I just learned the other day something (from Mike) about the eagle. God has made the eagle to be able to fly higher than any other bird. A crow pecking at an eagle as the crow latches on to the back of the eagle as the eagle is flying, will pass out as the eagle reaches a height than what the crow is able to survive because the crow can’t breathe at such an altitude.
I just love how God uses the eagle in so many passages of Scripture in relation to our lives with Him. The devil, like the crow, gets to pecking at our lives to at least annoy us, if not to injure or destroy us. We see this annoyance and intent to harm – by how the devil uses powerful people, worldly systems and political administrations against the Lord’s people – in every nation. Now as we clearly see in America too. But as we latch on with our LORD ON HIGH – the devil and his allies can’t survive there at all, their plans against our place/position/purpose with the Lord our God – fall flat.
“You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.” Exodus 19:4
In case you don’t know what the Lord did to Egypt because of how the Pharaoh and the Egyptians treated God’s people (their Hebrew slaves) and refused to let them go worship the Lord one day a week (in the way God told them to), God brought fierce judgments down on Egypt. God swooped down to show Himself to His oppressed people in ways they had never seen before, and then to carry them out of Egypt – to God’s will and purpose for them, where they would have all His favor to prosper and all His power to overcome their enemies.
And God is the same today as He was then!