The Eagle of Vengeance

A Dream on September 7th 2002.

By Brian Grewal

 

 

I have had a strange sense of impending danger throughout the day. My spirit was provoked within in me as images of an eagle about to pounce on its prey flashed before my eyes. The feeling was so real I looked up on several occasions to see if there was an eagle in the sky. Last night I had a dream, the details are as follows.

 

I was standing on the outskirts of a city I'm not familiar with. In the sky above me there hovered a large eagle, it was as though I could feel the eagle's anticipation of what was about to happen. Suddenly, the eagle swooped down at great speed towards a small animal in the grass that appeared to be a rabbit.

 

The scene in a natural way was quite normal, but I found myself weeping for the situation. I cried out to the eagle to have mercy, but it was in vain. The rabbit began to swerve this way and that trying to evade the inevitable while the eagle continued to descend.

 

My eyes looked to where the animal was running and it was heading for a large group of rocks. To my astonishment the eagle didn't appear to change its course or speed. At that moment, I actually felt that it was the eagle who was in danger and not just the rabbit. The eagle reached forth with its talons and tore open the back of the animal, just as the rabbit escaped under the rocks.

 

The eagle was so focused on its prey, that its feet smashed against the top of the rocks as it altered its course. It then flew back to an even greater height, seemingly unmoved by its injuries. Although I was on the ground, I could see that both its feet were broken.

 

I looked into the eyes of the eagle, I could see the mixture of rage and humiliation. The eagle waited for the animal to emerge, there was a stirring in the grass and the eagle swooped again. This time it would have to rely on its strength to bring it down and the power of its sharp beak to kill.

 

The eagle was close to capturing the animal when it became clear that it was no longer a rabbit, but had in fact become a lion. I looked towards the eagle assuming it would back off, but it did not. The lion was bleeding profusely and as the eagle came within range, it turned and with one swipe of its paw, brought the eagle down.

 

My heart was pounding at the sight that lay before me. The lion ran towards the eagle which was stunned and unable to escape. The lion then proceeded to tear off the right wing of the eagle but did not kill it. The lion returned to the shelter of the rocks and left the eagle on the ground, bleeding from the encounter.

 

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Interpretation: The Eagle of Vengeance

By Ron McKenzie

September 21, 2002

 

 

When I first saw Brian's dream, I sensed that it was a really important word from God. The interpretation that came to me immediately is outlined below. I presume from his email address that Brian is an Australian. I would be interested to know if anyone in the United States has seen the dream.

 

 

Interpretation

 

The large powerful eagle represents the United States, and particularly the government of President George W Bush.

 

The lion represents the Islamic nations that are spearheading the revival of Islam, especially Iran, and currently Iraq.

 

I believe that Brian's dream is a warning of what will happen if he United States persists in attacking Iraq. The dream is also an expansion of the dream that Daniel received (Dan 7:4).

 

The United States is now the most powerful nation in the world, but its leaders have become obsessed with revenge for the destruction of the World Trade Centre. President Bush is obsessed with attacking Iraq, like the eagle was obsessed with the rabbit. He is going after Saddam Hussein to “smoke him out and run him down”. The United States military sees Iraq as a frightened rabbit, which will be easily defeated. There is an air of anticipation of battle, and a confidence that victory be easy.

 

Saddam Hussein, like the rabbit, is swerving this way and that trying to escape. At first he refused UN inspections, now he is accepting them, but he will not be able to escape the clutches of this powerful nation seeking vengeance.

 

There is a problem here. God decides the boundaries of the nations, and their rising and falling; not the United States or the United Nations Acts 17:26). God has not given the United States authority to invade Iraq. For this reason, Iraq will be a heap of rocks that causes the United States to stumble.

 

The claws of the eagle represent its military power. Something will go wrong that will weaken the power of the military forces that are attacking Iraq. The invasion will be successful at first, but it will eventually backfire and be a military disaster for the United States.

 

Like the eagle, the United States will continue to attack with wounded claws, but will get a revelation of what they are up against. Saddam Hussein may look like a minor dictator, but behind him are all the spiritual powers that are controlled by the Prince of Persia. Like Satan, he is a prowling lion looking for something to destroy.

 

The eagle's wings represent the nation's economic wealth that allows it to soar and fly. These stirred up spiritual forces under the Prince of Persia will turn on the United States and harm its economy. The wounded wing represents the loss of part of that wealth. However, the wings was wounded and not be fully destroyed, so much of the wealth of United States will remain.

 

[Note from web site owner: I believe that the interpretation above is basically correct; however, I also believe the explanation below is false or mostly false – Thomas S. Gibson]

 

 

Explanation

 

I believe that Brian's dream is an expansion of the dream that Daniel received in the first year of Belshazzar of Babylon. Daniel saw a beast that rose out of the sea, as it was being churned up. The sea is a symbol of the peoples of the earth, so the vision will be fulfilled in a time of tumult on the earth.

 

The first beast was like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle. I watched until its wings were torn off and it was lifted from the ground so that it stood on two feet like a man, and the heart of a man was given to it. Daniel 7:4

 

This vision is usually taken to be a lion with eagles' wings sticking out of its back. However the passage can be understood in another way. Daniel could have been saying,

 

I saw a lion that had grabbed hold of the wings of an eagle. I watched until the eagle's wings were torn off by the lion. The eagle was then lifted up from the ground to stand like a man, and given a human heart.

 

If this was what Daniel saw, then the beast was a lion that was struggling with an eagle. A lion is the symbol of Iran, being part of its national flag. The lion is also a symbol of Iraq (The Babylonian goddess of love and war, Ishtar, whose symbol was the lion.) The Asiatic lion was found throughout Iraq and Iran until the beginning of the twentieth century, having originally spread there from India. A lion is strong, ferocious, brave, greedy and roars loudly (Jud 14:18; Job 10:16; Ps 17:12; 22:13; Prov 28:1). It is an appropriate symbol for the growth of Islam, which is currently being spearheaded from Iran and Iraq.

 

The eagle is the United States. The animal that best symbolises the United States is the bald eagle. This eagle was really large and powerful. It represents the United States at the height of its power and dominating the entire world. The first beast that Daniel saw was the United States.

 

Daniel's dream was a picture of the United States struggling with the Islamic nations. God was saying that in the current stage of history, the United States might be powerless against the forces of Islam. At the moment it is fighting against Iraq. It has also had skirmishes in Afghanistan and Sudan. Earlier it was struggling with Iran.

 

When I first studied this dream in the early nineteen eighties, the United States hostage crisis was underway. An attempt by the military to rescue the hostages ended in disaster in the desert. It seemed that the Iranian government had a strong hold over the United States. It could be said that the Iranian lion had the American eagle by the wings. (A political commentator wrote a book called The Eagle and The Lion: The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations.)

 

More recently the focus of Islamic power has shifted from Iran to Iraq, but both nations are controlled by the same spiritual forces. For a full explanation of this see the following links:

 

http://watcher.4t.com/Times_Seasons/All_Whats_Going_On/islamic_revolution_in_iran.htm

 

http://watcher.4t.com/Times_Seasons/All_Whats_Going_On/saddam_hussein.htm

 

http://watcher.4t.com/Times_Seasons/All_Whats_Going_On/conflict.htm

 

 

Daniel saw the lion taking hold of the eagle's wings. The United States derives its power from its great wealth. Its riches are the wings that enable it to fly. His dream was a waning that a defeat by the Islamic nations will cause some this wealth to be lost. If that wealth were lost, it would be as if its wings had been ripped off so that it fell to the ground.

 

The United State will not be destroyed. Daniel's eagle is eventually raised up, to stand on its feet like a man and it is given a new heart. This implies that the United States will be brought to repentance through an enormous economic crisis that follows a defeat in the Middle East. Through being humbled by the loss of their wealth, the people of the United States will turn back to the Lord and be given a new heart. God still has a purpose for the United States into the future. He wants to get it back to a state where he is able to use it for his purposes.

 

 

Prophetic Nation

 

The eagle is also a symbol of the prophetic. The United States was called to be a prophetic nation, but in recent years, it has fallen from that role and become a strange mixture. There are more Christians in the United States and it sends out more missionaries than any other nation. At the same time, the nation has become a centre from which humanism has been exported into the entire world. The American movie, television and music industries shape the universal culture that is sweeping the world and spreading evil. God wants to change the United States from a policeman to a prophet.

 

Reprinted on http://prophetic-word.org