VI: The Prophets' Visions

Eagle Crying Woe

heaven's warning of deeper darkness ahead

Root
Hos 8:1 · nesher (H5404)
Old Testament chain
  1. Deut 28:49
  2. Hos 8:1
  3. Jer 4:13
  4. Hab 1:8
  5. Ezek 2:10
  6. Rev 8:13
New Testament
Rev 8:13; Rev 9:12

The Torah first warns of a nation "as swift as the eagle flieth" sent on covenant breakers (Deut 28:49). Hosea joins trumpet and eagle: "Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of Yahuah, because they have transgressed my covenant" (Hos 8:1), and Habakkuk's Chaldeans "fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat" (Hab 1:8). The KJV, following the Received Text, reads "an angel flying through the midst of heaven" at Rev 8:13; other manuscripts read "eagle," and Hosea's pairing fits either. The book reads it as Yahuah's own commentary at the turning point: when light is withdrawn, deeper darkness follows. The woes answer broken covenant, which a Law-abolished gospel cannot.

From The Courtroom of Heaven, pp. 115, 123–124