Plucking the Eagle's Wings

America's Remarkable Prophetic History

Torah. At this time there is much celebration as the Torah scroll is rolled back to the beginning of Genesis. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Is it possible that Columbus could have had this day in mind when he prayed on the shores of San Salvador? The timing of the discovery was incredible. God was beginning to create a new world. As a point of interest, the very first letter in the book of Genesis is the Hebrew letter beit. The symbol for this letter is a house. The word beit (house) is often used to refer to the Jewish Temple. I think it was possible that God, on this important Jewish date, was beginning construction on a new house, a new Temple, a new dwelling among a new chosen people. The above-mentioned Hoshanah Rabbah liturgy supports the idea that the prayer is for God to plant the Jews on a fruitful sod and to establish them as His chosen vineyard. There is a tradition on Hoshanah Rabbah (21 Tishri) of baking bread with a hand on top of it. The hand symbolizes that God sealed His decision made for that time. The hand is also said to represent the document or the verdict of that decision. "And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left ... from the islands of the sea. And He shall set up an ensign (a flag) for the foreign nations and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth" (Isaiah 11:11, 12). It seems that, on Hoshanah Rabbah in 1492, God indeed made a decision and set His hand to recover his people. Part of that decision included a Jewish man from Italy sailing west into the unknown to discover a new land. This new land would, in the end-times, become the world's economic, military, and political superpower. More importantly, it would become a nation that would carry the Word of God to the world and offer a safe haven for the Jews. As you will see, America's connection to Israel and the Jewish people is not merely political and economic. It is a spiritual link that symbolically connects America to the Hebrews and the land of Israel as certainly as an umbilical cord connects a baby to its mother. God's People Needed a Safe Haven God inspired the discovery of the New World knowing that, 446 years later, the greatest assault on His chosen people would erupt in Europe as the Nazis coerced millions of Jews into death camps.

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