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Many Bible scholars believe the “Eagle” represents a cherubim angel. John uses the word “Eagle” and not an
angel to shout with a loud voice - Woe, woe and woe!

Revelation 8:13 “Then I looked, and I heard an eagle flying in mid-heaven, saying with a loud voice,
“Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the
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three angels who are about to sound!”
This is a confirmation of the prior heavenly sign of the sun eclipsed with Saturn, Uranus and the moon as being
the correct interpretation. An “Eagle” represented the Constellation of Aquila in the mid-heavens is seen
following the Fourth Trumpet Judgment. God set the heavenly signs in the skies at the time of creation. Isn’t
this an amazing wonder? It all comes together with what John describes in Revelation in his vision.

There must be significance to the statement of the fourth judgment, “so that a third of them would be darkened and the
day would not shine for a third of it.” Does the third represent the three woes or is there some other significant
meaning? The Prophet Ezekiel foretells Jerusalem’s desolation. One-third would be “scattered to the wind” with a
“sword behind them” representing weapons of war. One-third will die by fire and another third by plague or famine.

One Third

Ezekiel 5:2, 12 “One third you shall burn in the fire at the center of the city, when the days of the
siege are completed. Then you shall take one third and strike it with the sword all around the city,
and one third you shall scatter to the wind; and I will unsheathe a sword behind them.”

12 “One third of you will die by plague or be consumed by famine among you, one third will fall by
the sword around you, and one third I will scatter to every wind, and I will unsheathe a sword
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behind them.”

How do we know for sure that this passage is a prophetic statement of the desolation of Jerusalem during the
End Times? It is because of the statement in Ezekiel “that I will never do again” and “that I spent….satisfy My Wrath
upon them” that provides the timing of the prophetic statements of Ezekiel.

Ezekiel 5:9, 13 “And because of all your abominations, I will do among you what I have not done,
and the like of which I will never do again.

13 Thus My anger will be spent and I will satisfy My wrath on them, and I will be appeased; then they
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will know that I, the Lord, have spoken in My zeal when I have spent My wrath upon them.”

We will next take a look at two commentaries on this passage from Ezekiel.

Jerusalem—not the mere city, but the people of Israel generally, of which it was the center.

in … midst—Jerusalem is regarded in God’s point of view as the center of the whole earth, designed to radiate the true light
over the nations in all directions. Compare Margin (“navel”), Ez 38:12; Ps 48:2; Je 3:17. No center in the ancient heathen
world could have been selected more fitted than Canaan to be a vantage ground, whence the people of God might have acted with
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success upon the heathenism of the world

77 New American Standard Bible : 1995 update. 1995 (Re 8:13). LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.
78 New American Standard Bible : 1995 update. 1995 (Eze 5:9-12). LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

79 Jamieson, R., Fausset, A. R., Fausset, A. R., Brown, D., & Brown, D. (1997). A commentary, critical and explanatory, on the Old and
New Testaments (Eze 5:5–6). Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.