years after the house was sold
along with two others. Recently I went back to that house and
a person who was in care of the house gave me the
paintings.
The night that I saw the scripture, the
one painting was right behind me. I had wondered about the way
my grandpa painted it, what the reason may have been to have
painted it the way that he had. As I read Ezekiel 17:3, I
saw what I believe he
painted...
God says, in Ezekiel 17, verse 3: "And say, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full
of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and
took the highest branch of the
cedar,"
-- I turned and looked at my grandpa's
painting behind me. -Please scroll
down.
An Emblem of
America
To read all of Ezekiel chapter
17 - Click
Here
© Copyright 2006 Debra J.M. Smith - May
4, 2006
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