Plucking the Eagle's Wings

Plucking the Eagle's Wings

If you look at a map of Cape Cod, starting at the tip of Provincetown Where the Pilgrims first landed, and follow it around to Plymouth, you will find that the peninsula forms the letter beit, or a house ( See fig. B ). Notice that the open side of this geographical beit is on the north side. We mentioned earlier that Gosnold explored a small island just off the coast of the peninsula. This particular island had vines growing on it, so he named it Martha's Vineyard after his daughter. It is separated from Cape Cod by Vineyard Sound. It seems that God chose this particular geographic area, a vineyard, to start building His house. Here we see the first fruit of the prophetic vineyard. Cape Cod naturally forms the Hebrew letter beit. In Hebrew, "beit" means "house." Fig. B

"Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain" (Psalm 127:1).

Building the House

Eighteen years after Gosnold's discovery and thirteen years after the founding of Jamestown, the Pilgrims (intending to settle at the mouth of the Hudson River) were blown off their course at sea. On November 9, 1620, they landed about one hundred miles north of their intended destination, at Cape Cod. After much debate and prayer, they decided that perhaps God had led them to this spot and that He did not want them to proceed to the Hudson. So, on November 11, 1620, they dropped anchor in the waters of the Cape. Settling there presented a legal problem. Since Cape Cod was outside of the jurisdiction of the Virginia Company, the Pilgrims would not be under English jurisdiction. Some of the people on the Mayflower were not Pilgrims and they would be unwilling to conform to the Pilgrims' strict adherence to Biblical Law. A solution was needed, and the result was the "Mayflower Compact." This document provided for

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