Plucking the Eagle's Wings

Plucking the Eagle's Wings

Moving from east to west, the brass altar is over the area of Tennessee and the edge of Kentucky and Virginia. Fire was the central feature on the brass altar.This area of America experienced dynamic revivals before and after the Civil War that

The furniture of the tabernacle overlaid onto a map of the continental United States of America. The position of the holy furniture and the corresponding regions within the US suggest that our nation was uniquely and divinely established by the God of Israel The US seems to be God's modern-day wilderness tabernacle. Fig. D

impacted the nation. Great revivals burned in Kentucky throughout the 1800s. Many people do not realize that the first major outpouring of the Holy Spirit that birthed a major denomination was just outside of Cleveland, Tennessee. In 1896, near Murphy, North Carolina, a group of Baptists were baptized in the Holy Spirit. From their experience, the Christian Union was formed, which became the Church of God, headquartered in Cleveland, Tennessee. In fact, the oldest continuing Pentecostal church in the United States is a large, thriving congregation located in Cleveland, Tennessee. The fires that fell in this area correlate to the fire on the brass altar in the tabernacle. If we continue in a straight line, the next piece of furniture is the brass laver filled with water. On a map of America, the laver would be positioned over the area where the Mississippi River flows. The mighty Mississippi is recognized as the waterway of America. It propels huge barges with shipping materials and provides irrigation for thousands of farms. The main substance in the laver was water and America's waterway is situated beneath the laver on the diagram. The next piece of furniture is the golden candlestick called the menorah. Its main substance was oil. Not surprisingly, the tabernacle menorah is over Texas and Oklahoma, which are America's two major oil-producing states! The oil in the menorah was used to light the seven 96