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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 Ezekiel
17:3.
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, after a long life, of over 90
years.
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. Recently I went
back to that house and a person who was in care of the house gave me
the painting.
The night that I read Ezekiel 17:3, the
painting was right behind me. My daughter and 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
And please read all of Ezekiel
chapter 17 - Click
Here
(See what I believe could be talking about America
too.)
© Copyright 2006 Debra J.M. Smith - May
4, 2006 |
