Plucking the Eagle's Wings

Plucking the Eagle's Wings

minor Yom Kippur because of God's resolve to seal His decisions from the High Holy Days season. To illustrate God's seal, a hand is baked upon the holiday bread. The theme of God setting His hand is linked to the prophecies concerning the return of the Jews to the land of Israel. "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 for the 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) So the timing of Columbus' discovery and the festival theme of God's extended hand (the meaning of Jadon) symbolize the prophecy of 1 Kings 13. October 12, 1492 corresponds with the Hebrew date 21 Tishri, 5253. If we add 282 years to this year, it brings us to the Hebrew year 5535. On the Gregorian calendar, this year corresponds to the fall of 1774 until the fall of 1775. This means that April 19, 1775, the first day of the Revolution, would have been during this Hebrew year! Furthermore, the Bible says that Josiah fulfilled the ancient prophecy at about the time of Passover. The first shots of the Revolution were fired during the seven days of unleavened bread known as Passover. After Jadon delivered the prophecy, he began his return to Jerusalem by a different route, obeying the word of the Lord saying "eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest. So he went another way and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel" (1 Kings 13:9, 10). However, the prophet, being coaxed by another "prophet," fell into disobedience and was killed, though not consumed, by a lion. Likewise, Columbus was coaxed by greed and fell into disobedience. Spain, the nation he represented, followed suit and killed, persecuted, and sold into slavery those they intended to convert. In the name of Christianity, Spain dominated New World exploration for a century. That changed in 1588 when Great Britain (the lion) defeated the Spanish Armada. This defeat did not totally destroy Spain, but it helped to bring about its decline. Spanish coffers, previously filled with gold from the New World, were depleted. In 1588, Britain was established as the chief naval power of the Old World and the dominant power in the

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