Plucking the Eagle's Wings

The American Revolution and the Children of Israel

took place around the year 931 B.C. Josephus identifies the unnamed prophet to be Jadon (Source: Antiquities , Book 8, Chapter 5, Section 5). In Hebrew, the name Jadon means thankful . The name comes from the word meaning hand or to stretch out the hand . If Josephus is correct, this is very significant. The object of the prophecy, Josiah, whose name means founded by God, was born around the year 649 BC—282 years later! Josiah, the boy king, was born to King Amon and his wife Jedidah. The name Amon means a multitude . It comes from either a root meaning a tumult or a root meaning faith, belief, or training . This particular root also means amen . It is interesting that the name Amon is synonymous with the name of the Egyptian sun god. Amon, the Bible says, was a wicked leader who forsook the Lord God of his fathers. Some of his servants conspired against him and slew him in his own house (2 Kings 21:23). Due to a revolution, Josiah, meaning founded by God , came to power when he was only eight years old. Josiah broke a long series of wicked rulers. Before and after him, there existed immorality and darkness. J.G. Greenhough wrote: "Josiah's good reign was like a brilliant sunset, before the final darkness comes on." The Bible says that when he was sixteen, he began to seek after God. At twenty, he began purging Jerusalem and Judah of idolatry. At age 26, he began restoring the temple. During the restoration, a copy of the Law of Moses was found. After hearing the words of the Law, Josiah reinstituted the Law of Moses as the law of the land, basing the government on the Torah. Not long after this, Josiah destroyed the altar and burned the high place at Bethel that Jeroboam had built, fulfilling the prophecy. The Bible continues:

"And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchers that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchers, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words. Then he said, 'What title is this that I see?' And the men of the city told him: It is the sepulcher of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel. And he said, let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria. And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had

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