Chapter 29 Wings
Prophecy does not explain the meaning of wings, so it becomes necessary to investigate each part that deals with wings in context. There are five places in Daniel and Revelation that refer to wings, and we will look at the context of each. In Daniel wings come up twice, both in Dan 7 with respect to beasts rising up out of the sea:
1) Dan 7:4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
In chapter 25 we dealt with the eagle’s wings of the lion as being the USA. Since we already dealt with the wings there it will suffice to say that in the light of today’s political events, it makes sense that Britain is the lion and USA the eagle’s wings since the war in the Ukraine has caused a separation between these two nations.
2) Dan 7:6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
The leopard with its four heads we have already dealt with in chapter 28, suggesting that it represents Europe. We did not look into its four wings. It has four wings of a fowl. Fowl in old English does not mean chicken, but any bird. The leopard has four bird’s wings. The consensus among Bible scholars is that this verse represents Greece, recapitulating Dan 2. Scholars also agree that the wings indicate the rapidity by which Alexander the Great conquered the Medo-Persian Empire. With this concept in mind, can we apply it to the contemporary interpretation of the leopard being Europe.
Rapidity is relative. The Second World War was rapid, and Napoleonic wars as well. Can the thirty years of conquests by Charlemagne be considered rapid? That may be debated. How about the EU which came to being without war? The 12 European nations were quite eager to be unified, and it came to be in less than two years after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Could the four wings refer specifically to this bloodless unification in Europe?
In heraldry wings are attached to almost any creature to show its elevated state. The lion is king of the beasts, but when it has wings, it is really superior. We see wings on eagles in all sorts of stances representing their attitude. Other birds as well. Then we see winged leopards with eagle claws and wings called griffins. There are unicorns as well. No heraldry has an animal with four wings, let alone a leopard with four wings. So heraldry does not help us in the interpretation of the wings of the leopard beast of Dan 7.
Wings in Revelation:
3) Rev 4:8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
John is describing a vision he saw of the throne of God. Around God’s throne are four beasts, or living creatures, also defined as cherubim and seraphim. Isaiah (6) and Ezekiel (10) saw God’s throne, describing the four covering angels. The descriptions in their own style are not exactly the same, but it is quite clear that they saw the same scene. John and Isaiah saw these angels had six wings. Isaiah describes how they cover their faces with a pair, their feet with another, flying with the third pair. Ezekiel only counted four wings. Somehow he missed seeing the third pair. Other differences is what they saw as their faces. The focus here is on wings, and quite obviously wings are not prophetic but a vivid description of what these leading angels look like.
4) Rev 9:9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
This passage is part of the description of the locusts that come out of the abyss when the fifth Trumpet sounds. The fifth Trumpet is probably more symbolic than real. The locusts are evil angels which have been given greater liberties to torment men on Earth. The meaning of what they look like is to characterise them. They are a plague and torment men. They sting like scorpions. It could be that they will be visible to man and will look like this description. The wings make them faster, to reach all of mankind in less time. Their wings also produce the sound of a cavalry, giving the atmosphere of military combat. They have wings because they are like locusts. Another reason why they are described as flying insects is because God created insects, fish and birds on the fifth day of creation, and now the fifth Trumpet turns the blessing of creation into a curse for the impenitent.
The bottom line is that wings on these locusts have no deep prophetic meaning like the wings of the first beast of Dan 7.
5) Rev 12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
In chapter 21 and several others, we have seen how God protects the 144 000 from the onslaughts of Satan through his agencies. Desert symbolically represents a place (situation) where people cannot reach the 144 000. When the threat arises at their sealing, the woman needs to rapidly reach that state of protection. This is prophetically indicated by her having eagle’s wings so that she can fly away with speed to the desert. She soars up from the threat with eagle’s wings and flies off.
Even though eagle wings in Dan 7:4 represents the USA in alliance with the UK, eagle wings here have nothing to do with the USA because the context does not allow that. It simply means powerful wings to have the woman – the 144 000 – escape the onslaughts of physical persecution that Satan tries to impose on her.
We see therefore that wings in prophecy do not have a general or universal meaning, but in the context of each of the five uses in Daniel and Revelation they are interpreted, sometimes literal and sometimes with symbolic meaning.
Prophecy does not explain the meaning of wings, so it becomes necessary to investigate each part that deals with wings in context. There are five places in Daniel and Revelation that refer to wings, and we will look at the context of each. In Daniel wings come up twice, both in Dan 7 with respect to beasts rising up out of the sea:
1) Dan 7:4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
In chapter 25 we dealt with the eagle’s wings of the lion as being the USA. Since we already dealt with the wings there it will suffice to say that in the light of today’s political events, it makes sense that Britain is the lion and USA the eagle’s wings since the war in the Ukraine has caused a separation between these two nations.
2) Dan 7:6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
The leopard with its four heads we have already dealt with in chapter 28, suggesting that it represents Europe. We did not look into its four wings. It has four wings of a fowl. Fowl in old English does not mean chicken, but any bird. The leopard has four bird’s wings. The consensus among Bible scholars is that this verse represents Greece, recapitulating Dan 2. Scholars also agree that the wings indicate the rapidity by which Alexander the Great conquered the Medo-Persian Empire. With this concept in mind, can we apply it to the contemporary interpretation of the leopard being Europe.
Rapidity is relative. The Second World War was rapid, and Napoleonic wars as well. Can the thirty years of conquests by Charlemagne be considered rapid? That may be debated. How about the EU which came to being without war? The 12 European nations were quite eager to be unified, and it came to be in less than two years after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Could the four wings refer specifically to this bloodless unification in Europe?
In heraldry wings are attached to almost any creature to show its elevated state. The lion is king of the beasts, but when it has wings, it is really superior. We see wings on eagles in all sorts of stances representing their attitude. Other birds as well. Then we see winged leopards with eagle claws and wings called griffins. There are unicorns as well. No heraldry has an animal with four wings, let alone a leopard with four wings. So heraldry does not help us in the interpretation of the wings of the leopard beast of Dan 7.
Wings in Revelation:
3) Rev 4:8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
John is describing a vision he saw of the throne of God. Around God’s throne are four beasts, or living creatures, also defined as cherubim and seraphim. Isaiah (6) and Ezekiel (10) saw God’s throne, describing the four covering angels. The descriptions in their own style are not exactly the same, but it is quite clear that they saw the same scene. John and Isaiah saw these angels had six wings. Isaiah describes how they cover their faces with a pair, their feet with another, flying with the third pair. Ezekiel only counted four wings. Somehow he missed seeing the third pair. Other differences is what they saw as their faces. The focus here is on wings, and quite obviously wings are not prophetic but a vivid description of what these leading angels look like.
4) Rev 9:9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
This passage is part of the description of the locusts that come out of the abyss when the fifth Trumpet sounds. The fifth Trumpet is probably more symbolic than real. The locusts are evil angels which have been given greater liberties to torment men on Earth. The meaning of what they look like is to characterise them. They are a plague and torment men. They sting like scorpions. It could be that they will be visible to man and will look like this description. The wings make them faster, to reach all of mankind in less time. Their wings also produce the sound of a cavalry, giving the atmosphere of military combat. They have wings because they are like locusts. Another reason why they are described as flying insects is because God created insects, fish and birds on the fifth day of creation, and now the fifth Trumpet turns the blessing of creation into a curse for the impenitent.
The bottom line is that wings on these locusts have no deep prophetic meaning like the wings of the first beast of Dan 7.
5) Rev 12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
In chapter 21 and several others, we have seen how God protects the 144 000 from the onslaughts of Satan through his agencies. Desert symbolically represents a place (situation) where people cannot reach the 144 000. When the threat arises at their sealing, the woman needs to rapidly reach that state of protection. This is prophetically indicated by her having eagle’s wings so that she can fly away with speed to the desert. She soars up from the threat with eagle’s wings and flies off.
Even though eagle wings in Dan 7:4 represents the USA in alliance with the UK, eagle wings here have nothing to do with the USA because the context does not allow that. It simply means powerful wings to have the woman – the 144 000 – escape the onslaughts of physical persecution that Satan tries to impose on her.
We see therefore that wings in prophecy do not have a general or universal meaning, but in the context of each of the five uses in Daniel and Revelation they are interpreted, sometimes literal and sometimes with symbolic meaning.
Chapter 29 Wings
Prophecy does not explain the meaning of wings, so it becomes necessary to investigate each part that deals with wings in context. There are five places in Daniel and Revelation that refer to wings, and we will look at the context of each. In Daniel wings come up twice, both in Dan 7 with respect to beasts rising up out of the sea:
1) Dan 7:4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
In chapter 25 we dealt with the eagle’s wings of the lion as being the USA. Since we already dealt with the wings there it will suffice to say that in the light of today’s political events, it makes sense that Britain is the lion and USA the eagle’s wings since the war in the Ukraine has caused a separation between these two nations.
2) Dan 7:6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
The leopard with its four heads we have already dealt with in chapter 28, suggesting that it represents Europe. We did not look into its four wings. It has four wings of a fowl. Fowl in old English does not mean chicken, but any bird. The leopard has four bird’s wings. The consensus among Bible scholars is that this verse represents Greece, recapitulating Dan 2. Scholars also agree that the wings indicate the rapidity by which Alexander the Great conquered the Medo-Persian Empire. With this concept in mind, can we apply it to the contemporary interpretation of the leopard being Europe.
Rapidity is relative. The Second World War was rapid, and Napoleonic wars as well. Can the thirty years of conquests by Charlemagne be considered rapid? That may be debated. How about the EU which came to being without war? The 12 European nations were quite eager to be unified, and it came to be in less than two years after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Could the four wings refer specifically to this bloodless unification in Europe?
In heraldry wings are attached to almost any creature to show its elevated state. The lion is king of the beasts, but when it has wings, it is really superior. We see wings on eagles in all sorts of stances representing their attitude. Other birds as well. Then we see winged leopards with eagle claws and wings called griffins. There are unicorns as well. No heraldry has an animal with four wings, let alone a leopard with four wings. So heraldry does not help us in the interpretation of the wings of the leopard beast of Dan 7.
Wings in Revelation:
3) Rev 4:8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
John is describing a vision he saw of the throne of God. Around God’s throne are four beasts, or living creatures, also defined as cherubim and seraphim. Isaiah (6) and Ezekiel (10) saw God’s throne, describing the four covering angels. The descriptions in their own style are not exactly the same, but it is quite clear that they saw the same scene. John and Isaiah saw these angels had six wings. Isaiah describes how they cover their faces with a pair, their feet with another, flying with the third pair. Ezekiel only counted four wings. Somehow he missed seeing the third pair. Other differences is what they saw as their faces. The focus here is on wings, and quite obviously wings are not prophetic but a vivid description of what these leading angels look like.
4) Rev 9:9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
This passage is part of the description of the locusts that come out of the abyss when the fifth Trumpet sounds. The fifth Trumpet is probably more symbolic than real. The locusts are evil angels which have been given greater liberties to torment men on Earth. The meaning of what they look like is to characterise them. They are a plague and torment men. They sting like scorpions. It could be that they will be visible to man and will look like this description. The wings make them faster, to reach all of mankind in less time. Their wings also produce the sound of a cavalry, giving the atmosphere of military combat. They have wings because they are like locusts. Another reason why they are described as flying insects is because God created insects, fish and birds on the fifth day of creation, and now the fifth Trumpet turns the blessing of creation into a curse for the impenitent.
The bottom line is that wings on these locusts have no deep prophetic meaning like the wings of the first beast of Dan 7.
5) Rev 12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
In chapter 21 and several others, we have seen how God protects the 144 000 from the onslaughts of Satan through his agencies. Desert symbolically represents a place (situation) where people cannot reach the 144 000. When the threat arises at their sealing, the woman needs to rapidly reach that state of protection. This is prophetically indicated by her having eagle’s wings so that she can fly away with speed to the desert. She soars up from the threat with eagle’s wings and flies off.
Even though eagle wings in Dan 7:4 represents the USA in alliance with the UK, eagle wings here have nothing to do with the USA because the context does not allow that. It simply means powerful wings to have the woman – the 144 000 – escape the onslaughts of physical persecution that Satan tries to impose on her.
We see therefore that wings in prophecy do not have a general or universal meaning, but in the context of each of the five uses in Daniel and Revelation they are interpreted, sometimes literal and sometimes with symbolic meaning.
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